new this month at heart Talk!
We are excited to be offering one on one and group work with the internationally respected Secret Agent Society social skills intervention for children aged 8-12 years with neurodiversity.
there's an easier way...
I'd love to help you find it!!
My passion is supporting:
- Neurodiverse and highly sensitive teens and little ones who experience big feelings and behavioural challenges to find greater ease and confidence to create a better quality of life.
- Parents who are aware they don't want to dominate or suppress their children, without resorting to permissiveness and chaos! I love supporting parents to get back in charge and create; stronger relationships, resilient kids and peaceful homes.
- Highly sensitive and attuned souls who feel ready to undertake the brave healing and work involved in creating big shifts in their inner and outer worlds. These clients are often highly intuitive and aware, yet have been disconnected from their power and clarity by one too many bumps in the road. Reconnecting to our inner wisdom and truth and knowing how to let feelings move through can make all the difference.
For all of us at times, there can be circumstances, beliefs or habits that get in the way of our strength and wisdom. I offer the steady support and access to information that will facilitate the healing process to unfold with greater ease.
I look forward to connecting with you.
~ Emily
Counsellor, Parenting & Child Behaviour Support Specialist, Communication Coach & NDIS Provider
support for your family
Social/Emotional & Complex Behaviour Support for Kids
I love to work with little ones who are particularly struggling with social cues and emotional regulation, so they can grow to find the world a less confusing place. Sessions are suited both to neuro-typical and neuro-diverse children.
I use Compassionate Communication (NVC), Play Therapy, Social Stories and Floortime interventions, music and role play to build safety and support whilst learning in a fun way, conducive to the way their minds work.
Primarily these sessions are conducted one on one, however larger group work can be arranged in Home Schooling settings. NDIS APPROVED
Communication (NVC) & Parent Support
Based on decades of attachment research, I deliver the world renowned Circle of Security Parenting program. This powerful program supports you to rely on and honour your innate wisdom and find your power as a parent. Supporting you to enhance your child's self esteem and resiliency as well as create greater ease and enjoyment in being a parent.
Compassionate Communication (also known as Non-violent Communication or NVC) is based on the wonderful work of Psychologist Marshall Rosenberg.
This work brings profound awareness and inner connection, opening doorways to greater intimacy and connection within yourself and in all relationships.
Individual's & Couple's Counselling
Whether you are simply needing support with direction, learning new relational skills or the deeper work of healing and understanding a significant life challenge or reconnection in a relationship, I work with sensitivity and commitment to your individual needs. The work of therapy takes courage and I aim to meet you exactly where you are at and honour the pace at which you wish to work.
Please see ABOUT page for further details, or get in touch via the TAB below.
Respecting Our Differences & Supporting Neurodiversity
Kids today face so many labels that often categorise them through a lens of dysfunction or disorder. Where neurology is not typical, it is vital differences be honoured & the individual celebrated for their unique capacities and potential. We like to think of diagnosis as simply a road map to the best strategies for an individuals way of learning, relating and engaging with the world. Supporting and empowering neurodiverse kids and the families who love them, is one of Heart Talk's primary goals.
my approach & philosophy
Mental Health
Mental Health
Mental Health
I believe it to be essential that a holistic approach is taken when we aim to understand the unique inner experience of another. Our neurobiological landscapes, personal biographies, relational and physical environments and circumstances are all keys to the healing and meaning we seek.
So many things can impact our connection to this an
I believe it to be essential that a holistic approach is taken when we aim to understand the unique inner experience of another. Our neurobiological landscapes, personal biographies, relational and physical environments and circumstances are all keys to the healing and meaning we seek.
So many things can impact our connection to this and the path is so very personal for each of us.
Psycho/social education, mindfulness, body work (Somatic Focusing) and talk therapy are all methods I find direct us in shaping the best care for supporting our journey to the truest, most free expression of our individual self-actualisation.
Parenting
Mental Health
Mental Health
I love to support parents to get clear on what gets in the way of doing what they intuitively know is helpful. When we grow our capacity to notice our thinking and impact of that, we are able to access far greater choice and better read children's changing needs. This awareness provides children with the deeply secure relational attachmen
I love to support parents to get clear on what gets in the way of doing what they intuitively know is helpful. When we grow our capacity to notice our thinking and impact of that, we are able to access far greater choice and better read children's changing needs. This awareness provides children with the deeply secure relational attachment and conditions that support their resilience and liklihood of thriving.
My approach to supporting parents draws on Attachment Theory, Relational Neurobiology, NVC, Emotion Coaching, Family Systems Theory, child development and decades of experience working with children with complex behaviours, of all ages and numerous neurodiversities.
Relationships
Mental Health
Relationships
Much of my counselling work with relationships draws primarily on the wonderful Gottman Method, Emotion Focused Technique and Conscious Communication (also known as Nonviolent Communication).
This work takes into account advanced attachment theory and decades of evidence based research on habits of lasting loving relationships. Regardle
Much of my counselling work with relationships draws primarily on the wonderful Gottman Method, Emotion Focused Technique and Conscious Communication (also known as Nonviolent Communication).
This work takes into account advanced attachment theory and decades of evidence based research on habits of lasting loving relationships. Regardless of early relational experiences, habits of secure emotional intimacy can be learnt. Our goal is to give you all the tools you need to grow and maintain a strong, fun and authentic union that deeply sustains and honours both partners.