About
our Clinic

Lee Trew is a Storyteller and Psychotherapist with a particular interest in pan-cultural spiritual language, concepts and practises. He specialises in personal transformation, relationships and parenting and is known for distilling complicated concepts down to their essence He believes the cutting edge of cultural repair is based around connection, especially that within individuals and families. Lee likes to share a multitude of techniques in his sessions, encouraging clients to truly experience knowing their own self, and living in the joy of their own wild heart. Over the years Lee has developed Rapport Based Relating - a framework for working with children - as well as Connection Culture through which he offers his Holistic Psychotherapy training. Together with Gina Chick he began the Bluegum Bushcamps which offer a rewilding experience to families, helping people access their wildness and deepen their connection with the natural world. Lee is now married to clinic therapist Hannah Sylva and together they offer Vision Quests. Lee is the Supervisor of most of our clinic therapists.​

Hannah Sylva believes true healing involves addressing both symptoms and root causes. She fosters a compassionate environment for clients to explore their thoughts, emotions, and beliefs, gaining insights and developing positive coping strategies. By honouring individual needs and goals, she uncovers patterns and traumas affecting well-being. Her holistic approach, informed by her Zenthai Shiatsu bodywork background, study with Terry Real and partnership with Lee Trew, incorporates mindfulness, breath-work, visualisation, and somatic techniques, leading to self-acceptance and empowerment. Hannah offers online sessions for Couples, Zenthai Shiatsu, and, with her husband, Lee Trew, offers Vision Quests.

Michelle McCosker is a vibrant and creative person, certified in both Holistic Psychotherapy and Art Therapy. Her life experiences and playful approach provide profound wisdom in her work. She expertly and gently guides her clients through old wounds at their own pace, offering compassion and clarity, helping them access their innate wisdom and acceptance in themselves. She calls this 'healing from the inside'. Michelle offers 1:1 Holistic Psychotherapy (online) and Art Therapy Sessions (online and in-person). As Community Steward, Michelle has established and care-takes this Community Clinic as well as offers focussed study sessions to Holistic Psychotherapy students studying Lee Trew's model. If you are a student you can book in for Mentoring using the link below.

Amber Nomchong is a Psychotherapist and Transpersonal Breathwork practitioner with a diverse background in embodiment, health coaching, nature connection, community building and women's empowerment. She's committed to supporting overall well-being by nurturing the interconnected aspects of body, mind, heart, and spirit. Amber provides a personalised and holistic approach to well-being, aiming to empower you on your journey to whole-person wellness. Her focus is on sensitively assisting you in navigating the mental and emotional challenges of life without judgment, offering a safe space where you can simply be yourself and explore the issues that matter to you. Amber firmly believes that all people know how to heal and repair when they are given a safe, kind and clear setting to explore themselves and life. Her transformational approach centres on connection, integrity, heart, and impact. She creates a respectful, safe, and welcoming environment marked by gentleness, playfulness and compassion, helping clients feel at home, relaxed, and grounded.

Candice Storey is a Certified Holistic Psychotherapist with a background in Somatic Movement, Tantric Philosophy and the Creative Arts. Her sessions are a unique blend of somatic therapy, internal ‘parts’ exploration and intuitive guidance. Candice works under the notion that if we want to experience transformation in our external worlds, then we must first turn towards our internal, felt experience. A devoted mother and partner, she brings a keen interest in supporting couples and families by offering bespoke sessions.

Becky Flores is an accomplished Psychotherapist with a rich background in Allied and Holistic health. She guides her clients through personal growth, at their own pace, fostering a safe and organic journey tailored to each individual. With expertise in attachment theory, trauma-informed practice, perinatal health, parent coaching, carers counselling and mindfulness, Becky's approach is grounded in the Thic Nanh Hanh belief that "Our own life has to be our message". She strives to empower and support clients as they navigate life stressors, finding inner peace and joy.​

Lisa Petheram fosters curiosity, openness, and integrity in her client-led sessions, guiding individuals to trust their inner wisdom and deepen connections in their lives. With a background in nature-based facilitation, community development, breath-work and the arts, she emphasises the bond between humans, creativity and nature. Her trauma-informed sessions welcome anyone on their personal growth journey, focusing on areas including chronic illness, life transitions, purpose, ecological grief, and creative expression.​​ Clinic sessions now available for COUPLES. Contact Lisa via her booking link to find out more.

