Dee Steyn is a compassionate and skilled Clinical Counsellor (ACA Member) with extensive experience supporting individuals across diverse backgrounds and life stages. She is deeply committed to creating a therapeutic space where clients feel heard, valued, and genuinely safe. Her practice blends warmth, empathy, and clinical insight to support meaningful, lasting change. Dee holds a Bachelor of Counselling (Distinction), a Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Trauma-Informed Care. She has been practicing as a Clinical Hypnotherapist since 2021. Her broader professional background includes crisis intervention, maternal mental health, school-based support, community organisations, and justice services. She has experience working with children, adolescents, adults, couples and families, adapting her therapeutic approaches to meet the unique needs of each client. Dee works from an attachment and trauma informed lens and her work is grounded in ethical practice, cultural sensitivity, and a holistic understanding of mental health and well-being.

Psychotherapist, Clinical Counsellor, Registered Nurse and founder of Nurtured by Nature Psychotherapy, a practice that blends evidence-based psychotherapy with room-based, nature- and equine-assisted techniques. She works with individuals, couples and families. For 35 years she also held senior leadership roles in quality improvement, consumer feedback, accreditation compliance, risk and patient safety. Linda’s academic credentials include an MBA, a Master in Gestalt Therapy, Nursing degree as well as certificates in Reproductive Mental Health, ADHD/ ASD, Internal Family Systems, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Somatic, Trauma and EMDR. Her areas of special interest include: • Reproductive lifespan mental health (Puberty through to Menopause) • Neurodivergence (Autistic and ADHD) • Relationships, social engagement, self-confidence • Stress management; nervous system & emotional regulation • Anxiety, depression • Trauma, family abuse • Grief and loss • Health counselling for chronic illness • Workplace stress, conflict, burnout, and carer fatigue • Nature & equine assisted therapy • Leadership and team building Linda also offers organisational psychotherapy for businesses which focuses on applying psychological principles at a systemic level to uncover emotional patterns, unconscious relational dynamics and the human impact of decisions. Her leadership and team programs include nature- and equine-based experiences as core components, using nature and horses to surface dynamics, build trust, manage stress and trauma, resolve conflict, and strengthen collaboration, engagement, resilience and psychological flexibility. She offers confidential support for leaders and business owners to strengthen resilience, emotional intelligence, decision-making under stress, and change-readiness. Linda co-facilitates small, immersive transformational retreats with a human-and-horse focus for both riders and non-riders. Retreats feature a nature & equine approach, one-on-one sessions, group lessons on human physiology, psychology and relationships, live horse demonstrations and hands-on horse sessions to strengthen partnership, plus restorative nature-based experiences. Born into a large farming family of returned soldier settlers of the 1st & 2nd world wars, Linda’s connection to land and animals is deeply personal and lifelong. Her passion for horses has guided over 40 years of hands-on experience breeding, educating, and riding — she is an Equine AI Technician, a Certified Barefoot Practitioner, and the owner of Ricinda Ranch, a Quarter Horse stud specialising in versatile horses with rare colours. Linda runs her nature-based, animal-assisted sessions at Ricinda Ranch, where her deep love of horses and extensive practical experience directly inform and enrich her equine-assisted psychotherapy. She is also deeply committed to preserving nature and the well‑being of her horses, ensuring their care, welfare, physical and mental health are central to everything she does.

Systemic Family Therapist Couples & Relationship Counsellor Child Sexual Abuse Counsellor Clinical Supervisor working with Individuals, Couples & Families

With a warm, compassionate, and trauma-informed approach, Sarah supports individuals, couples, and families through life’s transitions — whether adjusting to parenting, navigating relationship challenges, or facing personal struggles such as anxiety, depression, grief, or loss. She has a particular passion for working with couples in the early parenting years, new parents in the perinatal period, and anyone moving through periods of significant change. Drawing on evidence-based therapeutic models and over two decades of clinical experience, Sarah creates a safe, collaborative space where clients feel heard, supported, and empowered to move toward their goals. She is a strong advocate for inclusivity and has extensive experience working with diverse communities, including LGBTIQ+ individuals, couples, and families.

I am a Regsitered Psychologist (Clinical Psychology Registrar). Currently, I work with adults, providing psychological support for a range of challenges. I approach my practice with compassion, warmth, and a down-to-earth attitude. My goal is to create a safe and supportive environment where clients feel understood and listened to. I also recognise the usefulness in gently challenging my clients where appropriate to help them gain greater insight and foster lasting change. Through my collaborative approach, I help my clients to explore their relationship patterns and emotional experiences, encouraging greater self-awareness and guiding them towards achieving their personal goals.

As a clinical psychologist, Steph supports adults with a range of challenges and life experiences. She has a special interest in OCD, anxiety and mood, neurodivergence, parent-infant attachment and general adjustment (e.g. identity changes, guilt, stress, perfectionism, inner critic, emotion dysregulation). She is passionate about supporting mums, non-birthing partners, and parents-to-be from pre conception into the early years of parenthood. Steph has a warm, motivating, and down-to-earth style, entwined with humour and compassion. She is also a mother of two young girls. In addition to her private practice work, she provides antenatal and postnatal support through Gidget Foundation, is a trained Circle of Security Facilitator, trained yoga teacher and has worked as a clinician within OCD research programs.