Trauma is about safety, connection and survival.

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As you grow you learn strategies that keep you physically  safe and keep you emotionally connected to the primary caregivers in your lives. These learned behaviours and psychological responses that kept you safe and helped you survive often continue and transfer to other relationships as we mature. I call them coping strategies.

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Women come to therapy when these coping strategies that have kept them safe and connected impact their ability to function at home, in the workplace or in their relationships. Trauma can present as anxiety, depression, insomnia, anger, poor boundary setting and a host of other issues including chronic disease.

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Therapy focuses on psychoeducation to support you to understand the physical components to trauma and to help you understand why you have developed the behavioural and psychological coping strategies that you have. I then work with you to identify which current coping strategies you want to change and support you to develop skills to implement these changes.

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To support me to work in this area I have completed the training below:

​Certificate in Religious Trauma Studies - Global Centre of Religious Research

Working with Psychosis and Trauma Masterclass & Working Therapeutically with Complex Trauma Level 1 and 2  & Managing Vicarious Trauma- Blue Knot Foundation

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy(ACT) & ACT with Grief & ACT with Trauma- Russ Harris

Psychological First Aid - Phoenix Australia

Certificate in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy - CBT Australia

DBT Skills - Marsha Linehan

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I will be completing EMDR training in 2024

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For more information please call Jane

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