The Short Version
The practices I teach have carried me through grief, loss and some of my own hardest moments. They have been an ongoing companion providing relief, joy, compassion, understanding, discernment and connection in those moments I’ve felt disconnected.
The Background
I have been an Registered Nurse since 1997. Over three decades across emergency, intensive care, oncology, mental health, high dependency, including AIDS work in London, and addiction and relapse prevention. I’ve worked at the bedside of people in their final moments, and alongside people finding their way back from their lowest points.
That clinical foundation and experience runs through everything I do.
Alongside nursing I trained extensively in mindfulness, yoga therapy and the neuroscience behind both — studying in person with leading doctors, researchers and teachers across Australia and internationally. I went on to consult to private rehabilitation programs, community health services, hospitals, schools and employee assistance programs including offering workshops & professional development to the QLD Police Force – 1:1 staff and EAS.
In 2006 I founded Yoga NRG & Mindfulness Training Australia on the Sunshine Coast — a school that has since trained hundreds of teachers locally and internationally. The school continues with multiple Teachers and you can join us for general classes (all styles) speciality events and Teacher Trainings in Mindfulness & Yoga at www.yogaenergy.com.au
What I Offer
I work 1:1 with individuals carrying something heavy — trauma, burnout, chronic pain, grief, anxiety, PTSD, ADHD, addiction recovery, cancer diagnosis, or the weight of navigating the legal system as a victim-survivor.
I also train and mentor mindfulness and yoga students &/or teachers wanting to deepen their practice, gain further certification, or build their own programs.
The approach is integrative and holistic — drawing on both the cognitive, physical, emotional and always working with the whole person – especially their own intuitive wisdom. What’s used is chosen for where you are right now and what’s most important for you.
Worth knowing
The mind and body are not separate systems. Research in neuroscience confirms what contemplative traditions have long understood: stress, trauma and emotional pain are held in the body as well as the mind. Working with both — through somatic/mindful movement, breath, mindfulness and cognitive training — is evidence-based practice with decades of clinical research behind it.
How I work
Direct, warm and honest. I won’t tell you what you want to hear if it’s not useful.
I’ll offer guidance, customised practices that become doorways for you to be with the challenges that you are seeking help for. Through guided practice – together we can clarify what’s already in you, your own unique inner resources. Self-trust, discernment and genuine capacity — that’s some of what we work on to support your personal intentions & goals.
Cridentials
Credentials
- Registered Nurse (RN) since 1997
- Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP)
- Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) practitioner
- Level 3 Yoga ,Mindfulness & Yoga Nidra Teacher Trainer — with over 18,000 hours of Teaching Experience
- Founder, Yoga NRG & Mindfulness Training Australia
- EAS provider, QLD Police Force
- Consulted to private rehabilitation, community health, hospitals and schools
- Author of Yoga NRG mindfulness and teacher training programs & Mindfulness & Yoga for Trauma Teacher Training programs
- Author of My Mindful Love Notes – A companion guide & My Undercover Yogi
I welcome referrals from GP's & Allied Health Professionals
I welcome referrals from GPs, psychologists, social workers and allied health professionals. I hold AHPRA registration and am a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP). I work alongside existing treatment plans as a complementary trauma-informed mindfulness practitioner. Referral letters and progress notes available on request.
Some tools we may use to help you find relief, overcome your obstacles & move forward more confidently are listed below.
- Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention, CBT & MBSR
- Neuroplasticity Training
- Mindfulness Based Movement ~ Various forms of Yoga & Movement Therapy including Vinyasa, Long Slow Deep, Yin, Restorative, Mindfulness Based Pilates & Yoga Therapy (including Ayurveda)
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Mindfulness Based Yoga Nidra & Vedic Meditation
Honesty, safety & connection is key in the work that I do
Honesty, safety, and connection are paramount in the work that I do. I do not know more about you than you! I may often relate and understand how you are feeling. The focus will be on the practices & both of us ‘listening’ in a particular way that I call “co-meditation” I work with people who are ready to play an active & engaged role in their health & healing process.
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