Paula Gillespie-Fotheringham
Founder & Managing Director
Paula works with adults and children who have experienced complex trauma or identify as plural/dissociative identity states. Paula loves a good coffee, a novel, and the South Australian sunshine.
Shane Fotheringham
Co-Director
Shane's empathetic, client-centred approach promotes resilience and equity, ensuring his therapeutic interventions are innovative and research-driven.
Rana Kökçinar
Senior Psychotherapist, Family Therapist & Education Lead
Rana works closely with families to hear their stories and facilitate change in a safe and effective way. Her approach is warm, curious, and collaborative.
Alisha Banks
Principal Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) Consultant
Alisha has over a decade of experience supporting individuals, families, and teams across South Australia. She brings depth, curiosity, and a genuine commitment to practice to her role.
Sophie Johnson
Counsellor
Sophie assists individuals with anxiety, depression, trauma, and clients identifying as plural. Employing narrative and solution-focused therapies with neuroscience, she helps clients identify their strengths.
Jade Forgan
Psychotherapist & DBT Lead
With extensive experience in complex mental health, Jade leads innovative, community-rooted initiatives that prioritise relational safety and client empowerment. Her integrative practice draws from DBT, family systems therapy, polyvagal theory, and expressive modalities.
Makaela Nolan
Art Therapist
Makaela is a compassionate, person-centred Art Therapist with a background as a Registered Nurse in intensive and critical care. Her nursing career taught her empathy, resilience, and the ability to support individuals through life’s most challenging moments.
Amy Heffernan
Psychotherapist
Amy places great importance on developing a connection built on safety, authenticity, and playfulness. Amy's work is integrative with a focus on mind-body connection. Amy is deeply passionate about reducing the stigma created by the war on drugs, and values freedom of the human experience.
Ann Ibrahim
Psychotherapist
Ann works with adults, both individually and as couples, across a wide range of concerns. She is currently completing her PhD, applying a cross-cultural lens to Emotion-Focused Therapy in practice.
Abby Noronha
Psychotherapist
Abby is passionate about supporting neurodivergent children and their families, drawing on expressive therapies and systems-informed approaches to create a safe, playful, and strengths-based therapeutic space.
Gavin MacMillan
Psychotherapist
Gavin is passionate about cultivating emotional safety, strengthening personal and relational connection, and supporting clients with sustainable change through reflective, process-oriented work.
Susan Czernich
Counsellor | Play Therapist | Behaviour Support Practitioner
Susan is experienced in school-based counselling, family relationship therapy, trauma-informed practice, and crisis response.

