About Me
My Background
My journey into mind-body healing began in my teenage years as I navigated my own challenges, searching for insight and understanding.
I poured over psychological texts and anything that promised answers, but it was ancient yogic wisdom that ultimately resonated with me.
This discovery led me on a transformative path of yogic training, and at 18, I traveled to India to deepen my practice. I immersed myself in the teachings and spent time in various ashrams, my time with my yoga community still resonates within me and informs the work I do today.
Like many on the path of the "wounded healer," my journey has deep and challenging (yet so rewarding). It has taken me into many different territories and trainings to unlock the keys of healing hidden within the resources of the mind and body.
My Qualifications
- High achievements in post-graduate psychology (Honours) ; currently completing my Masters of Professional Psychology
- Embodied Processing Practitioner- The Centre for Healing A somatic & psycho-therapeutic approach to exploring the roots of trauma, anxiety, depression, overwhelm, addiction and other stress.
- 1800hr Diploma of Yoga Teacher Training (Classical Hatha); Academy of Yogic Science- including, asana, pranayama, yoga nidra, shatkarma, meditation, mudra, bandha, mantra.
- Trauma-Centre Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) facilitator - The first and foremost training in evidence-based yoga interventions as an adjunct to traditional talk therapy for clients with post-traumatic stress disorder and complext post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Certificate in Transcending Sexual Trauma through Yoga (Zabie Yamasaki) - specialist training for survivors.
- Applied Polyvagal Theory in Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery (The Embody Lab)
- Yin and Restorative Yoga Certifications (Yoga Renew)
- Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT) Level 1 Practitioner - past life regression hypnosis.
- Certificate of Soul Regression Therapy (Hypnotherapy Learning Hub) - Past life and between lives hypnotherapy.
- Certificate and Diploma in Trauma-Informed Hypnotherapy (to be completed early 2025).
- Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) Tapping certification
- Certificate III/IV in Fitness (Master personal trainer)
My Philosophy
I believe that integrating the ancient wisdom of Eastern traditions with modern, Western science can provide a pathway to deeper self-actualisation and wholeness.
When we we are able to explore the wisdom of our bodies and psyches in a safe space, then we can begin to unravel the conditionings and limitations that have kept us stuck in survival responses.
From here, we can begin to make contact with the deepest part of us (our innate Being) which is already always present, and which truly has all of the answers and resources that we are seeking.