Hi, I’m Hannah.

I’m a mum (the photo is of my family and I in 2023 in my favourite park).

I’m a family doctor and a seeker of wholeness.

I live and work in the western suburbs of Sydney, Australia. In my plight to find suitable counsellors and psychologists for my patients I was often left doing the work myself. I am aware of the vastness of the human experience that medicine does not have answers for and can bring clarity and hopefully healing to those parts. Hence, although I am neither a counsellor nor a psychologist, I am best described as a medical doctor who does life consulting.

I am inspired by minds and hearts like Justin and Abi Stumvoll (with whom I completed a year-long life consulting master class), Dan Allender, Curt Thompson, John Bradshaw, Aundi Kolber, John and Julie Gottman, Kate Bowler, Dan Siegel, David Benner, Gabor Maté, Jay Stringer, WM. Paul Young and Alan Gordon.

For more about my story click on the link below.

“All of the diagnoses that you deal with - depression, anxiety, ADHD, bipolar illness, post traumatic stress disorder, even psychosis, are significantly rooted in trauma. They are manifestations of trauma. Therefore the diagnoses don't explain anything. The problem in the medical world is that we diagnose somebody and we think that is the explanation. He's behaving that way because he is psychotic. She's behaving that way because she has ADHD. Nobody has ADHD, nobody has psychosis…It's not a thing that you have. This is a process that expresses your life experience. It has meaning in every single case.”
― Gabor Maté, When the Body Says No

My Approach

I am constantly in process - a messy process - but one that is unto ‘being’ rather than ‘doing’.

I personally have found restoration and healing through therapies including Internal Family Systems, Compassion Focused Therapy and Narrative therapy.

At first I became aware that there were in fact links between emotional stress and chronic disease (emotional stress without an empathetic witness, according to Gabor Maté). Then I went on the journey inward. I started listening to my body that had been yelling this whole time. And when I did it softened and began to trust me again. I can promise you that I will not take you on a journey I have not been on myself.