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A Holistic, Somatic Approach to Spiritual Care

​My work honours the whole of who you are — your life story, your body, your relationships, your spirituality, and the deeper questions of meaning that shape your life.
 

I offer integrative, holistic care that meets you where you are.

 

My approach is person-centred, body-oriented, and shaped by your unique needs, hopes, and goals for care.

 

We move gently and respectfully, at a pace that feels safe and right for you.
 

Many contemporary approaches to spiritual care and psychological and emotional support focus on retelling the past through words. While this can be valuable, it can sometimes overlook the way our experiences are held in the body.

 

I believe the body carries wisdom. It remembers, responds, protects, and reveals the imprints of our life’s journey — often beyond words or conscious awareness.

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Together, we enter a collaborative and experiential process that may include:

• mindful awareness and deep listening

• body-based reflection and therapeutic movement

• creativity, imagery, and ritual

• spiritual reflection and self-inquiry

• gentle exploration of patterns, beliefs, emotions, and embodied experience
   

These elements support you to listen more deeply to yourself, develop greater self-awareness, build resilience, and reconnect with your own inner steadiness and wisdom.

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My practice is grounded in trauma-informed care and shaped by:

• mindfulness-based somatic psychotherapy, primarily Hakomi Psychotherapy

• interpersonal neurobiology

• polyvagal theory

• incarnational theology

• clinical pastoral care and spiritual formation

• values-based reflective practice
   

These frameworks offer compassionate and practical ways of understanding how we respond to stress, grief, change, trauma, and transition. They also help us build the inner resources needed to remain grounded, connected, and more fully present to life.

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My years as a hospital chaplain instilled in me a deep commitment to non-violence, hospitality, reverence, and care. These values remain central to my work.

 

I have completed Level 1, 2 & 3 training in Hakomi Psychotherapy and Advanced Supervision over a decade long formation, and continue to weave its principles of mindfulness, curiosity, organicity, compassion, and embodied presence throughout my practice.

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This work is relational and embodied.

 

It calls for presence, respect, sensitivity, and courage.
It creates space for depth, transformation, integration, and sometimes, the sacred.

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I welcome your vulnerability, your questions, your grief, your longing, your uncertainty, and your courage.

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A Note on Spirituality

You do not need to be religious, spiritual, or a “believer” to access this care. People of all faiths — and none — are genuinely welcome.

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My experience in clinical pastoral care has taught me to hold space with reverence for a wide range of faith traditions, worldviews, doubts, questions, and meaning-making systems. Whatever you bring will be met with respect.

 

Spiritual care, as I understand it, is not about giving answers or imposing beliefs. It is about making space for what matters most: meaning, belonging, loss, hope, identity, connection, mystery, and the deeper movements of the human spirit.

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I Also Offer

• Somatic-informed spiritual care workshops

• Integrative reflective practice experiences

• Supervision for clinical and non-clinical caregivers

• Supervision for wellness professionals, educators, chaplains, pastoral practitioners, and industry leaders

• Reflective practice and formation experiences for teams and organisations
  
   

Professional Memberships

I am a registered member of:

• Spiritual Care Australia

• Association of Clinical Pastoral Education WA

• International Institute for Complementary Therapists

• Australian Foundation for Healing Touch
   

Collaboration is at the heart of my work.

 

I support people to cultivate greater self-awareness, healing where needed, connection with self, others and the wider world, and meaningful personal and professional growth.