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AkindaCo Therapy Team
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's empathetic, client-centred approach promotes resilience and equity, ensuring his therapeutic interventions are innovative and research-driven.
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.
Chantel’s expertise includes complex trauma, neurodivergence, behaviour concerns, and sexual health education across diverse abilities and orientations. Employing Play Therapy and Systemic Family Systems, she fosters a safe, empathetic environment for healing.
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.
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 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 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 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 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 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
AkindaCo Office Team
Tina, the finance officer, expertly manages all financial operations, including payroll, accounts payable and receivable, banking, and reconciliations.
Laura brings compassion and creativity to her work at AkindaCo. With a Certificate IV in Community Services and a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours).