Erika Steller​ has over 15 years of experience working with people in self-belief, mind-body connection, and embodied spirituality through yoga and mindfulness. Her life purpose is to help others by addressing their challenges using Holistic Psychotherapy and honouring clients' internal guidance. Erika specialises in parenting, family life, emotions, grief, and rediscovering purpose, often incorporating body awareness, breath-work, nervous system regulation, and nature connection into her sessions. ​ Clinic sessions now available for COUPLES. Contact Erika via her booking link to find out more.

Zena is a qualified Holistic Psychotherapist, with a degree in Psychology and almost 20 years of work and study in the healing and self-development field. Her background includes many years teaching yoga and practicing as a Lomi Lomi massage therapist. Zena has a particular interest in relationships - how we connect, disconnect, repair, and grow alongside others, and how our relationships impact our emotional wellbeing. She deeply believes that healthy relating is the foundation for a fulfilling emotional life. As a therapist, Zena works with both individuals and couples who are interested in cultivating a deeper understanding of themselves and their relationships. Her therapeutic style is relational, trauma-aware, and collaborative. She aims to create a space that feels warm, grounded, and non-judgemental, where therapy is both reflective and practical, supporting insight alongside real-world change. She works at a pace that is sensitive and attuned, recognising the intelligence of both the mind and the body. At the community clinic, Zena is committed to making therapy accessible, and to meeting people where they are, honouring the courage it takes to reach out for support.

Dahna McConnachie is a Holistic Psychotherapist, Yoga and Meditation teacher, Lomi Lomi practitioner, and part-time public servant. Passionate about adventure and nature, she creates a safe space for individuals to explore their inner selves and rediscover forgotten answers. Dahna specialises in parenting, neurodiversity, ADHD, mid-life and anxiety but is also completely able to meet clients where they are and work with whatever arises in the moment. With 20 years of experience in teaching yoga and as a body worker she particularly enjoys working somatically if that's what clients are seeking. She also now offers relationship counselling (couples or family). In her words “I trust in people’s ability to heal and transform and feel honoured to be part of that journey.” Outside of Clinic Dahna offers Lomi Lomi bodywork, Dru Yoga classes and Holistic Psychotherapy sessions.

Suzi Willson is a Holistic Psychotherapist with over 30 years’ experience supporting children, families, and communities. Her background spans early childhood education, forest school, nature-based practice, and regenerative cultural work. Suzi offers a relational, integrative approach to therapy, weaving together evidence-based psychotherapy with body awareness, imagination, storytelling, and deep nature connection. Her work is grounded in deep listening, empathy, and respect for each person’s unique inner landscape. She specialises in personal transformation, relationships and parenting, supporting individuals and families navigating stress, transition, grief, and periods of change, offering a calm, nurturing space to restore balance, strengthen nervous system capacity, and reconnect with innate wisdom.

Taylor King is a certified Holistic Psychotherapist who has a deep reverence for the full spectrum of the human experience. In sessions, Taylor supports clients to uncover and gently name patterns, offering the safety and presence needed to feel and process trauma and emotions at their own pace. She works with a broad range of clients, having supported individuals navigating childhood trauma, relationship challenges, self-worth and shame, grief, perfectionist tendencies, anxiety, and also welcomes those seeking support with addiction, guiding them to reconnect with their inner resources, resilience, and innate capacity for healing.

David offers a steady, compassionate environment where genuine reflection and transformation can unfold. Seeing our stories as living, relational forces, he invites clients into a gentle widening of perspective - a slow, grounded reconnection with their own inner intelligence. Alongside Holistic Psychotherapy, David draws on his background as a qualified engineer, bringing a deep appreciation for structure, systems, and interconnected processes into his therapeutic work. He is also a Zenthai Shiatsu therapist with a broad foundation in movement, somatic practices, and hands‑on healing. Years of study with respected teachers inform his intuitive, grounded approach - meeting people exactly where they are with presence, curiosity, and care. His work supports a return to simplicity, steadiness, and the intelligence already within, helping clients to reconnect, reset, and reshape the way they move through their lives.

