Hi, I’m Kate, and I’m an individual and couples therapist.
I work with people navigating the complexity of their inner and relational worlds.
My path has been shaped by an ongoing exploration of both eastern and western ways of understanding — the mind and the body, the intuitive and the analytical, the creative and the structured.
My interests — and endless reading — move across creativity, mythology, feminine embodiment and sexuality, spiritual exploration, and sociological and existential inquiry. I find grounding in simple, nourishing moments — sharing meals with friends, being in nature, and creating ‘magical’ worlds together with my young son — places where my heart opens and my feet return to the earth.
These ways of being shape how I meet people in the therapy room — with presence, curiosity, and respect for the fullness of their experience, alongside a holistic and soulful lens, and a capacity to sit with uncertainty as it unfolds.
I offer a warm, grounded, and relational space where you can slow down and begin to turn toward what is unfolding within you, and between you. I attend closely to the present moment — to emotion, pattern, and what is felt but not yet spoken.
My counselling and psychotherapy work draws on experiential and relational approaches, including somatic and emotion-focused practices. At its core, it is grounded in an embodied, person-centred and relational humanistic way of working, and is informed by trauma-informed, existential, and psychodynamic perspectives.
With individuals, the work often becomes a space to come into contact with your experience at a deeper, felt level — where your experiences can be made sense of, moments of pain and grief can be witnessed, and where aspects of identity, inner conflict, and different parts of yourself can be explored as you move through change, depending on what feels most present for you.
My experience counselling within the context of family violence has shaped a deep respect for the complexity of relationships, and the many ways people adapt in response to distress. It continues to inform the way I work — with care, without judgement, and with openness to all individuals, relationship structures, and family systems.
With couples, I work primarily from an Emotionally Focused Therapy framework — grounded in the science of attachment and emotion, and centred on the deep human longing for connection.
In couples work, we begin by gently mapping the patterns that leave you feeling stuck or disconnected — not as something either of you is doing wrong, but as something that has taken shape between you. By slowing down and working experientially, we come into contact with the deeper emotional currents beneath these moments — the fears, longings, and protective responses that shape how you reach for one another.
From here, something begins to soften.
New ways of reaching and responding can begin to emerge — reshaping the dance between you, and creating a growing sense of safety and connection.
If you feel ready to begin, you are welcome to connect with the clinic for more information or book online to take a first step toward change, in a space that meets you where you are.
I offer in-person sessions from our Carlton-based practice.
Qualifications & Professional Memberships
- Graduate Diploma of Counselling and Psychotherapy – The Cairnmillar Institute
- Registered Counsellor – Australian Counselling Association (ACA)
- Registered Member – International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT)
- Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) Training – BCEFT
- Trauma-Sensitive Practice: Working with Complex Trauma – Blue Knot Foundation
- ASIST Suicide Prevention Certification