About Me
I am a counsellor and psychotherapist with thousands of hours of direct therapeutic work with individuals across private practice, mental health and human services settings, complemented by hundreds of hours leading therapeutic and psychoeducational groups.
My approach is empathic and person-centred, while also practical, direct and grounded in everyday life. I work with adolescents and adults across a broad range of concerns and have a particular professional interest in men’s mental health and workplace mental health.
Before moving into mental health, I spent approximately 20 years in management roles working with people, teams and organisations. This experience continues to shape my work, particularly my understanding of responsibility, workplace pressure, leadership, organisational culture and the realities people carry both inside and outside work.
Experience
My professional experience includes private-practice counselling and psychotherapy, alongside work across residential alcohol and other drug services, gambling and mental health, family and domestic violence, early behavioural intervention programs, inpatient mental health and positive behaviour support.
Across these settings, I have worked with adolescents and adults experiencing diverse and often complex mental health, relational, behavioural and life challenges. My experience spans individual therapeutic work, leading group programs, and working with employees, managers and executives across professional and organisational settings.
Earlier Experience
Before entering the mental health field, I spent more than 20 years in management roles across industries closely connected with construction and the trades, including branch, regional and general management, as well as project management.
These roles involved responsibility for people, operations, commercial and financial performance, and significant projects.
That experience continues to inform my work with men and organisations. It has given me a practical understanding of workplace pressures, leadership and responsibility, and of how work, relationships, financial pressures, identity and the expectations we place on ourselves can intersect with mental health and wellbeing.
How I Work
I believe therapy should be human, relevant and useful.
That means creating a space where people can talk openly without feeling that they need to use clinical language or present a polished version of themselves. It also means being prepared to explore patterns, ask useful questions, consider different perspectives and connect insight with practical change.
I do not believe therapy is about telling someone who they should become.
It is about developing greater awareness of who you are, what has shaped you, how you are responding to your life and whether the direction you are travelling remains aligned with what matters to you.
Greater awareness can create greater choice.
The Compass
The compass in the Your Life Therapy logo has a personal meaning for me.
For me, it represents direction and alignment rather than a fixed “true north”. It is a reminder to stop, reflect on the direction we are travelling and consider whether our choices and behaviour remain aligned with our values and the person we want to be.
We do not always need to know the entire journey.
Sometimes it is about developing enough awareness to make the next right decision.
Counsellor and Psychotherapist: What Is the Difference?
My work encompasses both counselling and psychotherapy, reflecting the breadth and depth of my therapeutic practice.
Counselling often focuses on current concerns, difficult experiences, relationships, decisions, life changes and practical ways of responding to what is happening now. Psychotherapy can involve deeper or longer-term exploration of recurring emotional, behavioural and relational patterns, identity and earlier experiences. By understanding how these may continue to influence the present, we can create greater awareness, open up different possibilities and support meaningful change.
In practice, there can be considerable overlap. My work is not divided into separate “counselling” and “psychotherapy” services. The depth, pace and focus of therapy develop according to the person, what they bring and what is useful for them.
You do not need to know which one you need before making contact.
Qualifications & Professional Registration
- Master of Counselling, all academic requirements completed, formal conferral pending
- Graduate Diploma of Psychology (Advanced)
- Bachelor of Social Science (Psychology)
- Diploma of Mental Health
- Diploma of Counselling
- Diploma of Business Administration
- Diploma of Marketing Management
- Professional Registration: ACA Registered Counsellor, Level 3
Individual, Men’s and Workplace Mental Health
My practice brings together three connected areas of work.
