Is this the right fit?

Most people who reach out have been carrying something for a while. They've often tried to manage it on their own or had support that didn't quite reach it.

If that sounds familiar, you're in the right place.

Who I work with

  • Many people arrive carrying experiences that don't have easy names.. Things that happened once, or have built up over years, or both. Trauma often shows up not as memory but as pattern. It can be in the way certain situations land harder than they should, or the persistent sense that something is off in relationships, in the body, in the ability to feel settled.

    I work with single incident trauma, complex and relational trauma, and childhood adversity. EMDR is central to this work, as it's a way through material that talk therapy alone often can't shift. Learn more about my approach here. Somatic and embodied approaches attend to what the body holds alongside what the mind remembers.

  • Difficult relationships with food and the body are rarely just about food. They're often about safety, control, worth, and the ways we've learned to manage what feels unmanageable.

    I work with the full range of eating presentations (including anorexia, atypical anorexia, binge eating disorder, and disordered eating patterns) using a CBT-E approach that is trauma informed and collaborative. Where trauma and eating concerns overlap, EMDR can be a meaningful part of that work.

    Clients with a valid GP referral and Eating Disorder Management Plan (EDMP) may be eligible for up to 40 Medicare rebates per year.

  • Anxiety can show up as worry, avoidance, physical symptoms, perfectionism, or a persistent sense of being behind or not enough. Chronic stress, the type that builds up over time, has its own texture and deserves its own attention.

    I work with health anxiety, social anxiety, generalised worry, and the chronic stress that comes from sustained pressure without adequate rest or support.

  • This one often looks like perfectionism, people pleasing, or the exhaustion of functioning well externally while something quieter underneath feels unsteady.

    EMDR and schema therapy are well suited to the early relational experiences that often underlie these patterns.

  • Depression can look like flatness, disconnection, exhaustion, or a slow withdrawal from the things that used to matter. It can coexist with a life that looks fine from the outside, which can often make it harder to notice.

    I work with depression across a range of presentations, with an approach that attends to both the psychological and the embodied elements of low mood.

  • The perinatal period - pregnancy through to the early years of parenting - brings its own pressures, and the quieter shifts in identity and self don't always have a name. I support people navigating anxiety, depression, birth related experiences, and the less visible transitions of parenthood.

I work primarily with young adults and adults (mostly 16-30s) navigating the legacies of trauma, eating concerns, and what happens when the body holds what the mind can't process alone. Many people I see are functioning well on the outside and quietly exhausted underneath.

Sessions are available in person at Coffs Harbour Jetty and via telehealth across Australia.

Scope of practice

Kapwa Psychology is not a crisis service. If you or someone you know is in immediate danger, please call 000 or the Mental Health Access Line on 1800 011 511 (24/7).