Graduate Practitioners

Brisbane

Dana Dobrota

Dana is a passionate Core Energetics body psychotherapist from Australia. She has completed training at the Institute of Body Psychotherapy and is a trained Psychosomatic Therapist and is part of the Institute faculty.

Dana brings patience, gentleness and sensitivity to her work with clients.  She explores with joy and brings a sense of lightness and personality. As a lifelong partner dancer and a trained Kizomba and Ginga teacher, she loves building and exploring creative connections and embodies her capacity to flow in the lead and follow of an intuitive therapeutic process. Dana embraces faith in her work and the role of Grace in deep and lasting change.

Dana practices in Kelvin Grove and Ashgrove. You can visit Dana’s website at www.bodymindinbloom.com or you can contact her on 0414981340 or via email on dana@bodymindinbloom.com. You can also book a consultation directly on her online calendar.

Deanne Bromham

Deanne holds a Diploma of Somatic Psychotherapy and a Diploma of Health Science in Naturopathy, Nutrition and Herbal Medicine. She is a faculty member at the School of Body Psychotherapy at Kelvin Grove Australia. She has been in private practice for over 11 years, incorporating Body Psychotherapy and Core Energetics in 2015.

Deanne takes a holistic approach to emotional and mental wellness combining the physical, emotional and mental aspects of her clients. The combination of naturopathy and holistic counselling results in stabilising clients effectively and quickly.

Deanne’s intention is to hold a space that affords clients containment, safety and compassion. She is a skilled and experienced therapist. Her aim is to work with clients in guidance to transform difficult patterns, resulting in permanent lasting change in their life and laying down new neural pathways.

Deanne is passionate about assisting those who experience difficulties with self worth, abandonment, attachment, depressive and anxious states, subtle and complex trauma, loss and grief, relationship difficulties, abuse, social difficulties, addictive behaviour, body image and sexuality.

You can contact Deanne on info@elixirandlife.com or 0458 330 925. You can also visit Deanne’s website at www.elixirandlife.com

Esther Diplock

Esther is an experienced Counsellor, Body Psychotherapist and Clinical Supervisor, based in Ashgrove, Brisbane, Queensland.  Working in private practice since 2004, she has a love of companioning individuals and couples on journeys of transformative self-discovery.

She originally trained as an Occupational Therapist, before gaining her Masters of Counselling.   Since then she has completed a further 4-year Advanced Diploma of Integrated Somatic Psychotherapy from the Institute of Body Psychotherapy.  She is a registered Supervisor and Counsellor with PACFA.

Group Facilitation is a passion for Esther and she is on faculty at the Institute.  She has previously lectured in several Australian tertiary institutions in Group Process, Counselling Skills and Trauma studies.  She is a facilitator and trainer for Gender Equity and Reconciliation International and is also a Kundalini Yoga Teacher.

If you are seeking a safe and creative space to experiment with ways of bringing yourself more fully present and embodied into your own life, Esther welcomes connection with you.

You can visit Esther’s website at www.resonancetogether.com.au or you can contact her on 0401 677 938 or via email on esther@resonancetogether.com.au

Izabella Siodmak

Izabella has been a residential retreat facilitator on the Sunshine Coast Hinterland since 2003. She focuses on Emotional Wellness Retreats 1 on 1 for individuals and Revitalising Love Retreats for couples.

With a degree in Biochemistry and an initial background as a naturopath, herbalist and nutritionist (amongst other modalities) she’s woven together the neurochemistry, mental health, adrenal and nervine support aspects with the primary somatic psychotherapy work to support clients to release deeply held unconscious emotions within the body and to process trauma. In addition, Izabella has completed an allied certification in Exceptional Marriage Mentoring with Marcia and Brian Gleason to facilitate effective embodied couples work. In your sessions with her you can also expect to free up more energy, live in greater integrity and to relish in living more of your purpose. You can contact Izabella at info@izabellasiodmak.com or on 07 54944558

Jan Logan

Jan Logan is a Core Energetics practitioner who has been practicing since completing her Diploma in Integrated Somatic Psychotherapy in 2018. Jan also has a Bachelor in Human and Community Services with over 15 years experience in a variety of roles supporting young people, families and mentoring community practitioners.

