Christa (she/her) is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker and creative arts psychotherapist with extensive experience in mental health and community-based settings. Christa is passionate about supporting people who are looking to feel more wholeness, ease, pleasure and connection within themselves and in relationships. Through centring lived expertise and experience, Christa prioritises building the trust and safety needed to sustain a therapeutic relationship.

Christa's approach to therapy is integrative and relational. This means therapy together looks and feels collaborative and draws on a range of theories and approaches that aim to meet your individual needs and ways of processing. Christa is particularly interested in creative, somatic and movement-based therapies to nurture trust, safety, curiosity, playfulness, meaning-making, and self-expression.Christa draws on biopsychosocial models of care, an anti-oppressive and intersectional feminist lens, neurobiological understandings of trauma, attachment theory, art therapy processes, "parts work", and EMDR. Christa's frameworks are continually growing and evolving, and she seeks to ground herself in decolonial thinking, trauma and violence informed approaches, sex work inclusivity, LGBTQIA+ affirming and neuro-affirming practice.

Areas of practice and themes/experiences you may wish to explore:

• relationships and interpersonal challenges
• sex and intimacy
• sexuality and identity
• bi+/queer experiences when in cishet-presenting relationships
• understanding and exploring neurotypes
• accessing pleasure and embodiment
• grief and loss
• perinatal mental health
• birth trauma processing
• attachment repair
• parenting support for all types of families (including single, rainbow and co-parents)
• parenting after experiencing childhood abuse and neglect
• developmental and complex trauma
• disordered eating and body image
• anxiety and depression
• exploring and connecting with self
• cultivating creativity

Medicare rebates available with a GP referral.

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