Seeking help for life’s difficult moments isn’t always easy…
Counselling at The Healing Sanctuary is an invitation into a space of safety and deep listening — where you are met with genuine care and compassion, where your nervous system can soften, your emotions are welcome to rise and the layers you’ve been carrying can begin to gently fall away. Here, you are supported toward calm, clarity, healing, emotional resilience and lasting transformation — so you can move through life feeling lighter, stronger and more empowered.
Whether you’re navigating stress, anxiety, overwhelm, low mood, burnout, emotional triggers or feeling overburdened, I meet you where you are and gently support you toward lasting change through a trauma-sensitive, holistic approach grounded in neuroscience.
Appointments are available in-person in Woolloongabba and online Australia-wide. If this resonates with you, you’re welcome to book using the ‘Book’ button above.
When it comes to mental health, there is no one-size-fits-all approach.
Counselling — with the optional integration of Transformational Coaching, Hypnotherapy or Kinesiology offered individually or combined, depending on what best supports your needs — provides a compassionate, tailored path to healing and growth, creating a deeply transformative pathway toward emotional wellbeing and lasting resilience. This deeply integrative, holistic approach honours your unique story — your experiences, challenges and aspirations — weaving deep empathy with evidence-based practices to create a safe, nurturing space where you can explore your inner world, release mental, emotional or physical blocks and gently rewire patterns that no longer serve you.
Rather than directly targeting the brain, I focus on your life experiences and environment, exploring how these are interpreted by your brain. Because your experiences shape your perceptions — and your perceptions shape your needs. This therapy supports you in processing those experiences and reframing how you relate to them.
A truly integrative healing experience…
Counselling brings awareness and insight. Transformational Coaching turns insight into empowered action. Hypnotherapy gently rewires the subconscious mind. Kinesiology listens to the body’s innate intelligence. Together, these powerful modalities create a deeply integrative healing pathway that honours the whole of you — mind, emotions, nervous system and body. Healing is not one-dimensional. Transformation deepens when every layer of your being is invited into the process.
Counselling alongside Transformational Coaching brings awareness, insight and direction. Through compassionate, trauma-sensitive conversation and future-focused neuroplasticity-based coaching, you are gently guided to recognise the patterns, beliefs and emotional imprints shaping your inner world — and to consciously create the life you long to live. Awareness and insight is the first doorway to change. Coaching then turns insight into empowered action, helping you reclaim choice, clarity, self-leadership and momentum.
Hypnotherapy gently rewires the subconscious mind. Rather than relying solely on conscious insight or willpower, hypnotherapy helps shift the very patterns that drive our behaviours, habits or emotional responses beneath the surface. Hypnosis gently guides the brain into the alpha and theta states — the same slower rhythms experienced during deep meditation or just before sleep. As your brain shifts into alpha or theta state, your conscious mind begins to soften its grip and awareness turns inward. You become less distracted by the outside world and more attuned to your inner experience. In these slower brain rhythms, the subconscious mind becomes more open and receptive to therapeutic suggestion. The protective filters of the critical mind relax, allowing new perspectives, insights and possibilities to take root more easily — allowing for deeper integration and rewiring.
Kinesiology listens to the body’s innate intelligence. Your body holds an innate wisdom that develops before conscious thought and language. Through muscle testing and nervous-system attunement, kinesiology allows the body to reveal where stress and trapped emotional blockages are stored, what is ready to be released and what your system is ready to heal. The body is not just involved in the process — it leads it.
Together, these modalities create a holistic, deeply integrative pathway to healing that supports profound, embodied transformation. When awareness, insight, empowered action, subconscious rewiring, body-based intelligence and conscious course correction come together, change is not just possible — but deeply supported and sustainable.
This is where the life you long for starts to take shape. When your thoughts change, your neural pathways begin to rewire. Your nervous system recalibrates and new possibilities unfold — from your inner world into your outer life.
