Supporting women who feel lost, overwhelmed or anxious feel grounded, confident and more connected to themselves
Laura Turner, Psychotherapist
In person in Cronulla, Sutherland Shire, Sydney, NSW and online Australia-wide
On the outside it looks like you’re coping, but inside you feel like you feel like you are crumbling
From the outside it probably looks like you’re coping, but inside and behind closed doors it feels like you are crumbling. It may come to you as overwhelm that hits and some days you feel like you’re barely functioning, or a rage that erupts in moments where you wish you could respond differently, or maybe it’s the overthinking and anxiety that seems to show up time and time again which takes you away from being able to be truly present
You want to feel different but nothing seems to be working. Maybe you’ve tried therapy before, maybe you already have some great insights and learned tools to cope, but it still feels like there’s something you can’t reach or shift.
That is where this work begins.
Many therapies work with your mind, but here we work with your body as a guide
If talk therapy alone has not brought about the shift you’re after, then including the body might just be what’s missing. Understanding ourselves is a big part of the process, but we can’t always think ourselves into feeling different. An often missing piece in therapy is working with the ‘felt sense’ and learning to create space for feelings to exist and flow through.
This work happens in part through redefining our relationship to ourselves and what’s happening inside our body. It’s also about building connection to and compassion for the parts of ourselves that can be hard to reach. Alongside that process we are also tuning into the language and wisdom of our body and our nervous system. Always at your pace, slowly building safety, capacity and space for what’s underneath to emerge.
With a trauma informed lens, and using a bend of Internal family systems, somatic awareness and body based therapy we begin to feel into and listen to those parts that have been aching to be felt and heard and with this space often the intensity softens, we learn what we need to resource ourselves and we feel more grounded and in control.
The women who find their way here are often;
Women who are going through major life transitions like motherhood (matrescence), perimenopause/menopause
Have a level of insight into their inner world and have some experience or curiosity about working with the body
Have sought support in other ways but haven’t found something that really lands
Overwhelmed, over-thinkers, running on empty, have people pleasing tendencies, stuck in survival mode, holding a lot of self-doubt, doing it all, and lost in who they are and who they are becoming
Wanting support to find some lightness and a way back to themselves
‘You are not doing anything wrong, you just haven’t had the right support’
Hi, I’m Laura.
Psychotherapist, Mother, and Ocean lover
based in Cronulla, Sutherland Shire
Motherhood shook me to my core, the way it’s meant to. And it was only through learning about matresence (the becoming of a mother) that I was able to deeply understand the space I inhabited between who I once was and who I was becoming.
I’ve seen how transformative it is when mothers and women feel safe, supported, and understood in the in-between space. And how, with the right care, it can become a place of growth for you as a mother, a human, and a soul.
I now work with women who are feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or lost in this or any other transition even if on the outside it looks like they’re coping.
Therapy is not just about finding more calm in your day-to-day life, but about developing a deeper connection with yourself, your children, and everyone around you. When held with reverence, love, and care, your journey through motherhood and other big life transitions can lead to profound healing on many levels.
It brings me so much joy to witness women coming home to themselves, reclaiming the parts they thought were lost, and breaking free from the system and expectations they carry.
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Women
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Couples
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Therapy for Mothers
Not a woman but still interested in working with me
While I specialise in supporting women, I also specialise in couples, particularly in the perinatal period and early stages of parenting and often work with individuals who are wanting to understand themselves and their patterns more deeply.
If any of the above resonates with you, then feel free to reach out
Here’s where we start…
I’d be honoured to support you