About Rebekah:

For the last 12 years, I have been researching and working in the trenches of complex trauma. Equipped with foundational training in psychology, I spent a number of formative years facilitating group therapy for traumatic stress in Melbourne, and providing individual counselling for people struggling with anxiety and panic. I then worked for 6 years with emergency services in Queensland, helping paramedics and call takers recover from traumatic jobs, as well as teaching managers how to better support their staff by providing psycho-education around trauma and post traumatic growth.

I have also spent considerable time in the research space. From exploring attachment and post traumatic growth in the Australian population, to teaching developmental psychology at universities, to working with sex trafficking survivors in Nepal. My more recent learnings have been in the somatic space, with Hakomi, somatic meditation, tantra and trauma-focused somatic therapy.
In my private practice I have the absolute pleasure of teaching and sharing my knowledge and also learning from every person I work with.

Safety and compassion are always at the forefront. For many people who have experienced complex trauma as a child, safety is something that needs to be learnt, and once we discover what safety feels like in our bodies, and how to act from that, everything can change.
My work is primarily with individuals who have experienced complex childhood trauma, relational trauma (fractured/disorganised attachment), emergency services trauma, sexual abuse, and assault and domestic violence. I use a blend of Internal Family Systems, Hakomi, attachment theory and somatic meditation with Buddhist principles. I couch all of this in a post traumatic growth framework. My sessions always involve mindfulness and meditation, tailored to the individual.

I do this work because teaching people to discover the maps hidden in their nervous systems that connect them to their own innate wisdom is one of the most beautiful and honouring journeys in the world. If I can do what I can to facilitate that, then my purpose has been met.