WOMENS COUNSELLING & TRAUMA THERAPY | GOLD COAST & ONLINE
You don't have to keep carrying this alone.
The path into motherhood — through fertility, pregnancy, birth, and beyond — can be one of the most profound seasons of your life. For many women, it also brings experiences that leave a mark that talking alone hasn't been able to shift.
I'm Maia. I offer embodied counselling and trauma therapy exclusively for women — working with your nervous system, not just your thoughts, to support genuine healing from the inside out.
YOU’RE IN THE RIGHT PLACE IF
Does any of this sound like you?
If you found yourself in that list, you're in the right place.
THE APPROACH
When talking about it hasn't been enough
Many of the women who find me have already tried therapy. They've done the sessions, the worksheets, the breathing exercises. And something still hasn't shifted.
What I've come to understand - through over 25 years of working with women in the perinatal field - is that trauma, grief, and survival distress don't live in the mind alone. They live in the body. In the nervous system. And that's where the healing needs to happen.
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Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a body-based approach that works directly with your nervous system. You don't have to retell your story or revisit what happened in detail. Instead, we work with what your body is holding right now - noticing sensations, responses, and the places where your system is still in survival mode - and support it, gently and at your pace, to move toward resolution and integration.
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Your nervous system doesn't know the event is over. It is still running the protective responses it learned - the hypervigilance, the shutdown, the permanent bracing. That is not a flaw in you. That is your system doing exactly what it was designed to do. The reason cognitive approaches don't always resolve it is that it isn't a thinking problem. It's a body problem. And that's where we need to work.
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Not 'what is wrong with you?' - but 'what happened to you?' The women I work with are not broken. They are women whose nervous systems learned to protect them, and whose systems are still running those responses in a life that no longer requires them. My role is to walk alongside you as those responses are slowly, safely reshaped - supporting integration and transformation to emerge.
Maia has a way of making you feel so safe and held. I'm able to drop all of my masking and not feel silly or scared to say all that I am feeling or have experienced.
WHERE WOULD YOU LIKE TO START?
Find the support that's right for you
Whatever brought you here, there is a path forward.
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Birth Trauma
For women whose birth left them with more than they expected to carry — whether it was weeks ago or years have passed.
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Perinatal Grief & Loss
Miscarriage, stillbirth, TFMR, newborn and infant loss — the grief that is often invisible, and rarely well supported.
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Fertility & Infertility
The emotional, psychological, and identity toll of the fertility journey — including IVF, reproductive trauma, and a body that feels like it has failed you.
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Somatic & Trauma Therapy
Nervous system regulation and trauma renegotiation through Somatic Experiencing® — for women whose survival responses are still running.
"I have had therapy on and off for years and without a doubt Maia has been the best therapist I have ever seen. I have made so much progress and she has given me practical skills that help on a daily basis."
Embodied Counselling Client
READY TO BEGIN?
The first call is free.
And there's no pressure.
A 15-20 minute intake call is where we begin — a chance to talk about what you're looking for and for both of us to feel whether working together is the right fit. No commitment required.