My Story
"Things come together and they fall apart. The healing comes from letting there
be room for all of this to happen: room for grief...and for relief.”
Pema Chödrön
Hello, I'm Natalie, a registered counsellor with more than 20 years of professional mental health experience, including as an educator and researcher. I offer holistic therapeutic support from pregnancy and birth to throughout the lifespan, as I believe that our unique experience of all of these stages profoundly shapes our emotional and psychological needs in an ongoing way.
As an Australian with Vietnamese heritage, my family history involves conflict, separation and disconnection, and my own lived experience includes parenting challenges while living overseas far from any support networks. This has offered me some understanding of the way that diversity issues and trauma histories can impact on our sense of self-identity, attachment and belonging, also limiting our capacity to show up for ourselves and those we care about.
My special interest area is exploring the factors influencing meaningful life events which are often characterised by anxiety and distress, when they could bring emotional clarity and positive change.
Please get in touch via opencirclewellbeing@gmail.com or call for an informal chat on (03) 5910 1103.
-
Member of the Australian Counselling Association
-
Grad Dip Counselling
-
M.A Cultural Studies (Identity)
-
B.A (Hons) Language Studies
-
Mindful Schools Educator Qualification
-
NLP Practitioner Certification
-
Centre of Perinatal Excellence Mental Health Training
-
Hypnobirthing Educator Certification
-
Birth & Postpartum Doula Certification