Therapy

Kate primarily works with young people and adults across the gender, sexuality and age spectrum, who have experienced:

• Childhood and adolescent developmental/attachment trauma;

• Sexual abuse and sexual assault;

• Domestic and family violence;

• Single-incident traumatic events;

• Mental health challenges including depression and anxiety;

• Medical trauma;

• Grief and loss;

• Parenting issues (including for survivors of trauma);

• 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 individual. Kate works from a variety of clinical treatment modalities including (but not limited to): Trauma-Informed Stabilisation Model, Structural Dissociation Model, Polyvagal-Informed Therapy and Attachment-Focussed 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 integrates a neurobiologically-informed understanding of trauma and attachment with a practical approach to therapeutic work. She recognises that individuals who endure trauma frequently experience deep shame, the absence of a sense of bodily 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 enjoys working in partnership with her clients to transform the legacies of current and/or past life experiences and relationships. You are the expert in your own life, and she will work with you from a strengths perspective.

Fees

You do not need a doctor's referral to see Kate, unless you want to claim back a portion of your fee under Medicare.

Kate’s session fee for therapy is $195. The current Medicare rebate for a Mental Health Social Worker is $85.20 per individual session, for up to 10 sessions (the referral pattern is 6+4, with a GP review between each lot of sessions) per calendar year. To be eligible to receive a Medicare rebate under this scheme, clients must be referred by a GP or Psychiatrist for treatment and you will need to bring your referral letter and a copy of the Mental Health Care Plan to your first appointment.
You may also be able to claim a rebate from your Private Health Fund, depending on the level of cover you have.