Counselling & Psychotherapy Services
Services
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Individual Therapy | 1 hour (In-person & Online) $150
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Couples Therapy | 1.5 hours (In-person & Online) $210
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Neuroaffirming Support | 1.5 hours (In-person & Online) $180
Focused support for autistic and ADHD adults who want more time to explore a specific difficulty, need or situation.
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Group Work & Workshops
Experiential groups focused on presence, relational awareness, and belonging.
Please follow @relational_home for more information on upcoming groups.
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Online Sessions | Australia & International
Online sessions are available across Australia and internationally. When booking, select your local time zone to see appointment times where you are.
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Gestalt Therapy Students
Individual therapy for Gestalt therapy students seeking personal therapy as part of their training or for their own support and development.
For enquiries, email katia@relationalhome.com
A distinctive approach to psychotherapy
My practice brings together Gestalt psychotherapy, neuroaffirming practice, couples work and lived experience that deeply informs how I meet people in therapy. I understand that our lives cannot be reduced to symptoms or diagnoses. Relationships, identity, culture, health, loss and the ways we adapt to difficult experiences all shape who we are.
My own experiences of neurodiversity, migration, trauma and loss have shaped how I understand change, identity, belonging and the many ways we adapt to what life asks of us. They have also taught me the importance of being met as a whole person, rather than through a diagnosis, difficulty or expectation of who you should be.
With individuals and couples, I bring this understanding alongside my professional training to explore what is happening beneath familiar patterns and difficulties. Relational Home reflects the philosophy behind my work: a place to understand yourself more fully and find a greater sense of home in yourself and your relationships.
Neuroaffirming Therapy
No two neurodivergent people experience the world in exactly the same way. Beyond our familiar five senses of sight, sound, smell, taste and touch, our experience is also shaped by the vestibular system (movement and balance), proprioception (awareness of our body in space) and interoception (awareness of internal bodily signals).
Each of us can experience these eight sensory systems differently, alongside differences in attention, communication, emotional regulation, executive functioning, relationships and ways of processing the world. This is why neuroaffirming therapy needs to be individual rather than based on assumptions about what autism, ADHD, AuDHD or any other neurodivergent presentation is supposed to look like.
My Gestalt approach allows us to explore this complexity in the context of your whole life, including your body, relationships, environment and experiences. Whether you are autistic, ADHD, AuDHD, identify with another form of neurodivergence, or are still exploring what neurodiversity means for you, you are welcome here. A formal diagnosis is not required.
“Neurodiversity may be every bit as crucial for the human race as biodiversity is for life in general. Who can say what form of wiring will be best at any given moment?”
EDS & Chronic Illness Support
Living with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), hypermobility or another chronic health condition can affect much more than physical health. It can shape your relationships, identity, independence, work and sense of what the future might look like.
I offer counselling and psychotherapy for individuals, partners and couples navigating chronic illness. Therapy can provide space to explore pain and fatigue, changes in capacity, medical stress, uncertainty, grief, relationships and the experience of having needs that others may not always understand.
My approach is relational, neuroaffirming and trauma-informed. I understand chronic illness within the wider context of your body, relationships, healthcare experiences, accessibility and everyday life.
Lived experience: My work with EDS is also informed by my own lived experience of the condition. I bring this understanding alongside my professional role as a counsellor and psychotherapist. I do not provide medical advice, diagnosis or medical treatment.
Therapy may support you with adjusting to a diagnosis or changes in health, navigating pain and fatigue, pacing and boundaries, identity and independence, difficult healthcare experiences, relationships and intimacy, and the intersection of neurodivergence and chronic illness.
If you are living with EDS or chronic illness, or navigating it together as a couple, you are welcome to get in touch.
Relationships & Couples Therapy
At the heart of my couples work is honest dialogue, where both people have space to speak openly while becoming more able to understand the experience of the other.
I take an active and engaged role in this process. I don’t assume that every difficulty sits equally between two people, or that being helpful always means remaining neutral. When a pattern or behaviour is causing harm or keeping the relationship stuck, I am prepared to name it with care and directness, while remaining engaged with both partners.
The aim is not to decide who is right or wrong, but to create the conditions for greater honesty, responsibility and understanding. Together, we explore what each person brings to the relationship and what may need to change for a different kind of connection to become possible.