How I Work
I provide counselling and social work for adults.
Counselling focuses on your internal experience — thoughts, emotions, behaviours, and patterns.
Social work focuses on what is happening around you — your circumstances, relationships, responsibilities, and the systems you are navigating.
In many cases, both are needed.
My role is to understand your situation and use the approach that best supports real, sustainable change.
Counselling
Counselling provides a structured, confidential space to understand what you’re experiencing and work towards meaningful change.
This includes making sense of thoughts, emotions, and behaviours, as well as identifying patterns that may be keeping you stuck.
Where appropriate, this may also include psychoeducation around stress, trauma, and nervous system responses.
Counselling may help with:
- anxiety and ongoing stress
- burnout and exhaustion
- life transitions
- relationship challenges
- workplace pressure
- feeling stuck or disconnected
The focus is on building clarity, emotional regulation, and more sustainable ways of responding.
Social Work Support
Social work focuses on the real-life factors shaping your situation — your environment, relationships, responsibilities, and the systems you are navigating.
This includes things like health services, workplaces, family dynamics, financial pressures, and external expectations.
Social work support may include:
- understanding and navigating services and systems
- practical problem-solving and planning next steps
- advocacy and support in communication with professionals
- making sense of complex situations
- identifying what is within your control and what is not
Nervous System Regulation Support
Understanding how your nervous system responds to stress is an important part of the work.
Many people live with prolonged stress that keeps the body in survival states such as fight, flight, or freeze. This can show up as poor sleep, tension, anxiety, fatigue, or difficulty relaxing.
In this practice, nervous system support is integrated into therapy — not separate from it. Understanding how your body responds to stress helps make sense of your experience and supports more sustainable change.
Support may include:
- understanding stress and survival responses
- building regulation over time
- creating the conditions for therapy to be more effective
Choosing the Right Approach
You do not need to decide this on your own.
We will work together to understand what you need and how best to approach it.
For some people, counselling is enough.
For others, social work support is also needed.
The focus is always on what will actually help you move forward.