About Brett:

I’m a PACFA accredited Psychotherapist, Performance Coach, and Program Facilitator with over a decade of experience in helping men of all ages to live their lives from a deep sense of wholeness and purpose.

My approach adjusts to suit the needs of my clients, but rests on the foundations of somatic, eco-focused, relational practice. Practically, this means that my work supports clients to deeply understand and embody who they are. From this place of felt understanding and embodiment, clarity on the next step forward is a natural emergence.

Education and Training

I hold a bachelor of psychological sciences/neuroscience (High Distinction) from Swinburne University of Technology, a two year advanced clinical training certificate in Gestalt Psychotherapy, and graduate certificates in recovery and empowerment coaching.

Outside formal academia, I have trained extensively over the last 15 years with transformational mentors, guides and elders in various men’s work spaces. This work has included apprenticing in earth honouring (sweat lodge) ceremonies of varying lineages, transformational rites of passage work, shadow work, and facilitation of men’s circles and transformational retreats.

In 2022 I founded Kinsmen, a series of nature-based programs designed specifically to support men to find wholeness through deep connection with each other and the living world.

In a volunteering capacity, I have guided hundreds of men through deep transformational processes since 2016 as a junior leader in the Mankind Project Australia. This has been via their flagship program, The New Warrior Training, as well as integration circles across Australia.

My Personal Journey

My journey into the helping arts began typically, in crisis. In my early twenties I was a walking, suffering contradiction: outwardly charismatic and successful, yet inwardly battling severe depression and addiction.

I was fortunate enough to have community support in my life to turn things around through holistic therapy, men’s work, and contemplative practice. Through my own process I found a deep passion for helping other men grow and have seen time and time again the power and value of the right therapeutic support, at the right time. I’m committed to helping all men discover inside themselves all they need to live a peaceful, strong and generous life.