IN-PERSON IN BRISBANE & ONLINE ACROSS AUSTRALIA
Holistic therapy that honours your identity, your story, and your pace.
We provide thoughtful and personalised therapy that helps you delve beyond surface level coping towards meaningful, lasting change through a blend of genuine connection and care, clinical depth, and evidence-based practice.
We're honoured to hold space for what you need to be well and thrive.
Grounded in science, genuine in connection. Therapy that's responsive to your nuances,
feels steady, thoughtful
and human.
A DIFFERENT KIND OF THERAPY EXPERIENCE.
Welcome to our space. At The Holding Space Brisbane, we believe people are nuanced and complex, and therapy should consider the nuances of your life experience accordingly. We provide thoughtful, individualised care that respects and honours your complexity - your unique identity, history, nervous system patterns, culture, values, goals, and pace. We meet you where you are with warmth, curiosity, non-judgement, and genuine human connection and care. We offer a range of therapies and assessments guided by individual needs, tailored to support self-discovery, healing, and growth.
Our aim is to help you make real shifts that extend beyond just insight and surface level coping. We work collaboratively with you to help you understand not only your current challenges, but also the deeper dynamics beneath your difficulties that's keeping you stuck - the deeper emotional patterns, relational experiences, internal/unconscious processes, and mind-body dynamics that shape the way you relate to yourself and others, and how you cope. Together, we'll help you deepen self-understanding, develop personally relevant tools and skills, untangle and break patterns, and take steps towards meaningful, lasting change outside the therapy room.
We believe meaningful change unfolds when you feel emotionally and relationally safe, deeply seen, and genuinely understood and supported. And we're honoured to hold space for what you need to be well and thrive.
This space is for you.
WE'RE SO GLAD YOU'RE here.
At The Holding Space Brisbane, we honour the courage it takes to step into therapy for the first time or return to it, especially after past negative experiences. We believe therapy should feel like a place where you can exhale, be yourself, and feel safe, understood, and supported.
Sometimes life feels heavy — whether it’s the emotional weight of internal, family, or cultural expectations, the pressure to “have it all together,” feeling responsible for others, or the quiet struggles and pain no one seems to see. Many people arrive feeling like they've been managing well (or exceptionally well!) on the outside - showing up, holding it together, appearing 'high-functioning'. But internally, feel overwhelmed by anxiety or a relentlessly busy mind, pressure or inadequacy constantly in the background that won't quiet down, or a sense of exhaustion, emptiness, or disconnection they can't seem to name or overcome. Others arrive having spent years feeling overlooked, misunderstood, unable to share what they have been carrying, or neglecting themselves from habit.
Our aim is to help provide a different experience. We meet you with warmth, curiosity, deep respect and compassionate care, creating a space where you can feel safe to share what you've been carrying, and be genuinely seen, understood, and supported. Therapy also offers a space to relate to yourself in a different way. Together, we can help you deepen self-understanding, make sense of your experiences, and process what's been feeling difficult, heavy, or keeping you stuck. Together, we'll help you find more helpful and authentic ways of relating to yourself and others, and gently create space for greater self-trust, agency, connection, and possibilities.
We are proudly inclusive, affirming, and culturally attuned. We wholeheartedly welcome individuals from all backgrounds, identities, and lived experiences.
No explaining. No performing. Just honest, professional, and human support from a therapist that is ready to listen and understand, and who gets it.
You are welcome here.
WHAT WE CAN SUPPORT YOU WITH.
Areas of experience
and specialties
If your concerns are not listed here, you're welcome to reach out still. We can discuss your needs or point you in the right direction of support.
- Anxiety and mood
- Trauma
- Burnout and stress
- Relationship concerns
- Relational challenges
- Life transitions & role adjustments
- Multicultural mental health
- Family dynamics/conflict
- Grief & Loss
- Identity & self-esteem
- Self-worth & self-criticism
- People-pleasing
- Shame & defectiveness
- Perfectionism
- Cultural dynamics
- Somatic/physical complaints
- Emotional suppression
- Women's mental health & wellbeing
- LGBTQIA+ health/support
- Intersecting identity pressures
- Academic & Careers counselling
- Coping skills
- Workplace stress
- University/Student support
- ADHD, ASD, Executive Dysfunction
- Attachment/relationship patterns
- Barriers to intimacy
- Intergenerational dynamics
- Breaking patterns
- Imposter syndrome
- Psychological Assessments
OUR APPROACH - we don't follow a script. we follow you.
We look at the whole you to support self-discovery, meaningful change, & overall wellbeing.
Our approach begins with acceptance of you, exactly as you are and where you're ready to begin. At The Holding Space Brisbane, our work is grounded in seeing you as a whole person, not a diagnosis or label. We don't take a one-size-fits-all approach. Instead, therapy and assessment is individually tailored and shaped by you, allowing for purposeful and effective work.
