Hi, I’m Mel.

I’m a counsellor, artist, educator and traverser of paths less travelled.

I help people who want to get their lives heading in a direction that feels aligned with their values, identity and hopes for the future. It’s easy to lose your way and one day realise that you are going through life driven by the expectations of others (actual or perceived), by unexamined anxiety, or just by habit. Sometimes, it is significant events such as illness, relationship breakdown, family conflict or workplace stress that push us to a place of feeling that something needs to change in how we are ‘doing life’. Sometimes, it is a more vague sense of losing a feeling of ‘aliveness’ to the world. Whatever brought you here, I’m guessing you would like something to change. From a broad perspective, that’s what taking the ‘less travelled’ path is - it’s choosing to do things differently, even though it can feel hard.

Yes, change can feel hard, but it is worth it.
Importantly, you don’t have to do this alone.

Counselling provides a safe and encouraging space to pause and examine what is going on for you at the moment. What’s working? What’s not?

I appreciate that while the hard stuff of life, such as pain, disappointments, setbacks, and losses, occurs for everyone, each person's experience of life's challenges is unique, calling for individualised therapy. I take a strengths-based approach, helping people rediscover their existing skills and knowledge and clarify their values to meet life's challenges with greater competence. Additionally, I can help clients move beyond their current approaches to develop more varied, flexible problem-solving methods that build their personal toolbox. 

Our counselling sessions are a place for you to gain personal insights, expand your perspectives and experiment with more constructive and adaptive ways of responding to whatever comes your way. Through skillfully facilitated reflective conversation and practical skill development, my hope is that your new, renewed, and deepened understandings of yourself translate into life-enhancing action in the world beyond the therapy sessions.