Therapeutic approaches

Amy is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, EMDR therapist, and Mindfulness Teacher. With over 13 years of diverse experience across community mental health, crisis response, gender-based violence, homelessness, youth services, addiction, and private practice, Amy brings both clinical depth and grounded compassion to her work.

Based in Darebin on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung country, Amy provides individual therapy, EMDR immersives, and group therapy, supporting adults to explore the roots of their distress and build lives that feel more connected, spacious, and meaningful. Amy is particularly passionate and skilled at working with complex trauma, attachment wounding, emotional dysregulation, and the impacts of systemic and relational harm.

Amy’s approach is relational, trauma-informed, and grounded in social work values. She draws primarily from Schema Therapy, EMDR, Mindfulness, DNMS, and nervous system-informed frameworks. Amy will spend time with you doing resourcing and will explore how your early experiences, identity, and social context shape your story. Her work is non-pathologising and rooted in a deep respect for the nervous system, attachment, and the impact of social determinants on mental health.

Amy holds a strong critique of the limitations of western and biomedical models of mental health, which often reduce people to diagnostic labels and ignore the broader systems that create distress. She believes that distress is not a sign of personal failure, but a deeply human response to unmet needs, trauma, and marginalisation. Her practice is LGBTQIA+ and neurodiversity-affirming, anti-oppressive, and guided by a lifelong commitment to learning and unlearning.

Alongside her clinical work, Amy also supervises social work students, facilitates training for emerging therapists, and offers reflective consultation to other practitioners.

Amy is a lover of slow mornings, where journaling and mindfulness set the tone for her day. A self-confessed bookworm, she’s part of multiple book clubs and never short of recommendations, from thought-provoking non-fiction to the occasional guilty-pleasure novel. She has a curious mind and a lifelong love of learning, whether through books, podcasts, conversations, or exploring new ideas.

Outside of reading, you’ll find her in nature, camping in her camper-trailer, wandering through art galleries, or exploring hidden corners of Melbourne with her much-loved dog, Pepperoni, who has a talent for stealing the spotlight. She loves sharing meals with friends and family, whether it’s enjoying her favourite comfort food or trying something new. Creativity, connection, and time in nature are her anchors, the things that keep her grounded, nourished, and inspired in both life and work.