Registered Counsellor (ACA)
Master of Counselling and Psychotherapy
Graduate Diploma of Counselling
Bachelor of Business (Human Resource Management)
Graduate Certificate Organisational Change and Leadership

My Background

Embers & Coal is shaped by deep experience in organisational development and the study of how humans, teams, and leaders connect at work.

Before entering private practice, I spent years working at the intersection of people, systems, and strategy. This included advising on large scale technology and workforce initiatives across Queensland, supporting some of the state’s most complex and high profile programs of work. At that level, the human side of change is never abstract. Identity, pressure, fear, ambition, and responsibility all surface quickly when outcomes matter and failure has real consequences.

That work involved close engagement with executives, senior leaders, entrepreneurs, and business owners across industries. It also required a clear understanding of how individual behaviour, leadership identity, team dynamics, and organisational infrastructure interact to shape performance and outcomes. Productivity and strategy are never just technical problems. They are human ones.

This background continues to inform how I work today as a counsellor. I am particularly attuned to pressures that are not contained to home or relationships alone, but emerge from leadership, business risk, responsibility for others, and the weight of building or sustaining something meaningful.

As a fellow entrepreneur on my own journey to see a business thrive, I welcome clients from all walks of life. I specialise in working with those who are leading, shaping, building, or risking something significant in order to create something new.

Much of this work involves identifying where the past still lingers. Where earlier patterns, roles, and adaptations continue to influence decisions and behaviour, consciously or unconsciously. There are therapeutic models and frameworks designed for this work, and Embers & Coal operates within that space. Helping people understand what they are carrying, how to hold it with responsibility, and how to release what no longer serves them.

The name Embers & Coal reflects this orientation. Coal holds the heat of previous fires. Embers rise unexpectedly, reminders of what was and signals of what could be. They represent experience, loss, effort, and resilience. They also point toward the possibility of renewal, purpose, and re ignition when the conditions are right.

You do not have to come here. But you do need somewhere to go. Someone to speak with. A space where this year does not quietly slip into a list of years defined only by endurance.

Change does not happen through slogans. It happens through intention, responsibility, and repeated choice.

That is work I am learning to do as well.