As a therapist, Jan values “working with” clients and feels honoured to work alongside people throughout their therapy journey. She enjoys supporting people to increase their self awareness by identifying and transform patterns that no longer serve them. Jan’s approach is focused on improving the emotional, mental, physical and spiritual well being of a person. This is achieved by using strength based, person centred approach incorporating core energetics practices to connect people to their body.

The aim is to assist people to bring the unconscious to consciousness. To achieve this, Jan will use techniques that assist you to identify your emotions, explore your boundaries and encourage honest communication to assist you to live your life as your full authentic self.

Jan’s clinic is located in Bracken Ridge. You can contact Jan via email on janlogan1@me.com

Sara Higgins

Sara was a client in Core Energetics for almost ten years before she embarked on the training program and became a qualified Integrated Somatic Psychotherapist. Sara is endlessly curious and passionate about how working with the body as well as the mind can help create transformative life change. She brings to her practice her own experiences and her broad experience working with people with life changing health issues, grief and loss as well as assisting those searching for deeper meaning beneath repeating old patterns in life.
Sara is also a yoga teacher and reflexologist and she draws on her experience with these modalities to assist clients with a holistic approach to healing. Sara loves this quote from Dr. John Pierrakos “The source of healing lies within the self”, and she loves helping clients to live happy and fulfilling lives. She brings compassion, sensitivity and acceptance into her work with clients. Sara is in private practice in West End.  You can contact Sara via email at sara@sarahiggins.com or on 0410 413 485.

William Diplock

William operates a Private Practice at Ashgrove Brisbane, Queensland. He previously worked at Relationships Australia as both a Senior Relationships Counsellor and Senior Clinical Supervisor. Before that he was the Manager of a Counselling and Training Service in Brisbane.

He holds a Bachelor of Social Science (Psychology) and a Masters in Counselling. He has completed approximately 16,000 hours of relationship counselling and 7,000 hours of clinical supervision.

William is skilled in individual, relationship, and family counselling. He has undertaken training in Person-Centred Counselling, Gestalt, Systems, Emotionally-Focused Models of Counselling, and more recently Body Psychotherapy through The Institute of Body Psychotherapy and is now completing his Fourth year. He has an ongoing clinical practice in individual, couple and family counselling, counsellor supervision, and training.

William provides training workshops throughout Queensland. He is a Registered Supervisor with PACFA. William is also a qualified Spiritual Director. He is a Co-ordinator of Gender Equity and Reconciliation Work in Australia.

You can visit William’s website at www.resonancetogether.com.au or you can contact him on 0401 220 424 or via email on william@resonancetogether.com.au

Sandra Plant

Sandra is an established Counsellor on the Northside of Brisbane and has worked for 10 years with children, adolescents and parents (clinical member of QCA and PACFA).  Sandra has worked specifically with childhood developmental, attachment and trauma related issues and has a full understanding of the complexities of modern family life.

He has worked in trauma to incorporate gentle somatic processes to accelerate post traumatic growth.  Sandra has recognized that more permanent shifts of consciousness and emotional growth are accomplished when body psychotherapy work is utilised with talking therapy frameworks and perspectives.

Sandra has a gentle and compassionate approach to therapy to support clients to more courageous and connected lives.

You can contact Sandra on 0434827765, or alternatively sandra@growbrave.com.au.

