Therapeutic counselling support that meets you where you are.
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Tired of traditional clinical spaces where you have to mask just to get help?
Welcome, as you are. We deliver therapeutic counselling specifically designed for women navigating psychosocial and neurodivergent realities.
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We don't operate from a pathologising model that treats your differences as something to "fix". Our registered counselling practice is warm, validating and underpinned by women with lived-experience. We combine our professional qualifications with real, first-hand understanding of sensory overload, executive dysfunction, and neurodivergent burnout.
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Yes. We've been there and honestly, because we are spicy too we really understand the daily struggle! But after years of pushing through alllll the warning signs and falling apart too many times to count, we've learned to love our differences and hold space for our own needs to prevent burnout. We want this for you too.
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This is an intentionally individualised and holistic service designed to give you practical, trauma-informed support to work through your specific challenges, with a focus on developing self compassion and designing a recovery plan with tools and accommodations you need to finally work with your brain and not against it.​
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We provide Specialised Counselling across three primary areas:
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1. Burnout Recovery & Nervous System Regulation
An Antidote to Burnout for the Neurospicy Soul
Navigating a world not built for neurodivergent nervous systems leads to deep, chronic exhaustion and anxiety. This area of practice is dedicated to helping you step off the high-friction wheel of masking, over-functioning, and sensory overload. Together, we explore gentle energy mapping, establish sensory safety plans, and rebuild sustainable daily capacity on your own terms.
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2. Somatic Counselling & Therapeutic Yoga Integration
Grounded, Body-First Somatic Support
Anxiety and overwhelm don't just live in the mind—they live in the nervous system and physical body. Integrating gentle, therapeutic yoga movement, conscious breath, and somatic awareness into our counselling sessions, we create a safe space to drop out of overthinking. This body-first approach helps process stress responses, regulate anxiety, and build a tactile, grounding toolkit you can rely on in everyday life.
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3. Narrative Reframing & Self-Advocacy
Reclaiming Your Story & Setting Empowered Boundaries
Using a neuroaffirming narrative therapy framework, we gently unpick internalized scripts of "not doing enough" or "being too much." We work together to clarify your core values, honor your authentic communication style, and craft practical self-advocacy tools. Whether navigating workplace changes, medical settings, or personal relationships, this space helps you articulate your needs clearly, set unshakeable boundaries, and rewrite your personal story with self-compassion.
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Our Evidence-Based Therapeutic Approach
We integrate trauma-informed talk therapies with evidence-based somatic practices to support both the mind and the nervous system:
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Somatic & Nervous System Regulation (Bottom-Up Therapy): An evidence-based approach that acknowledges how stress, sensory overload, and trauma are physically held in the body. Instead of just talking about overwhelm, we track physiological autonomic responses. We use gentle, body-aware grounding techniques to help process sensory distress, and restore a biological state of safety.
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Narrative Therapy: An established therapeutic framework focused on externalising our problems, allowing you to separate your core identity from your struggles, empowering you to rewrite your personal story.
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Solution-Focused Therapy: A goal-directed, collaborative practice that focuses on building actionable, concrete strategies to help you manage daily energy thresholds and achieve your personal capacity goals.
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Our Credentials & philosophy
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Built on a foundation of personal lived expertise and years of dedicated community and crisis counselling experience. Mindful Living Supports is an established, neuroaffirming practice operating as a remote-specialist service
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Our dedicated counsellors engage in rigorous, ongoing professional development annually, strictly aligned with our professional body requirements, ensuring our therapeutic practices remain at the forefront of our care. We are Registered Counsellors & Therapeutic Yoga Practitioners and hold current professional memberships with:
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ACWA (Australian Community Workers Association)
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ACCA (Australian Community Counselling Association) &
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YA (Yoga Australia Registered practitioner)
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While we specialise in Narrative Therapy, Somatic Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy, we share our lived experience and reject one-size-fits-all modalities. We work collaboratively with you to co-design a unique therapeutic style that respects your needs & preferences because you are the expert in your own story.
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How to Fund This Service:
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This is a private fee for service telehealth support. In line with NDIS we can support plan and self managed NDIS participants who have Improved Daily Living - Counselling funding in their plans.​ We bill at standard National, Remote, or Very Remote NDIS price caps depending entirely on your physical location in Australia.
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