Discover a way of healing
that honours your whole being.
Painful moments, while deeply difficult, can open the door to insight, healing, and transformation.
My approach centers on cultivating compassionate curiosity toward all aspects of our experience, fostering greater ease and acceptance in how we relate to ourselves, others, and our lives —
within the sanctuary of a co-created therapeutic relationship.
It would be my honour to walk alongside you on this journey, offering a space where you can connect with mind, body, and spirit. Here, all of your experiences are welcome to be explored and expressed.
My practice is based in Newtown, Sydney.
Your creativity.
All minds of all ages are deeply creative, always shaping experience in ways that help us survive, adapt, make meaning, and stay safe. Creative therapy works with this natural intelligence, inviting us to approach tender or complicated parts of our inner world with curiosity and care.
This isn’t about artistic skill. It’s about finding forms of expression that can hold what words sometimes cannot. Through diverse and personal creative exploration, we can sit with complexity, trace patterns in our stories, and discover new connections.
Your pace.
In a fast-paced world, the therapeutic space offers a pause — a place to step out of urgency and return to a more natural rhythm. Here, you’re invited to move at your own pace, because deep healing cannot be rushed.
This is a space to listen, explore, and express in ways that are often difficult to sustain in modern life. For a time, therapy becomes another way of being — one that supports recalibration, integration, and a more easeful relationship with yourself, others, and the world.
Your space.
As you are supported in uncovering your own innate wisdom, it’s so important that you feel deeply seen, heard, witnessed, and understood. At the same time, your willingness to explore, to question, and to express yourself matters just as much. Together, through this shared process, we gently build a trusting and compassionate therapeutic relationship.
Meet Śuddhaśrī
Creative art therapist (AThR-ANZACATA) and Counsellor (PACFA)
Pronounced, “should-ah-shree”. She / her.
I am a practising Buddhist of over 20 years, with three decades of experience across clinical, community, and care settings. I bring a grounded, compassionate approach to therapy. My background includes mindfulness, group and retreat facilitation, refugee and palliative care, psychiatric and disability services, and long-term support for people living with complex mental health challenges.
I work with teenagers and adults navigating anxiety, depression, neurodivergence, complex trauma, addiction, relationship and family changes, burnout, cancer, grief (including pet loss), perinatal mental health, and questions of sex, sexuality, and identity. I am LGBTQIA+ friendly. I offer a steady, caring space to gently explore what you’re carrying and support you toward greater understanding, growth, and meaningful change.
All parts of you are welcome here.
Informed by inspiring approaches
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Dialetical behaviour therapy
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Compassionate focused therapy
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Listening partnerships
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Internal family systems
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Narrative therapy
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Focusing
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Biopsychosocial model.
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Intersectionality theory
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Addressing model
Informed by inspiring humans
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Eugene Gendlin
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Judith Herman
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Carl Jung
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Cathy Malchiodi
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Carl Rogers
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Laury Rapapport
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Sally Skaife
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Catherine Hyland-Moon
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Shaun McNiff