OUR BRAIN GOVERNS THE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF OUR BODY
From birth, neural networks are wired to protect us — giving us the ability to assess and respond to perceived danger. However, these protective patterns are shaped by lived experience. For example, if you had an unpleasant encounter with a dog as a child, your brain may now associate dogs with fear. In turn, it will signal you to avoid dogs as a way of keeping you safe.
On a neurobiological level, a memory loop has been formed — one that links dogs with danger. These learned associations aren’t a sign of weakness — they’re evidence of a brilliantly adaptive brain. The beauty of neuroplasticity is that with the right tools and support, these patterns can be rewired. Safety can be restored. And new possibilities can emerge…
I CAME TO TANYA FEELING OVERWHELMED, STUCK AND CONSTANTLY ON EDGE — LIKE MY NERVOUS SYSTEM HAD FORGOTTEN HOW TO SWITCH OFF.
“From my very first appointment, I felt something shift. Tanya is incredibly friendly and welcoming. She met me with such warmth and presence and somehow knew exactly how to help me make sense of the chaos I was feeling inside. She creates a space where meaningful change feels possible and has this exceptional ability to break down complex emotional experiences into manageable pieces. What I appreciated most was how seamlessly Tanya blended neuroscience with a guided ‘vagus nerve calming switch’ breathwork practice to help settle my nervous system, followed by suggestive hypnotherapy to gently build confidence and create space for lasting change. It was subtle but powerful — I left feeling much calmer, clearer and more anchored in myself.
I’ve worked with therapists before, but this felt different. More integrative, more empowering. Like I was finally learning how to regulate my system and rewire the patterns that were keeping me stuck. Session by session, I’ve found more clarity, more calm and a growing sense of self-trust I didn’t know was possible. I consistently leave sessions feeling clearer, steadier and more empowered. I can honestly say this work is changing my life.” — Kylie, East Brisbane
Whether you’re moving through trauma, stress, self-doubt or disconnection, this work meets you where you are and supports where you long to be. It’s not only designed to address your immediate needs, but to nurture your long-term wellbeing. So you can step forward with more clarity, resilience and self-trust.
Research shows that improving the health of the brain and body begins with meeting the basic needs embedded within our neural structures — safety, connection, purpose and regulation.
Counselling and Transformational Coaching — supported by Hypnotherapy or Kinesiology when needed — offers a powerful, transformational approach to healing that meets both the mind and nervous system where they are.
This holistic, deeply integrative approach draws on principles of neuroscience, neuroplasticity, Kinesiology, Hypnotherapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming to support the brain’s natural capacity to rewire, adapt and form new, more resilient neural pathways.
This work acknowledges the profound connection between your brain, body, environment, social world and emotional wellbeing — while highlighting the nervous system’s central role in emotional regulation and overall health. Put simply, this work is about empowering you. It’s about gently creating space for what needs to be seen, expressed and released — while reconnecting you to your innate intelligence and supporting your return to a grounded, regulated and life-giving state of wellbeing.
“Healing, guidance and transformation — become the ‘wings’ on which dreams take flight. For you are never broken — only breaking open to more of who you truly are.” — Tanya, Holistic Practitioner, The Healing Sanctuary
COUNSELLING + TRANSFORMATIONAL COACHING
with the optional integration of Hypnotherapy or Kinesiology can assist you with…
- Stress
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Overwhelm
- Burnout
- Building Resilience
- Limiting Beliefs and Self-Sabotaging Behaviours
- Understanding Repeating Life Patterns
- Challenges
- Past Trauma
- Pain Management
- Coping With Chronic Illness
- Weight Management
- Addictions
- Insomnia
- Self-Awareness and Understanding
- Self-Development
- Self-Esteem and Personal Growth
- Self-Confidence
- Improving Relationships and Communication Skills
- Lack of Direction, Joy and/or Spark in Life
- Loneliness and Loss of Connection
- Making Changes and Transitions in Life, Health, Career or Study
- Healthy Mind Habits and Coping Tools for Life
— SESSION RATES —
– $195/1.5 hour Initial | Extended Consultations
**Some moments call for a little more time — extended sessions can offer valuable support for deeper integration, emotional release or allowing important breakthroughs to unfold. If we both have the time available, you’re welcome to continue past your scheduled session at $50 per 30 minutes.
