Counselling & Psychotherapy Services

Services

Psychotherapy
&
Counselling

I am a registered psychologist with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA). I provide counselling and psychotherapy services for individuals.

Counselling deals with current issues and tends to involve shorter-term therapy. Psychotherapy is used to work with long-standing, entrenched patterns of behaviours, thoughts and feelings that are often difficult to change and requires longer-term therapy.

My Counselling and psychotherapy practice has developed from three main influences:
Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM) which is a biological intervention and involves paying attention to sensations of the automatic nervous system. There are specific skills that can be used to stabilise the nervous system and increase a person's ability to manage uncomfortable sensations. TRM believe that the physical body is a great resource and our sensory system is a portal to heal multi-sensory experience of traumatic stress reactions. The skills of TRM help you become more aware of the present moment and how to pay attention to sensations of resiliency that can override the more distressing sensations connected to traumatic experiences.

Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM)

Compassionate Inquiry

Compassionate Inquiry is a form of therapy based on the work of Dr Gabor Mate, where there is an opportunity to experience a deep exploration of what is underneath difficulties with a compassionate lens. Edwina is a certified Compassionated Inquiry practitioner.

Edwina is a NARM (Neuro Affective Relational Model) therapist based on Dr Laurence Heller’s work. This is an inquiry to exploring in the here and now experiences as they arise and focus on the person’s internal states. NARM is an in depth model based on attachment, psychodynamic and somatic theory that works with shame and adaptive behaviours. Edwina is a NARM therapist.

NARM (NEURO AFFECTIVE RELATIONAL MODEL) THERAPY

For Professionals

Through individual and group consultation, professionals have an opportunity to reflect on their work and how it impacts them. At the same time, they receive support on how to best proceed with their work.
I have many years of experience working with social workers, psychologists, teachers, nurses, counsellors, police, defence for and support workers providing professional supervision and mentoring. Edwina is a Community Resiliency Model (CRM) certified teacher and provides workshops to frontline professional in the trauma field and to people in the community.