Severine Coulanges

Severine has wholeheartedly found the missing piece to complement her passion for the healing arts of dance and Pilates in Body Psychotherapy. She has worked for many years helping and teaching people return home to their bodies through dance and movement practices – this is her true purpose and joy.
Severine works to help her clients to dissolve the blocks and armouring that dampens their lives. Through the wisdom of the body we begin the process of sensing and feeling our body again.
Body Psychotherapy and particularly Core Energetics helps us to increase our energy and to raise our vibration in the body, mind and spirit, so the we can live a more authentic and fulfilling life.
As a mother, a daughter, and a woman, Severine has done, and continues to do, her own inner work, and she approaches her clients with real world experience as well as the intellectual know how. She understands the challenges of being human. This makes her an empathic and understanding therapist and teacher.
She works from her home office in Highgate Hill, Brisbane.
Book your discovery call with Severine email: hello@severinecoulanges.com Mobile: 0401 466 633

Sharon Groves

Sharon is a recent graduate who is currently also completing a Bachelor of Human Services (Counselling) and previously served in the Australian Defence Force (Army) for ten years.

Sharon enjoys working with clients to free up their energy, to bring awareness to their true selves and their longings, and to develop a capacity for growth and change. She believes in the power of empathy and views each client through eyes of deep compassion, holding space for whatever arises. She is particularly interested in working with parents to allow them to become more compassionate and loving with themselves and their children, healing from their past and preventing cycles of generational trauma. She is undergoing training as an accredited Hand in Hand parenting instructor in alignment with her interests in conscious parenting.

Sharon works from her private space in Agnes Water / 1770 in QLD, where she holds regular body psychotherapy-based movement classes and workshops. You can visit Sharon’s website at www.freetolove.au or her Facebook page, Free to Love Body Psychotherapy, and you can contact her at 049 0821 866 or sharon@freetolove.au

Northern NSW

Lucy Slater

Lucy is a recent graduate of the Institute of Body Psychotherapy and is deeply passionate about Core Energetics. She is a qualified Somatic Psychotherapist. Furthermore, she works for the school in the role of Training Coordinator.

She brings integrity, honesty, and leadership to her sessions with clients. With a background in yoga teaching and Reiki healing she works intuitively, with a sensitivity for energy and blocks. She loves to help others gain the tools needed to settle their nervous systems, melt blocks in the body and open the path for more pleasure, joy, and love in their lives. She has experienced first-hand the transformational nature of this work during her 4 years of training and is forever amazed at the ways Core Energetics can change deeply held beliefs and patterns in the body.

You can find more information about Lucy on her website: https://www.seedpsychotherapy.com Instagram: seedpsychotherapy or Phone 0407 908 125

Shirsha Marie

Shirsha is a Core Energetics therapist in Byron Bay. She has completed 3 years of study at the Institute of Body Psychotherapy and found this to be an invaluable extension to her lifetime of personal growth work and teaching of internal martial arts, Tai Chi and Qigong.

Shirsha considers Core Energetics to be an essential component of body-mind wellness. She loves how the work transforms physical and emotional health in a systematic way, to nurture deep healing and connection. Her gentle, caring approach allows clients to safely increase their aliveness and explore their hearts and minds with trust and self-compassion. She is dedicated to helping people gain a deeper understanding of themselves, and becoming more empowered to live a life of value, positive direction and natural self-expression.

Shirsha’s Psychotherapy Practice is at Sangsurya Retreat Centre in Byron Bay. To book a session you can visit her website at www.heartmindcentre.com.au or contact her on 0400 558 181. For news about her body-mind-energy programmes, check out facebook.com/heartmindcentre

Tania Mattiocco

Tania has a body psychotherapy and counselling practice in the Northern Rivers, NSW, and she is also a teaching assistant at the Institute. She believes a good therapist can only help clients to the extent that a therapist does their own in depth healing work. To this end Tania is dedicated to continuous learning and growing, both professionally and personally.

Tania has a passion for helping people live authentic and vibrant lives. She creates a setting of safety, support, trust, confidentiality & love to bring the best out of her clients.
She sees the human body as a powerful organism not meant to be burdened with our woes. Rather it is designed to be a dynamic energy system that carries and expresses the power and the longings of our hearts, minds, souls and spirit.

You can contact Tania on 0423 349 808 or email hello@inbodify.com.au

Melbourne

Sharna Arti

Sharna is a transpersonal psychologist (BA, GradDipPsych, MAPsych), a somatic psychotherapist, and the director of The Ox-head School of Transpersonal and Somatic Psychology in Melbourne.

