About us

As our name suggests, we are committed to helping individuals build stronger relationships with themselves and others. We believe that meaningful connection is the foundation of emotional wellbeing, resilience, and personal growth.

We take a holistic approach, recognising that each person’s experiences, challenges, and strengths are unique. By considering the whole person—mind, body, and environment—we tailor our support to meet your individual needs and goals.

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Approaches & Principles

Person centred

Your values, decisions and goals are self-authored and we co-produce the therapeutic intervention. We follow your lead. We will develop, plan and review the therapy process together with you at the centre. You remain the expert of your story and keep control of who hears your story.

Evidence Based

Using intervention techniques and therapies that have a sound, peer-reviewed science and rationale for why the technique works. This includes Lived Experience Informed Practice which is part of the evidence base. We will provide you with resources and tools as we move through the structured, therapeutic process. 

Trauma Informed

A conscious awareness of how trauma impacts everything that we think, feel and do from the basis of the principles of safety, choice, collaboration, trust and empowerment. This also acknowledges single trauma, complex trauma and intergenerational trauma.

Our 9 Senses

Every day we use taste, touch, sight, hearing, smell, vestibular (balance), proprioception (where our body is in space) and interoception (sensations from your body). An additional sense is, neuroception, which helps you establish safety or predict danger. All of this sense data feeds how your brain predicts based on your past experience and what is happening in your environment.

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Maya is a qualified Social Worker with First Class Honours from the University of Newcastle, with more than 4 years’ experience working in Clinical Social Work, Child Protection, Family Preservation, Aged Care and specialist Domestic and Family Violence services. Her practice is grounded in trauma-informed, strengths-based and evidence-informed approaches. She supports children, adolescents and families through assessment, psychoeducation, and therapeutic interventions focused on safety, emotional regulation, parenting capacity, and wellbeing. Maya values collaborative practice and provide a respectful, supportive space to promote sustainable and meaningful change.

Accredited Social Worker with the Australian Association of Social Work. Member number - 506156.

Approved NSW Victim Services Counsellor.

About Maya Mackenzie