Florence Thum - Psychotherapist

Florence Thum - Psychotherapist "The moment your fear transfigures, you come into rhythm with your own self."
~ John O'Donohue

Take your first step towards growth and healing.

My integrative practice is client-centred, drawing on value- and strength-based approaches. As a certified trauma practitioner, my approach is to empower you to move from “what is going wrong” to “what can be”. I believe, as you are here, that you are ready to attend to the vital things in your life which bring you aliveness. I hold postgraduate degrees in psychotherapy, education and law, and hav

e worked in different professional industries. I work with people from diverse gender, ethnic, cultural and socio-economic backgrounds in areas of
• personal growth and development
• communication and conflict
• stress and anxiety
• interpersonal relationships
• education and schooling
• mid-life questioning
• existential or spiritual issues
• grief and loss. Together in a therapeutic or coaching space, our session is a safe space for awareness and to lean towards positive action. Take your first step toward change, now. I am here to support, facilitate and guide.

A reflective practice for this week: Choose one ordinary object or place in your home - a table, cup, chair, doorway, w...
09/08/2026

A reflective practice for this week:
Choose one ordinary object or place in your home - a table, cup, chair, doorway, window, bowl, or blanket.
Ask yourself: What memories live here? What does this object know about me? What has it held?
You might write for five minutes without trying to make it beautiful.

04/08/2026

So much of our emotional life is formed in ordinary settings. Around tables. In kitchens. In cars. In bedrooms. In doorways. In the moments before someone leaves or after someone comes home.

What is the meaning held in the everyday. What was spoken? What was avoided? What did we learn about love, safety, conflict, apology, or need? The ordinary is often where the deepest stories live.

02/08/2026

What ordinary place holds a lot of your story?

This week’s poem - Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo - is a poem about the kitchen table, but also about memory, family, grief, nourishment, conflict, story, and return.

I love how it honours the ordinary places where life actually happens. Therapy often brings us back to these places too - the table, the body, the family story, the unsaid thing, the meal, the silence, the longing to be met.

Signs of healing: It might be a little more energy. A conversation that did not exhaust you. A moment of beauty. A boun...
01/08/2026

Signs of healing: It might be a little more energy. A conversation that did not exhaust you. A moment of beauty. A boundary you managed to hold. A morning that felt slightly less heavy.

Healing often arrives quietly. We may need to become gentle enough to notice the small signs.

28/07/2026

Hope can become unhelpful when it is used to silence pain. “Look on the bright side” can feel lonely when what we need is to have our winter recognised.

But there is another kind of hope - one that does not argue with reality. It sits beside pain and says, “This is hard, and still, something in me may continue."

26/07/2026

I like this poem because it does not rush us out of winter. It does not pretend the cold has not been cold. Instead, it allows the imagination of warmth to exist beside difficulty.

Hope does not have to be loud. In therapy, hope can be quieter: the faint possibility that this season is not the only season.

What kind of hope feels honest to you right now?

A small practice for the week: notice the people, places, and conversations where your body softens. Where do your shoul...
26/07/2026

A small practice for the week: notice the people, places, and conversations where your body softens. Where do your shoulders drop? Where do you breathe more easily? Where do you stop rehearsing what to say next?

Belonging is not only an idea. It is often felt in the body before it becomes clear in language. And sometimes, noticing where we feel welcomed helps us understand where we have been bracing.

23/07/2026

Opening our hearts to ourselves isn't always easy, but it can change the way we move through the world. Self-compassion helps us meet life's joys and challenges with greater kindness, mindfulness, and a sense of our shared humanity.

Many of us learn to fit in long before we learn to belong. We become fluent in reading the room, managing other people’s...
21/07/2026

Many of us learn to fit in long before we learn to belong. We become fluent in reading the room, managing other people’s comfort, shrinking certain parts of ourselves, or performing competence when we are struggling. They often began as intelligent ways to stay safe.

But over time, we may need spaces where we do not have to edit ourselves so severely in order to remain connected.

Therapy can become a place to notice these adaptations with compassion.

19/07/2026

What if you did not have to become someone else to belong?

I am drawn to the emotional quality of this poem, Invitation. In therapy, many people arrive carrying the question: “Am I too much? Not enough? Too late? Too complicated?” A healing relationship begins to offer another possibility: that we can be met without first having to become more acceptable.

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Springwood, NSW
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