Mandala Health - Naturopathy & Counselling Psychotherapy

Mandala Health is a holistic and integrative health-care practice that provides therapeutic services for individuals (adults, adolescents & children); for couples in intimate relationship and family groups. The services include:​
 

• Counselling Psychotherapy: guided by depth-psychodynamic and analytical principles, described by Carl Jung. Focused on raising consciousness, self-awareness, individuation, and mature, authentic relationships. It promotes self-reflection, maturation and resilience to integrate and manage difficult and painful feelings and emotions, i.e., anger, anxiety, sadness, grief, loneliness, depression and despair. It is an interpersonal and emotion focused approach that uses interventions that are compassionate and trauma sensitive, i.e. EMDR, TFT & Sandplay therapy.

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• Sandplay Therapy - Adults, Adolescents, Children, Couples and Intimate Relationships.

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• Clinical Supervision, for Counsellors and Psychotherapists

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• Naturopathy & Functional Medicine Counselling - focuses on the identification and recovery of metabolic and systemic dysfunction that results from long term physical, emotional & central nervous system stress, trauma, burn-out and exhaustion. Functional Tests, such as Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA), provides individuals with a unique Biochemical Analysis of their specific Mineral Profile and Toxic Mineral Profile (i.e. lead, Mercury, Aluminium etc.), as well as the Mineral Ratio Analysis. The Report determines if the individual is a fast or slow metaboliser, and provides customised recommendations for foods and nutritional supplements to rebalance cellular metabolism, eliminate symptoms of inflammation, pain and disease and restore healthy and vital, systemic functions. 

This comprehensive array of therapies caters to the most common spectrum of mind-body -physical and psychological problems (including mental, emotional, relational and spiritual) that most people seek help for at one time or another, in the life-long pursuit of health happiness and wellbeing.

Your Therapist...

Laura is an experienced holistic and integrative healthcare practitioner who provides therapeutic services in counselling psychotherapy and naturopathy. She works with individuals and intimate relationships at all ages and stages of life and development, in crisis or with concerns.

Laura is a professional counselling psychotherapist and relationship counsellor. Her  psychological work with clients focuses on raising consciousness and self-awareness, individuation of the personality, development of healthy relationship skills and management of difficult or painful emotions, such as anger, anxiety, sadness, grief, loneliness disconnection, depression, and despair.

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Laura's approach is guided by psychodynamic and analytical principles (described by Carl Jung, Eugene Gendlin) and contemporary insights from neuropsychology as applied in Trauma Therapy. She is trained in crisis intervention and the assessment and treatment of trauma. She understands how unresolved stress, particularly involving family history and repeat childhood exposure to physical violence and abuse, emotional neglect, drug and alcohol misuse, personality disorders and other mental health issues can systemically and inter-generationally, impact individuals, families and communities in profound ways. Laura recognises the characteristic patterns of traumatised and other difficult personalities, as well as the signs and symptoms of PTSD and chronic complex trauma.
Laura expertly applies specific trauma-processing interventions - such as eye movement desensitisation reprocessing (EMDR), thought field therapy (TFT) and Sandplay therapy - to remedy trauma.

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As a qualified Sandplay therapist, Laura competently applies this effective symbolic strategy, with adults and children, individually, as couples or in family groups. Sandplay immediately and concretely extends perception beyond superficial awareness and provides new visual perspectives about the inner and outer psychological factors influencing the problems at hand.

Laura is also a qualified and experienced naturopath. She extends her expertise beyond functional psychology to complementary alternative medicine (CAM), to specialise in the identification and recovery of complex and systemic affects of chronic stress and trauma. She applies functional biomedical testing with other therapeutic assessments with life-style and dietary advise, nutrition and herbal medicine treatments to support metabolism, bring balance to the central nervous system (SNS and PSNS), restore tissue and organ function after physical illness, injury, infections, resolve inflammation and recover from physical, emotional or psycho-social burnout, exhaustion and trauma.

Laura continues to work as an academic lecturer providing education and mentoring services to natural health practitioners at Endeavour College of Natural Health. She is a trained clinical supervisor and professional mentor for practising counsellors & psychotherapists. As an educational mentor, natural health practitioner and counselling psychotherapist, Laura conveys genuine interest, care and understanding of the unique problems and challenges that people encounter in health and illness. She is supportive of clients in their accomplishments & disappointments and encouraging of their unique journey toward physical, emotional, psycho-social or spiritual health and happiness.