Rebekah is a warm, experienced, and compassionate practitioner dedicated to supporting clients during difficult times using evidence-informed interventions. Rebekah has a particular passion for supporting women to understand, prioritise, and assert their needs. Rebekah is dedicated to strengths based, client-centred, and trauma-informed practice and forms strong therapeutic alliances with her clients.
Rebekah creates a safe space to develop insight into one’s relationship with self and others. Rebekah supports her clients to identify and address barriers to living a rich, full and meaningful life with an emphasis on self-compassion. Rebekah finds it most rewarding when she sees clients develop further insight into their ways of being and doing and make conscious choices to continue or alter these patterns.
Rebekah has 15 years of experience as a social worker in a variety of non-government and government settings working with developmental trauma, relationship difficulties, domestic violence, post-traumatic stress, depression, anxiety, grief and loss. Rebekah is very interested in the social determinants of health and incorporates this understanding into her practice.
Rebekah draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Family Systems Theory, Solution Focused Therapy (SFT), various grief and loss theoretical constructs, and Polyvagal Theory, and the Gottman Method in in her practice.
Rebekah has a Bachelor of Social Work (University of Sydney) and Master of Counselling Social Work (University of New South Wales).
