Giinagay!

I acknowledge I am living on unceded land of the Gumbaynggirr people, and my face to face practice clinic is in Bellingen (Baalinjin). I am a dog lover + amateur whale/cetacean enthusiast. I have lived experience of chronic illness, grief and loss. I am third generation white anglo settler European.

I started out as a community development practitioner passionate about peace undertaking community work in rural Mexico. My curiosity has traversed the outer conflicts that result in violence, racism and hatred to the inner conflict of braced, frozen and terrified tissues of our own muscles and organs.

Healing is a collaborative practice that is “power with” not “power over”.

As a justice oriented social worker I am critical of the paternalistic biomedical approach to mental illness which ‘over responsibilises’ and ‘pathologises’ (terms coined by Canadian social worker Catrina Brown) the profound psychological, emotional and physiological distress our inequitable system creates.

I am not an ‘expert’ but a collaborator in your healing.

I recognise that the neoliberal capitalist project is inherently violent and exploits people and ecological systems to generate mass wealth for a minority.

I am committed to an individual and collective practice that is human rights oriented, heart centred, inclusive, accessible, curious,, non pathologising and anti oppressive/anti racist.