Your Path to a Healthier Mind

Core Process Psychotherapy and Counselling

Your Path to a Healthier Mind

Core Process Psychotherapy and Counselling

"Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside, awakes."- Carl Jung

The therapy space offers us the opportunity to turn towards and tend our inner world.

When we are feeling overwhelmed by negative emotions we usually choose to distract ourselves from the discomfort and pain we feel inside. We invest excessive energy to make it appear like we are doing fine.

Sound familiar?

We can change how we feel by inviting conscious awareness to our internal experience. Understanding and integrating a challenging life history or experience, is always a movement towards freedom and transformation.

Core Process Psychotherapy is a trauma informed, depth relational mindfulness approach, which integrates Buddhist contemplative and compassion practices with Western psychotherapeutic theory.

Therapy with me:

Gives you a space to feel truly seen, heard, and responded to

Helps develop your capacity to manage difficult feelings

Helps you learn to regulate your nervous system

Empowers you to build safety and trust in relationships

Reframes your negative core beliefs into positive narratives

Increases self-compassion and mindfulness

Empowers you to find your authentic self

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My Focus

My approach to counselling and psychotherapy is non-pathologising and is underpinned by a belief in your inherent health.

You are already enough.

I don't believe I have to fix you. I am here to help you to trust, believe in and accept yourself again, to help you to reclaim your strengths and build resilience.

Safety

I create a welcoming space where you will feel safe to bring anything and everything. You can be confident that I will accept your whole and unfiltered authentic self.

Compassion

KARUṆĀ means compassion in Sanskrit. The act of compassion is healing in and of itself and this is fundamental to my work. I am committed to being a consistent, kind and attuned witness to your process.

Reflection

In our work together, you will be given the time, space and invitation to become more aware and present from moment to moment. Mindfulness of the body, mind and emotions will become your regular practice.

Collaboration

Therapy with me is a joint and creative process which we embark on together. I don't claim to be an expert on you. I am flexible and guided by your capacity and willingness, so you always choose the pace at which we work.

Embodiment

My process involves attuning to and honouring the insights and adaptations which the body reveals. We will be working in the present moment, working with subtle cues in the body to release held emotions, memories, and negative thought patterns from the past.

I offer therapy for adults age 18+. I welcome people of all genders, sexual orientations, cultures, races, faiths, and abilities who are ready to do the work.

It will be a privilege for me to travel with you on the path towards finding greater ease, balance, and freedom within.

"The only journey is the one within"

Rainer Maria Rilke

Testimonials

I’m incredibly grateful for my sessions with Samantha. Her gentle approach and extensive knowledge in her field have been truly transformative. I often forget how much support I need, but each visit with her feels like a much-needed recharge and rest. Her therapy room is perfectly designed to foster comfort and focus, enhancing the overall experience. Samantha has a remarkable ability to ask the right questions, hold space for me, and provide energy that feels both nurturing and insightful. I highly recommend her to anyone seeking a thoughtful and supportive therapist.

S. Morsi

Counsellor

Samantha is a highly accomplished and skilled therapist.She has a calm confidence.She is a natural healer and connects with people very well.I am absolutely confident in referring clients to her,she is friendly,empathic and very open to collaboration.Samantha holds her clients wellbeing and interests at the highest priority and was a significant asset to my clinical team.

Dr L. Peters

Choosing to work with Samantha has been one of the best decisions I’ve made in my wellness journey, she has helped me navigate and overcome challenging situations and develop trust and deeper understanding within myself. Somatic therapy has allowed me to develop a deeper relationship with my body and I appreciate Samantha’s explanations and teaching of somatic principles throughout our sessions. I’ve been seeing her for about 3 years, and she has helped me grow so much and has been consistently supportive and amazing to work with.

Jelena D.

Samantha is an amazing practitioner. Highly intuitive and skilled at listening to your body’s signals as well as your mind and in doing so able to support the parasympathetic nervous system to amplify your body’s own healing network. I have tried many practitioners over 15 years with my debilitating chronic health conditions Samantha is one of the best I have experienced, and I am adding her to my healing team. I highly recommend her if you feel craniosacral therapy can support your healing journey.

A. Allen

The experience of being held by the NeuroAffective Touch work and Samantha’s gentle and steady presence, was so deeply nourishing that I walked away with a new experience of myself and my needs. My body’s needs were heard and met. So very grateful for this work.

T. Virgona

Art Therapist and fellow practitioner

As a busy mum, who works as a psychologist, I found my session with Sam extremely beneficial. Sam possesses a caring and gentle manner & the therapy room was an inviting and peaceful sanctuary from the outside world. The whole therapy process felt very nurturing and individualised to what my body needed at that time to feel comfortable and warm. In this safe space, I could feel both my bodily tension slowly dissipate and an emotional release. As the session continued, I experienced a floating session akin to being held in a mother’s womb. I would highly recommend these therapy sessions as a preventative strategy for burnout and to enable the processing of high levels of stress in the body.

Judith Lewis, M.Psych. MAPS

AHPRA Psychologist

Even in stressful circumstance where pain is involved, Samantha creates and holds a space for her clients that is outstanding in its purity and reassurance, she is kind and perceptive, very knowledgeable and- quite simply has a magic touch.

H. Deverell

When I first heard that Samantha does distance cranial sacral work I was quite doubtful and in disbelief that this could work. I was surprised to notice warmth and flows of energy in areas where she told me she had placed her hands in her minds eye. I could sense Samantha’s presence and her gentle and supportive holding throughout the session. It gave my body a sense of safety and allowed me to let go and open. The headache and tension had shifted by the end of the treatment and, most surprisingly, I felt like wrapped in a coating of loving care that lasted for hours after.

M. Zoll

Psychologist

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