Freedom Unfolding

 
 
 
 

Hi, I’m Kate. I am a general psychotherapist, somatic (body) psychotherapist, counsellor, meditation teacher, embodiment teacher and breathing practitioner. I help people anywhere in Australia and people outside Australia.

I can help people experience:

*emotional processing and emotional regulation *nervous system regulation and becoming more grounded *releasing body tension patterns and ways psychological pain shows in the body *developing self-acceptance and self-confidence *improved relationships and communication skills *making contact with their inner wisdom and intuition *improved energy regulation *becoming more embodied (living in the body) *the resources of the body *meditation skills *personal growth *spiritual growth (if desired) *finding more inner spaciousness

Because of the ways I work, I help people with various challenges. Areas I can help with include:

• Anxiety, depression, difficult emotions, emotional numbness, and ‘panic’ 

• Trauma; dissociation; hypervigilance

• Low self-esteem; shame; your inner critic

• Relationship challenges; insecure attachment relationship patterns; social anxiety

• Limiting thoughts and beliefs; internal conflicts

• Chronic pain; chronic fatigue

• Communication issues

• Lack of purpose and meaning (and fulfilment) in life and life goals

• Loneliness; alienation; systemic social discrimination and prejudice

• Exploring identity; connecting with your authenticity

• Attention ‘deficit’ and hyperactivity; memory issues

• Spirituality

• Existential issues such as fear of death, illness, isolation, uncertainty, change,  loss, pain, freedom and choice, climate anxiety, troubling world events

• Sensitivity

• Dependencies (not addiction) and other kinds of desired behavioural changes

• Social media consumption and managing its effects

• Insomnia and sleeping difficulties

• Other stress and/or emotionally-related chronic illness or health issues such as fibromyalgia, gastrointestinal issues, etc

• Grief and loss

• Building resilience and inspiration

• Life transitions

• Your relationship with time

• Making decisions

• ‘Obsessive compulsive’ behavioural patterns

• General life challenges

• Issues that can be helped by breathing training (such as anxiety, ‘panic’, sleep quality, chronic fatigue, chronic pain, long-Covid or other post-viral fatigue, chronic sinus and respiratory infections, hayfever, asthma, snoring, sleep apnoea, upper airway resistance, high and low blood pressure, improving physical fitness)

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What’s so beautiful about psychotherapy is that it opens us to increasingly greater and greater freedom as we progressively, gradually free ourselves from limitations, through a process of unfolding. Through this process we really get to know ourselves, and discover new ways of experiencing ourselves, others, and our lives.

As we tap into our inner experience, inner healing processes, intuition and inner wisdom, we experience emotional shifts, and insights emerge. Insight into what is keeping us stuck helps us move our lives forward in more beneficial, more chosen directions. And we discover ways of healing difficult emotions, thoughts, beliefs and behaviours.

I offer a gentle, unjudgemental, compassionate, collaborative, personalised, non-pathologising approach, emphasising safety. I work to help empower you, to help you build on your strengths, gain increased calm, self-compassion, clarity and new skills, and discover new possibilities and ways of living. I work with the inner wisdom of your own system and its inner healing processes.

I embrace a ‘person-centred’ philosophy and approach. This means I value the inherent worth and potential in every person and their natural capacity for healing and growth. It also means that I bring empathy, warmth, openness, humility and respect, emphasising client autonomy and the therapeutic relationship.