Giinagay! (hello or welcome).

I am a dog lover + amateur whale/cetacean enthusiast, and I have lived experience of chronic illness, grief and loss. I began on a healing path as a community development student-practitioner passionate about peace building undertaking community work and social research in rural Mexico. My curiosity has traversed the outer conflicts in our communities to the inner conflicts within our own body-mind-spirits.

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

While I understand the enormous value in diagnosis, as a justice oriented social worker I embrace ‘cultural humility’ and other worldviews and ways of constructing our experienced of joy, pain and suffering. I am critical of the paternalistic biomedical approach to mental illness which separates mind, body and spirit and ‘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 am committed to an individual and collective practice that is evidence informed, trauma aware, human rights oriented, heart centred, inclusive, accessible, intersectional, curious and anti oppressive. My approach is non judgemental, warm, creative, funny, self reflective and compassionate

Ngarrayngga (take care)

I acknowledge the  custodians of this beautiful place where I live and work, the Gumbaynggirr, Dunghutti, Birpai, and Nganyaywana Nations.  I pay my respects to Elders past and present.