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Helping you have relationships you cherish ~ with yourself and those that matter most to you

I offer relational psychotherapy for individuals and couples who want to create more meaningful, connected relationships — with themselves, with each other, and with the people who matter most to them.

 

I work with clients in Sydney, across Australia, and internationally, offering both in-person sessions and online therapy worldwide via Zoom.

 

My work is grounded in compassion and collaboration, drawing on mindfulness, somatic awareness, and cognitive insight. Together, we gently explore the deeper individual patterns that shape your sense of self and flow into your relationships, so that change can unfold in a way that feels real, embodied, and lasting.

Testimonials

Bernadette has been an incredible therapist. From the start, she made me feel comfortable and genuinely listened to, while also challenging me in the right ways to think deeper and grow. She’s helped me understand myself much more clearly and given me valuable perspective and tools that I’ll carry forward. I’d highly recommend her to anyone looking for a thoughtful, supportive and insightful therapist ~ verified review via Bark.com

I’ve had four previous therapists and Bernadette is by far the best for me. Highly recommended ~ verified review via Bark.com

I am so glad I found Bernadette. She is a truly beautiful person who guides through empathy and compassion and the results are undeniable. I look forward to continuing my growth journey with her, I really couldn't recommend her more ~ verified review via Bark.com

Absolutely Brilliant. Wonderful work - verified review via Bark.com

Bernadette is such a lovely person. This was my first time doing something like this and she has helped and given the support that was needed. Definitely very happy we somehow crossed paths ~ verified review via Bark.com

Bernadette is the most fantastic therapist I have ever met. I have been seeing her consistently for over a year now. She has a gorgeous, compassionate approach and I could not recommend her enough ~ verified review via Bark.com

Bernadette was really helpful to me. Very real and personal, kind, compassionate and caring, I would highly recommend her advice, help and counsel ~ verified review via Bark.com

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Anger
Morning Fog
Depression
Abstract City Lights
Anxiety
Autumn Leaves
Addiction
The Flock
Mindfulness
Sparklers
Relationships
Magnified Grass
Trauma
Bouquet
Grief
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About me...

I am a relational psychotherapist and relational life therapist, and my work has developed over more than two decades of being alongside people in the layered, often tender terrain of their inner and relational lives.

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I began my training in counselling and human change, but very quickly found myself drawn beyond frameworks and methods into something more immediate — the living experience of relationship itself. The moments where connection is lost or defended against, and the quieter places underneath where longing, fear, and hope sit together.

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Over many years I have also been immersed in mindfulness, meditation, yoga, and somatic practice, and these have become inseparable from how I work. They shape the way I listen and the way I stay with experience — through the body, through breath, through what is sensed as much as what is spoken. My earlier work in physical theatre continues to inform this orientation, especially an attention to presence, gesture, and the unspoken language between people.

 

Relational Life Therapy eventually became a central framework in my practice, alongside a wider relational orientation, because it named something I had long been working with: the way we carry patterned ways of relating that form outside of awareness, and the possibility that these patterns can be met and transformed in real relationship.

What has remained constant is a trust in the possibility of change when there is enough honesty, attention, and care. I see therapy as a collaborative space rather than an intervention. I work in partnership with my clients, supporting them to begin trusting their own wisdom again — the quieter knowing that is often obscured but never entirely lost.

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