For those experiencing moderate financial constraints:
– $125/1-hour Consultations
– $170/1.5 hour Initial | Extended Consultations
For those enduring significant hardship:
– $100/1-hour Consultations
– $140/1.5 hour Initial | Extended Consultations
NB: Sliding Scale Sessions are limited. Contact me to check current availability
ONGOING SUPPORT PACKAGE:
Exclusive to returning clients committed to deeper, ongoing work — with sessions spaced weekly, fortnightly or monthly to honour your natural pace. This package supports emotional safety, steady progress and sustainable transformation.
– 5 x 1 hour Consultations $675 ($135 per session)
As a thank you for your ongoing commitment, you’ll also receive one of the following bonus ‘integration resources’ to support your journey between sessions…
– NEW TIMELINE ACTIVATION HYPNOTHERAPY RECORDING:
– I AM THE ARCHITECT OF MY LIFE — DAILY NEW NEURAL PATHWAY REWIRING SCRIPTS:
These tools are designed to extend the impact of our sessions — empowering your nervous system to remember, rewire and realign.
You see, we are wired to conform so we feel safe in our environment.
Our beliefs come from the stories we individually create in order to feel safe, connected and accepted in society.
When the foundations of our emotional structures are threatened, this can trigger us into a state of fear and overwhelm. When we function in a survival/fear state for an extended period of time, the tension in our body starts to illuminate underlying stress. As a result, overwhelm, anxiety, fear, foggy-headedness, physical pain, depletion and exhaustion may ensue. We can feel out of balance, out of step with life, isolated.
Good health, joy, trust, enthusiasm and love for life exist as a ‘natural’ expression of our innate being. Yet these experiences can often be overlaid with negative life experiences and can sometimes be hard to access for more than a few fleeting moments at a time.
Repeated disappointments, frustrations, losses, fear and anxiety – especially the stressors and traumas – are locked into all of the muscles and energy systems of your body. Emotionally charged events from your past can still be haunting you in the form of ‘trapped emotions’ that inhabit your body. Self-limiting behaviours, mental blockages or trauma (‘trapped emotion that remains unprocessed) can cause to us to stagnate, lose direction and unknowingly tarnishes our ability to live our best possible life.
Your individual needs are of the utmost importance and I will take the time to truly listen to what you are hoping to gain from each session. My counselling and coaching sessions — with the optional integration of Kinesiology and Hypnotherapy — offer compassionate insight, practical guidance and a deeper understanding of the emotional and energetic roots of the issue at hand, so that together, we can move toward meaningful resolution.
“My deepest desire is that you gracefully reconnect with the ‘magic’ within you during our time together
– so that you leave my doors feeling lighter, more at peace, deeply connected, more emotionally robust with a reinstated sense of wellbeing.” — Tanya, Holistic Practitioner, The Healing Sanctuary
A Therapeutic Approach
Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy is a safe, powerful, evidence-based method for creating lasting change by accessing the deeper layers of the subconscious mind — where true transformation begins. Rather than relying solely on conscious insight or willpower, Hypnotherapy helps shift the very patterns that drive our behaviour beneath the surface. Using therapeutic techniques grounded in neuroscience, it allows for realignment on a cognitive, emotional and physiological level — gently restoring balance where stress, trauma or negative self-perception have taken hold.
A session begins by guiding you into a state of deep relaxation and focus — often referred to as the alpha or theta brainwave state. This is typically achieved through breathwork, soothing verbal cues, visualisation and calming techniques. In this relaxed and receptive state, your attention turns inward, allowing you to become less aware of the outside world and more attuned to your inner experience.