Katisha offers a therapeutic space where the mind can soften, the body can speak, and the heart can be gently met. As a Holistic Psychotherapist, she supports people to navigate life’s transitions, relational patterns, emotional overwhelm, and the quiet inner questions that ask to be heard. Her approach blends psychological insight with somatic awareness, offering a grounded path toward deeper clarity and connection. Born in Germany and now rooted in Australia, Katisha naturally bridges cultures, perspectives, and ways of being. She understands what it means to stand between worlds - the structured and the intuitive, the corporate and the creative, the practical and the deeply felt. This gives her an ability to meet people from many walks of life: those who think a lot and feel little, those who feel a lot and need steadiness, and those seeking a way home to themselves. Her therapeutic work is informed by: -Holistic psychotherapy -Somatic and relational awareness -Zenthai shiatsu bodywork -Yoga, breath and embodied presence -A gentle understanding of both emotional depth and human resilience With the curiosity of a seeker and the steadiness of a guide, Katisha invites clients into a space where the nervous system can settle, where old stories can loosen, and where the body and mind can remember they are not separate. Sessions with her are not about fixing. They are about befriending what is alive, so that change can arise from within. Whether you arrive with anxiety, tension, grief, confusion, or simply the desire to know yourself more deeply, Katisha will meet you where you are and walk with you from there. “Every part of you belongs. Together, we make space for what is ready to be seen, felt, and transformed, gently, at your pace.”

Felicity Jane (Flick) is a cycle coach and holistic psychotherapist whose work is grounded in over 20 years of creative practice, community cultural development, and embodied performance. With extensive training in the performing arts, specialising in physical theatre, Flick brings a unique strength into her therapeutic spaces. She understands the language of the body and psyche, and brings a natural sensitivity and playfulness into the way she holds and guides others. Blending holistic psychotherapy, menstrual cycle awareness, somatic practices, creativity, and nature connection, Flick guides you back toward your body’s wisdom. She supports people who feel overwhelmed, ungrounded, or are longing for a deeper sense of belonging within themselves and in the world - offering a space to slow down, feel safe and heard, and listen to what your body is holding. Life moves in cycles - and so do we. Learning to listen to and work with these cycles offers maps and compass points for clarity, insight, and a deeper sense of grounding. It is a return to steadiness, self-trust, and a more connected way of being.

Karina Barbosa is a certified Holistic Psychotherapist, Family Constellation Therapist, and Waldorf Steiner educator. She brings together deep personal insight and professional experience to support clients in breaking free from limiting patterns and reclaiming their inner authority. Her sessions focus on understanding current struggles, processing trauma, and developing practical strategies for living. Karina offers a compassionate and grounded therapeutic space where clients can explore their inner world and move toward meaningful change. With over a decade of experience as a Waldorf Steiner educator, Karina also supports parents and families in restoring harmony, strengthening emotional resilience, and creating a home environment where both children and adults can thrive. Outside of the clinic hours, Karina offers online Family Constellations and Parental Education sessions, as well as Holistic Psychotherapy sessions for individuals and couples.

Rachel DeSumma is passionate about health, connection and helping clients embrace fulfilling lives. She offers insights that enhance self-understanding through deep listening, guiding her clients with gentleness and clarity. Strongly inspired by nature, Rachel encourages clients to strengthen their relationships with themselves and others. Her background includes community roles with youth and individuals in need, event organisation for those with vision-loss, and postgraduate studies in Psychology, Community Development, and Forest Therapy.

Sally Hatton creates a compassionate space for achieving balance across physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual dimensions. With 40 years of experience in education and social services, she fosters vulnerability and warmth in her therapy sessions, helping clients navigate life's complexities. Her approach combines talk therapy with bodywork and rituals for healing and transformation.

