Hi, I’m Amanda.
I join with toddlers, kids, teens, individuals, families and Actors in discovering or rediscovering their awesomeness!
I join with toddlers, kids, teens, individuals, families and Actors in discovering or rediscovering their awesomeness!
Somatic Practice/Organic Intelligence/Touch & Expressive Therapy-
There is Hope
After my post graduate studies and while looking for a supervisor for my PhD project in trauma drama with young people who self-injure, I fortuitously found myself delving into trainings offered by the Australian Childhood Foundation, in the Neurobiology of complex trauma and attachment trainings'. From there I went onto post-graduate studies in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Somatic Experiencing™, Organic Intelligence™ and Somatic (Touch) Practice. The gifts of these modalities are many, and the work itself can best be described as a process of deep nervous system re-organisation and resetting.
Re-organising and resetting, results in feeling better without having “to do” things to feel better.
I bring this regulatory work into my private practice where I have the honor of working with extraordinarily brave and inspiring women and men, adolescents, children and their families. Together we engage in dialogue, therapeutic play, body awareness, somatic (touch) practice, mindfulness and sensory integration.
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Play is a child’s most natural way of communicating.
My somatic journey really started when, after training at drama school in Victoria, I discovered mindfulness clowning training and performance work. This and the later addition of the healing modality of integration dancing into my practice, led me to developing a theatre program for young people that was equally focused on developing their humanity and potential as it did their acting talent. Play, dancing, drama, and working freely with the Natural Voice are so natural for children that all the children I worked with needed was a window to develop their embodiment and creativity and they were off and running. I continue to integrate these practices now greatly enhanced by the gentle re-organisation of SE and OI, in clinic with children and in therapeutic workshops today.
Somatic Practice/Organic Intelligence/Touch & Expressive Therapy
Bring greater ease into your clinical practice, and your clients’ lives, through the learning offered in my workshops.
My workshops allow me to share with other mental health practitioners, what’s working so well for me in my private practice and in group work. The unique combination of modalities being utilized bring an ease and joy to the work, for clients and practitioners.
For Actors and Performers
Whenever you feel something has gone awry in your life or in your art, ask "Where's the Beauty, the Ease, the Form, and the Sense of the Whole in what I am doing? Because to live a healthful life and to create and deliver extraordinary strong and unique performances we need to deliver work that has these four principles that were designed to cultivate the emotional life of the artist (Michael Chekhov).
Chekhov believed that all forms of art had these four feelings. When fused with the gentle somatic practice of Somatic Experiencing and the revolutionary practices of Organic Intelligence and the Comprehensive resource model the outcomes of these explorations are profound. " Working with me privately or in a small group we will work together to bring these principals into your craft and your life.
Actor and Non-actor Coaching (link)
The continuing journey ...
After a lifetime of training and working as a Director and teacher in the theatre, I received my Master of Arts in Counselling and Behaviour Management and a Masters of Criminology from Bond University in 2010. I now hold post-graduate certifications as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner ™ and am currently studying as an “Expert” in Organic Intelligence™. I am also continue to add to my embodied theater and voice practices by undertaking trainings' with Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble and Anna Yen Feldenkrais and Playmoves practitioner. I work with on a regular basis and receive supervision from developmental touch therapist Steve Terrell and Somatic Experiencing Teacher and therapist Linda Stelte, international experts in the treatment of traumatised children and adults who are victims of war torture and ritual abuse and sexual assault and from the creator of Organic Intelligence Steven Hoskinson. This supervision assists me to help those with grief and loss, depression and anxiety, complex disorders, pre and perinatal trauma, attachment issues and developmental trauma whom I see in private practice and in the work I engage in intermittently with women in prison populations, who suffer with complex PTSD, DID, BPD, non-suicidal self-injury and suicidal ideation. My home base is in Brisbane at Wynnum by the water where I live with my son who has Autism who is my greatest teacher and our dogs Raffles and Nugget.
