I have been working in roles supporting people with their mental health for over 20 years. During this time I completed a Masters degree in Art Psychotherapy (M.AThR; M.ACA) as well as a Bachelors Degree in Communication Graphic Co-Design, Advanced Diplomas in mental health work, drug and alcohol counselling and Fine Art….. AND I’m also a trained peer worker using Intentional Peer Support (IPS). 

I have completed advanced training in trauma-informed practice and process and am a member of the Blue Knot Complex Trauma Professionals Network. I have completed  gender affirming practice training (QLife / Twenty10, ACON, Blue Knot), Narrative Therapy (Dulwich Centre) and DBT facilitation and therapy (BehaviorTech/Psychwire). 

I maintain ongoing professional development, practitioner training and academic writing where I centre and disclosed lived experience openly as a political act of rebellion and visibility. 

My professional registrations include: 
- ANZACATA  - AThR (professional membership number: 49852078)
- Australian Counselling Association (membership number: 20333)
- Blue Knot Complex Trauma Professional Community
- Australian and New Zealand Mental Health Association
- International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ISSPD)
- International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD)
- NSW Working with Children Check (number: WWC1906452E, exp: 19/05/26)
- Insured by BMS risk solutions

I am a proud Wiradjuri woman who was diagnosed late in life with Autism, ADHD, complex trauma and OSDD. Prior to this I was diagnosed with and treated for: Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), Bipolar disorder and schizophrenia - so I've been given a LOT of labels. I also live with chronic health and pain conditions - Fibromyalgia, Endometriosis, PCOS, Alopecia (auto-immune), Hashimotos disease and brain injury (I'm a young stroke survivor!). 

My pronouns are she/they and I also use I/we/us to convey that I live with a complex identity system. I am a cisgendered queer woman who believes strongly in everything on a spectrum of experience. I believe that spectrums are where our beauty lies.  

My work is political because therapy is political. I have a value system that matters to me and my work. I work from several frameworks including Intentional Peer Support (IPS), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Narrative Therapy (NT) and Trauma and Diversity informed practice. I take a non-medicalised approach to people and work alongside them as a peer, not an “expert”. My approach is gender and neurodiversity affirming and celebratory. My approach centres and makes space for transgender, genderqueer, blak, black, brown and other people of colour as well as disabled people and those marginalised by society. I work from a decolonised framework as much as possible and operate within equity frameworks. I am not the right therapist for everyone.

I’ve been honoured to work alongside people who share lived experiences with me that might include being autistic, AuDHD and other neurodivergence, living with complex trauma, personality, mood and dissociative "disorder" labels, emotional dysregulation and suicidality. 

I have a strong passion for working with other autistic people and within the LGBTIQA+ community.