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.

When do you feel most separated from yourself?When you are trying to be good? Trying to be useful? Trying to keep the pe...
04/06/2026

When do you feel most separated from yourself?

When you are trying to be good? Trying to be useful? Trying to keep the peace? Trying not to disappoint anyone?

Sometimes, the self we neglect is hidden because we have learned to look elsewhere.

02/06/2026

There is a part of us that keeps going:
- as we are busy performing competence.
- as we are speaking, explaining, managing, pleasing.
- as we forget to listen.

In reflective reading, a line can become a doorway back to that self.
This is what we do in The Inner Chapter [link in profile].

31/05/2026

There is the self we show to the world. And there is the quieter one - who watches, waits, forgives, and keeps walking beside us.

This poem feels like an invitation to return to that inner companion.

So much of inner work begins here: not with fixing ourselves, but with remembering the part of us we have neglected or forgotten.

What have you built around yourself - mindsets, attitudes, approaches, behaviours, etc. - that once helped you but may ...
28/05/2026

What have you built around yourself - mindsets, attitudes, approaches, behaviours, etc. - that once helped you but may no longer be needed in the same way?

We can begin by noticing them with tenderness.
❓ What still shelters me
❓ What now confines me
❓ What is asking to be softened
❓Where do I feel most at home in myself

If you are inspired by these reflective prompts, join us in The Inner Chapter [link in profile].

The roles we inhabit, the relationships we chose, the plans we made, the identities we have worked so hard to create.And...
26/05/2026

The roles we inhabit, the relationships we chose, the plans we made, the identities we have worked so hard to create.

And of course, some structures matter. But there is another kind of steadiness that does not depend on everything staying the same.

The quiet practice of returning inward helps us remember what it means to come home - to listen for the self beneath the noise and to become less afraid of being with yourself.

23/05/2026

Ikkyu’s words remind us that the truest home may not be the life we build around ourselves - roles, achievements, ‘the four walls’ - but the quiet place within that cannot be taken away.

In therapy, and in reflective reading, we often begin by noticing what we have built to survive, and then gently returning to what remains beneath it.

A quiet place to come home to yourself.

20/05/2026

Participate in your life; watching from the sidelines while safe does not bring delight.

Don't you agree?

18/05/2026

Sometimes life requires us to acknowledge and accept where we are. This becomes the launching pad of a future we have yet to envision.

16/05/2026

You can lengthen 'time': not everything, not all now.
Make your moments meaningful. Let them be moments of intentionality and connection.

15/05/2026

“Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.”

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Springwood, NSW
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