Joshua Wrest offers a variety of workshops and private sessions including men's groups, nature-connection processes, retreats, workplace wellbeing programs and gatherings tailored to the LGBTIQ+ community, always supporting his clients’ mental, emotional and spiritual journeys. From extensive time abroad, Joshua has learnt from many therapeutic, breathwork and spiritual traditions. ​ Joshua supports individuals to access their inner power and wisdom, freeing themselves from self-limiting beliefs and fostering personal growth. His trauma-informed practice is guided by clients’ processes, and assists in addressing challenges such as anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, anger and shame. His primary focus is to empower individuals in recognising and utilising the transformative potential of their mind, body, breath and spirit as therapeutic tools for personal growth and transformation.

Keri Wingate's therapy fosters genuine connection, presence, and non-judgment. She helps individuals of all ages become their best selves, offering deep support for various mental and emotional health issues, including anger, shame, relationships, LGBTIQ+, youth, and grief. As a nature enthusiast, Keri often conducts sessions outdoors, drawing from her extensive experience in nature and the inspiration of those devoted to humanity and the planet.

Flynn Tucker brings experience of Shiatsu bodywork therapy and Buddhist practice to his sessions, offering sensitive and focused attention. He helps clients explore their deeper selves and relationships through body awareness techniques, visualisations, and vocal expression, fostering his clients' personal growth. ​ Flynn offers 1:1 Holistic Psychotherapy, Zenthai Shiatsu bodywork and Ancestral Dance sessions. Click the Full Rate link to contact him and find out more.

Carla Buckley has a strong connection to Lee and Gina's rewilding community, which, along with her training in holistic psychotherapy and experiences at their bush camps, has emphasized the importance of community for support and belonging. Inspired by this, she became a therapist, providing empathetic support as clients navigate change and growth. Using curiosity, Carla is dedicated to fostering compassion and confidence, replacing judgment and shame, and focuses on building meaningful connections to help clients gain new insights and perspectives.

Phoebe Torzillo is passionate about helping individuals and couples navigate their healing journeys. With a background in community building, restorative justice practices and family and personal re-wilding, her friends describe her as courageous, kind and creative. All aspects of personal development are welcome in sessions with special interests including chronic illness, parenting neurodiverse children, and polyamorous-literate couples counselling. ​ Phoebe says "I believe good therapy is a modern ceremonial space - an intentional stepping out of the every day, to invite repair and renewal. Humans are relational creatures, meaning we can achieve things together that are not possible alone. No matter what struggle or concern you are dealing with, I am ready to step in and hold it with you."

Emma Zwi feels deeply that people deserve to live a life of connection. Connection to land, to self, to community and purpose. She’ll invite you to explore those connections that need tending to, and hold space for the parts of you wanting to be heard. ​ Emma has a background in ecology and evolutionary biology which inform her worldview, and is a passionate advocate for the environment. ​ She has spent many years facilitating nature connection, mentoring young people, and running a popular weekly community music group. She also has a passion for bringing the wild and gentle ways of nature into urban life.

As an anthropologist, death doula and holistic psychotherapist, Nonie supports people going through difficult endings. Nonie is passionate about helping our culture recover the wisdom and skills to approach endings with grace and confidence, even though they are hard. Nonie offers a deep compassion and wisdom for people experiencing grief and loss, based on experiences of significant loss and endings in her own life. She loves to help people create simple rituals and ceremony to support transition and change, slowly and tenderly. Nonie is a spiritual sojourner, she has a strong faith in our infinite capacity as humans to experience the healing power of love and connection. She is also a pragmatist, helping people scan their external environment to tap into resources that are available to give practical help.

Gareth Davies excels in deep listening and reflection, helping clients gain clarity about themselves and their situations. He quickly creates a comfortable atmosphere through acceptance and understanding, enabling his clients to address life's challenges. For those willing to explore deeper emotions, Gareth uses intuitive techniques like somatic and inner-child work, helping to uncover and address root causes of concerns.

