Valeria is a Chilean Australian multidisciplinary health professional.
My formal training is a weave of traditional healing energy work, humanistic psychotherapy and Western science, useful for health paradigms moving towards more integrative approaches to individual wellbeing. Ultimately, my approach is tailored to the human being in front of me.
Shiatsu has been very important to me, and is unlike any other form of bodywork. Receiving this work utterly changed my life and relationship to my body, thoughts, energy and emotions, and I immediately set my sights to becoming a practitioner, to give this gift to others.
I have for many years sought the 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 by Mapuche people in the south of my native Chile, and I've learned many wonderful things from plants, land, people and ritual in the Amazonian and Andean regions of my ancestry. Through my ongoing journey of working on myself and learning to work with others, I have been the grateful recipient of exceptional teachers and mentors. One of them is Australian curandero Simon Green, whose ongoing support, patience and curative skill has over several years been a boon to my life.
A systems thinker, I have years of experience having worked in admin, accounts, as a software tester, in business administration and service, in many industries including finance, tech, medical, psychology and more. I also helped start a successful creative arts studio. I grok the kind of everyday pressures that we face in our society, in a grounded and realistic way. I particularly appreciate hearing individual stories and of our diversities and understanding what moves people. Most recently, I've a professional background in social welfare in the community mental health sector working with individuals with psychosocial disabilities which has lead to a deeper sensibility, humanisation and nuance when working with complex issues.
My areas of particular interest in shiatsu bodywork and somatic psychotherapy frameworks include helping clients who are facing issues with depression, anxiety and stress, medically unexplained symptoms, chronic pain, fatigue, emotional and physical trauma, disability, as well as tending to issues of women’s health, development, empowerment and spirituality. My practice is intersectional, inclusive and LGBTQI+ friendly.
My formal training is a weave of traditional healing energy work, humanistic psychotherapy and Western science, useful for health paradigms moving towards more integrative approaches to individual wellbeing. Ultimately, my approach is tailored to the human being in front of me.
Shiatsu has been very important to me, and is unlike any other form of bodywork. Receiving this work utterly changed my life and relationship to my body, thoughts, energy and emotions, and I immediately set my sights to becoming a practitioner, to give this gift to others.
I have for many years sought the 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 by Mapuche people in the south of my native Chile, and I've learned many wonderful things from plants, land, people and ritual in the Amazonian and Andean regions of my ancestry. Through my ongoing journey of working on myself and learning to work with others, I have been the grateful recipient of exceptional teachers and mentors. One of them is Australian curandero Simon Green, whose ongoing support, patience and curative skill has over several years been a boon to my life.
A systems thinker, I have years of experience having worked in admin, accounts, as a software tester, in business administration and service, in many industries including finance, tech, medical, psychology and more. I also helped start a successful creative arts studio. I grok the kind of everyday pressures that we face in our society, in a grounded and realistic way. I particularly appreciate hearing individual stories and of our diversities and understanding what moves people. Most recently, I've a professional background in social welfare in the community mental health sector working with individuals with psychosocial disabilities which has lead to a deeper sensibility, humanisation and nuance when working with complex issues.
My areas of particular interest in shiatsu bodywork and somatic psychotherapy frameworks include helping clients who are facing issues with depression, anxiety and stress, medically unexplained symptoms, chronic pain, fatigue, emotional and physical trauma, disability, as well as tending to issues of women’s health, development, empowerment and spirituality. My practice is intersectional, inclusive and LGBTQI+ friendly.
Bachelor of Psychological Science, Deakin University
Diploma of Shiatsu & Oriental Therapies, Australian Shiatsu College
Diploma of Transpersonal Counselling, The Phoenix Institute
Bill Palmer - Movement Shiatsu, Trauma & Disability
Cliff Andrews - Advanced Shiatsu Energy Work, Stress & Trauma
Master Ohashi
Simon Green
Shiatsu Therapy Association of Australia
Diploma of Shiatsu & Oriental Therapies, Australian Shiatsu College
Diploma of Transpersonal Counselling, The Phoenix Institute
Bill Palmer - Movement Shiatsu, Trauma & Disability
Cliff Andrews - Advanced Shiatsu Energy Work, Stress & Trauma
Master Ohashi
Simon Green
Shiatsu Therapy Association of Australia