Find Connection & Compassion
Clarity amid a World of Chaos
Psychotherapy & Counselling for Burnout, Breakdown, and Trauma
based in the Southern Suburbs of Brisbane, Australia
Alone in the darkness the silence is deafening.
You are surviving, yet deep within there is a silent suffering that no one can see.
No one can see the emptiness within, as you mask the abyss of loneliness.
No one knows the chasm of confusion and overwhelm.
No one understands the elusive spiral of self-criticism, self-doubt, and self-blame; of never-enough-ness or of always-too-much-ness.
This is your hidden heartache of seeking and never quite finding the ‘something’ that will explain the pain.
A hidden heartache we might deem to be ambiguous trauma; a lost sense of Self that has emerged from a lifetime of emotional turmoil and neglect.
Right in this moment, I want you to know you are no longer alone.
Welcome, my name is Chele, and I offer
Psychotherapy & Counselling for
Burnout, Breakdown, & Trauma.
I am a clinically registered therapist with PACFA & CCAA and specialise in working with ambiguous layers of trauma specifically when it presents itself through burnout and breakdown.
I help those who are feeling overwhelmed, overburdened, exhausted, or lost; those who wish to untangle from the chaos or confusion, the hopelessness or helplessness they may be feeling. Together we find a sense of relief from deep within. A relief that reflects who you are held with dignity, worth, and warmth.
I am based on Brisbane’s Southside in Sunny Queensland, Australia and offer face-to-face psychotherapy & counselling based in a somatic psychodynamic approach.
This is an approach where I join with you in a journey toward reconnecting you with your sense of Self (identity-significance), Others (relationship-communication), and with the World that surrounds you (meaning-purpose).
This may just be the Connection, Compassion, and the Clarity you need to move toward a life of joyous wonder...
This offering may be for you if you know what it is like to be unseen, unheard, unknown, or continually misunderstood.
This connection may be for you if you know what it is like to feel burnt-out, worn-out, completely disorientated from any sense of who you once were.
This offering may be for you if you know what it is like to exist in a world that does not seem to appreciate the rich complexities of your life.
Or this connection may be for you if you know the turmoil of hiding in plain sight; the confusion of doing all that you can simply to feel a sense of belonging.
If you are here, my guess is there are parts of you seeking to make sense of the embodied emptiness or pain you feel; that there are parts of you that long for the turmoil you feel to be seen and acknowledged for what it is; parts of you that desire connection to life of meaning and significance.
And so, right in this moment I want to offer you this:
all that you feel is real, and it matters.
You matter.
You see, what you are sensing could be given the name Ambiguous Trauma: the lasting effects of living a life filled with a certain sense of disconnection, dysregulation, disassociation, or disintegration.
It is the ambiguous nature of the discord that that makes this suffering so hidden.
For the most part we do not even know that we are living a life sacrificing our authentic sense of Self; unaware that there was no choice but to conceal and mask the parts of us that were continually shamed through rejection or abandonment.
Instead, and perhaps without even knowing it, we learn that to survive we need to be or act in a certain manner. We adapted in ways that allowed us to show up and be seen, heard, understood, accepted, valued, and even delighted in.
And it becomes truly exhausting.
We burn-out from trying to mask who we truly are.
We shut-down from the pressures of having to hide our own needs.
We begin to convince ourselves that we are not feeling the way that we are feeling, we disconnect from the parts of ourselves that are vulnerable and in destress.
Until we cannot stand suffering in silence any longer.
My guess is that, even as you read you wonder how you might escape this seemingly never-ending cycle of ambiguous suffering?
And this is my aspiration as a therapist: to be with beautiful humans such as yourself as you move from this seemingly never-ending cycle of suffering and toward an integrated sense of Self in authenticity and aliveness.
I will empower you with
connection, compassion, and coherence.
Who I Support
I work with young adults and adults who have or who are experiencing burnout, breakdown, or trauma that may present in difficulties such as:
+ PTSD / CPTSD
+ Single or Multiple Incident Trauma
+ Chronic Depression / Dysthymia
+ Anxiety based Disorders
+ Somatisation / Chronic Pain
+ Overwhelm / Stress
+ Self-esteem / Self-efficacy
+ Pregnancy / Parenting
+ Relationships / Friendships
+ Understanding your Neurodiversity
+ Personal Growth & Identity
+ Or any other Challenging Life Situations
How I Support
Actively support you in co-regulated connection. Connecting in a manner that allows you to feel resonantly seen, heard, understood, accepted, valued, and delighted in.
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- This is a connection that gives compassion before knowledge.
- This is a connection that not only allows you to express your emotions, so too enables you to understand and physically/sensorily feel them.
- This is a connection that assists you to identify your positive traits and abilities, as well as to build upon them.
Actively collaborate with you a compassionate-focussed reparative practice rather than a “judge-it then fix-it” symptom-focussed practice.
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- This is a collaborative practice that holds foundations in the body and mind’s innate ability to change.
- This is a collaborative practice that allows you to recognise, identify, and understand the biopsychosocial manner by which you sense, perceive, interpret, and react/respond to various situations. Specifically, to recognise, identify, and understand the ways you have learned to cope with suffering and hardship.
- This is a collaborative practice that assists you in understanding the ways you may have learned to adapt or to hide your authentic sense of Self.
- This is a collaborative practice that aims to work toward co-constructing a level of physical, mental, and relational insight that opens avenues for you to make changes in alignment with your desired outcomes or goals.
- This is a collaborative practice where I will work with you in the creation of those goals should you require the assistance to identify what you truly yearn for or desire in life.
Actively engage with you to develop contextual coherence with continuity of care in a committed movement toward integrated wellbeing.
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- This is an engagement that above all offers choice and autonomy – as a trauma-informed therapist it is paramount that you are offered a felt sense of safety above all else. As the client I always welcome you to let me know if at any time you do not wish to engage in what I am offering. I will always welcome your authentic feedback of my service.
- This is an engagement that may offer specific interventions that are appropriate to your desired outcomes or goals.
- This is an engagement that may provide relevant information verbally, via diagram or illustration, through literature, and/or in handout form.
- This is an engagement that may offer resources or activities to help you gain insight and understanding, or to integrate session outcomes.
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