Hello, I'm Lisa
“When you or your child is struggling, you don't have to face it alone"
Feeling overwhelmed, worried or unsure where to turn? I’m Lisa, a child and family therapist offering a warm, safe space for children, young people and adults to feel heard and supported.
Together, we can make sense of difficult thoughts, feelings and experiences, strengthen your sense of self and find practical ways to cope. I help families and communities express their needs, understand one another and work through difficult times together.
With over 25 years across healthcare, mental health and child and family services, I bring experience, compassion and a practical, trauma-informed approach. My qualifications include master’s degrees in Counselling and Psychotherapy, and Nursing, alongside postgraduate qualifications in Child and Family Health, and Psychology.
I bring a deep understanding of the child and family dynamic, and the systems that surround them.
My passion is working within a child and family framework, helping all members of the family to thrive, working through their own experience and concerns allowing each person to have their own experience and journey yet build toward a stronger, more confident space within your family. Working together will support you to work through whatever it is you are experiencing without judgement.
I work alongside children, young people, parents, carers, families, schools, and community services to provide calm, practical, safe, and trauma-informed support.
My experience includes working within community mental health services, Lifeline Australia, drug and alcohol services, schools, and specialised child and family programs supporting problematic and harmful sexual behaviours.
Allow me to be there for you when you need it, without worry.
How We Support People
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How children express difficulties: When a child or young person is struggling, the whole family can feel the impact. Children and young people may not always have the words to explain what they are feeling.
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Trauma-informed Therapy: Many people experiencing trauma symptoms don't actually identify with the word "trauma".
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Do you feel constantly 'on edge' even when you're safe?
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Does your body react to stress before your mind even knows why?
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What are your survival habits after an incident or ongoing event?
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Grief and Loss: Navigating loss - Loss of a loved one, friend, school, identity, colleagues, teams, familiar environments, and/or change. When children or families face loss, change, or uncertainty, emotions can show up in many ways. Care focuses on healing, resilience, and safely journeying through stages to restore wellbeing and develop a healthy relationship with the environment. Because loss is not always visible, healing begins with feeling understood.
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Challenges in Coping: Because 'just relax' is the least helpful advice you’ve ever heard.
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Are you actually coping, or are you just getting used to being overwhelmed?
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When 'just getting through the day' starts taking everything you’ve got and feels like a full-time job.
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The Physical Side of Stress: Learn how sleep, gut health, and nerves impact your mental wellbeing. Explore trauma-informed strategies for nervous system regulation and stress relief at Harmony & Health Counselling and Wellness.
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Learn how to help Physical Stress Symptoms, including 'The shift work challenge".
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Helping children, young people, families, frontline services, and community spaces move from survival to harmony.
Your environment deeply shapes your wellbeing.
For children & young people, helping them to feel heard and acknowledged, to understand their emotions, build resilience, strengthen relationships, support family dynamics, and navigate life's challenges. Everything a child or young person feels, is real and true for them, at any age.
For families, I support parents, partners, carers and wider support networks through change, stress and relationship challenges. By reducing stigma and normalising common responses to difficult experiences, I help adults build confidence and develop a practical, strengths-based toolkit that supports connection, resilience and the whole family’s ability to thrive.
For schools, I offer wellness programs for parents and students to work through difficult situations at school and at home, build confidence, understand emotions, build resilience, and develop tools to manage anxiety and difficult coping.
For frontline and community services, I provide help and support within a trauma informed lens working with people and community organisations who need support and education with children, young people and their family.
Experience care designed to move your entire ecosystem from survival to harmony.
Let's talk.....
We are here to support you on your journey toward Harmony and Health.
Individual Support
1:1 session in person via Telehealth nationally or at our studio in the Sutherland Shire.
Sessions are trauma-informed and evidence-based, supporting resilience, safety, and understanding in a
non-judgmental space in a supportive environment of your choice.
Contact us to discuss an appointment
Wellness Programs
Wellbeing sessions can be booked as a one-off post event or incident, or ongoing session to improve overall wellbeing scheduled throughout the year.
Sessions can be held at any time, online or in-person at your school or workplace.
Reach out to discuss a unique individualised session that can be designed with you and your family or school in mind.
Sessions for children require parental/carer consent.
Reach out to discuss today.
Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.”
Dr Bruce D. Perry