Paula Gillespie-Fotheringham
Founder & Managing Director | Specialist Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner
Paula works across psychotherapy and behaviour support. She supports children, young people, adults, and families within complex therapeutic, developmental, and relational contexts.
Shane Fotheringham
Co-Director | Clinical Family & Systemic Psychotherapist | Registered Social Worker
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.
Kate Maitland
Psychotherapist, Preschool Boost Lead
Kate brings a strong background in child, adolescent and family work and trauma-informed practice.
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’s therapeutic practice draws from DBT, family systems therapy, polyvagal theory, and expressive modalities.
Makaela Nolan
Art Therapist, Provisional Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner
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 & Counsellor
Amy places great importance on developing a connection built on safety, authenticity, and playfulness. 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, Provisional Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner
Abby is passionate about supporting neurodivergent children and their families. She provides a safe, playful, and strengths-based therapeutic space for her clients.
Gavin MacMillan
Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner & Psychotherapist
Gavin’s client-centred approach allows him to support his 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.

