Valeria is a multidisciplinary health practitioner.
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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.
My formal training includes western medical psychological science and evidence-based practice, humanistic psychotherapeutic models, traditional eastern energy work within a shiatsu therapy framework, 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 can currently offer limited appointment times for psychological intervention online for adults, at my practice here. Areas of special interest to me include women's health psychology, stress and burnout, and the emerging fields of integration and harm minimisation in psychedelic assisted therapies in legal contexts.
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 offered shiatsu therapy body work to hundreds of clients over fourteen years. This therapeutic art form helped transform my own life, my health and relationship to health, mind, systems of energy, and body, and giving this gift to others has been one of the best parts of my life.
I am Chilean born, mestiza, 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.
I can currently offer limited appointment times for psychological intervention online for adults, at my practice here. Areas of special interest to me include women's health psychology, stress and burnout, and the emerging fields of integration and harm minimisation in psychedelic assisted therapies in legal contexts.
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 offered shiatsu therapy body work to hundreds of clients over fourteen years. This therapeutic art form helped transform my own life, my health and relationship to health, mind, systems of energy, and body, and giving this gift to others has been one of the best parts of my life.
I am Chilean born, mestiza, 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
IPAT We Al-li program Trauma Informed Care and Practice
Mentored by Australian curandero Simon Green, whose ongoing support, teachings, patience and curative skill over the last decade has been a boon to my life.
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
IPAT We Al-li program Trauma Informed Care and Practice
Mentored by Australian curandero Simon Green, whose ongoing support, teachings, patience and curative skill over the last decade has been a boon to my life.