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I also provide counselling to teens

I am a Social Worker, with advanced clinical training in Child Centred Play Therapy, Filial Therapy (child parent play therapy), AutPlay, Interpersonal Neurobiology & Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR).

27/10/2026

I’m welcoming new supervisees and taking expressions of interest for a child therapy supervision group.

You might be early in your career, working towards mental health accreditation, or an experienced social worker wanting someone to think things through with.

I bring 22 years of practice supporting people across the lifespan, in the spaces of community health, education, child therapy, trauma, NDIS and private practice. My approach is relational, neuroaffirming and practical. There’s room to ask questions, reflect, consider different perspectives and consider about you in your work!

Individual supervision is available via telehealth Australia-wide, with late afternoon appointments available. The fee is $198 including GST.

I’m also taking expressions of interest for a group for social workers providing child therapy who are working towards their mental health accreditation. We’ll explore how your child therapy work relates to the practice standards, reflect on clinical examples and learn alongside others.

If you’d like to know more, please reach out to [email protected]. I’d be happy to chat about whether we might be a good fit.

18/05/2026

I have spent the past week in Scotland with my parents, travelling through places connected to our family history and ancestry. It has already been a deeply reflective and meaningful journey.

One of the most significant parts of this journey has been supporting my parents to lay part of my sister’s ashes to rest at Castle Tioram — a place connected to our ancestors and somewhere she was meant to experience with them. To stand together on that land, surrounded by so much history, felt grounding, humbling, and quietly profound.

It has made me reflect on the stories we carry through generations — stories of resilience, loss, belonging, love, survival, and connection to land. So much of who we are is shaped by those who came before us, often in ways words cannot fully explain.

What this experience has reminded me is that grief and peace can exist alongside one another. That sadness can sit beside gratitude. That there is richness in honouring both where we come from and the people we carry with us.

Scotland has reminded me that connection to ancestry is not only about the past — it is also about understanding ourselves, our place in the world, and the quiet ways love continues across generations. 🤍

18/05/2026

Scotland has been feeling like one big deep breath.

Standing here, looking at the still water, the old trees, and the stone bridge worn down by time, I couldn’t help thinking about the different seasons we move through in life too. Some seasons feel messy and overwhelming. Some feel lonely. Some ask us to slow down, reflect, and rebuild parts of ourselves quietly.

I think we spend so much of life trying to hold everything together that we forget how important it is to simply pause. To rest. To notice what’s happening inside us instead of constantly pushing past it.

This place reminded me that peace doesn’t come from everything being perfect. It comes from feeling grounded enough to sit with yourself honestly. To let things soften. To trust that growth is still happening, even in the quieter seasons.

As someone who sits with children, families, and adults through some really hard parts of life, I’m constantly reminded that healing often starts in the moments where we finally feel safe enough to slow down. 🌿

10/05/2026

✈️ A little leave update from me ✈️

I’ll be taking some time away and will be on leave, returning to appointments from 8th June.

Please note that I will be completely uncontactable from 11th May – 26th May while I spend some special time exploring Scotland with my parents. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

While I’m away, Megan — my trusty and wonderfully efficient admin support — will be responding to email enquiries and assisting with appointment bookings and changes.

If you already have an appointment booked for after my return, that’s fantastic and no further action is needed.

If you would like to make an appointment, please reach out via email at:
📧 [email protected]

Megan will be happy to assist you with bookings and enquiries during this time.

I’ll be back online from 27th May, with minimal appointment availability between 1st June – 5th June, before returning to regular sessions from 8th June.

Thank you all for your ongoing support, understanding, and patience 💛

Sarah

13/04/2026

I’m pleased to share that I am now an approved TAC provider.

I am a person-centred clinician supporting people at all stages of life, working alongside you in a safe, respectful, and collaborative space.

I support people with trauma-informed psychological interventions, meeting each person where they are in their journey.

📩 Referrals are welcome

07/04/2026

Welcome to my first attempt videos and reels! Stay tuned for more to come-

05/04/2026

We cannot provide effective mental health care if we don’t understand the realities women and AFAB individuals are living within.

Women’s mental health is not separate by accident — it is shaped by history, trauma, and systems that have too often caused harm.

From forced sterilisation and institutionalisation, to coercive practices and loss of autonomy — the mental health system itself has been, and can still be, a site of trauma. These experiences don’t disappear when someone walks into a therapy room. They live in the body, in trust, in hesitation.

And trauma is not rare.

Up to "97% of women and AFAB individuals with serious mental illness have experienced trauma" — including sexual violence, family violence, emotional abuse, childhood abuse, and systemic oppression such as poverty, racism, and ableism.

So when someone presents with distress, dysregulation, or relational intensity, we need to be thinking about what has happened to her/ or them — not just what is “wrong”.

Because too often, without this lens, we end up pathologising survival.

We see this in the high rates of Borderline Personality Disorder diagnoses in women — where complex trauma, attachment injury, and adaptive coping responses are misunderstood, labelled, and at times dismissed.

And even within care, harm can continue.

Many women and AFAB individuals experience re-traumatisation in treatment settings — through coercion, lack of privacy, not being believed, or witnessing distressing practices. For some, the system that is meant to support them has also been a place they have had to survive.

For me, this shifts how I sit with people. It’s not just about slowing things down or listening more carefully — it’s about actively holding the persons story, their context, and the systems that have shaped their experience, rather than reducing it to symptoms or diagnoses.

Because- healing is not just about symptom reduction — it’s about safety, voice, dignity, and reclaiming power.

This is what gender-responsive, trauma-informed, recovery-oriented care asks of us.

And it starts with understanding.

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23 Belmore Street
Yarrawonga, VIC
3730

Opening Hours

Tuesday	1pm - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 4pm
Thursday	1pm - 6pm
Friday	9am - 3pm
Saturday	8am - 2pm

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+61448812780

Website

http://www.connect2thrive.com.au/

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