12/05/2026
✨ A Little About Me (Lola) & Why I Work The Way I Do ✨
I first began working therapeutically with trauma in 2010 during my Bachelor degree student placement, providing torture and trauma counselling support to newly arrived refugees and asylum seekers within detention settings.
That experience profoundly shaped the direction of my life and my work.
After completing my counselling degree, I went on to spend more than a decade working professionally within trauma-informed practice across multiple sectors, including child protection, therapeutic residential care, early intervention, domestic violence services, investigations, foster care assessment, and intensive family support.
Much of my work involved supporting children, families, and individuals experiencing significant trauma, complex nervous system dysregulation, attachment disruption, domestic violence, child sexual abuse, behavioural concerns, and the long-term impacts of survival-based adaptation.
I have worked therapeutically with children who had experienced severe trauma, supported safety planning and family restoration processes, and worked intensively with families navigating crisis, protection systems, and intergenerational trauma.
This background deeply informs the work I offer today.
Because the body holds trauma.
The nervous system holds trauma.
The subconscious holds trauma.
And when we work deeply with the body through somatic therapies, energetic therapies, nervous system work, and emotional release processes, these layers often begin to surface.
My approach is therefore deeply trauma-informed, therapeutically grounded, and intentionally held…in a professionally trained sense.
I bring together psychotherapy, nervous system understanding, somatic awareness, energetic therapies, and bodywork practices to create sessions that support regulation, integration, embodiment, emotional safety, and profound reconnection to self.
This work is not simply about relaxation.
It is about helping people come back into relationship with their body in a way that feels safe, supported, and transformative.
As a registered psychotherapist I participate in professional supervision regarding my practice as well as having ongoing professional development requirements for my registration. You’ll also catch me at a local psychology practice 3 days a week where I am primarily providing play therapy as a children’s mental health clinician.