From here, personalised suggestions or therapeutic guidance are offered to help shift patterns that no longer serve you. These suggestions are tailored to your unique goals and challenges — such as reducing anxiety or stress, overcoming fears or phobias, releasing unprocessed trauma or trapped emotions, enhancing motivation or focus, and promoting lasting emotional balance.
Unlike traditional talk therapy alone, hypnotherapy works at the subconscious level — where deep-seated core beliefs, unprocessed emotions and protective behavioural patterns are deeply held. By accessing this level of mind, we can gently interrupt old loops, release outdated programming, and create more adaptive and empowering internal pathways. In this way, hypnotherapy often support more rapid and lasting transformation than conscious-level intervention alone.
It’s an incredibly effective, versatile and rapid tool that complements counselling and neuroplasticity coaching beautifully — helping you align with who you truly are and how you want to feel.
Kinesiology
Neuro-Emotional Balance Therapy
Neuro-Emotional Balance Therapy is a powerful method that identifies and assists you in gently releasing and reprogramming the source of any self-limiting or self-sabotaging anxieties, stressors, beliefs, behaviours, emotional blockages, fears or triggers rooted in your past — alongside any trauma or stagnant internal conflict. This old programming is often held in the nervous system, shaped by past experiences or unresolved trauma. It recognises that our deepest pain often stems from unmet needs and protective adaptations that once served us.
Through the gentle fusion of — Counselling, Kinesiology, Muscle Testing, Hypnotherapy, Neuroplasticity and Brain Retraining Coaching, designed to awaken the body’s innate ability to heal, Neuro-Emotional Balance helps uncover the ‘root cause’ of limiting patterns held deep within the subconscious. You don’t need to relive trauma — instead, you’re guided to safely release what no longer serves, while building new neural pathways for calm, clarity and lasting change.
This dynamic, integrative approach empowers you to move beyond limitation and create lasting, positive change — supporting your whole system so you can thrive in every aspect of your life.
At the heart of this work is muscle testing — also known as Kinesiology — which listens to the body’s intelligence. Your body holds an innate wisdom that predates language. Muscle testing provides real-time biofeedback from the subconscious mind.
By exploring your unique challenges through this gentle, non-invasive process, we are able to pinpoint the root causes of emotional and mental blockages. A powerful behavioural mapping tool helps interpret what the body is communicating, allowing us to identify and shift the underlying patterns driving self-limiting behaviours, fears or internal conflict.
As these blocks are cleared, your mind–body system can reset — restoring positive neuro-emotional balance: a state of clarity, calm and deep inner alignment.
As you gain clarity around unprocessed hidden obstacles, you can free yourself from their grip, reclaim agency over your life, shift long-held beliefs and awaken the full potential of your extraordinary mind — empowering you to move forward with renewed purpose and strength.
With each shift, new pathways bloom — empowering you to reshape your future and move forward with clarity, confidence, purpose and a deep inner strength that feels entirely your own. — Tanya, Holistic Practitioner, The Healing Sanctuary
What People Are Saying
Each journey at The Healing Sanctuary is unique — and I’m honoured by the trust my clients place in me. Here are some of the reflections they’ve generously shared from our time together.
“Tanya is a true professional and amazing to work with, always operating with the utmost integrity and respect. She is friendly, warm, genuine, compassionate and incredibly easy to talk to. I felt comfortable with her from the moment we met. My sessions were insightful, inspiring and deeply reflective. Tanya is a genuinely gifted counsellor and an inspiring teacher. She taught me so much about what was happening in my brain and body when I was feeling overwhelmed and stressed and gave me really practical tools to help me move into a place of calm. Her skill in working across multiple modalities, including Hypnotherapy and Kinesiology, meant we could focus on exactly what I needed to work through that day.
I would highly recommend her to anyone seeking: the release of heavy emotional burdens, greater emotional resilience, inner strength and a reconnection with themselves. I cannot recommend Tanya highly enough.”
