Releasing the hypervigilance, overwhelm, or emotional shutdown that has become your baseline.
What you can expect
Therapy with me is grounded, relational, and deeply attuned to your nervous system. There is no clinical distance here, just genuine presence and a pace that follows your lead.
Together we’ll work toward:
Feeling more present and steady in your body rather than braced for what comes next.
Rebuilding trust in your own instincts and inner guidance.
Untangling people-pleasing, guilt around receiving, and the exhaustion of carrying more than your share.
Creating a relationship with yourself and with money that feels safe enough, grounded in sufficiency rather than scarcity.
This is not about pushing through. It is about softening into something steadier, one breath, one shift, one small choice at a time.
A Note On How I Work
I am guided by the nervous system of the person in front of me. Safety is the compass. How safe enough feels in your body in any given moment determines the pace at which we journey and which tools are chosen within our relational integrative practice. This means no two containers look exactly the same, even at the same tier.
What we work through, how deep we go, and what emerges along the way is always in response to you, not to a predetermined plan. If you've spent years being put through programs that moved at someone else's pace, this will feel different. It's supposed to.
Payment plans available on request.
Let's Connect
30 minutes | $97 | Online
You've been carrying this quietly for a while. This connection call is where we put it on the table together: your money patterns, your practice, your nervous system, and getting honest about what's actually going on and what working together could look like right now.
No pressure. No pitch. Just a real conversation with someone who understands both the clinical and the human side. You'll leave with clarity, knowing whether this is the right fit and what the work ahead looks like.
N.E.R.V.E. Method™ Intake & Mapping Session
60 minutes | THE BEGINNING
Before any container starts, before any deeper work happens, we need to understand what'sactually driving your financial patterns at a nervous system level. Not the surface behaviours,not the symptoms you've already identified, but the root pattern underneath, where it lives inyour body, where it came from, and what it's been protecting you from.
N.E.R.V.E. Method™ Container
90 minutes | Online OR IN-PERSON
There is no fixed curriculum in any of these containers. Each session is held within a relational integrative practice, with the tools and depth chosen in response to what's alive in the room and what your nervous system is genuinely ready to move. The work responds to you, not to a predetermined schedule.
Foundations Container
3 sessions | $999
For the EMDR therapists and those who already understand trauma at a clinical level. This container addresses the specific nervous system pattern that's keeping your intensive fees smaller than the work deserves.
Three focused relational sessions, led by what your nervous system is ready to move, create real and lasting shifts.
Recalibration Container
6 sessions | $1998
Six sessions held in a relational container that builds trust and depth over time.This container is for the healthcare professional or therapist who knows the pattern is real,has tried other approaches, and is ready to do the work at the level where it actually lives.Not strategy. Not mindset. Nervous system.
Restore Container
12 sessions | $3996
The complete relational container for the person who is done managing their patterns and ready to rewire them.
Twelve sessions move through the full N.E.R.V.E. arc at the pace your nervous system can genuinely integrate, from naming the pattern all the way through to expanding new pathways and stepping into a regulated, embodied relationship with money, your practice, and yourself.
Brainspotting
A gentle yet powerful modality that uses eye positioning to access the body's stored emotional responses.
Rather than needing to talk through every detail, Brainspotting allows your brain and nervous system to process what has been held beneath conscious awareness.
It is particularly helpful for anxiety, overwhelm, chronic tension and experiences that feel stuck.
Relational Integrative EMDR
RI-EMDR is a compassionate, flexible approach that moves at the pace of your nervous system. It focuses on safety and trust between you and your therapist, creating space for real, lasting healing.
By gently reprocessing painful memories, RI-EMDR helps reduce emotional distress and restore balance.
It also acknowledges the importance of culture, ancestry, and connection, recognising that healing happens in relationships, with yourself, others, and the world around you.
Root Cause Therapy
This approach brings somatic awareness to unconscious beliefs and emotional imprints that play out as recurring patterns in daily life.
Through a guided process, we gently trace reactions back to their origin, identify limiting beliefs and trapped emotions through Somatic testing, release the emotional hold they have had on the body, making way for more grounded, authentic choice.
Deep Healing Packages
Some things can’t be reached quickly. They need time, consistency, and a space your nervous system learns to trust before it feels safe enough to let anything go.
These packages are for the woman who is ready to commit to something steadier, a held therapeutic rhythm where your system can settle, process, and integrate at a pace that honours the depth of what you’re carrying.
We begin by building safety, because nothing lasting happens before that. From there, we work gradually and gently, releasing stored patterns and supporting you to embody the shifts that actually last.
