Introducing My Self
““When we touch curiosity, we graze the rim of infinite possibility.””
About Me
I was born in the Atherton Tablelands and grew up in the beautiful village of Kuranda. My childhood was spent exploring creeks, rivers, rainforests, and surrounding bushlands. When I wasn’t out in nature with family and friends, I was immersed in creative projects — painting, sculpting with clay, sketching, and using whatever materials were on hand to bring ideas to life.
After finishing high school, I travelled abroad to the UK and across Europe for a couple of years, expanding my perspective and love of diverse cultures and landscapes. When I returned to Cairns, my professional journey began to take shape. Over the years, I have worked in women’s legal services, domestic violence support, and special needs education. These roles deepened my commitment to genuine, compassionate care, advocacy when needed, instilling hope, and fostering growth after trauma. These values now form the foundation of my work through my two greatest passions: the arts and nature.
Motivated to deepen my skills, I completed a Bachelor of Art Therapy through IKON Institute Australia, where I explored the incredible capacity of the creative process to heal and transform lives. This included a variety of modalities such as drama, visual and three-dimensional arts, dance and movement therapy, sand-tray work, and play-based interventions. Alongside my degree, I undertook Ecopsychotherapy training, later completing additional studies to become a qualified Ecopsychotherapist. My love for learning continues, and I am currently expanding my skills by studying Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) to integrate into my practice where appropriate.
At the heart of my work is an integrative approach that is person-centered, humanistic, trauma-informed, and strengths-based. This means I meet each client where they are, valuing their unique experiences, inner resources, and capacity for growth. My role is to provide a safe and supportive space where clients can explore, heal, and move forward in ways that feel authentic and empowering.
I truly believe that now is the time for us, both individually and collectively, to reconnect with our Earthly roots — to remember where we come from and to return to nature for sustenance, perspective, and reawakening. Nature reminds us not only of the beauty and resilience of the world around us but also of our own innate strength and wisdom. By deeply listening — to ourselves and to the natural world — we can uncover what we need to move forward, discovering pathways that bring joy, meaning, and contentment.
If you feel drawn to explore this journey, I invite you to connect with me and discover how art therapy, counselling, and eco-art practices can support you or your loved ones.
“The ways we think, feel, perceive, imagine, and act have arisen in attunement to the rhythms of the day and the turning of the seasons and in intimate relationship with myriad other life-forms and forces. Although in everyday Western life we might feel cut off from our wild Earthly roots and relationships, it nevertheless remains true that the deep structures of our human psyche - the underlying patterns, universal archetypes, innate capacities available to us all, and, yes, even the distinctive ways we are psychologically wounded and fragmented - have emerged from this living web”.
— Bill Plotkin