Let’s work together to find a new path to healing.
There is Hope
After my post graduate studies and while looking for a supervisor for my PhD project in trauma drama with young people who self-injure, I fortuitously found myself delving into trainings offered by the Australian Childhood Foundation, in the Neurobiology of complex trauma and attachment trainings'. From there I went onto post-graduate studies in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Somatic Experiencing™, Organic Intelligence™ and Somatic (Touch) Practice. The gifts of these modalities are many, and the work itself can best be described as a process of deep nervous system re-organisation and resetting.
Re-organising and resetting, results in feeling better without having “to do” things to feel better.
I bring this regulatory work into my private practice where I have the honor of working with extraordinarily brave and inspiring women and men, adolescents, children and their families. Together we engage in dialogue, therapeutic play, body awareness, somatic (touch) practice, mindfulness and sensory integration.
.
Play is a child’s most natural way of communicating.
My somatic journey really started when, after training at drama school in Victoria, I discovered mindfulness clowning training and performance work. This and the later addition of the healing modality of integration dancing into my practice, led me to developing a theatre program for young people that was equally focused on developing their humanity and potential as it did their acting talent. Play, dancing, drama, and working freely with the Natural Voice are so natural for children that all the children I worked with needed was a window to develop their embodiment and creativity and they were off and running. I continue to integrate these practices now greatly enhanced by the gentle re-organisation of SE and OI, in clinic with children and in therapeutic workshops today.
Somatic Practice/Organic Intelligence/Touch & Expressive Therapy
Bring greater ease into your clinical practice, and your clients’ lives, through the learning offered in my workshops.
My workshops allow me to share with other mental health practitioners, what’s working so well for me in my private practice and in group work. The unique combination of modalities being utilized bring an ease and joy to the work, for clients and practitioners.
For Actors and Performers
Whenever you feel something has gone awry in your life or in your art, ask "Where's the Beauty, the Ease, the Form, and the Sense of the Whole in what I am doing? Because to live a healthful life and to create and deliver extraordinary strong and unique performances we need to deliver work that has these four principles that were designed to cultivate the emotional life of the artist (Michael Chekhov).
Chekhov believed that all forms of art had these four feelings. When fused with the gentle somatic practice of Somatic Experiencing and the revolutionary practices of Organic Intelligence and the Comprehensive resource model the outcomes of these explorations are profound. " Working with me privately or in a small group we will work together to bring these principals into your craft and your life.
Actor and Non-actor Coaching (link)
The continuing journey ...
After a lifetime of training and working as a Director and teacher in the theatre, I received my Master of Arts in Counselling and Behaviour Management and a Masters of Criminology from Bond University in 2010. I now hold post-graduate certifications as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner ™ and am currently studying as an “Expert” in Organic Intelligence™. I am also continue to add to my embodied theater and voice practices by undertaking trainings' with Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble and Anna Yen Feldenkrais and Playmoves practitioner. I work with on a regular basis and receive supervision from developmental touch therapist Steve Terrell and Somatic Experiencing Teacher and therapist Linda Stelte, international experts in the treatment of traumatised children and adults who are victims of war torture and ritual abuse and sexual assault and from the creator of Organic Intelligence Steven Hoskinson. This supervision assists me to help those with grief and loss, depression and anxiety, complex disorders, pre and perinatal trauma, attachment issues and developmental trauma whom I see in private practice and in the work I engage in intermittently with women in prison populations, who suffer with complex PTSD, DID, BPD, non-suicidal self-injury and suicidal ideation. My home base is in Brisbane at Wynnum by the water where I live with my son who has Autism who is my greatest teacher and our dogs Raffles and Nugget.
Let’s work together to find a new path to healing.
What I can do is offer myself, wholehearted and present, to walk with you through the fear and the mess. That’s all any of us can do. That’s what I am here for.”
– Shauna Niequist