About Nina
Hi, I’m Nina
I’m a registered Psychotherapist helping you live more fully and free of addiction and the lingering effects of trauma. Helping you experience true healing beyond just symptom relief
What You Can Expect from Our Therapy Sessions
In our therapy sessions, anticipate:
- Being heard in a non-judgmental way
- Learning tools to manage anxiety, panic attacks, and overwhelm
- Guidance to uncover negative beliefs and rewrite your script
- A witness to help validate your experience
- A place to process grief
- An increase in self-compassion
- Learning healthier coping strategies
- Learning new ways to get your needs met
- Resources to support your emotion regulation
- An expanded support network
- Processing unresolved, lingering trauma
- Identifying attachment wounds and working towards secure attachment
I can help you if you are:
- Stuck in cycles of active addiction and relapse
- Struggling to set boundaries
- Overwhelmed by anxiety and/or panic attacks
- Engaging in unhealthy relationships
- Curious about how unresolved issues from childhood are impacting your relationships today
- Engaging in coping strategies that work well in the short term but may be causing long-term harm
- Sick and tired of obsession and mental preoccupation with addiction
I have a natural ability to:
- Help you feel comfortable and calm
- Bring my real self and not pretend to be the “expert”
- Speak with authenticity and share relevant experience
- Bring my personality and humanness into the room
- Use a trauma-informed approach that prioritises your safety
Credentials and Experience I Bring to Our Sessions:
My life journey, personal healing, professional experience, and academic studies have provided me with skills and insight into these areas:
- Professional Credentials:
- Graduate Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy
- Bachelor of Commerce Degree
- PACFA registration
- Gestalt Post Graduate Training
- Intuitive Eating PRO Skills TeleSeminar Training
- Suicide Training SAFE Talk
- ASIST Training
- Workshop Facilitator for Foundo Blue Mental Health
- DBT Training
- Group Facilitation Training, Here and Now Therapy
Expertise:
- Addiction issues including process addictions
- Disordered eating and body image concerns
- Anxiety, Panic and Overwhelm
- Relationship-related concerns
- Fertility challenges including IVF
- Treating Complex PTSD and Developmental Trauma
- Codependency, Love Addiction/Avoidance