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Light the Way Counselling

My Approach

I offer a trauma-informed, attachment-based approach that works with the whole of you — not just your thoughts, but your body, your emotions, your patterns, and your lived experience.


This means we’re not just talking about what’s going on — we’re gently working with your nervous system, your emotional responses, and the deeper layers that shape how you feel and relate.


Rather than using a one-size-fits-all model, I draw from a range of approaches including attachment theory, somatic (body-based) work, and nervous system regulation. These are woven together into a personalised process that meets you where you are.


You won’t be forced into a rigid structure or expected to “think your way” out of your experiences. Instead, we work at a pace that feels safe, supporting you to build awareness, process what’s underneath, and create lasting change from within.


I believe you are not broken — and that you already hold the capacity to grow, heal, and move toward a more secure and grounded way of being. My role is to walk alongside you, offering guidance, safety, and a space where you can begin to reconnect with yourself.


If at any point your needs extend beyond what I offer, I will always support you in finding the right care elsewhere.


When I speak about healing, I’m not referring to fixing something that’s wrong with you. I’m speaking about creating space for the parts of you that have felt overwhelmed, unheard, or held in the body — so they can be safely processed and integrated.


As this happens, the nervous system begins to settle, and many of the emotional and physical symptoms you may be experiencing can begin to ease naturally.

The Modalities I Use

Building Insight

Embodied Processing (Somatic therapy)

Attachment Style Awareness

Understanding the deeper roots of your thoughts, emotions, behaviours, and patterns can be profoundly empowering. As you gain insight into why you respond the way you do, shame often gives way to self-compassion and curiosity. This deeper awareness creates the foundation for meaningful, lasting change.

Attachment Style Awareness

Embodied Processing (Somatic therapy)

Attachment Style Awareness

Our attachment style shapes the way we think, feel, and relate to others, often outside of our conscious awareness. Together, we'll explore whether your patterns are primarily anxious, dismissive avoidant, fearful avoidant, or secure, and how these have developed over time. Viewing your relationships through an attachment lens brings grea

Our attachment style shapes the way we think, feel, and relate to others, often outside of our conscious awareness. Together, we'll explore whether your patterns are primarily anxious, dismissive avoidant, fearful avoidant, or secure, and how these have developed over time. Viewing your relationships through an attachment lens brings greater clarity, self-understanding, and a clearer path towards healthier, more secure connections.

Embodied Processing (Somatic therapy)

Embodied Processing (Somatic therapy)

Embodied Processing (Somatic therapy)

While talk therapy can provide valuable insight, lasting healing often requires more than understanding—it requires feeling. Somatic therapy works with the wisdom of the body to gently and safely process stored emotions, stress, and trauma held within the nervous system. By integrating both mind and body, we create the conditions for deeper healing and lasting transformation.

Trauma-informed Therapy

Acceptance and commitment therapy

Embodied Processing (Somatic therapy)

Trauma-informed therapy recognises that many of our struggles have deeper roots. Rather than simply managing symptoms, we work to understand and address the underlying experiences that continue to shape your thoughts, emotions, behaviours, and relationships. Lasting change comes from healing the root cause—not just applying short-term solutions that leave the same patterns repeating.

Nervous System Regulation

Acceptance and commitment therapy

Acceptance and commitment therapy

Learn to understand your nervous system and respond to life's challenges with greater awareness, rather than reacting on autopilot. Together, we'll build your capacity to stay present with difficult emotions, develop healthy self-regulation skills, and gently guide your nervous system towards calmer, more balanced states.

Acceptance and commitment therapy

Acceptance and commitment therapy

Acceptance and commitment therapy

A mindfulness-based approach that helps you develop a healthier relationship with difficult thoughts and emotions, while supporting you to take meaningful action guided by your values. Rather than struggling against your inner experiences, ACT encourages psychological flexibility and a life that feels more authentic and fulfilling.

Cognitive behavioral therapy

Cognitive behavioral therapy

Cognitive behavioral therapy

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) helps identify and reshape the thoughts, beliefs, and patterns that influence how we feel and respond to life's challenges. I integrate CBT with somatic therapy to support lasting change, recognising that while insight is important, trauma is also held within the body. Healing the mind and body together creates a more complete and sustainable path forward.

Inner child and parts work

Cognitive behavioral therapy

Cognitive behavioral therapy

Healing the parts of ourselves that were wounded in childhood by learning to become the safe, compassionate parent we needed. Together, we explore the different parts that make us who we are—protective parts, wounded parts, and the parts that hold both our light and our shadow—so they can be understood, integrated, and healed.

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Light the Way Therapy

Creek Junction, Victoria, Australia

0439776040

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