The Intake Process

Before we meet, you will complete a detailed intake form. This includes:

• An overview of your practice, qualifications, and trainings, so I have context for your professional background.
• A comprehensive client overview, including presenting concerns, developmental history, family and cultural context, perinatal and birth experiences (if relevant), trauma or significant life events, and the strengths and protective factors already present.
• The particular lens you wish to explore, or the area where you feel most stuck.

Including this level of detail is important because case consultations work best when the client’s story can be seen in its full context, not just the presenting problem. Birth experiences, attachment patterns, and trauma histories often leave deep imprints that shape how clients relate, regulate, and respond. By gathering this information in advance, I can step into the consultation already holding a fuller picture, which allows us to go further, faster.

How it works

During the consultation, we walk through the case in detail — following both the facts and the relational dynamics. I listen closely, bring in perspective where it serves, and help you locate yourself in the work. Together, we explore the layers of the story, your own responses, and the broader patterns that may be shaping the situation.

This work is process-oriented rather than formulaic. I am trained in all of the modalities I may draw on during a consultation, including Interactive Drawing Therapy, Sandplay Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, Somatic Touch, Synergetic Play Therapy, and pre- and perinatal trauma dynamics. This is not therapy, but in exploring your case we may use these modalities as doorways to clarity, perspective, and new possibilities.

Sometimes what feels stuck is not only about the client, but about what the work stirs in you — your attachment patterns, your nervous system responses, or your own experiences of trauma and care. Part of our consultation may involve gently untangling how your history and your client’s history may be meeting each other in the room, and what that means for the next steps in the work.

Where it feels right, we may also sketch a plan or possible directions forward, so you leave with both insight and practical grounding.

I approach case consultations with the same ethos I bring to all my work: curiosity, respect, and attunement. My role is not to sit above you, but beside you — offering another nervous system, another perspective, another way of seeing what is already alive in your practice.

Who is this for?

Case consultations are open to a wide range of professionals who carry responsibility for others and want space to reflect on a complex situation. They may be especially helpful for:

• Therapists and counsellors — seeking fresh perspective on a client or clinical dilemma.
• Educators — school principals, teachers, guidance counsellors, and student support staff navigating challenging student or family dynamics.
• Leaders and managers — including CEOs, HR professionals, and team leaders holding responsibility for staff wellbeing and relational dynamics.
• Health and allied health practitioners — such as nurses, midwives, paediatricians, occupational therapists, and others supporting clients with layered histories.
• Community and care workers — youth workers, case managers, chaplains, or coordinators working with families and communities.

Case consultations are especially helpful at pivotal moments — when something shifts, when you’re unsure how to proceed, or when you feel a fresh angle could bring new clarity.

Why choose a Case Consultation instead of multiple supervision sessions?

Supervision offers ongoing support, guidance, and growth across the breadth of your practice. A case consultation, by contrast, is designed to go deep, fast.

• Focused attention: One case, sustained and uninterrupted.
• Depth over breadth: Longer timeframes allow us to move past surface presentation and sit with the subtle dynamics.
• Preparation built in: Intake forms mean I arrive already holding your case, ready to begin at depth.
• Immediate clarity: A single sitting often brings the shift you’ve been looking for, without waiting across multiple hours.
• Once-off commitment: A dedicated container for one case, one moment, one question.

Making the Most of Your Consultation

You can bring your full self into a case consultation — whether you are chatty, quiet, reflective, or someone who thinks out loud. But because time is limited, you are responsible for keeping your contribution on track and engaged.

• If you tend to speak at length / process out loud / fill the space with words: it’s not about “bringing too much content,” but about noticing when words fill the space so fully that there’s little room left for the work itself to unfold. If you talk without pausing or keep circling the same points, we may not reach the depth you are hoping for. Allowing space — for silence, for reflection, for the process itself — is what gives the consultation its value.
• If you tend to be brief / reserved / economical with words: I will need enough detail from you to work with. If you hold back too much or assume I can piece things together without context, the consultation will stay on the surface and the depth we’re aiming for won’t be possible. Offering your observations, reflections, and even uncertainties is what allows us to do meaningful work together.

The more clear, concise, and present you are, the more value you’ll gain. This doesn’t mean we aren’t creative or exploratory — it means we hold the focus with care, so that every thread we follow serves the case and the clarity you are seeking.

The Whole Container

When you book a case consultation, you are not only paying for the time we spend together. You are stepping into a whole container — one that holds you and your case before, during, and after the session.

