Giinagay! (hello or welcome).

I am a dog lover + amateur whale/cetacean enthusiast. I have lived experience of chronic illness, grief and loss. I began as a community development student practitioner passionate about peace undertaking community work and 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. 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 am committed to an individual and collective practice that is evidence based, trauma informed, human rights oriented, heart centred, inclusive, accessible, curious, non-pathologising and anti oppressive. My approach is non judgemental, warm, creative, funny and compassionate.

Ngarrayngga (take care)

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