Here, your unique identity, lived experience, nervous system patterns and neurobiology, early/family experiences, social and cultural context, intersectional factors, values, and therapy goals are all taken into consideration, and we work at a pace that supports emotional and relational safety, nervous system regulation, and sustainable growth. We see you as the expert on your life, and your goals guide our work. Together, we'll co-create a space and treatment plan that considers the steadiness and support you need to slow down, reflect, deepen insight, heal, and move toward your goals with personally relevant tools and insights you can carry into daily life.
Depending on your goals and circumstances, the work may involve building insight, practical tools like mind-body strategies, skills development such as emotion regulation, boundaries, and self-compassion, processing past experiences, or understanding the deeper processes that may shape your challenges or distress. For example, emotional patterns, attachment/relationship dynamics, self-limiting beliefs, outdated protective mechanisms or coping responses, bodily responses, internal or unconscious processes that continue to influence your present day experiences. The goal is actionable growth and meaningful change that helps you relate to yourself and your life life with more clarity, flexibility, self-trust and fulfilment.
Because the most effective therapy is the kind that makes sense in the context of your actual life.
HOW WE MEET YOU WHERE YOU ARE - OUR THERAPEUTIC MODALITIES & philosophy.
Evidence-based. Deeply attuned. Human-first.
Your therapist combines clinical skill, expertise, and heart - walking alongside you compassionately, collaboratively, and humanly as you find your way forward. We use approaches that work, but more than anything, we focus on helping you feel safe, seen and understood through our values of curiosity, non-judgement and empathy.
Our practice is rooted in emotional safety, attunement, and a deep respect for each client’s inner world, and our therapeutic style is warm, grounded, and reflective. We value authentic human connection, genuine care, and clinical integrity and effectiveness, equally.
Sessions are not merely passive "talking" or "venting". Your therapist engages with you to explore patterns, make meaningful insights, and gently challenge what's no longer serving you - whilst respecting your nervous system needs. Sessions are thoughtfully paced and structured, reflective, honest, grounded and relatable, with space for both depth and humour as appropriate.
Every approach we use is evidence-based, culturally responsive, and non-pathologizing. Our therapeutic approach is primarily relational and integrative to help facilitate deeper self-understanding, actionable growth, and real change in your daily life and relationships. We are primarily informed by schema therapy, as well as psychodynamic, attachment, and trauma theory. We also draw from and integrate tools from CBT, compassion focussed therapy, somatic and nervous-system work, mindfulness, ACT, and DBT where appropriate to support your needs and goals.
Whether you're seeking support for your thoughts, feelings, relationships, or life events, we have the tools and knowledge to meet you where you are and support you in finding a path forward that feels more helpful, intentional, and
true to
you.
ways we can work together
Our Services
Individual
Therapy
We offer a collaborative and supportive space to understand yourself more deeply, ease distress, and build skills for navigating life through a tailored combination of evidence-based therapy, clinical expertise and genuine care.
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Neuropsychological Assessments
We offer comprehensive assessments according to best-practice guidelines, within a neuro-affirming and culturally responsive framework, including diagnostic, cognitive ability, educational assessments, and return to work.
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Psychological Letters & Reports
We offer a range of report options to align with your individual clinical and financial needs. Options include: Diagnostic letters, Brief reports, Comprehensive reports, and Student/Learning and disability/health related reports.
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OUR PROCESS
How we'll navigate this path together.
01
reach out
Book online or send us a message. No pressure — just a warm, welcoming first step at your own pace. We also offer a brief 15 minute call to answer any questions and assess whether we will be a good fit for supporting you with your concerns.
02
your first session
Your first session is a chance to get to know each other, discuss what brings you to therapy, and what you're hoping for. You'll have space to share as much or as little as you're comfortable with. Your therapist will ask questions about your background, experiences, and current circumstances to help them understand the broader context of your story. You may be provided questionnaires to help your therapist and you to later co-create a plan that aligns with your goals and what feels most supportive for you, and to establish a baseline to measure progress. This shared understanding becomes the foundation for the work going forward.
03
ongoing support
Therapy tends to be effective when sessions are held frequently and regularly, but the pace is always guided by what feels sustainable for you. Together, we’ll find a rhythm that offers the steadiness and space you need to explore, reflect, and move toward your goals with personally relevant tools and insights you can carry into daily life. You might be assigned tasks to do between sessions to continue "doing the work" towards your goals and meaningful, lasting change. No pressure, no judgement - just compassionate evidence-based support to help ease distress and move towards clarity, balance, and greater wellbeing.
navigate challenges, cultivate wellbeing, & achieve meaningful change.
Your path forward can start here.
You don’t have to figure it all out on your own.
If you’re not sure where to start, we can work that out together or just start with what's been feeling hardest lately.
You're in the right place.