Find the therapist that best suits your needs.
AkindaCo Therapy Team
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.
Co-Director
Shane's empathetic, client-centred approach promotes resilience and equity, ensuring his therapeutic interventions are innovative and research-driven.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Psychotherapist
Gavin is passionate about cultivating emotional safety, strengthening personal and relational connection, and supporting clients with sustainable change through reflective, process-oriented work.
NDIS Support Work Team
NDIS Support Worker
Rosalie brings a compassionate, person-centred approach to her role. Her lived experience of neurodivergence helps her support people from every walk of life.
NDIS Support Worker
Miriam enjoys working with people with diverse needs and backgrounds. She values building genuine, respectful connections with her clients.
NDIS Support Worker
Riley takes a person-centred and strengths-based approach to support work. Having worked in many industries, Riley is adaptable, practical, and a strong communicator.
AkindaCo Office Team
Tina, the finance officer, expertly manages all financial operations, including payroll, accounts payable and receivable, banking, and reconciliations.

