About

Amanda Webb

I join with Seekers, Actors and Artists, Families, Young People, Children and Babies in discovering or rediscovering their life energy and bringing them to embrace their potential.

BA in Creative Industries: Master of Arts in Behavioral therapy: Masters of Criminology.
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner: Somatic Practice Touch Therapist: PACT Therapist. Organic Intelligence Expert.
Embodied Recovery Level 1. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for trauma healing. SSP training - Polyvagal Institute.
The Neurobiology of complex trauma and other developmental trauma trainings with The Australian Childhood Foundation.
Dropping into Prenatal and Perinatal Movement with Ease & Womb Surround training -Ray Castellino. Dyadic Developmental (Family) Psychotherapy (1&2)
Neuroaffective Touch (moving toward certification)
SEP personal sessions for students - all levels.
Consults at beginning level for SE students.

I am a body psychotherapist who has worked with traumatized humans for more than 15 years as a therapist and as a theatre facilitator and director for most of my adult life. My own childhood was deeply impacted by trauma and it has been my life's journey learning how humans respond to and heal from trauma.

I live in Brisbane in Queensland Australia where I work as a trauma therapist and dyadic developmental psychotherapist. Prior to this, I was employed as a sexual assault counselor and workshop facilitator with Sisters Inside a feminist organization, working with incarcerated women and young girls: and in my former life I worked with young people and actors as a director and workshop facilitator where I deeply engaged in the work of Peter Slade now acknowledged as the Grandfather of drama-therapy.

I remain deeply committed to working with actors unraveling the intersect between character and the wounds that draw my actor clients to the roles that they play and to acting itself.

Artistic Transformation.

I also remain passionate about working with babies, young people and families and have worked in recent years for foster organizations and within my private practice supporting traumatised young people and their parents and offering a polyvagal informed somatic drama therapy embedded in the PACE model of family psychotherapy to create secure attachments, healing and joy for young people and their families.

In pursuit of deepening my work with children and families I am currently enrolled in a Masters of Creative Arts Dramatherapy program through the University of Melbourne and am travelling to the UK in July to participate in training with the Royal central school of speech and drama training in the sesame technique and am in the process of pursuing certification with the Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy institute.

Family Therapy

A large portion of my general clinical practice is with complex trauma, early developmental trauma, pre and perinatal trauma, attachment, adoption trauma and inter-generational trauma.

Whether working one on one or with families, young people, infants or with Actors and Artists, I work from a body-oriented perspective, incorporating SE, SSP, DDP, Somatic Touch therapy, pre and perinatal implicit movement work, the satisfaction cycle (SMP/Hakomi) character strategies, Organic Intelligence and parts work as well as the developmental work of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen into my practice.

I am available for private, personal sessions for all levels with SE students and first year case consults, and for other therapists seeking healing and healing educational sessions through a somatic experiencing/polyvagal lens, for general client consults and to run workshops/group therapy sessions for therapists, seekers, actors/artists, children and families.

For me the journey is as important as the destination - lets explore the rapture of life together.

Its a hero's journey.