Your nervous system called, its exhausted.
Therapy for high-functioning parents and couples ready to break the patterns keeping them overwhelmed, disconnected, and stuck in survival mode.
Services
Individual therapy
Individual therapy is a space for you; not another place where you need to hold everything together. Designed for mums navigating burnout, overstimulation, mental load and the relentless demands of raising kids or teens, sessions give you space to understand what’s happening beneath the exhaustion. Whether you’re snapping more than you’d like, constantly overthinking, struggling to switch off, feeling disconnected from yourself, grieving, or finding parenting and relationships harder when your capacity is low, we’ll unpack what’s really going on.
With a background in therapy and behaviour support, I bring both therapeutic and behavioural insight to help you understand your own patterns, your triggers, and the behaviour happening within your family—not just manage the symptoms. Together, we’ll change the patterns keeping you stuck in survival mode so you can feel calmer, more connected and have more capacity for yourself and the people you love.
Couples Therapy
Couples therapy helps you and your partner move out of the same stuck, disconnected patterns and back towards feeling like you’re actually on the same team.
Whether you’ve started feeling more like roommates than partners, you’re arguing about the mental load and invisible labour, intimacy has disappeared somewhere between work and parenting, or every conversation seems to end with someone shutting down or blowing up, we’ll look at what’s happening underneath the conflict—not just what you’re fighting about.
Drawing on both relationship therapy and behavioural insight, we’ll identify the patterns playing out between you, understand what keeps triggering them, and work on changing how you respond to each other. Together, we’ll rebuild communication, trust and intimacy, share the load more effectively, and help you feel like partners again—not just two exhausted people managing a household.
About Sam
Sam is a Registered Therapist, Behaviour Practitioner, and trained Couples' Therapist with over a decade of experience working across child protection, domestic and family violence, homelessness, and behaviour support. She is based in the Hunter Valley and works with individuals and couples, supporting them to navigate overwhelm, strengthen relationships, and better understand behaviour and emotional patterns.
Sam has extensive experience supporting families through complex and high-stress situations, including crisis, burnout, and relational challenges. She is known for creating a space that is grounded, practical, and supportive, where people feel safe to show up as they are, without pressure to have everything figured out.
Her approach is holistic, trauma-informed, and centred around nervous system awareness. Sam works from the belief that people are not broken, they are often overwhelmed, disconnected, and carrying more than they were meant to carry alone. Her work focuses on helping humans regulate their nervous systems, understand behaviour, and shift the patterns that keep them feeling stuck.
Sam supports individuals across a range of areas, including burnout, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting challenges, relationship difficulties, self-esteem and confidence. She has a particular interest in working with high-functioning individuals who appear to be coping on the outside but feel overwhelmed underneath.
She uses a combination of evidence-based approaches, tailored to each person’s needs. Sam draws from Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), attachment-based approaches, behaviour support frameworks, and nervous system-informed strategies to create practical and meaningful change.
Outside of her work, Sam is a mum to two teenage girls, a wife, and has been in a long-term relationship for over 20 years. Sam brings a bit of humor into sessions, because sometimes you need a giggle or some dark humor to get you through hard things. She's also walked through her own experiences with grief, parenting and the reality of raising teens - so when she tells you she "gets it", she actually does. Sam values connection, presence, movement, and creating a life that actually feels good - not one build on survival mode.
Qualifications & Professional Memberships:
Registered Level 2 - Australian Counselling Association (ACA)
Registered Positive Behaviour Practitioner (NDIS)
Graduate Certificate in Human Services
Diploma of Counselling
Diploma of Community Services
Bachelor of Social Science - Psychology (3rd year)
Certifications & Training:
Couples Therapy - Gottman Method; Level 1 & 2 (Gottman Institute)
Seasons for Growth, Good Grief (MacKillop)
Building new pathways - Polyvagal theory (Phil Bird Psychology)
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
Trauma-Informed Care (Blue Knot Foundation)
Understanding young people’s development (CCWT)
Motivational interviewing (CCWT)
Managing aggressive and violent behaviors (CCWT)
Responding to Domestic and family violence; Education Centre Against Violence (ECAV)
Double Whammy, Co-occurring Mental health and AOD (CCWT)
Women’s Domestic Violence Court Advocacy Program (WDVCAP)
Seconded Worker training; Legal aid
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Hunter Valley, NSW Australia, however all appointments are currently virtual meaning you’re able to book a session regardless of your location. Australia wide.
Unfortunately, although counsellors contribute greatly to the mental health industry, Medicare rebates are not currently available for counselling services.
A minimum of 48 hours' notice to reschedule or cancel an appointment. Appointments that are cancelled or not attended within this time frame will be charged a full session fee.
Payment is required upon booking via credit or debit card.
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