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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.

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Shane Fotheringham

Co-Director

Shane's empathetic, client-centred approach promotes resilience and equity, ensuring his therapeutic interventions are innovative and research-driven.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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Susan Czernich

Counsellor | Play Therapist | Behaviour Support Practitioner

Susan is experienced in school-based counselling, family relationship therapy, trauma-informed practice, and crisis response.

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