Therapy

Kate primarily works with adults (18+) across the gender, sexuality and age spectrum, who have experienced (but are not limited to):

• Childhood and adolescent developmental trauma, including traumatic primary caregiver attachment legacies;

• Earlier-in-life sexual abuse and sexual assault;

• Domestic and family violence;

• Single-incident traumatic events;

• Mental health challenges including depression and anxiety;

• Medical trauma - acute and long-term;

• Grief and loss, including experiences of ambiguous loss;

• Navigating parenting experiences across the lifespan (including for survivors of trauma);

• LGBTIQ+ experiences across the lifespan;

• Workplace-oriented vicarious trauma, stress and burnout.

Kate is passionate about working with her clients to facilitate recovery and healing from the effects of trauma and adversity in their varied forms. She works in partnership with her clients, and tailors the therapeutic process to the needs of the person. Kate works from a variety of clinical treatment modalities including (but not limited to): Trauma-Informed Stabilisation Model, Structural Dissociation Model, Polyvagal-Informed Therapy, EMDR and Attachment-Focused Therapy. She has obtained training and professional development in these therapeutic models. Kate has also completed Certified Clinical Trauma Professional Training Level I and II (CCTP I/II: Janina Fisher, 2018).

Kate’s work is relationally focused. She integrates a neurobiologically-informed understanding of trauma and attachment with a practical approach to therapeutic work. She recognises that individuals who endure trauma may experience deep shame, the absence of an experience of bodily and/or emotional safety and a fractured sense of self. She deeply acknowledges that trauma is frequently experienced somatically (within the body) and emotional memory, and that the work of re-establishing a sense of safety and connection is critical in trauma therapy. She also appreciates that attention to repair of early attachment wounds is important for many people’s recovery. She recognises that just as trauma occurs in the context of relationship, healing also occurs in relationship.

Kate has a particular interest in experience of trauma-related chronic shame. Among other regular, high quality clinical supervision, she seeks regular clinical consultation from a globally influential author and therapist in this clinical area, Canadian social worker and psychotherapist Dr. Patricia DeYoung.

Kate’s social work foundations are grounded in facilitating self-determination and hold that each individual is expert in their own life. Kate feels deeply privileged to work in partnership with her clients to transform the living legacies of current and/or past life experiences and relationships.

Fees

Kate’s session fee for therapy is $205. No referral is necessary to commence and continue therapy.

Kate also accepts clients who have a Mental Health Treatment Plan. To be eligible to receive a Medicare rebate under this scheme, clients must be referred by a GP or Psychiatrist for treatment. The current Medicare rebate for Accredited Mental Health Social Work (AMHSW) sessions is $87.20 per individual session, for up to 10 sessions per calendar year. The gap payment for those 10 sessions is approximately $118 per session.

Select Private Health Funds offer partial session rebates for AMHSW sessions (depending on the level of cover): HCF | BUPA | Doctors Health Fund | Teachers Health Fund (including UniHealth and Nurses & Midwives Health) | Australian Regional Health Group Ancillary Provider Accreditation Service | St Lukes Health