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Jane Macnaught

Jane Macnaught

Post Graduate Qualified Counsellor and Psychotherapist

Professional Registration with PACFA.

Let me introduce myself.  I mainly work with people that are experiencing grief, trauma and anxiety. So I am often helping adults that are overwhelmed with what is going on in their life.  I am also experienced in healing and recovery from difficult childhood trauma and abuse.

I work holistically using somatic, and creative modalities that are person centred, intuitive, practical and strengths focused.

You will find that I am relaxed and easy going.  I love to be involved in projects that bring meaning & joy to my life, and I am enthusiastic about sharing with others.

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Work History

After growing up in Sydney I moved interstate and for most of my adult life I lived in Adelaide.  I worked mostly full time whilst raising my three sons. My youngest was 5 when my first marriage dissolved and I experienced the difficulties of single parenting.  A difficult time with financial devastation coupled with several tragic losses of loved ones in an 18 month period. I trained as a chef, worked in the food industry, and I really loved my work as a caterer. A few years later  I created a range of gourmet products. We marketed and sold these across Australia.  Actively involved in food industry networks, I set up the inaugural SA Food Industry Association.

I still love to cook and am known for expressing love and gratitude with meals, recipe sharing and in the year after my mum died I created a food blog, “Simmering Memories”. This was central to my grieving journey – that was another sad year for our family with my sister dying in autumn and then mum in spring.  I spent hours with Mum’s handwritten recipes, cooking, updating, adjusting, photographing and remembering.

Becoming a Counsellor

After this time I yearned to change my work life balance and I went back to study.  I spent several years working as a counsellor with newly settled migrants and refugees, asylum seekers, in Nauru, Adelaide area and South Western Sydney.

I loved my work immersed in the stories, challenges and sorrows of beautiful brave people.  The refugees exposed me to their stories of devastation, wars and horrors in their homelands and the journeys to safety. Their resilience, courage, dignity and struggles taught me so much. I offered individual counselling and group work aided by interpreters, my work incorporated diverse cultures, skills, languages, (and food) of the many people I was privileged to work alongside.

Acknowledging the enormous need for support services for adult survivors of childhood abuse and trauma. (includes neglect, emotional, physical and sexual) I now spend some of my time at the Blue Knot Foundation in a counselling role and as editor of the newsletter written for survivors Breaking Free and editing the Newsletter for health & legal professionals Blue Knot Review.

Moving to Sydney

Coming back ‘home’ to Sydney, living on the Northern Beaches, has energised me to develop my interests in practices that enrich and influence my work. Read more about how I work.

I have found my Tranquillo Place within myself here on the Northern Beaches and I am committed to helping others find peace and happiness. My services now extend across Australia using the online facilities of Zoom – a Skype style service.

You will find my spacious counselling studio is privately located at:

Tranquillo Place
Suite 10/16 Waratah Street
Mona Vale

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Trauma Informed Practitioner Support

Since early late 2017 I have been facilitating the Trauma Informed Practitioner Support group.  The goal of this group is to strengthen practitioner skills, knowledge and competence in TRAUMA INFORMED PRACTICE. Our focus is to support trauma aware practitioners in Sydney’s Northern Beaches region.

The approach is collaborative and interactive. We  delve into trauma theory and research with monthly group meetings and other supportive activities.  A variety of professional development opportunities are provided and supported.

The group is suitable for practitioners who are working with clients that may have been impacted by trauma. We have interest from practitioners in:  Yoga, Massage, Movement, Counselling, Therapy, Naturopathy, Mediation and other health & well being & allied professionals. Our group includes Dentists, Lawyer, Doctors, and Psychologists.

Qualifications

  • Graduate Diploma of Counselling – Australian College of Applied Psychology
  • Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia – PACFA Clinical Registered
  • The Australian Register of Counsellors and Psychotherapists – ARCAP Registered
  • Yoga Australia Registered Teacher – 350 hr training with Balanced Practice Yoga
  • StandBy Support After Suicide – registered provider
  • Australia Counselling – Verified Member
  • Trauma Support Provider – National Directory for redress and complex trauma survivors
  • Psychology Today – Verified Listing

Selected Recent Professional Development

  • Rhythms of Regulations and Polyvagal Theory; 6 months with Deb Dana
  • Safe & Sound Protocol – Unyte Integrated Listening Systems, a Polyvagal application
  • Trauma Awareness Trainer for community
  • Balanced Practice Yoga Teacher Training; 350 hrs
  • Internal Family Systems – Simon D’Orsogna
  • Pat Ogden – Sensorimotor Psychotherapy – Master Class
  • MBSR – Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
  • Cathy Maldiochi – Art Therapist – Master Class
  • Bessel Van Der Kolk – The Body Keeps The Score Workshop
  • Trauma Sensitive Yoga – Integrating trauma informed yoga practices into therapy, body focused somatic approach.
  • Brenè Brown’s ‘The Daring Way for Wholehearted Practitioners’. Presented by Brave Therapy – Andi Szasz PACFA Clinical Supervisor
  • Group Work For Adults Sexually Abused As Children – ECAV, NSW Health Education Centre Against Violence – Best practice for facilitating groups for this sector.
  • Psychotherapy and Men, Creative & Engaging Responses – Blue Knot Foundation Professional Development
  • Yoga and the Traumatised Body – Trauma Sensitive Yoga Australia – Integrating trauma informed yoga practices into therapy – somatic approach, and rhythms
  • Trauma Informed Group: Professional Development. Presented by Shirley Hicks, PACFA Clinical Supervisor
  • Grief Therapy Training – Death Loss and the Quest for meaning: Creative Practices for Counselling the Bereaved with Robert Neimeyer PhD, Uni Memphis USA.  Presented by Centre for Existential Practice
  • Working with Survivors of Childhood Trauma and Abuse – Blue Knot Foundation– Training in Practice Guidelines for Treatment of Complex Trauma and Trauma Informed Care and Service Delivery.
  • Psycho-Spiritual Model – Dr Trisha Stratford Presented by CAPA Counselling and Psychotherapists Assoc. NSW
  • Healing Trauma Across Cultures – Contextual and Developmental Approach – Dr Boris Drozdek Presented by STARTTS NSW Service for the Treatment & Rehabilitation of Torture & Trauma Survivors
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