Sharna has completed training in advanced trauma treatment techniques such as Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Havening. She is also certified in Dr. Stanislav Grof’s Transpersonal Psychology and Holotropic Breathwork training.
Furthermore, and has spent the last few years formally studying psychological astrology and recently completed her teacher training in Kundalini yoga.

With a compassionate transpersonal approach, Sharna utilises principles of Advaita Vedanta (or nonduality), Buddhist psychology and therapeutic astrology. Her aim is to assist clients through breathwork and somatic psychotherapy processes, whereby unfinished business of the past can be resolved through the navigation of biographical, perinatal and transpersonal levels of experience.

Sydney

Alisa Lollback

Alisa Lollback is a registered psychologist and body psychotherapist.  She first discovered Core Energetics and Body Psychotherapy 15 years ago when she studied energy medicine in the USA.  Once returning to Australia, Alisa completed her training at the Institute of Body Psychotherapy and is now one of our respected teachers at the school.

Alisa is known for her passion for supporting people to discover their spiritual self and healing potential.

Alisa has a successful, full-time practice on the beautiful northern beaches of Sydney.  She works with individuals, couples, leads group therapy and workshops in Core Energetics and Body Psychotherapy (www.alisalollback.com.au).

Lisa Garnham

Lisa is a body (somatic) psychotherapist, Core Energetics practitioner and counsellor in Sydney, Australia.

Lisa holds an Advanced Diploma of Body Psychotherapy.

She is also an accredited eco-therapist, transpersonal counsellor and Acceptance and Commitment therapy practitioner.

Lisa brings warmth, compassion and a sense of belonging to her work with clients, and a safe and supportive space to explore past and present issues and unconscious patterns. These patterns can keep us recreating similar life situations and relational dynamics.

Lisa is passionate about working with energy, consciousness and body armouring to help free people from their blocks to living and loving – to become more empowered, to feel comfortable in their own bodies, to relate to others from a place of authenticity, to be able to experience joy and vitality and reach toward what they long for in life.

She is also interested in embodied social justice and how embodiment can support healing relationships with people, communities and the environment.

Her influences and heroines include Wilhelm Reich, Alexander Lowen, John Pierrakos, Peter Levine, Barbara Brennan, Marion Woodman, Joanna Macy, John Seed, Clarissa Pinkola Estes and Marie-Louise von Franz.

Lisa’s psychotherapy practice is in Surry Hills, Sydney. To book an in-person or Zoom session visit her website https://www.wildearthcounselling.com or call or text 04399 23054.

Luke Pesa

Luke Pesa is a qualified Body Psychotherapist with practice in Sydney, Northern Suburbs. Originally coming from a technical background Luke met his own challenges and spent over 10 years working intensively on his personal healing and development.

Experiencing a major life transformation he shifted his interest and passion towards psychotherapy and working with people. Luke has committed his career to empowering people struggling with depression, anxiety, addictions and all sorts of conditions coming mostly from the lack of love and support in early developmental stages.

Luke is also a fully certified Holotropic Breathwork practitioner.

You can contact Luke on 0421 507 225 or email lukewheart@gmail.com

Nicola Henderson

Nicola is qualified as a Somatic Psychotherapist with the Institute of Body Psychotherapy. She has trained in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with Dr Russ Harris and is a qualified Executive Coach with the Institute of Executive Coaching and Leadership.

Nicola has a private practice in Rozelle, Sydney and enjoys working with clients in a deep way to create transformation, awareness and aliveness.

Nicola brings her gifts of intuition, sensitivity and capacity to hold unconditional positive regard for her clients. She enjoys working with people who want to create healthier relationships, experience less stress at work and live a life of more joy and pleasure.

Nicola is deeply committed to her own self-growth and has been dedicated to her healing journey for over 12 years. She believes that the therapist can only take the client to the places that they themselves have travelled and considers working with the body to be essential in healing trauma.

You can contact Nicola on 0431 621 093 or nicolasomaticpsych@gmail.com