Melinda Timmons.

Clinical Supervisor, Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, Registered ACA/PACFA Counsellor, Parts approach (Internal Family Systems/Structural Dissociation informed), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (with a trauma/somatic focus), Brainspotting - Phase 2 (currently working towards certification), Somatic focussed, ‘bottom up‘ approach. Strongly influenced by: attachment, feminist, intersectionality, and non-pathologising frameworks. She offers therapy sessions Australia-wide via telehealth.

I have been a social worker for two decades, initially working with homeless and at-risk young people in Sydney. Then while in London, I worked with street homeless people and as a drug and alcohol counsellor for the NHS. On my return home to Sydney, I continued working with adults in a drug rehabilitation setting, before moving to rural NSW and starting a private practice. I have now been in private practice for the past decade and for the last 5 years, I have been providing services completely online. I am a self-identified neurodivergent womyn, with a deep understanding of developmental and complex trauma. I strongly align 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.

As a supervisor I am passionate about supporting like-minded counsellors and social workers who are looking for compassionate guidenace and support. I am particularly interested in working with those who are early in their counselling career, as well as experienced practitioners who are looking to go deeper with their work.

In supervision, I provide an unstructured, non-judgemental, respectful space in which to explore those parts of us that inevitably show up in the counselling room - the imposter, the fixer, the over-giver, the people-pleaser etc - and guide you towards increased self-knowledge in order to improveyour capacity for attunement and connection with your self and your clients.

I am especially passionate about helping practitioners to improve their own boundaries, and to avoid or recover from experiences of 'burnout'.

Currently studying towards Graduate Diploma in Prevention and Responses to Gendered Violence.