Counselling and Narrative Therapy in Noosa
Individual Psychotherapy
I provide one-on-one psychotherapy in Noosa and online for adults and adolescents experiencing difficult or complex problems in their lives. My practice is grounded in Narrative Therapy, a humanising approach to psychotherapy that recognises how the difficulties people experience are often shaped by the ideas, expectations and judgements through which a life is understood.
Many of these ideas concern how a life should be lived, how a person’s worth should be measured, and who they are permitted to become. Narrative Therapy creates opportunities to examine these assumptions, and to develop richer understandings of identity, relationships and personal experience.
Rather than treating identity as something fixed or determined by a diagnosis, Narrative Therapy attends to the values expressed through how people live, the relationships that give their lives meaning, and the stories of those whose lives have mattered to them. It seeks to make room for possibilities that may have become obscured by the difficulties people face.
I have spent more than a decade working with people experiencing significant mental health difficulties, including in specialist public mental health services and other high-acuity settings. I have particular experience working with complex trauma, anxiety and depression, eating disorders and psychosis.
People rarely seek psychotherapy because they have a diagnosis.
They come because something in life has become difficult to bear.
I work with adults, adolescents and families experiencing complex and enduring mental health difficulties, including complex trauma, eating disorders, depression, anxiety and psychosis. My practice is informed by systemic and narrative approaches, and by more than a decade working in specialist public mental health services and private practice.
Where difficulties are closely connected with family or relationship dynamics, therapy may involve the people who are significant to the situation rather than focusing on one person in isolation.
While relief from suffering matters, I believe psychotherapy asks something deeper than “What should change?”
It asks,
How has the world come to appear the way it has?
Together we examine the histories, relationships, responsibilities and ideas through which a life has become organised. Not to explain your life away, but to discover what other possibilities become visible once familiar assumptions are examined with care.
This work is collaborative, thoughtful and sometimes demanding. It is not a brief, skills-based approach, although relief from immediate suffering remains an important part of the work.
Psychotherapy begins where we step past interventions and into making sense of our lives.
Areas of Practice
- Complex trauma
- Anxiety and depression
- Eating disorders
- Psychosis and complex mental health difficulties
- Relationships and family difficulties
- Identity, meaning and life transitions
Appointments
Sessions are generally 50 minutes and are available in person at Noosa Health and Wellness Collective or online.
Fees
The standard session fee is $230.
Medicare and Insurance
Individual psychotherapy may be eligible for a Medicare rebate where an appropriate Mental Health Treatment Plan or referral is in place.
Family therapy is not currently eligible for a Medicare rebate.
Some Private Health Funds will reimburse for psychotherapy. I can provide an invoice for you to discuss with your insurer.
Getting Started
If you’re considering psychotherapy, you can contact me to arrange an initial appointment or discuss whether my practice is likely to be appropriate for your needs.