You’re not broken. You’re carrying patterns that can be healed.
Trauma therapist, speaker, university lecturer and author helping individuals and workplaces move from survival mode to real healing, resilience and growth.
Whether you’re feeling stuck in the same emotional patterns, burned out at work, or ready to create lasting change, I help you understand what’s underneath it, and what to do next.
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Hi, I'm Carla
I’m a trauma therapist, university lecturer, speaker and author of Healing from Within. I help people make sense of the patterns keeping them stuck: in relationships, self-worth, burnout, stress and emotional overwhelm, so they can heal at the root, not just cope on the surface.
My work combines psychological insight, practical tools and real-world compassion No fluff. No toxic positivity. Just honest, evidence-informed support that helps people move forward.
Why People Come to Me
You might look like you’re functioning on the outside… but inside, you’re exhausted.
Maybe you:
Keep repeating the same relationship patterns
Struggle with boundaries, self-worth or overthinking
Feel stuck in stress, burnout or survival mode
Want to heal childhood wounds that still affect your adult life
Need support that is compassionate, practical and actually useful
You do not need to stay stuck in patterns that were shaped by pain.
Healing is possible and it starts with understanding what’s driving your thoughts, emotions and behaviours.
How I Can Help
Therapy & One-on-One Support: Couples and Individuals
Trauma-informed counselling and support to help you work through emotional pain, relationship patterns, self-doubt, anxiety, burnout and unresolved wounds.
Workshops & Programs
Practical and empowering workshops for individuals, schools, teams and community groups on mental health, burnout, emotional wellbeing, resilience, boundaries, attachment, self-care and personal growth.
Speaking for Events & Organisations
Keynotes and presentations that are engaging, relatable and transformative, blending lived insight, clinical expertise and practical strategies your audience can actually apply.
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Confidential, compassionate support for staff and leaders, helping workplaces improve wellbeing, reduce burnout and create healthier, more productive teams.
Why Work With Carla
Because this isn’t just theory. bring together clinical experience, teaching, speaking and lived understanding to create support that is both deeply human and genuinely practical.
When people work with me, they don’t just feel heard. They gain insight, language, tools and momentum.
This work is about helping you:
Understand yourself more deeply
Break unhealthy cycles
Build emotional safety and resilience
Feel more confident in your relationships and decisions
Create meaningful, lasting change
For Workplaces
Support your people with more than a checkbox wellbeing approach.
I provide talks, workshops and EAP support that help employees and leaders navigate stress, burnout, communication challenges, emotional wellbeing and psychological resilience.
Perfect for organisations that want support that is warm, credible, practical and genuinely impactful.
For Individuals and couples
You don’t have to keep doing this alone.
If you’re ready to stop repeating painful patterns and start healing from the inside
out, I offer support that is compassionate, grounded and designed to create real
change.
What people say
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