My interventions are embedded in trauma-informed practice enabling better sense of control over one’s life through techniques developing a sense of grounding and clarity, enabling better coping with stress and a sense of overwhelm, creating a sense of meaning and connection with self and others.
My approach is both eclectic and compassionate encompassing different therapeutic styles incl. Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy (EMDR), Internal Family Systems, Mindfulness, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Systemic and Interpersonal Therapies. My work is strongly focused on a client, based on collaboration in supporting individual with building a life worth living through trustful, reliable and authentic relationship.
My work is strength-based and client-centred based on authenticity, a trustful and reliable relationship focused on individual’s goals. I walk alongside my clients helping them understand their individual story and connect with the sense of meaning it carries with a goal of achieving a more fulfilling and satisfying quality of life and better outcomes.
I also have experience working in private settings with clients with a diversity of different diagnosis including BPD, depression, trauma, anxiety, personality disorders and substance use problems as an individual therapist, and DBT group facilitator, in which modality I have extensive training.
My professional background includes Bachelor of Social Work (University of Melbourne) and Master in Clinical Family Therapy (The Bouverie Centre, La Trobe University) with over 15 years of experience in treating various mental health issues and interpersonal difficulties in different clinical settings incl. public sector as a senior social worker, counsellor & DBT clinician/ inpatient group facilitator in a private setting.
My goal is to understand the individual story and connect with the sense of meaning it carries with a goal of achieving a more fulfilling and satisfying quality of life and better outcomes.
My big mission in life is empowerment. It is my professional commitment to my clients and something I am passionate about always striving to bring the best in people by understanding their lived reality, barriers they are facing, and goals they would like to pursue.
I am a multilingual practitioner and I use a culturally sensitive lens to assist one navigate experiences of oppression and cross-cultural differences which are often compounded by other barriers created by e.g. mental illness and impact of trauma.