About Jodie
Remembering who you were before the world told you to shrink.
Holistic counselling, coaching and healing in Parkdale, Bayside Melbourne and online across Australia
Whether you've been trying to work through things alone, or you've spent years in therapy, you might still find yourself back in the same emotional places. It isn't because you haven't tried hard enough. Most support stops at insight. I help you gain clarity from the inside out, using holistic approaches that integrate mind, body and soul.
Meet Jodie,
I'm a counsellor, trauma-informed coach, Reiki master and intuitive practitioner, based in Parkdale, Bayside Melbourne. But more than that, I am a woman who has lived through my own breaking point and come out the other side. I work holistically with women at every stage, whether they're just beginning their healing or have already done significant personal work and still feel stuck. What I see again and again is awareness without real understanding, of the beliefs and patterns we've simply learned along the way. Once we see them clearly, and work with what's held in the body, not just the mind, the shift can happen with surprising ease.
I hold a Diploma of Counselling with an advanced major in addiction and family therapy, I'm a certified trauma-informed coach, and I've been practicing Reiki since 2005. I bring together professional counselling, somatic work, nervous system regulation, EFT tapping, and intuitive guidance, not because every client needs all of it, but because no two women arrive the same. I work intuitively throughout every session to identify what yours actually needs. This work goes further than talking, so the change becomes real, and you feel the shift, not just understand it.
I'm also an independent NDIS provider, offering mental health counselling and psychosocial recovery coaching for self-managed and plan-managed participants, with the same holistic, trauma-informed approach that underpins all of my work.
If this sounds like what you have been looking for, I would love to meet you.
Why I Do This Work
Long before this was my work, it was my life. I was holding everything together on the outside while my nervous system was running on panic underneath. I was in a relationship that was not safe, and carrying trauma that had been stacking since long before that relationship began. When my body finally reached a breaking point, it came in the form of panic attacks that stopped me in my tracks. Leaving meant single motherhood, and the start of healing on my own terms.
Talking about what had happened was not what helped me. It relived the experience without resolving it. What helped was going underneath the story. Understanding that my reactions were not about the present, they were about a much younger version of me who had never felt safe, and learning to actually soothe that version rather than just explain her. Healing was not about becoming someone new. It was about remembering who I was before everything told me to shrink.
That experience is why I cannot offer one fixed approach to every client. What I have learned, through my own healing and through years of working with other women, is that the path is different for everyone. But the destination is the same: feeling safe inside your own body, trusting yourself again, and the freedom that comes from actually living that way, not just knowing it in your head.
What Makes This Approach Different
Here, your sessions are shaped around what you actually need.
I work intuitively throughout every session to identify what your system needs that day, not what worked last week, and not a one-size-fits-all approach
Work that goes into the body and nervous system, not just the mind
Lived experience of the patterns I work with, not just the theory of them
Professional counselling credentials alongside 20 years of intuitive and energy healing practice
Independent NDIS provider for self-managed and plan-managed participants
For clients who want to go even deeper, I also offer Time Line Therapy®, a focused 2-hour session that works directly with your internal timeline to release the root of emotions like anger, sadness, guilt or resentment, without needing to relive the experience in detail. This is usually something I introduce once we've already been working together, when it feels like the right next step.
Qualifications & Training
Diploma of Counselling
Certified NLP Coach & Practitioner
Certified Trauma-Informed Coach
EFT Tapping Practitioner
Time Line Therapy® Practitioner
Certified Practitioner of Hypnosis
Certified Meditation Instructor
Master of Ascension Reiki
Australian Bush Flower Essences Practitioner Certificate Level 1
Mindfulness in Therapy Certification
Mediumship & Intuitive Practice (since 2005)
Helpline Volunteer, supporting families with a loved one struggling with addiction
Professional Memberships
International Institute of Complementary Therapists (IICT)
Australian Counselling Association (ACA)
"I felt fully seen, heard, and held throughout our session.
I went so much deeper than I expected.
I walked away feeling lighter, more at ease, and truly happy with myself."
— Rita C.
This is the beginning of coming home to yourself.
It won't happen overnight. It happens gently, layer by layer, as your body learns it's safe to soften. Overwhelmed turns into steady. Misunderstood turns into finally heard, by yourself first, then by everyone else. That's what coming home to yourself feels like.
Before
Exhausted. Knowing your patterns and still repeating them. Running on anxiety you cannot switch off. Stuck in a mind that will not stop.
After
Grounded. Clear. Trusting yourself again. Feeling the shift in your body, not just understanding it in your mind.
Let’s Begin with a Conversation
If something here resonates, that's reason enough to reach out. Book a session and I'll get back to you personally, no pressure, no expectation, just a conversation to see if this feels right.