Women's Wellbeing and System Support | Sunshine Coast
The Quiet Space Inside works to support women and the systems that shape their lives.
Individual, group, community, and consultancy spaces for women at every stage of life.
Welcome to The Quiet Space Inside
At some point, many of us experience a quiet drift — the distance between who we are, who we intended to be, and the way we are living, working and relating.
Sometimes it appears as burnout, disconnection, anxiety, loss of direction or feeling like we are holding everything together while something underneath is asking for attention.
Sometimes it appears in the organisations we create — the gap between our values, our intentions and the cultures we build.
The Quiet Space Inside exists for women seeking their way back to themselves, and for values-led organisations seeking deeper alignment between what they believe and how they operate.
Through counselling, facilitation and organisational consulting, I create spaces for deep listening, honest reflection and meaningful change.
Because the way we relate to ourselves shapes the way we relate to others, our work and the systems we create.
Services
Community Gathering
A free monthly women's group — a gentle space to slow down, connect, and share with other women by the ocean.
You're welcome to bring a book you love or are currently reading, with no pressure to share.
Where Held at Shelley Beach, Caloundra,
When: last Sunday of each month from 3:00 – 4:30pm
All welcome — just come as you are. No booking or commitment needed.
Follow us on Facebook for dates and details — Books on the Beach
A special note for mamas with young kids,
We know getting out the door can feel impossible some days.
We now have access to a lovely babysitter who can play with your kids at the playground right next to us, while you relax and still keep an eye on them.
A couple of hours filling your own cup, not only gives you more energy to connect with your little ones, but also teaches them that prioritising your needs is not selfish, it's self-love.
Our babysitter Emily is 16, loves kids, and holds a current Blue Card. Her mum, Amy, works in early childhood and comes along to the gathering herself — so if numbers are bigger, she'll jump across and help Emily out.
If you'd like to bring little ones, please get in touch ahead of time so we can confirm numbers. A small contribution of $5 toward Emily is appreciated.
Individual Counselling
My counselling approach is grounded in whole-of-person care, informed by a whole-of-system understanding. I recognise that healing cannot be separated from the relationships, environments and systems we live within.
Our thoughts, emotions, nervous system, relationships, life experiences, beliefs, environment, body and sense of meaning are deeply interconnected. When we try to understand suffering through only one lens, we often miss the story the body has been trying to tell.
At the foundation of my work is the understanding that you are the expert in your own experience and your own body. Through deep listening and presence, I create a space where you can slow down, feel safe and reconnect with the wisdom already held within you.
I work alongside you with curiosity, compassion and respect for your lived experience. Rather than focusing on fixing, analysing or finding the perfect coping strategy, we explore what your mind, body and nervous system may be communicating. Symptoms are not simply problems to silence; they are often intelligent adaptations, messengers or expressions of what has been carried through your experiences and within your body.
Together, we explore the patterns, stories and experiences that sit beneath distress, illness, burnout, anxiety, addiction, chronic symptoms, trauma, oppression, neurodivergence and disconnection. This includes exploring the ways your experiences, relationships, environments and systems have shaped how you relate to yourself and the world around you.
Who I Work With
I work alongside women navigating neurodivergence, highly sensitive nervous systems, trauma, experiences of oppression, chronic illness, autoimmune conditions, burnout, anxiety, addiction and significant life transitions including perimenopause and menopause.
Together, we explore experiences of disconnection and the process of reconnecting with self, community and Country.
My experience has been that healing happens at the intersection of evidence and lived experience. I draw on trauma-informed and harm minimisation approaches, alongside evidence-based therapeutic frameworks including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Internal Family Systems, Compassionate Inquiry, and somatic and nervous system-informed understandings of the body and mind.
These approaches support inner wisdom rather than replace it, recognising that meaningful healing often requires a multidisciplinary and multimodal approach.
My work is supported through fortnightly interdisciplinary supervision with Dr Brian Broom, alongside leading GPs and specialists practising whole-person healthcare. This supervision is grounded in whole-person medicine, recognising that symptoms, stories, relationships, bodies and environments cannot be understood in isolation.
Alongside my 15 years of professional experience as a social worker and counsellor across addiction and mental health services, I bring lived experience of navigating and healing from autoimmune illness, learning to trust my body as a highly intelligent messenger rather than a problem to fix, and developing a more attuned relationship with my nervous system, my body and my inner wisdom.
I hold a deep respect for Indigenous knowledge systems and a strong interest in understanding the ways many Indigenous cultures have long recognised the interconnectedness of mind, body, spirit, community and Country in health and healing.
This work is not about fixing you.
It is about creating the conditions where you can hear yourself again.
Online (limited face-to-face in Caloundra available)
60 minutes
Investment
"I work from a framework of equity. Equality means treating everyone the same, providing every individual with identical resources and opportunities. Equity, however, ensures fairness by providing individuals with the specific, tailored resources and support they need based on their unique circumstances and starting points, to achieve equal outcomes. This is why my fees are offered on a sliding scale.
Sliding scale
Standard Rate $150
Reduced Rate$ 90-100 - Reduced income, financial strain
Pension rate $60-75 - JobSeeker, single parent payment, healthcare card holders
This is how community is built: supporting each other and ensuring no one misses out and everyone has access to support when needed.
Payment
Bank transfer or PayPal, after your session
Availability
Flexible — get in touch to discuss
For social workers and allied health practitioners
Open to all practitioners
Frontline work is demanding in ways that are hard to explain to anyone outside it. The emotional weight, the complexity, the ethical grey areas, the cost of caring — over time, without proper support, it accumulates.
This is a space to slow down, think clearly, and reflect on your work in a way that supports both you and the people you work with.
Relational, trauma-informed, and grounded in nervous system awareness — sessions are guided by what is present for you, not a fixed agenda.
With over 15 years across public mental health and AOD services, including senior clinical and leadership roles, I bring a genuine understanding of what frontline and multidisciplinary practice actually feels like from the inside.
This space is particularly suited to experienced practitioners seeking reflective supervision that supports clarity, depth, and longevity in their work.
Individual
One-to-one supervision
A consistent space for reflection, support, and integration.
$120 for 60 minutes
Group
Reflective practice groups
Small group spaces for shared reflection, connection, and learning. Groups of 4 to 6 practitioners.
$75 per person for 90 minutes
Sessions are available online or outdoors at the beach in Caloundra, depending on what feels most supportive.
Social workers may be able to apply sessions toward AASW CPD requirements. Please confirm your individual eligibility.
More to Explore
The Quiet Space Inside Blog - Reflections on nervous system health, women's wellbeing, and living differently.
"I'm Too Busy for Therapy" - The quiet exhaustion many women are carrying
Questions, bookings, or just a sense of whether this feels right for you.
“A quiet return to connection, community and the village, women were never meant to live without”
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