“Tanya brings a rare and wonderful combination of professionalism, warmth and insight. She creates a space where meaningful change feels possible and has an exceptional ability to break complex emotional experiences into manageable pieces. I consistently leave sessions feeling clearer, steadier and more empowered. She is incredibly friendly and welcoming so you’ll never feel out of place with her! I highly recommend coming to Tanya :)”
“I wasn’t really sure what to expect when I booked my first Counselling session with Tanya. I’ve always been pretty independent and not one to talk much about emotions, but I’d reached a point where the stress was getting on top of me – work pressure, family stuff, not sleeping properly etc. What I appreciated most was that Tanya didn’t just sit there and nod. She helped me understand how stress was affecting my brain and body and why I was stuck in certain patterns. That actually made a lot of sense to me. She gave me practical strategies based on how the brain works, not just vague advice. I’ve been sleeping better, thinking more clearly and handling pressure in a way I hadn’t been able to before. If you’re feeling overwhelmed and want straight-up support that works, I’d recommend Tanya.”
“Working with Tanya has been so transformational. I came to her at a time when I felt completely stuck – overwhelmed by stress, self-doubt and emotional exhaustion. From the very first session, I felt seen, supported and understood in a way I hadn’t experienced before. Tanya has a remarkable ability to hold space with compassion and insight, gently guiding me to uncover and shift long-held stress patterns that were weighing me down. Through our work together in Counselling, Coaching and Neuro-Emotional Balance Therapy, I’ve not only gained clarity and confidence, but I’ve also learned how to respond to life’s challenges with a sense of calm and resilience. I’m now showing up in my work, relationships and daily life with a clearer mind and a stronger sense of self. I honestly can’t recommend Tanya enough to anyone who is ready for real, lasting change.
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“Tanya has a rare mix of skill, wisdom, insight and genuine care. She is so compassionate and non-judgmental and has helped me move through difficult times providing me with so much support. There’s something about her way of working that just makes sense. It’s grounded, intelligent and deeply human. I didn’t really know what to expect when I first started this work, but I was open to the process. Over time, through Counselling, Hypnotherapy and Neuro-Emotional Balance Therapy, I experienced shifts that were both subtle yet profound. My sessions gave me deep clarity on where I was stuck and the limiting patterns I had been running in the background for years. I began to feel calmer, more focused and more in tune with myself, just more comfortable in my own skin really.
The Facial Emotional Therapy and Reiki sessions were beyond anything I’ve literally ever experienced – deeply healing, restorative and transformative. They reconnected me with a part of myself I hadn’t felt in a long time and brought a profound sense of peace and renewal to my body, especially after navigating prostate cancer. I walked away from those sessions feeling not only lighter and more balanced, but genuinely and deeply cared for. The shifts I’ve experienced through her work continue to shape my life for the better.”
“I stumbled upon Tanya at The Healing Sanctuary in Brisbane by chance and it became one of the most life-changing discoveries I’ve ever made. Drawn to the Facial Emotional Therapy treatment for my initial appointment, I was seeking relaxation and respite. What I found however, was far greater, I found myself truly seen and understood on a profound level.
Even though Tanya is based in Brisbane and I’m all the way down in Melbourne, the connection we built was extraordinary. Through her non-judgemental, compassionate, insightful and down-to-earth nature, she became my cheerleader and guide during a time when I was in burnout. We were able to continue various therapies: Neuro-Emotional Balance Therapy, Counselling and Coaching, Hypnotherapy — via Teams, which is a testament to her dedication and her ability to create meaningful connections even across the distance. More recently, on a trip to Brisbane, I had the chance to experience Radical Shift Therapy in person and it created a powerful shift in me.
