WOMEN’S SPECIALIST COUNSELLING & PSYCHOTHERAPY
Private Online Therapy · Brisbane-Based
Meet Sarah.
Providing rapid and effective treatment and support for women suffering with anxiety, panic attacks, trauma, low self-esteem, and emotional overwhelm.
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“Sarah’s approach is wildly unconventional – and effective! Therapists I’ve seen previously have wanted me to rehash my past until I’m blue in the face. Literally — a life-changing experience!”
Sarah H. · Brand Strategist
My mission is to help women recover quickly from life’s hardest setbacks and get back to what truly matters.
LIVED EXPERIENCE OF ANXIETY AND PTSD
My story.
I lived with anxiety and PTSD for more than 10 years.
I know what it’s like when your mind and body stay locked in survival mode long after the danger has passed. The feeling that something terrible could happen at any second. Intrusive thoughts. Hypervigilance. The pressure to perform perfectly well on the outside while something underneath feels both broken and spiralling out of control.
It’s bad enough feeling like a statistic, without also feeling like you’ve failed at therapy.
Like most women, I was capable, busy and reasonably good at appearing fine. I thought it would just settle with time.
It didn’t settle.
WHAT DIDN’T WORK
I did what you’re supposed to do. I sought help.
I talked about what had happened, again and again, to people who listened kindly and meant well. Over 10 long years I collected ‘coping’ strategies. I learned to breathe through it, sit with it, notice it and reframe it.
Yet the anxiety, depression, and panic bubbled just beneath the surface.
As I suspect you have already experienced, insight doesn’t always change how you feel. You can understand exactly why you’re anxious and still be anxious. You can know an event is in the past and still have a body that behaves like it’s happening right now.
WHAT DID WORK
Everything finally changed when I was referred to a psychotherapist who understood how to work with the nervous-system responses keeping my symptoms active, rather than asking me to keep revisiting the story of how they began.
The treatment was rapid, effective and lasting. Best of all, I did not have to retell my story.
I got my calm back. My confidence returned with it. I developed a deeper sense of personal power, resilience and control.
After 10 years of suffering, it was a transformation I never thought possible.
My recovery is the reason I became a therapist. It has shaped the methods I chose to train in and the service I now provide.
WHY THE RESULTS ARE DIFFERENT
Most practitioners learn about anxiety and trauma from a textbook. I learned it by living with it for over a decade, and then by resolving it.
What this means for youI know what it feels like when nothing works, and the real difference between coping and recovering. You won’t just feel understood. You’ll feel better.
98% of my clients report their issue resolved, to their satisfaction, in under six sessions. More than 35 of them have said so publicly, in five-star Google reviews. That’s rare in a field where most people would rather not say they sought help at all.
What this means for youYou won’t spend months wondering whether therapy is working. You’ll know, quickly.
I hold Master-level qualifications in NLP, Clinical Hypnotherapy and Life and Success Coaching, and I was trained by practitioners in the direct lineage of NLP’s original creators. I also trained in Attachment-Focused EMDR in Singapore. Much of what I use day to day simply isn’t taught widely.
What this means for youThe methods you’ll experience have been developed, tested and refined by some of the most respected practitioners in the field.
So many of my clients arrive after years of traditional therapy. They’ve collected every coping skill going, and they still feel anxious, triggered and stuck. Insight is valuable. Coping is exhausting. Resolution is better.
What this means for youEvery session has an agreed focus and an expected outcome, and we review your progress as we go. The goal isn’t understanding the problem. The goal is for it to be gone.
Not every symptom is purely emotional. Hormonal changes, menopause, neurodivergence, medication, sleep and physical health can all play a part. If I believe something else is contributing, I’ll say so and point you to the right support.
What this means for youI care about getting you the best possible outcome, not about making promises I can’t keep.
That’s deliberate. This work is deep, and it deserves my full attention.
What this means for youOnce we begin, you have my complete focus. It also means places are genuinely limited, and there’s occasionally a short wait.
By the time a new client sees me, they’ve usually spent a lot of time, money, and tears trying to resolve their problem.
ANXIETY, TRAUMA AND OVERWHELM IN HIGH-FUNCTIONING WOMEN
I work with adult women who are anxious, overwhelmed, reactive, exhausted or simply not themselves anymore.
Many of my clients are highly capable women. They hold down demanding jobs, run households, care for other people and look entirely fine from the outside. Privately, they’re white-knuckling their way through the day.
Some come to me after a specific experience, such as:
Others can’t point to one event at all, and simply know that something hasn’t felt right for a long time.
MY TRAINING
I hold Master-level qualifications in NLP, Clinical Hypnotherapy and Life and Success Coaching, with advanced training in EMDR, complex trauma and relational therapy, and I continue to invest heavily in supervision and the latest research.
My training and certifications include:
I don’t apply every method to every woman. I select and combine techniques according to your symptoms, your circumstances and the results we’re working towards.
My personal mission is to get my client at least some relief, from their very first session.
WORKING TOGETHER
You won’t be asked to perform, to have it together or to explain yourself perfectly. You won’t be pushed to relive painful experiences in detail. I’ll explain what we’re doing and why before we begin, and you’ll remain involved, informed and in control throughout.
I’ll also be honest with you about what I think is happening and what I believe will help, because that’s what I would have wanted.
Outside the therapy room, I’m a mum to two daughters and a very loved puppy. I regularly travel internationally for advanced training, and I’m endlessly fascinated by neuroscience, psychology and the ways our brains can change. When I am not learning, I love slipping away for cellar-door-hopping weekends away with my partner.
Clients describe me as warm, direct and entirely without judgement.
LET’S TALK
If any of this sounds like you, the next step is a free 15-minute private phone consultation.
There’s no pressure and nothing to prepare. You tell me what’s been going on and how you’d like to feel instead, and I’ll tell you honestly whether I believe I can help.
You don’t have to keep pushing through this on your own.
Ready to feel better? Book your private consultation today.
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