Valeria is a multidisciplinary health practitioner.
I've been a shiatsu practitioner for over a decade. The therapeutic art form of shiatsu helped transform my health, life and relationship to body, mind, energy and emotions and so I give this gift to others.
I have worked professionally in the mental health care sector for humans with complex needs and understand deeply the unprecedented stress and pressure faced by health professionals today. I facilitate trauma-informed care and practice based on what I have experientially learned within my own development. My formal training includes a weave of traditional eastern energy work within a shiatsu therapy framework, humanistic, transpersonal psychotherapy and somatic therapy (mind-body) focusing on emotions and the process of interoception (the perception of sensations from inside the body). As well, I've a postgraduate framework of western psychological science with a focus on the biopsychosocial model of care. 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. I am a psychologist with provisional registration. I am not offering psychological intervention privately during internship.
I was born in Chile, and grew up in Melbourne. I am fascinated by culture and diversity. I love nature and the outdoors, yoga, muay thai 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 Mentored by Australian curandero Simon Green, whose ongoing support, teachings, patience and curative skill has over several years been a boon to my life.