Hi, I'm Emma! I'm a Clinical Hypnotherapist, Reiki Practitioner, Women’s Embodiment Facilitator, photographer, and co-parenting mum of three. I support clients through stress, anxiety, changing behaviour, self-exploration, personal growth, pregnancy, parenting and everything in between.

Through my own journey and my work with clients, I’ve learned that lasting change happens when we work with all layers of ourselves; mind, body, emotions, and energy. Using hypnotherapy, Reiki, somatic parts work and embodiment, I offer a holistic approach that weaves the physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual.

I’m especially passionate about supporting people who feel restless or out of alignment, and those who know there’s more for them than the life they're currently living. I also care deeply about parenting and re-parenting work, and how our own healing shapes the next generation.

About me

My story...

I came to my personal journey of seeking help and healing after becoming a mother. Cracks that had been beginning to show after I had two boys under two, became somewhat more dire after my daughter was born in 2020. The stress and physical depletion from a difficult pregnancy, postnatal anxiety during the pandemic, moving house, parenting highly sensitive kids, facing relationship issues, and feeling alone with the additional load of being an emergency services family, I was at breaking point. My intentions of parenting consciously and capacity for supporting myself (let alone my kids!) was completely shot.

Seeking help and support was just about surviving to begin with, I just wanted to be able to find some sense of self, and build my capacity for parenting my three children so that I no longer felt so burnt out, ashamed and in fear of my own emotions. I sought hypnotherapy in 2021, and felt my mental health and outlook shift immediately. Feeling better than I had done in years, I knew I wanted to be able to help mothers in the same way, and soon after I began studying a Diploma of Clinical Hypnotic Sciences. I noticed significant shifts after several hypnotherapy sessions, but knew there was more I wanted to discover about myself and heal. The fire in my belly had been lit - spending many hours researching evidence-based parenting strategies, emotion coaching for myself and my kids, attachment styles, reparenting myself, child development, and gaining knowledge on our subconscious minds and bodies and ways to heal.

I then began delving into my body, getting somatic support, learn how to feel again, and working with practitioners to support and heal my nervous system. After regaining some of my energy and sense of self, I found the courage to begin speaking up for myself, asking for help and removing myself from relationships and situations that were keeping me small and stuck.

I began my hypnotherapy practice in 2022, working with mothers, parents and with people who could feel there was something more to life, but struggled to make the shifts they knew they wanted to. This work has been deeply fulfilling and has expanded my capacity to hold space gently and intuitively, supporting clients to access their inner worlds, their subconscious, and their bodies to find understanding and move toward healing. Before this chapter, I worked for many years in the corporate world, facilitating groups to reflect and review what wasn't working, challenge old structures and create new ways forward. It turns out I'm still doing a similar thing - only now I'm working with people and their inner worlds, rather than business processes!

I truly believe our challenges and pain and can be a pathway to awakening our connection to Self, to slowing down, to healing and accessing our soul's truth and purpose. Motherhood has brought me many challenges and opportunities for healing, including fertility struggles, anxiety, having no sense of self, birth trauma, divorce, managing co-parenting, overcoming rage and dysregulation, the fear that I'm breaking my children, guilt, shame, and overwhelming exhaustion. Throughout it all, I've had a real drive for knowing there is more.

Navigating these challenges has pushed me to reconnect deeply with my body and learn to trust my senses in ways that I had never done before. Discovering that on the other side of the mess, there is love. There is contentment, there is trust, and for me, there is a whole body sense of feeling supported. The more I've uncovered, the more courage and power I have found within. It certainly doesn't mean life is easy, but now, when I intentionally quiet my busy, critical mind, I can connect with a sense of "I've got this", no matter what gets thrown my way.

And it's a journey that I will be on until the day I die. I am dedicated to continue finding the courage to confront the uncomfortable, messy parts of me, to follow my truth and share it with and support those around me.

Parenting my children has always been a big driver in everything i do. And it still is.

MY WORK

I truly believe that we all come into this life with good intentions, and any thoughts, feelings or behaviours that do not reflect that, are due to conditioning, learned beliefs, emotional wounding, or energies that have been passed down ancestrally in our bodies as a way of protection and surviving.

Sometimes, we begin to realise that the things we do unconsciously do not not feel good, are a mismatch with how we'd like to be, or are even harmful. This does not mean they are bad, wrong, or shameful, it means a pattern that once worked, is no longer helpful and needs to be explored and understood.

It is my dream that all people could self reflect and view others in a way without shame or judgement. To have the curiosity and courage to explore their inner workings trusting there is a 'method to the madness' and coming back home to themselves. In the work I do, it is my intention to support people to connect with their own Self energy underneath all of the noise, so they begin to can think, feel and act in a way that leaves them feeling more connected, fulfilled and alive.

It is my hope that the work I do with my clients, even tiny little shifts, will have a flow on effect to all parts of their life, positively impacting them, their children, the people around them, the community, and the world.

MY VISION

BIGGER PICTURE VISION

I would love to see as many people and parents as possible, begin to reclaim our authentic selves, begin the remembering of our deep ancestral roots when humans lived in reciprocity with the land, and have the courage for radical self-responsibility to shed what no longer aligns. To lead and teach our children different ways of connecting and being, so we can rebuild a regenerative and sustainable way of living in community.

acknowledgments

I honour the Gunaikurnai people, Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land where I live, work and raise my children. I hold deep gratitude for their continued care of Country, and for the stories and wisdom carried forward through generations against immense challenge. I pay my respects to Elders past and present and future, and recognise the unbroken connections all First Nations peoples hold with earth, water and sky. I recognise my responsibility to walk respectfully and commit to ongoing learning, reflection and action toward meaningful reconciliation. Always was, always will be.

I acknowledge my own privilege and the limitations of my lived experience and perspective. I approach this work with humility, openness, and respect for all experiences and voices. I do not claim to be an expert, a healer, or someone who can "fix" you! I do have big dreams, and greatly value and respect the people I have the honour of supporting and the work we co-create together.

Qualifications & Training

• Qualified Clinical Hypnotherapist (Diploma of Clinical Trauma Hypnotic Sciences)

• Certified Practitioner of DeTrauma Technique (DTT)™

• Certified Motherhood Studies Practitioner (Dr Sophie Brock)

• Usui Reiki Level 1 and 2 (Melbourne Reiki & Wellness)

• Integrated Somatic Parts Work Level 1, 2 and 3 (The Embody Lab)

• The Fembodiment Method™ Certification (currently completing)

• Member of the Australian Hypnotherapists Association (AHA)

• Accredited Hypnotherapist with the Hypnotherapy Council of Australia (HCA)

• Certificate Psychotherapy (Hypnotherapy Training Australia)

• Certificate Childbirth Physiology (Dr Rachel Reed)

• Peaceful Parenting (Dr Laura Markham)

• Transformational Parenting Process (JAI Institute of Parenting)

• Tuning Into Kids - Emotion Coaching (Berry Street)

I also am committed to continued professional development as a practitioner, and also my own personal healing and growth with ongoing one on one support and guidance from peers and mentors.