Relationship counselling offers a safe, supportive space for individuals or couples to explore challenges, improve communication, and create healthier relationship dynamics. Together, we’ll look at patterns in your relationship, strengthen conflict resolution skills, and address emotional needs.

Each session is tailored to you—drawing on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment Theory, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Relational Life Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy—to help you better understand yourself, your partner, and your relationship, fostering lasting growth and connection.

It really depends on what you’re looking for.

Counsellors are trained to help you understand your thoughts, emotions, and behaviours, and how these impact your life. We work with you to explore underlying issues, develop solutions, and set achievable goals to overcome challenges. Counsellors often specialise in areas of the human experience such as grief and loss, relationships, parenting, career changes, finances, addiction, and more.

You don’t need a GP referral or a mental health care plan to see a counsellor, but it’s important to choose someone registered with a professional body like the Australian Counselling Association (ACA) or the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA).

Psychologists are trained to diagnose and treat complex mental health conditions and create treatment plans. In Australia, you can access up to 10 subsidised sessions per year with a psychologist through a Mental Health Care Plan from your GP.

Unfortunately, counselling isn’t currently covered by Medicare. I do my best to keep my fees as affordable as possible, and it’s worth noting that in many cases counselling fees are still lower than psychologist fees—even after their Medicare rebate.

If you’re an Australian citizen with a valid government-issued Health Care Card, I offer a 15% discount on my fees. Counselling should be accessible to everyone.

The Australian Counselling Association is actively advocating for Medicare coverage of counselling. While that would be a wonderful step forward, my concern is that it may also cause fees to rise across the country, and I’m committed to keeping my services accessible.

It depends on whether you’re after a single one-off session, ongoing sessions, or couples work.

One-off sessions
If you book a single session, we’ll start by exploring the issue that’s brought you here and what you want to get out of our time together. I’ll share practical tips, techniques, and counselling approaches tailored to your goals, and you can take these tools into your everyday life to create change.

Ongoing sessions
In our first session, we’ll spend some time getting to know what’s brought you to counselling. I’ll ask about your background and what you’d like to achieve. It’s completely normal to feel unsure or anxious—my job is to help you uncover the answers. Together, we’ll decide on the best approach to meet your goals, usually working over 6–8 sessions. Along the way, we’ll revisit the tools you’ve learned, reflect on your progress, and adjust our plan so you know you’re moving in the right direction.

Couples sessions
When working with couples, I like to start by meeting you together to hear about your relationship history, your goals, and the challenges you’re facing. From there, we’ll decide together whether it’s best to work solely as a couple or to combine couples sessions with individual sessions. This allows each partner to explore their own part of the dynamic more deeply, while also coming together to strengthen your relationship as a team.

Both are available.

Most of my clients choose online sessions because they’re more convenient—you can join from the comfort of your own home, your workplace, or even while travelling. Online sessions save you time, fuel, and travel stress, and for many women and couples, it means you don’t have to arrange babysitting or leave kids home alone (a big win for single parents).

If you prefer face-to-face sessions, we can arrange that too—sometimes it’s nice to connect in person, and I’m happy to accommodate where possible.

Not at all.

While having both partners in the room can be valuable for hearing each other’s perspectives, couples counselling has its limits. It can be harder to explore an individual’s deeper trauma in a joint session, and some people find it difficult to be completely honest when they’re worried about upsetting their partner.

If one partner is hesitant—or if you’d prefer a safe space to explore your own thoughts and feelings—individual relationship counselling can be just as powerful. In fact, when one person starts making positive changes, it often shifts the whole relationship dynamic and can even encourage the other partner to take part.

It’s very common for one partner to be more open to counselling than the other. Rather than presenting it as “fixing” the relationship, try framing it as a chance to increase your understanding of them, to grow together, improve communication, and strengthen your connection so you’re relationship is can feel like a safer space for them too.

When I workwith couples, it’s not always about the challenges and differences between you, but it’s also about increasing the fun in your relationship too.

If they’re still hesitant, you can start by coming on your own. This gives you a safe space to explore your needs and learn new ways to communicate them effectively. One of the reasons individual relationship counselling can be so powerful is that as you grow and make changes, your partner can see and feel the difference—often inspiring them to work on their own growth too.

No. My role is to be neutral, so that both partners feel heard, understood, and supported. If you ever feel that bias is creeping in, I encourage you to raise it—we can talk about it openly.

That said, neutrality doesn’t mean ignoring harmful behaviour. I will hold both partners accountable for any abusive actions, and I’ll be honest and direct about unhelpful or unresourceful behaviours. This ensures the counselling space stays safe, respectful, and productive for everyone involved.

NDIS doesn’t cover couples counselling, but you can use your funding for individual counselling that focuses on building skills which can improve your relationships—such as communication, self-expression, identity, and relationship skills. These are especially helpful for neurodivergent participants (e.g. Autism, AuDHD).

I’m AuDHD myself, and while everyone’s experience is unique, I bring both lived experience and professional expertise to support you. Strengthening these skills can improve not only your relationship with yourself but also with those around you.

Whether you can use your NDIS funding depends on your individual plan. Please check with your NDIS delegate, Local Area Coordinator (LAC), or Support Coordinator. I can work with self-managed and plan-managed participants under Category 15 – Improved Daily Living, and I’m a registered counsellor with the Australian Counselling Association (ACA).