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DipShiatsu, DipCounselling, MProfPsych

Valeria is a multidisciplinary health practitioner.

I’ve been offering shiatsu therapy for over a decade. This therapeutic art form helped transform my own life, my health and relationship to health, mind, systems of energy, and body. So...I give this gift to others. 
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​​I have an integrative approach to individual wellbeing.  I appreciate and value story, authenticity, kindness, mutual respect, and getting to the heart of things to facilitate authentic personal growth. 
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​My formal training includes a weave of traditional eastern energy work within a shiatsu therapy framework, humanistic, transpersonal psychotherapy, western medical science and evidence-based practice, and somatic therapy (mind-body) focusing on emotions and the process of interoception (the  perception of sensations from inside the body).
I am a psychologist with full ahpra registration, currently working with young people. I am not currently offering psychological assessment or intervention privately. During the pandemic I co-authored a study on conventional and complementary treatment use and satisfaction in Australian women with endometriosis published in the Internal Medicine Journal. Alongside this, I worked for some years in the mental health care sector in the service of humans with complex needs. I facilitate trauma-informed care and practice.

I am Chilean born, and grew up in Melbourne before landing in the Bellingen Shire. I love nature and the outdoors, yoga, philosophy, music, and writing and am curiously passionate about traditional methods of healing and culture.

Training.

Diploma of Shiatsu & Oriental Therapies, Australian Shiatsu College
Diploma of Transpersonal Counselling, The Phoenix Institute
Bachelor of Psychological Science​, Deakin University
Graduate Diploma of Psychology (Advanced), Deakin University
Master of Professional Psychology, Charles Sturt University

In my life I have sought aid and guidance from teachers and holders of traditional knowledge of my own lineages in my native South America, Asia, and here in Australia.​  I've been the recipient of tremendous kindness and ceremony and I've learned many wonderful things from plants, land, people and ritual in the regions of my ancestry. I have had exceptional teachers and mentors.

Bill Palmer  - Movement Shiatsu, Trauma & Disability
Cliff Andrews - Advanced Shiatsu Energy Work, Stress & Trauma, Anxiety & Depression 
Master Ohashi - The Ohashi Method
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Mentored by Australian curandero Simon Green, whose ongoing support, teachings, patience and curative skill has over several years been a boon to my life. 
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