Tanya’s unique gift for healing goes beyond her service, it’s her genuine care, warmth and intelligence that make her truly special. I’ve never met anyone I could relate to on such a deep level. Compared to how I felt just one year ago, I feel like a completely different person — lighter, stronger and more at peace within myself. I’ve stepped into an amazing role at a new company, that is not only fulfilling but also honours my energy and wellbeing. For the first time in a long time, I’ve found a beautiful sense of work/life balance. For anyone seeking healing and transformation, the release of heavy emotional burdens, reconnection with themselves, a deep sense of calm or simply the chance to feel whole again, I can’t recommend Tanya highly enough.
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“From my very first appointment, I felt something shift. Tanya is incredibly friendly and welcoming. She met me with such warmth and presence and somehow knew exactly how to help me make sense of the chaos I was feeling inside. She creates a space where meaningful change feels possible and has this exceptional ability to break down complex emotional experiences into manageable pieces. What I appreciated most was how seamlessly Tanya blended neuroscience with a guided ‘vagus nerve calming switch’ breathwork practice to help settle my nervous system, followed by suggestive hypnotherapy to gently build confidence and create space for lasting change. It was subtle but powerful, I left feeling much calmer, clearer and more anchored in myself.
I’ve worked with therapists before, but this felt different. More integrative, more empowering. Like I was finally learning how to regulate my system and rewire the patterns that were keeping me stuck. Session by session, I’ve found more clarity, more calm and a growing sense of self-trust I didn’t know was possible. I consistently leave sessions feeling clearer, steadier and more empowered. I can honestly say this work is changing my life.”
Counselling
SAME-DAY APPOINTMENTS:
Counselling: Deep Stress Reset — Nervous System Healing & Rebalance (In-Person)
1 hour, 30 mins
This deeply restorative in-person consultation includes 45-minutes of counselling, followed by a calming therapeutic experience that includes 45-minutes of Vagus Nerve Switch Breathwork, stress-reducing hypnotherapy and Facial Emotional Therapy. When you’ve been living in a state of overwhelm for some time, talking alone can sometimes leave the nervous system feeling a little frayed, as the mind works to process and make sense of what’s been explored. That’s why I’ve woven these therapies together, combining the clarity, awareness and insight of counselling and transformational coaching, with the regulating power of breathwork, hypnotherapy and Facial Emotional Therapy. This allows us to gently integrate what arises during the session and guide your nervous system into a state of deep ease. You’ll leave not only with greater clarity and emotional insight, but also feeling more peaceful, balanced, emotionally grounded and, most often, lighter of heart. *For more information on Facial Emotional Therapy, you’re welcome to explore the individual service page below via the “Tell Me More” link.
$195Counselling: Initial or Extended Session — Kids/Teens (In-person)
1 hour, 15 mins
Does your child or teen feel overwhelmed by the pressures of school or the constantly shifting demands of life? Growing up isn’t always easy — especially for children and adolescents navigating big emotions, learning difficulties or neurodiversity. There’s often pressure to fit in, feel accepted and succeed — all while trying to make sense of a world that can feel confusing and unpredictable. At the same time, they’re developing their identity, building emotional awareness and learning how to cope with the ups and downs of life. As their brains and bodies grow, it can be easy for them to feel ungrounded. While some change is healthy, too much all at once can lead to anxiety, fear or emotional overwhelm. Some children may express this through emotional outbursts, withdrawal or low confidence. Others might struggle to focus, manage friendships or explain how they’re feeling inside. My Counselling + Coaching sessions offer a safe and supportive space where your child or teen can feel seen, heard and understood — without pressure or judgement. Each session gently weaves together compassionate conversation, nervous system education, subconscious re-patterning and optional age-appropriate Hypnotherapy or Kinesiology. This integrative approach helps them regulate emotions, shift unhelpful patterns and reconnect with their natural resilience. Whether they’re facing school stress, social challenges, self-doubt, anxiety or emotional dysregulation, this work meets them exactly where they’re at — and helps them build real-world tools for emotional clarity, confidence and calm. Empowering them with emotional support, self-awareness and nervous system safety — and the confidence to thrive in their own beautifully unique way.
$150