My path to becoming a therapist wasn’t straightforward – and that matters.
As a pastor, I worked for a time as a chaplain with people facing mental illness and realized I needed deeper tools to help them. That led me to pursue my Master of Counselling at Monash University while continuing in ministry. I completed my degree and continued pastoral work for several years.

But then came a personal crisis that changed everything. It was through object relations therapy – sought initially for my own struggle – that I encountered insights so profound they revealed patterns I couldn’t see before and made sense of what had felt incomprehensible. But they also made it impossible to continue in ministry.

That crisis and the therapeutic work that followed led me to resign from pastoral work and commit fully to becoming a therapist. I then sought additional training in Object Relations Theory and Practice through The International Psychotherapy Institute in the USA.

Now I help others navigate the same kind of deep relational work that once helped me. I work primarily with people who feel stuck in painful patterns – those who’ve tried therapy before but never quite reached the underlying issues, LGBTQIA+ individuals wrestling with identity and belonging in a world that often rejected them, and couples caught in cycles they can’t seem to break.

My former life as a pastor means I understand the weight of existential questions, spiritual crisis, and the courage it takes to examine long-held beliefs when they no longer hold you. My object relations training gives me tools to help you understand the unconscious patterns keeping you trapped. This work isn’t easy, but it offers something rare: the possibility of genuine change, not just coping strategies.