Providing You With the Tools To Better Handle Life’s Challenges

Learn how to overcome various obstacles, build resilience, and improve your outlook with the help of Inner Joy Therapy in Bribie Island or online using video or telehealth. I offer counselling, therapy services, and mental health support for different types of concerns, which include:

• Mood or emotional concerns (stress, depression, anxiety, phobias, panic, or anger regulation issues)
• Pregnancy, post-natal mental health (for mothers and fathers), attachment, traumatic birth, or infant mental health
• Grief and loss (including infertility, miscarriage, and the multitude of other disenfranchised grief experiences)
• Sensory modulation (using the senses and polyvagal theory to regulate the self)
• Aging well
• Self-esteem, confidence, personal development, and identity
• Sex and relationship challenges
• Infertility
• Social skills and communication skills
• Emotion regulation skills development to manage unhelpful thoughts, feelings, and behaviours
• Therapeutic support for adults and children with attention differences (ADHD) and/or Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) either diagnosed or in the process of investigating diagnosis
• Parenting, child attachment, and development
• Trauma and post-traumatic stress (including complex and developmental trauma)
• Abuse, including emotional, sexual, or physical
• Self-harming, suicidal thoughts, or behaviours
• Addictions or concerns around the use of drugs, alcohol, food, gaming, shopping, etc.
• Early psychosis or hearing voices
• Eating issues, eating disorders, or concerns with your relationship with food
• Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)
• Spiritual-related health and wellness
• Self-care and supervision for mental health professionals

Therapy looks different for each person, which is why I provide a unique and tailored approach for individuals, with the aim of helping them achieve a more meaningful, balanced, and fulfilling life.

I can provide traditional psychological therapies as well as therapies that are considered to be more OT-focused, such as sensory modulation and functional skill building. Here is a list of types of therapy approaches I incorporate into my work:

• Interpersonal psychotherapy
• Trauma-informed, psychologically based therapies
• Cognitive behaviour therapy
• Acceptance and commitment therapy
• Creative and expressive therapies
• Dialectical behaviour therapy
• Mindfulness
• Mentalisation-based therapy
• Internal Family Systems (IFS)-informed
• Compassionate enquiry
• Relaxation skills
• Rewind technique for phobias
• Polyvagal theory and neurobiologically based education and activities
• Positive psychology
• Circle of security attachment

Clinic Location - 4/19 Benabrow Avenue Bellara, Bribie Island

Telehealth - Appointments can occur over the phone or via videoconferencing. You can access appointments from anywhere around the world.

Nature-Based Therapy Options -  For people who feel more comfortable with nature-based therapies and are eligible for MHOT under NDIS or are paying privately, these therapies can be arranged. 

Mental health occupational therapy is recognised by Medicare as offering psychological services. Therefore, you will be entitled to up to 10 sessions per calendar year at a rebated rate. There are also many private health companies that offer a rebate for Occupational Therapy/Psychological therapies.

If you have an NDIS plan and are self or plan-managed, you are able to use your funding at Inner Joy Therapy.

You can also access services without any referral by paying privately.

Office Hours Appointments – $195

After-Hours Appointments – $210

Saturday Appointments – $230

(Medicare rebate $85 or more if you have reached the Medicare safety net)

NDIS is charged at the standard NDIS rate $193.99

Mondays       -Closed

Tuesdays       -9.15am- 4.30pm

Wednesdays  -12.15pm - 6.30pm

Thursdays     -10.15am - 5:00pm

Fridays         -8.30am - 1.45pm