Richard van de Veerdonk is a compassionate and grounded Certified Holistic Psychotherapist whose work is shaped by more than four decades of clinical practice, life experience and a respect for the human journey across all stages of life. As remote area registered nurse, Richard has provided care across the full lifespan, working in diverse settings including remote and regional communities, acute and community health, palliative care, men’s health, midwifery, and long-term follow-up support. His extensive frontline experience as a first responder in trauma situations, combined with over 30 years of ongoing trauma and after-care. This extensive experience has given him an exceptional capacity to support individuals navigating grief, shock, loss, addiction, self-harm, and major life transitions. Richard’s therapeutic presence is enriched by his comprehensive training in psychotherapy, allowing him to bridge medical understanding with a clear somatic understanding and psychological insight. He brings a steady, attuned approach to themes such as communication, boundaries, identity, and relational healing, supporting clients to feel safe, seen, and respected as they reconnect with themselves and others. As a father of five and a proud grandfather, Richard holds a lived understanding of family systems, generational patterns, and the complexities of intimate and evolving relationships. This personal experience informs his work with individuals, parents, men, and families, helping clients navigate both inner and relational landscapes with clarity and compassion. A defining feature of Richard’s work is his strong nature-based orientation and commitment to cross-cultural learning. Years spent working alongside diverse communities have fostered a deep appreciation for cultural context, connection to land, and the wisdom that emerges when healing is approached holistically. He views wellbeing not as something to be fixed, but as something to be gently remembered and restored through presence, relationship, and self-reflection. Richard’s self-reflective approach to life underpins his therapeutic work. He meets each client with humility, maturity, and genuine care, creating a grounded and respectful space where people feel valued and understood. His sessions are characterised by steadiness, warmth, and an unwavering belief in each person’s capacity for growth, resilience, and meaningful change. Through his work, Richard continues to support individuals at all stages of life to navigate challenge, deepen self-awareness, and move forward with greater connection - to themselves, to others, and to life itself.

As a certified Holistic Psychotherapist and Rapport Based Relating Coach, Pamela listens deeply, questions sensitively and holds space gently for each of her clients. She brings natural empathy and compassion into her sessions, guiding her clients to uncover old wounds, to access their own wisdom and to find new, more sovereign ways to be with themselves in their world. “It is an honour to witness and hold space for the courage and vulnerability of personal transformation.” Pamela’s own lived experience is rich and diverse, spanning decades and many ongoing familial, community and professional roles. She strongly believes her own psychotherapeutic journey has enabled her to heal from an incurable chronic disease, enabling her to bring an understanding of what it is to be fully human into the therapeutic space. “We are all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass

Amber is a therapist and mental health advocate whose work is shaped by a lifetime of lived experience, a decade of working with young people and a deep understanding of the cultural context of distress. They identify as queer and non-binary, and live in ways that sit outside many dominant norms. These experiences shape their commitment to supporting people who are under-resourced, marginalised, or navigating systems that weren’t built with them in mind. Healing, for Amber, is relational. Creating safe connections with room for uncertainty, humour, and care is how they approach therapy. Their practice draws from somatic and narrative approaches, with an emphasis on slowing down, noticing the body, and trusting the wisdom that can emerge when we feel truly seen. “Holistic therapy, to me, isn’t about fixing you or telling you how to live. I’ll support you to tune in to yourself and offer to walk with you on your journey. I’m in awe of the courage it can take to ask for help. I’ll meet you there with reverence and care.”

Jack is a relational and collaborative therapist who places deep care in the quality of the therapeutic relationship. He believes that meaningful change begins in connection — where a client feels safe enough to be met, felt, and gently supported to explore what’s beneath the surface. His approach is grounded in curiosity and awareness, helping clients recognise recurring emotional, cognitive, and relational patterns in their lives. Rather than rushing to “fix” anything, Jack works at the client’s pace, offering a steady presence while supporting them to sit with, understand, and soften around the places they feel stuck. From this space, new choices and movements can naturally emerge. Drawing on previous training in Precision Health Coaching and several years of immersion in men’s work and group facilitation, Jack brings a thoughtful, holistic lens to his work — balancing insight with emotional depth and embodied presence. Jack feels particularly aligned working with individuals under 40 who are navigating identity, direction, or life transitions, and who are open to being both supported and respectfully challenged. He offers a grounded space for those wanting to develop a healthier rhythm in life and a deeper connection to themselves and others."

