Frederica's work has spanned 30 years over a variety of environments, always with a focus on people. Frederica believes in supporting, protecting and empowering vulnerable people towards achieving their chosen goals and life direction, through a safe and structured framework underpinned by therapeutic interventions informed by humanistic, feminist, systems, behaviourist and developmental frameworks. Frederica believes that people become empowered when they feel safe and informed, and her counselling background supports her practice with vulnerable people through trauma-informed and grief and loss lenses, helping to strengthen relationships with self and other. To achieve this, she is guided by theories such as Psychosocial Stage Development Theory, Narrative Therapy, Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Problem-solving models, Solution-focused Therapy (SFT), Mindfulness, Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), Dialectical Behaviour Theory (DBT) and theories on Grief and Loss. Frederica' has experience in individual, couple and family counselling, family dispute resolution and in social work across generalist and specialist environments. She has worked in palliative care and inpatient hospital spaces, supporting patients and their families in adjusting to devastating change through illness. Her therapeutic connection with clients and their families is always grounded in holistic respect, with bereavement counselling providing solace and guidance to those left behind. Being a clinical member of the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) provides Frederica with solid professional grounding as an ethical, culturally-responsive, inclusive and evidence-based practitioner. Whether it is to address worrisome personal problems or issues, difficult relationships or social stress, contact Frederica to try her brand of Thoughtful Connections - "Finding Your Way, Together".