A steady place for counselling, couples support and professional supervision
Sanctuary Practice offers calm, thoughtful support for adults and couples navigating change, grief, relationship difficulties, spiritual questions and the complex demands of caring, leading and living well.
Counselling is available online across Australia. Professional supervision is available online and in person in the Adelaide Hills.
A space for careful conversation, honest reflection, and finding a steadier path forward.
Stories held. Paths found.
There are seasons in life when we need more than advice.
We need space to speak honestly, make sense of our experience and find a steadier way forward.
Sanctuary Practice offers counselling for individuals and couples, as well as reflective professional supervision for pastors, chaplains, counsellors and other helping professionals.
The work is attentive to the whole person—the emotional, relational, practical and spiritual dimensions of life. It brings together careful conversation, professional insight and practical ways of moving forward.
How I can help
COUNSELLING
Narrative-informed, trauma-aware counselling for adults seeking greater clarity, healing, healthier patterns and a more grounded way of living.
Counselling may support you through grief, change, emotional strain, burnout, relationship difficulties, questions of identity or purpose, and experiences that cannot be separated neatly into emotional and spiritual categories.
Available online across Australia.
COUPLES COUNSELLING
Thoughtful, structured support for couples seeking to understand recurring patterns, communicate more constructively and strengthen the health of their relationship.
As an accredited Prepare/Enrich facilitator, I can also offer a practical framework to help couples identify relationship strengths, areas for growth and the dynamics shaping their life together.
Available online across Australia.
SUPERVISION
Reflective supervision for pastors, chaplains, counsellors and other helping professionals seeking ethical clarity, healthy boundaries, greater resilience and depth in their work.
Supervision provides space to consider not only the work itself, but also the practitioner, the helping relationship and the personal, organisational and spiritual contexts surrounding practice.
Available online across Australia and in person in the Adelaide Hills.
Counselling that can include your spiritual life
Our emotional, relational and spiritual lives are often deeply connected. Beliefs, values, faith, meaning and spiritual experience can influence how we understand ourselves, our relationships and the difficulties we face.
Spiritually integrated counselling creates room for these dimensions when they are important to you. The process is collaborative and client-led: your beliefs, values and questions are treated with respect, and spiritual perspectives or practices are not imposed.
This may be helpful if you have an established faith, are reconsidering what you believe, are navigating spiritual change or hurt, or simply want counselling that does not ask you to leave an important part of yourself outside the conversation.
A whole-person approach
My work brings together story and structure, reflection and movement, soul care and practical skill. I draw on narrative therapy, cognitive behavioural approaches, trauma-informed practice, spiritually integrated care, and 25 years of pastoral and leadership experience. Over those years, I have walked alongside people from many different backgrounds through varied and often unpredictable seasons of life.
This is not rushed or formulaic work. I seek to understand the person, relationship or practice context in front of me, rather than applying a predetermined solution.
The aim is to create space for honest reflection while also helping you recognise patterns, draw on existing strengths and identify meaningful ways forward.
Sanctuary Practice may be a good fit if you are...
✔ Navigating grief, change, burnout, or uncertainty
✔ Carrying responsibility for others and feeling the strain
✔ Experiencing emotional or relational patterns that are difficult to shift
✔ Wanting counselling that can include spirituality, faith, meaning or purpose
✔ Seeking support as a couple to strengthen communication and connection
✔ Looking for thoughtful, ethical and sustainable professional supervision
Soul Sanctuary —
Building the capacity to care well
Soul Sanctuary is the learning and community arm of Sanctuary Practice.
Through practical training and community events, it helps everyday people grow in their capacity to listen well, respond wisely and care for others with greater confidence and appropriate boundaries.
begin with a conversation
Finding the right counsellor or supervisor matters. A brief initial conversation gives us an opportunity to discuss what you are looking for, answer practical questions and consider whether Sanctuary Practice may be a suitable fit.
You do not need to provide a detailed account of your circumstances when making an initial enquiry.