WILD EARTH COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY

Mind,body,wild.

Hello and welcome!

I'm Lisa.

I’m a qualified and experienced psychotherapist and mental health counsellor who specialises in somatic or body psychotherapy, talk therapy and transpersonal counselling.

Therapy can help you to know yourself: your family dynamics, your unconscious behaviour patterns and motivations, the parts you don't like. Therapy is tough, but it can lead to real, profound change - and if we want to build a better life, a better world, we have to allow change to begin with us.

I offer individual sessions for issues like anxiety, attachment issues, unresolved parental or family relationship problems, depression, anger, codependency, control and trust issues and emotional regulation difficulties. I also specialise in and provide a safe space to work on negativity and personal growth.

I bring together traditional counselling methods like CBT and talk therapy, with body-based interventions, expressive work, Core Energetics growth work, mindfulness and Jungian therapy - to work with mind, body and spirit.

I’m also passionate about social justice and how an embodied approach can support healing intergenerational trauma and our relationships with people, communities and the environment.

I work on the traditional lands of the Gadigal people and the Dharawal people in Sydney, Australia.

Training and Qualifications

Adv Diploma of Integrated Somatic Psychotherapy (10372NAT) - Institute of Body Psychotherapy (4 years) (Core Energetics). https://www.instituteofbodypsychotherapy.com/

Advanced Diploma of Transpersonal Counselling - College Complementary Medicine (2 years)

Certificate Eco-Psychology - Pacifica Institute

Certificate Acceptance and Commitment (ACT) Therapy - Dr Russ Harris

Certificate of somatic embodiment and regulation strategies - Linda Thai

Engage the body to disrupt entrenched patterns - Pat Ogden workshop

Internal Family Systems model introduction - Mind Body Institute

Now that you know a bit about me, you can...

• Check out the services page below for a description of body psychotherapy, and transpersonal counselling sessions.

• Contact Lisa to ask a question or make a session booking.

Thanks for visiting my website!

"Our discontents are often rooted in an unmet longing for wildness, mystery and meaningful engagement with the world..a craving for the untamed terrain of the soul."

-Bill Plotkin

PHILOSOPHY

Wild Earth Psychotherapy and Counselling

Services

Body Psychotherapy sessions

Body Psychotherapy uses the latest techniques of body orientated trauma resolution and neuroscience to teach people to feel safe in their bodies while exploring thoughts, emotions, and memories.

It is based on the concept that life experiences manifest as chronic tension, armouring and defence patterns in both the body and personality. Bringing awareness to these can help you release patterns of behaviour or emotional conflicts which are unresolved and often repressed. These patterns can keep us recreating similar life situations and relational dynamics and may also create physical ailments or illnesses.

For example, you may intellectually understand that you have anxiety, depression or trauma, but it will be difficult to work on the issue if you are holding, restricting or moving your body in a way that keeps your pain numbed. Or, to avoid intense emotions, you might intellectualise, overthink or numb yourself with alcohol, social media, or overwork.

When you start body psychotherapy, you will start to feel more grounded, embodied and present, and your nervous system more regulated. You will learn techniques to contain and regulate the level of charge in your body, to self soothe and to notice where you block or hold your energy in your body to limit feeling. You will feel and look more integrated, less rigid, and more present to your life.

Q. What happens in a body psychotherapy session?

Sessions will typically include some talking and bodywork. This could include grounding, stretching and breathing exercises to help you feel more connected to your body and increase your capacity for feeling. It might include trauma release exercises to work with your nervous system and stress response. You might learn methods of expressing emotions directly in a safe supportive environment.

The analytic and counselling part of the therapy will help you understand the why of these unconscious inhibitions in terms of childhood attachment or other experiences as well as techniques to unhook from unhelpful thinking patterns.

Body psychotherapy is a good choice of therapy for people with stress, anxiety, depression, negative thinking, some physical ailments, anger issues, overthinking, relationship issues and trauma related issues.

Pricing and location -

15 minute initial phone consultation - no charge

1 hour in-person session - $110

ZOOM online sessions are also available.

Transpersonal counselling

Transpersonal counselling uses a range of tools to help you explore your inner world, including art and symbol, story and myth, dreams, meditation, rituals, and energetics. I help you explore central questions about the meaning of life to help you to navigate your way through your life transitions, emotional crises and other issues with a focus on your potential. I can help you uncover the different masks you wear in life or the roles you play and how they may help or hinder you from leading an authentic life.

Q. What is transpersonal counselling? See here:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/therapy-types/transpersonal-therapy

Q. Why are myths and rituals important for humans? See here:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-rituals-work/

The transpersonal approach is a good choice of therapy for you if you experience anxiety, depression or stress, or if you have a change of life circumstance like a special birthday, marriage, motherhood, divorce, illness, retirement, loss of job or other life transition, or if you are looking for meaning, purpose or direction in your life.

Pricing and location

Initial 15 minute phone consultation - no charge

1 hour in person session - $110

ZOOM online sessions are also available.