Frequently Asked Questions

If you're ready to begin working together, I recommend booking a 90-minute Holistic Discovery Session.

This comprehensive first session allows us to explore your current challenges and personal history, to gain a holisitc understanding of the deeper factors that may be contributing to what you're experiencing. It's the best option if you're ready to dive in and start creating meaningful change.

If you'd prefer to experience my approach before committing to ongoing sessions, you can book a 45-minute Breakthrough Session. This shorter session provides focused support around a specific challenge and gives you the opportunity to see whether we're a good fit to work together.

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It's completely normal to feel nervous, unsure, or even a little anxious before your first session.

Many clients come to me knowing something isn't quite right but feeling uncertain about where to start or how to explain what they're experiencing. You don't need to have everything figured out before you arrive.

My role is to guide the conversation, ask questions, and help you explore what's been happening in a way that feels comfortable and manageable. You won't be expected to lead the session or know exactly what to say.

If you book a Holistic Discovery Session, we'll spend 90 minutes exploring your current challenges, personal history, relationships, family dynamics, coping patterns, and the areas of life where you'd like support. The purpose is to help me gain a thorough understanding of who you are and what may be contributing to the patterns you're experiencing.

If you book a Breakthrough Session, we'll focus on a specific challenge, situation, or concern that is impacting you right now. These sessions combine counselling, practical guidance, and insight to help you gain clarity and move forward with greater confidence.

You will never be pressured to discuss anything you don't feel ready to share. While I may gently ask questions to help us understand your experiences more deeply, we will always work at a pace that feels safe and comfortable for you.

Whether your session is online or in person, the process is much the same. My aim is to create a supportive, non-judgemental space where you feel heard, understood, and at ease.

Many clients leave their first session feeling relieved, clearer about what's been happening, and reassured that they don't have to navigate it alone.

Holistic counselling helps you understand patterns, beliefs, and experiences shaping your life. Energy work such as Reiki, Meditation, Crystal Healing, or Colour Therapy supports emotional and energetic healing.

Sessions are tailored to you. Often, a 90-minute session includes about half counselling and half energy work.

Energy work is not part of Breakthrough Sessions, which are purely talk-based.

In other 90-minute sessions typically, around half of the session is spent exploring what is happening in your life, identifying patterns, gaining insight, and working through challenges.

The remaining time may include Reiki, guided meditation, crystal healing, colour therapy, or a combination of modalities that best support your needs on the day.

You can always opt out, it’s never compulsory.

That's completely okay.

Many people come to their first session with little or no experience of Reiki or other energy-based therapies.

You don't need to understand how it works before you begin. Everything is explained, and questions are welcome.

Sessions are designed to be safe and supportive, so you feel comfortable throughout the process.

Distance Reiki allows you to receive Reiki without being physically present. These 90-minute sessions include discussion, intention setting, the Reiki session, and reflection afterwards. They are available online anywhere in Australia.

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Yes. Both holistic counselling and distance Reiki can be delivered online. Many clients are surprised how connected and effective online sessions feel.

Sadly, no. Holistic counselling sessions are not eligible for Medicare rebates and are not provided under a Mental Health Care Plan. All sessions are privately paid.

It differs for everyone. Most clients notice meaningful shifts after about seven sessions. Real change usually begins between 12–16 sessions as patterns are understood and addressed. We’ll work at a pace that feels right for you.

Both work. Weekly sessions provide continuity, help maintain momentum, and support faster awareness and growth. Many clients start weekly and later move to fortnightly as they feel more secure.

Yes, exploring your childhood and early experiences is an essential part of this approach. Many patterns, beliefs, and core wounds we carry as adults originate from these formative years, and understanding them allows real change to happen.

If you don’t feel ready to explore your past, you may benefit from preparatory approaches such as somatic therapies or EMDR before engaging in inner child work.

Altenatively you might prefer to book a Breakthrough session to explore an issue you are currenlty facing.

I will always respect your process and will not expect you to share anything that you don’t feel ready to talk about.

Learn more about Childhood Trauma & Inner Child Healing

No. Many people benefit from counselling without extreme events in their history. Everyday experiences, unresolved emotions, and recurring patterns can all impact your life and are worth exploring.

You don't need to arrive with all the answers.

Many people know something isn't working in their life but struggle to explain exactly why.

You may feel anxious, overwhelmed, disconnected, stuck in unhealthy relationship patterns, constantly second-guessing yourself, or unsure why the same challenges keep appearing.

Part of my role is helping you make sense of your experiences and uncover the unconscious thoughts and feelings that may be contributing to them.

Whether your focus is Childhood Trauma & Inner Child Healing, Attachment Trauma & Relationships, Self-Worth & People-Pleasing, or Finding Purpose & Identity, we'll work together to understand what's happening beneath the surface and create a path forward.