This includes:

• Preparation: I spend time with your intake form, case notes, and questions before we meet, so our time together begins at depth.
• Presence: During the consultation itself, you have my full attention — relationally, somatically, and creatively — in service of the clarity you are seeking.
• Integration: The way I hold the space is designed so that what we explore can settle, land, and translate into real practice.
• Follow-up: Where reasonable, you may reach out afterwards for clarification or brief support, as part of closing the process with care.

This way of working reflects my ethos: that depth requires more than a clock and a fee. It requires a container that honours the case, honours your role, and honours the responsibility we both share in holding it.

Confidentiality and Suitability

• All consultations are held in strict confidence, within professional and ethical boundaries.
• A case consultation is not therapy for the practitioner.
• It is not ongoing supervision (though you may choose that later if you wish).
• It is not a space for crisis management, but for reflection, perspective, and direction.

Preparation Guidance

To make the most of your consultation:

• Complete the intake form with as much detail as possible.
• Bring your case notes, observations, and reflections.
• Identify the particular lens or question you most want to explore — the clearer your focus, the deeper we can go.

Choosing the right timeframe & follow-up

It is your responsibility to select the timeframe that you believe will best serve your case. Sometimes a shorter consultation provides the clarity you need; other times, more space is required.

Your consultation fee includes a reasonable-use follow-up for brief email clarification after your session.

If, after your consultation, you feel the case would benefit from going deeper, you may book a further follow-up consultation at a reduced rate. This may be:

• The same timeframe, to continue with steady focus.
• A shorter timeframe, if you simply need a little more to consolidate the work.
• A longer timeframe, if you want to open the case more widely and explore additional layers.

Follow-up consultations are only available when:

• They continue with the same case, deepening the work already begun.
• They are booked within 30 days of a Practitioner Consultation (2 hours, single client/student).
• They are booked within 45 days of an Extended (4.5 hours) or Immersive (8 hours) Consultation.

Follow-ups can also be helpful once you begin implementing the insights from the first consultation. They provide a chance to check in, reflect on what has shifted, and explore what emerges in real practice.

This allows you the freedom to go further without starting from scratch, while honouring the preparation and depth already established.

Practical Details

Practitioner Consultation

• Duration: 2 hours
• Fee: $295
• Follow-up (same case, booked within 30 days): $215

Extended Consultation

• Duration: 4.5 hours
• Fee: $695
• Follow-up (same case, booked within 45 days): $495

Immersive Consultation

• Duration: 8 hours
• Fee: $1,195
• Follow-up (same case, booked within 45 days): $895

Location Options & Advantages

Online

• Accessible from anywhere — no travel required.
• Easy to schedule across time zones and locations.
• Join from the comfort of your own office or home, with your notes and resources at hand.
• Ideal for those who prefer flexibility and efficiency.
• Online consultations move beyond the purely cognitive: Interactive Drawing Therapy, guided somatic practices, and other process-oriented approaches can be used to access layers of meaning that might otherwise stay hidden.
• You will be invited to provide your own simple materials (paper, pens, objects for grounding or movement, etc.), so you can actively engage in drawing, somatic practice, or other experiential methods during the session.
• Working online can sometimes heighten attunement, as both of us must listen and track carefully for subtle shifts in story, body, and emotion. This can bring a focused, distilled clarity that enriches the process.
• For some practitioners, being in their own familiar space helps them relax more deeply and engage more openly, allowing insights to land in a more integrated way.

In my rooms

• A dedicated, contained space away from daily demands.
• The atmosphere of being physically present often supports deeper focus and reflection.
• Helpful for those who think best with a clear boundary between work and consultation.
• Opportunity to step out of your usual environment and into a neutral, held space.
• Full access to therapeutic resources, including sandplay figurines and somatic touch work.
  • Sandplay allows cases to be explored symbolically, giving form to dynamics that are hard to put into words.
  • Somatic touch work engages the body directly, often revealing nervous system responses and relational imprints that verbal exploration alone cannot reach.
  • Together, these resources deepen the consultation, opening dimensions that words alone cannot reach, enrich the process by allowing insight to emerge symbolically and somatically, and expand the work beyond conversation into embodied and symbolic experience. They also offer pathways into understanding often hidden from purely cognitive work, bringing a layer of clarity and integration that complements verbal exploration.

Booking and Practicalities

• How to book: Contact me directly to arrange a time (online or in-person).
• Payment: Invoiced and payable in advance to confirm your booking.
• Cancellation policy: Please read carefully below.