Services
Offerings:
1. Counselling
A counselling session is a confidential, supportive space where you can talk openly about your thoughts, feelings and experiences. In each session, Michelle works alongside you at your own pace, helping you explore challenges, gain insight and develop practical ways to cope and move forward.
Sessions may involve conversation, reflective exercises or mindfulness practices, depending on your needs and preferences. The focus is always on creating a safe, respectful environment where you feel heard, understood, and supported.
Face-to-face sessions can take place in the comfort of Michelle's practice room, in the security of your own home, or in a mutually agreed upon location.
Online sessions are available also. Online sessions require you to have access to the internet via smartphone, laptop or desktop computer that are video and audio enabled. It is important that you find a quiet, private place where you feel comfortable to share knowing you will not be disturbed.
2. Art Therapy
Art therapy is a gentle, trauma-informed approach to counselling that uses creative expression to support healing. When experiences feel overwhelming or too difficult to put into words, art-making can offer a safe and non-verbal way to explore and process your experience.
You don’t need any artistic skill—there is no pressure to create anything “good.” The focus is on the process of art-making and on using simple materials like drawing, painting or collage to express feelings, build a sense of safety, and reconnect with yourself at your own pace.
Art therapy can help regulate the nervous system, support emotional expression and gradually make sense of difficult experiences, all within a supportive and compassionate environment.
Face-to-face sessions can take place in the comfort of Michelle's practice room, in the security of your own home, or in a mutually agreed upon loaction.
Online art therapy sessoins are also available. Online art therapy requires you to have your own art supplies: paper and coloured pastels are a great starting point. Online sessions require you to have access to the internet via smartphone, laptop or desktop computer that are video and audio enabled. It is important that you find a quiet, private place where you feel comfortable to share knowing you will not be disturbed.
3. Walk and Talk
Walk and Talk Therapy is a counselling session held outdoors while walking in the natural surroundings of the Dunsborough area. Sessions may take place along local beach paths, coastal tracks or nearby bushland trails, depending on preference and accessibility.
Walking side-by-side in nature can help support a sense of ease and openness, making it easier for some people to talk, reflect and process thoughts and emotions at a gentle pace. The natural environment can support grounding, calm and nervous system regulation.
Locations are arranged in advance and are subbject to changeable weather. Walk and Talk requires comfortable shoes and weather-appropriate clothing.
Confidentiality is supported, though public outdoor spaces mean occasional encounters with others.
4. IFS: Internal Family Systems
A view that we are made up of different aspects of ourselves (or parts) that are all trying to help in their own way.
Challenges can occur for us when these parts are fighting against each other or are out of balance.
IFS helps us understand the different parts of our personality, emotions and inner experiences, so we come to see them as parts that developed for a reason, usually to protect us or help us cope.
The goal is to build a relationship with these parts and help them work together to restore inner and outer harmony.
5. Workshops and Groups
Michelle offers a range of groups for all age ranges and contexts: art therapy, writing as therapy and therapeutic poetry groups.
These workshops/groups range from 2 hours one-off groups, to 9-week groups, some are held face-to-face, others online.
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Fees
15-minute introductory consultation - free
Counselling sessions are 60 minutes and cost $120
Art therapy sessions are 90 minutes and cost $180
Walk and Talk sessions are 60 minutes and cost $180
IFS sessions are 90 minutes and cost $180
Workshops and Groups are variable
Introductory sessions - your one-off first session:
Counselling $90
Art Therapy $150
IFS $150
Bundle prices:
6 x Counselling sessions $750
6 x Art Therapy sessions $1,000
6 x Walk and Talk sessions $1,000
A 50% deposit is required upon booking.
If, for some reason, you need to cancel or postpone your session, please give at least 48 hours’ notice, otherwise a cancellation fee will apply. Cancellation fee: 50% of your session fee.