FAQ
What is money trauma?
Money trauma is what happens when your nervous system learns to associate money with stress, danger, scarcity, or survival, and that learning becomes a pattern that shapes how you think, feel, and behave around finances long after the original experience has passed. It can show up as a felt sense of never being safe enough, good enough, or worthy enough, with money or without it.
It rarely starts with you. Most money trauma is inherited, absorbed from the financial stress of a household, the unspoken rules around money in your family, a parent’s anxiety, a period of instability, or a culture that tied worth to productivity and never questioned it. Your nervous system was simply doing its job, learning what money meant in your environment and building responses designed to keep you safe enough, in survival mode.
Which means the patterns you’re carrying, the avoidance, the over-control, the guilt, the freeze when you open your banking app, the ceiling you keep bumping up against no matter how hard you work, are not character flaws. They are survival adaptations that made sense once, and now no longer serve you.
Money trauma is also not reserved for people who grew up in poverty or experienced financial crisis. It shows up just as often in high-functioning, over-responsible and hyper-independent professionals who appear financially stable on the outside while silently screaming on the inside.
Why is Money Trauma so important to get therapy for?
Because money touches everything.
It shapes how you work, how you rest, how you relate to the people you love, and how much of yourself you believe you’re allowed to have. When money carries a nervous system charge, it doesn’t stay contained to your bank account. It bleeds into your relationships, your health, your capacity to receive, and your sense of worth.
Most people try to solve money problems with better systems, more discipline, or another strategy. And for a while, those things can help. But if the underlying nervous system pattern hasn’t shifted, the ceiling comes back. The avoidance returns. The freeze before opening the banking app, the guilt after spending, the overworking that never quite feels like enough, these don’t resolve through information alone.
Money trauma therapy gets underneath the behaviour to the nervous system response driving it. It asks not just what you’re doing with money, but what money means to your body, where that meaning came from, and whether it still belongs to you.
For healthcare professionals and those in caring roles especially, this work carries an added layer of urgency. You spend your days holding space for other people’s healing while quietly carrying patterns of over-responsibility, self-erasure, and financial shame that nobody in your training ever named. You deserve the same quality of attention you give everyone else.
Getting support for money trauma isn’t a luxury or a last resort. For many people, it’s the missing piece that makes everything else finally work.
Should i choose an intensive or package?
Both pathways offer genuine depth, and the right choice depends on where you are and what your nervous system is ready for.
Packages create a consistent, held space for exploration and integration over time. They suit people who value a steady relational rhythm, want to build capacity gradually, and have the space in their life to let the work unfold at a natural pace.
Integrative Intensives take the work further by removing the gap between sessions entirely. Rather than waiting weeks between appointments, an Intensive creates an immersive, concentrated experience where you can uncover and explore the patterns that have shaped your life without constantly rebuilding context from scratch.
The extended format allows the nervous system to move through material more completely, building stabilising resources, momentum, and continuity in a way that weekly sessions simply cannot replicate. Core issues can be addressed more efficiently, and meaningful resolution becomes possible at a pace that feels both accelerated and genuinely safe- enough.
If you’re unsure which is the right fit, the 30-minute Connection Call is the perfect place to think it through together.
Are there any concessions or rebates available?
This is a fee-for-service private practice. Mental Health Care Plans, Medicare rebates, and private health care rebates are not offered.
Payment plans are available for packages and Intensives, making it possible to spread the investment over time. If a payment plan would make working together more accessible, simply mention this when you book your 30-minute Connection Call and we can work something out together.
What is the process to get started?
Getting started is straightforward and moves at your pace.
Explore the Services page to get a feel for the different packages and Intensives available and find what resonates with where you are right now.
Reach out when you’re ready, either by booking a 30-minute Connection Call or contacting Sonia directly through the Reach Out page.
Choose and purchase your package once you’ve had a chance to ask any questions and find the right fit for your situation.
Complete your intake forms which will be sent to you automatically during the scheduling process, so everything is in place before your first session.
There’s no pressure to have it all figured out before you reach out. The Connection Call exists exactly for that - to help you find your footing before you commit to anything.
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In recognition of the deep history and culture of this beautiful Island, Lutruwita. We acknowledge the traditional Custodians of this land, the Palawa people. Recognising their continuing connection to Land, Sea, Waterways, Sky and Culture. We pay our respects to Elders, past and present. We also acknowledge the stories, traditions and living cultures of the Traditional Owners across this Country, including acknowledging the role that non-indigenous social workers had in the creation of the Stolen Generation.
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