Valeria is a multidisciplinary health practitioner.
I’ve been a shiatsu therapist 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.
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 provisional registration, currently working with young people. I am not offering psychological assessment or intervention privately during internship. 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 was born in Chile, and grew up in Melbourne. I am fascinated by culture and diversity. I love nature and the outdoors, yoga and writing and am curiously passionate about traditional methods of healing and culture.
I was born in Chile, and grew up in Melbourne. I am fascinated by culture and diversity. I love nature and the outdoors, yoga 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.
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.