Focus areas
Who I Work With
I work with adults and couples across Australia who are caught in relationship patterns that are painful, confusing or no longer working. You may be carrying patterns from how you grew up, feeling shut down, stuck in the same conflict with a partner, or recovering from a relationship ending.
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Patterns from how you grew up
For people who grew up feeling unseen, criticised or controlled, with a narcissistic or emotionally immature parent, in families too close to have room to be yourself, or where obligation, loyalty and face-saving shaped what you were allowed to feel. These patterns often show up later as shutting down, people-pleasing, perfectionism or being drawn to what feels familiar.
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Men who feel shut down, numb or distant
For men who find it challenging to name or express what they feel, go quiet under conflict, or retreat into withdrawal, distraction, or problem-solving instead. This is a learned survival pattern, not a character flaw, and it can change.
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Couples caught in the same stuck cycle
The same fight in different clothes: one reaches, one pulls back, and you both end up feeling unheard. We work with the pattern underneath the conflict, not just the argument on the surface. This can include couples where one partner is more walled off or reluctant, relationship therapy for one when you're ready before your partner is, and navigating the strain of early parenthood, all areas of particular focus in my practice.
Relationship therapy for one: you can start on your own, when you are ready before your partner is.
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Individuals rebuilding after a relationship ends
For rebuilding a sense of self after a breakup: heartbreak, low self-worth, boundaries that faded, and the on-again off-again pull that's hard to step out of. A trauma bond can make leaving, no-contact, grieving and moving forward feel more difficult. The work is about understanding the pattern that led here, not just moving on. It is also for when dating keeps landing in the same place, drawn to the wrong people despite the red flags, or too worried about choosing wrong to move at all.
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A short conversation is the best place to start. The first 20 minutes are complimentary.