Online Trauma-informed Counselling & Psychotherapy
Supporting adults experiencing stress, overwhelm, or a loss of meaning to understand themselves more deeply and reconnect with their authentic selves.
Centred Wellness offers trauma‑informed counselling and psychotherapy online across Australia, with a focus on healing from early emotional and attachment wounds.
Are you experiencing....
Stress, anxiety, overwhelm, or self‑doubt?
Experiences like stress, anxiety, overwhelm, or self‑doubt often emerge during challenging periods. These patterns can be rooted in earlier experiences where you learned to minimise your needs or question your worth.
In our work together, we’ll explore where these responses began and support new ways of relating to yourself.
Vivid dreams or nightmares?
Recurring or vivid dreams, or nightmares often arise when deeper emotional layers you unknowingly may have supressed from your waking life are surfacing for attention.
I can support you in exploring the emotional and symbolic qualities of your dreams, how they connect to your past and present, and what they may be expressing or inviting you to be more conscious of.
Impacts of early emotional or attachment wounds?
The lingering effects of childhood trauma or early attachment wounds often show up as protective strategies like shutting down, staying vigilant, disconnecting from your body, or holding emotions in.
In therapy, we’ll compassionately inquire into your experiences and support a process of living with more authenticity and presence.
Life transitions?
Life transitions such as loss, shifts in relationships, identity, health, or direction can trigger old patterns of coping and long‑standing protective strategies, sometimes showing up as overwhelm, anxiety, shutdown, or disorientation, which can also surface in your dreams. I offer support to explore your experiences so you are in an empowered position to navigate your circumstances with more awareness and presence.
Unhelpful coping patterns?
Patterns that are difficult to change, like overworking, people‑pleasing, avoidance, or comfort eating, often begin as adaptive strategies to numb, soothe, survive, or create a sense of control or peace when other support wasn’t available. In therapy, we can explore and honour the protective function of these patterns, and consider other possible alternatives.
Hi, I’m Candyce...
I'm a PACFA Registered Clinical Counsellor® and Psychotherapist with a deep commitment to helping people navigate life's challenges and reconnect with themselves. My own experiences with addiction, grief, illness, and major life changes have shaped the way I work, ensuring my approach is grounded in lived-understanding as well as being evidence-informed.
My approach is about supporting self-discovery, presence, awareness, and meaningful change. My work is guided by integrity, compassion, inclusivity, and a belief that everyone deserves a space to be heard.
Support is here when you're ready.
Master of Counselling - Advanced Practice - 2025
University of Southern Queensland
Graduate Certificate of Addictive Behaviours - 2021
Monash University
Bachelor of Counselling & Psychotherapy - 2019
Ikon Institute of Australia
Advanced Diploma of Transpersonal Counselling - 2017
Ikon Institute of Australia
Why seek counselling or psychotherapy?
Sometimes, figuring things out on your own isn't enough.
Therapy offers a space to pause, reflect, and reconnect with what feels true and meaningful. It can help you understand yourself more deeply, shift long‑held patterns, and support you in living your life with greater meaning and authenticity.
Clarity and perspective
Therapy can help you slow down to bring awareness to your thoughts, emotions, and sensations. Over time, this supports you in being more present and compassionate with yourself, so that you can respond with more agency and live the life you want.
Compassion and integration
Therapy offers a safe, compassionate space to explore your inner world and challenges to support personal, professional, or spiritual growth, healing, integration, and a more compassionate relationship with yourself and others.
Guidance through change
Major life changes can unsettle your sense of identity and sense of stability. Therapy offers a space to navigate the uncertainty that can arise, supporting you in connecting to your inner guidance and wisdom through the process.
Insight into dreams and inner experiences
Dreams, nightmares, and inner experiences can offer meaningful insight into parts of yourself that are ready to be explored. Therapy offers a space to explore and become more connected to your inner life.
Find your way
Trauma-informed counselling and psychotherapy. Book a session, or start with a free 15-minute introductory consultation.
My approach
At Centred Wellness, trauma-informed counselling and psychotherapy is a space for compassionate conversations. Together, we’ll explore your thoughts, emotions, and bodily experiences in a way that feels safe and supportive.
Using evidence-informed approaches that meet your needs, we’ll look beyond symptom relief to help you process, integrate, reconnect, and discover ways towards greater authenticity and overall wellbeing.
This is a collaborative process. Your insights and experiences guide the process towards meaningful change.
I aim to support you in gaining increased resilience, self-awareness and reconnection with yourself, so that you can live more aligned with what matters most to you.
Centred Wellness provides online counselling, psychotherapy, and dreamwork from the Gold Coast to all states in Australia.
Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to common questions about online counselling and psychotherapy.
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Sessions are held via secure video conferencing, accessible from anywhere in Australia. No software downloads are needed. You’ll receive a private link before each session and can join from any device.
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My approach is relational, trauma‑informed, and integrative. I draw from attachment‑based, somatic, experiential, mindfulness‑oriented, transpersonal, compassionate, and evidence‑informed modalities, including ACT, CBT, and Motivational Interviewing.
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You can find a full breakdown of sessions, pricing, and private health insurance information on the Services & Fees page.
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At this time, I offer online sessions only. This allows flexibility, accessibility, and comfort for clients across Australia.
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A free 15‑minute consultation is available so you can get a sense of my approach and ask any questions. To arrange a free 15-minute consultation, please call me on 0401 452 760 or email me here.
I'm here to support you...
Book a session or start with a free 15-minute introductory consultation.