Coming Home to a Balanced Self
Hello, I’m Michelle White
Counsellor & Psychotherapist
Dip. Counselling, Dip Clinical Psychotherapy, Dip. Mental Heath, Dip. Community Services.
Registered practicing member of the Australian Counselling Association (ACA).
Meditation practitioner and facilitator.
My practice is shaped by trauma-informed and dynamic somatic principles, informed by formal training and years of embodied, relational work with clients.
I’ve been a counsellor and psychotherapist in private practice for 14 years. Over that time, I’ve come to understand that our bodies hold everything - our stories, our complaints, our stress, our imbalances, and our longing for ease.
The essence of my work is about offering a space to come home in yourself - to explore your internal world and how it might be connected to the difficulties you’re experiencing, whether they be emotional, relational, psychological or physical.
The solutions aren’t out there; they’re in here.
A good deal of my clients arrive with physical ailments - gut symptoms, pain and chronic health patterns. Our work together is to explore how these symptoms are connected to what’s happening in the rest of your system: stress, relationships, past experiences, trauma, emotional suppression, over-functioning - whatever is true for you.
No matter which human condition you arrive with, our work begins with coming inwards - because that’s where the foundational shifts happen.
I’ve spent 14 years with a focus on IBS, gut disorders and chronic ill health. While this continues in my work, the deeper thread and need through any presentations are the same; a return to balance and self.
I have witnessed that the core aspect of resolving gut disorders, chronic ill health, stress and anxiety is regulating the nervous system because without that balance, your body can’t heal.
My work is shaped by somatic and relational practices, and draws on what I’ve learned from years of sitting with people’s real, complex, unfiltered stories. It’s about making room for all of who you are so you can become who you want to be.
I’m trained in somatic, trauma-informed mind-body approaches.
If you’d like to work together, you’re welcome to book a session or reach out with any questions.
Offerings
Counselling & Psychotherapy
I offer grounded, relational therapy for people navigating life - emotional distress, life transitions, trauma, relational complexities, gut disorders, chronic health conditions, physical pain or simply the desire for more ease.
I think of therapy as a space - for you to come home in yourself, to explore your inner landscape, and return to balance.
My approach integrates emotional, somatic and relational awareness - meeting you exactly where you are and navigating what’s hard, unclear or unhealed together.
More than just talk therapy, this type of therapy is engaging and dynamic, supporting deep foundational shifts.
A key part of my practice has been supporting people who live with gut disorders and chronic conditions, including the unseen toll they take on daily life, identity and relationships.
Gut focused therapy gently explores the complex relationship between the mind, emotions, nervous system and gut.
Whether you're navigating illness or struggling with any aspect of the human condition, our work together is about sitting together as you are and navigating where you want to be.
Online Course
Stop The Stress of IBS, is a self paced course designed to ease the emotional toll of gut distress, flowing on to regulate the nervous system and reduce or eliminate physical symptoms.
The course brings together my 14 years of clinical experience supporting clients with gut disorders and chronic conditions.
The modules are designed to facilitate a fundamentally different way of relating to your body, thoughts, and the anxiety that fuels the cycle of symptoms, thereby fostering a more permanent solution.
The course includes videos, audio and worksheets for each module to facilitate deep insight and integration.
The 10 Modules of the course cover:
The Relationship Between the Brain, Nervous System and Gut
Your Body is Highly Responsive to Your Thoughts
The Softening of Acknowledgment and Validation
Interpreting The Body Signals With Curiosity Rather Than Fear
Embody Your Whole Self
Create Your Internal Environment
Safety Behaviours
Stop Striving and Just Be
Don’t Blame the Food
Future Affirming Actions
Podcast & iPhone app
The Happy Inside Podcast
The podcast offers over 100 episodes of insights and strategies on the psychological, emotional and physical landscape of living with IBS, gut disorders, chronic health conditions and the related stress and anxiety.
The Happy Inside iPhone App
A guided audio app designed to help regulate your nervous system and ease the stress of gut symptoms.
Built with gut directed imageries, pain softening and other guided imageries and meditations, to offer support that you can reach for any time you need grounding, soothing, and relief from anxiety or physical symptoms.
I use the imageries and meditations in the app in conjunction with one-on-one consultations with clients.
Please know that digital products are not a replacement for individual therapy that is catered to you.
Schedule an appointment
All consultations are via Zoom.
No referrals are required for booking.
I kindly ask for 48 hours notice to be provided when cancelling or rescheduling appointments. This allows other clients the opportunity to fill your appointment time.
Consultation fees are listed in Australian dollars and will be converted to your relevant currency at the time of payment.
*Terms and Conditions provided within the booking process.