A recent client has said “Margy’s empathy, insight and understanding felt like a warm embrace”. As a Holistic Psychotherapist, Margy‘s intention is that you will feel this supported during a therapy session - from one human heart to another. Guiding you to find your way back to self with care, compassion, mindfulness and connection. Margy walks alongside clients helping them to deepen their understanding of their own needs, and reconnect with their own internal guidance system. Client rapport and safety are Margy’s highest priorities, two essential elements for healthy therapy. Margy’s background of the last 35+ years have been working with and supporting young children and their families in Early Childhood Education and Care, and Forest/Bush School. Margy offers ‘Elder’ wisdom -that of lived experience -through the ups and downs of life, coming from a place of deep understanding. Margy is passionate about Mental Wellbeing, and warmly invites clients who may be experiencing overwhelm, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, addiction, parenting and relationship challenges. Welcoming individuals and couples as you are.

As a certified Holistic Psychotherapist, I'm here to gently guide you through an healing process. Under the umbrella of 'holistic psychotherapy' healing means, we nurture wholeness, resilience, and self-awareness. We'll work together, focusing on listening to your inner self and getting back in touch with your body's natural wisdom. I help people find their way back to their inner strength and intuition, using approaches that focus on stories, how we connect with others, and mindful reflection. You're in charge here; we'll shape our time together around whatever feels most important and real to you. We often pull from things like narrative therapy (talking), relational presence (being present), and contemplative practice (noticing). The idea is to really go deeper and help create changes that stick. This is a spot to really get back to yourself, away from all the daily noise, fears, and habits. Here, what you're going through is really valued, your own rhythm is respected, and we approach your inner world with curiosity and kindness. With a background in yoga and meditation, storytelling, and a yearning to listen, I bring a grounded and mindful approach to how we will work toghether. I am guided to working with those who are part of the LGBTQIA+ community, people who are neurodivergent, and anyone dealing with crunchy feelings like anxiety, depression, grief, or even anger. You are welcome exactly as you are.

Melanie's heart has been broken open, shredded and mended into an untameable love for Nature. Her greatest passion is to support others in their journey own healing journey toward a life of Soul. Through one-to-one therapy and couples therapy, we engage the mind and body through somatic and narrative processes, to feel, heal, and integrate the client's inner wisdom, becoming more and more one's own essential truth, the whole self. Vibrant in aliveness. Welcoming the dark, the unknown, the repressed forgotten parts. Welcoming them home. In her work Melanie invites the felt-sense and the imagination into a cohesive generative dance, through practices such as; nature and rewilding processes, movement as medicine, and ritual and ceremony in the personal and community spaces. Offering: One-to-one Therapy Couples Therapy (first 3 sessions free) Focus areas include: - Emotional attunement - Developing safety in the body - Welcoming home and integrating parts - Healing Narratives and making way for the new - Supporting clients in grounding, connection, safety, attunement to Self, finding clarity, nurturing trust, feeling and healing the past, courting client's inner truths, to follow their path of Soul.

My approach to therapy is grounded in meeting things as they really are, embracing discomfort and letting it reveal another face. I am no stranger to grief and believe that in many dark corners we find our gold. In therapy I offer gentle curiosity, to help create safety for the intelligence that lives inside you to speak and be heard. Entraining new patterns in the nervous system and new possibilities in life. Working together, from the present moment, to cultivate a deeply rooted sense of relational safety and trust in life. I draw on years of my own lived experience in therapy as well as life long creative, nature, embodiment and story telling practices. As a neuro-divergent woman I value diversity and the gifts of difference; I welcome all flavours of weird and folks from all walks of life. I look forward to sharing the path of the brave and the curious. ​​ If finances are a barrier, please reach out via email: sage400@hotmail.co.uk for an alternative booking link