Melinda Timmons.

Mel (she/her) is a highly skilled Clinical Supervisor, Accredited Mental Health Social Worker and registered ACA/PACFA counsellor, who will hold a safe space while you explore together - whether for therapy or supervision. Her stable, gentle yet experienced approach incorporates key mind-body elements in sessions to enhance your transformations. Seamlessly weaving in parts work, somatic practices and Brainspotting, these ‘bottom up‘ approaches mean she leaves no stone unturned in your system. If you’re interested in change, Mel will help you get there. She offers all sessions via telehealth and accepts Medicare.

Mel has been a social worker by trade for two decades, initially working with homeless and at-risk young people in Sydney. After this, she moved to London, and worked with people living on the streets and as an addiction counsellor for the NHS. Upon returning home to Sydney, she continued working with adults in a drug rehabilitation setting, before moving to rural NSW and starting a private practice. Mel has been in private practice for the past decade and now fully operates online.

Mel is a self-identified neurodivergent woman, with a deep understanding of developmental and complex trauma. She strongly aligns with any approach that is truly trauma-informed and non-pathologising, with an understanding that our ways of coping and responding to the world are as a result of the experiences we have had, and how we have made sense of them, and inevitably survived. Mel walks the talk and is strongly influenced by attachment, feminist, intersectionality, and non-pathologising frameworks - and you will feel this when you are in a virtual room with Mel.

As a supervisor, Mel is deeply passionate about supporting like-minded counsellors, social workers and other practitioners in the health and helping sector who are looking for compassionate guidance and support. Mel is particularly interested in supporting early career counsellors as they get going, as well as experienced practitioners who are looking to go deeper with their work. Without a doubt, Mel is especially passionate about helping practitioners to improve their own boundaries, and to avoid or recover from experiences of 'burnout'.

In supervision, Mel provides an unstructured (natural and organic flow, without formal agenda), non-judgemental, respectful space in which to explore those parts of us that inevitably show up in your practice - the imposter, the fixer, the over-giver, the people-pleaser etc - and guide you towards increased self-knowledge in order to improve your capacity for attunement and connection with your self and your clients. Here, Mel’s safe space, allows you to unpack those more ‘taboo’, silenced, rejected or suppressed beliefs so that together you can discover what they’re there to teach you. Having someone who is willing to gently name and go into biases can normalise some of our quiet pain and struggle as professionals - you are not alone.

Committed to her own learning and growth, Mel is currently finalising her Graduate Diploma in Prevention and Responses to Gendered Violence as well as a Brainspotting Certification.