A space that holds a collection of independent therapeutic practitioners
Committed to creating and fostering a safe and ethical space for therapists and people accessing therapy.
Meet the Practitioners
Northside Therapy Collective is made up of a collection of psychotherapists, counsellors, group facilitators, psychologists, and social workers, available to you and the community.
Services
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an evidence-based therapy that helps the brain process and heal from distressing or traumatic experiences. When memories become “stuck,” they can continue to trigger anxiety, shame, or overwhelm. EMDR uses bilateral stimulation (such as eye movements or tapping) to support the brain’s natural healing process so memories feel less intense and more integrated.
Current research shows that teenage intimate partner violence (IPV) and abuse is real, common and impactful.
Therapy offers an opportunity to identify what healthy respect and consent really feel like, to understand how power, control, emotional and physical abuse appear in young relationships, and to learn how to act and feel differently. Early support can change the course of a person’s relational, mental and emotional well-being. Researchers emphasise: emotional abuse, controlling behaviours and coercion are as serious in teen relationships as physical violence.
It may be that you have realised this is or was a part of your relationship as a young person. Therapy to navigate this offers support for such a complex experience and for developing strong agency and clarity for future relationships.
Practitioners who offer this service
If you or someone you care about has received a life-limiting diagnosis you might need help navigating your feelings about illness, frailty and ultimately death. Opening up conversations around endings and the many paths that may take us there enables us to be more present with those who are dying and to meet our own mortality with equanimity. A death doula can facilitate those difficult and courageous conversations, assist you with end of life plans, build death literacy and support family and community to care for their dying and their dead. We can support you each step of the way with grief and loss counselling for carers and the bereaved.
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Narrative therapy is a social justice-focused that asserts, ‘The person is not the problem. The problem is the problem’. Through this approach, suffering is dignified and skills and knowledges of survival and resistance are validated. This is described by First Nation’s leader Aunty Barb Wingard as “telling our stories in ways that make us stronger”. Through exploring the hidden stories and interrogating power imbalances, hopes for a future path become more available. This work is about community including those who are remembered and we give living testimony to.
If you are at the start of your relationship and establishing rules of engagement, or if you are at the point of needing external help to get unstuck from a painful cycle. If you are bored and too comfortable with lots unsaid and unfelt, or if you are fighting too much and are exhausted. Couples therapy is a circuit breaker which can help untangle the problem you and your lover might be stuck in. Finding the right therapist to fit your relationship is key and also someone who is experienced working with couples and the unique dynamic couples can disappear in. Different therapists use different modalities to support a couple to achieve their goals and intentions, what matters most, is that you are not alone and can get a fresh lens to save, enhance, and protect, one of the most important aspects of your life, your relationship.
Practitioners who offer Couples Therapy
RI-EMDR is a relational, attachment-focused adaptation of EMDR. It integrates parts work and resourcing to gently address developmental trauma, shame, and relationship patterns. This approach supports nervous system safety while working with protective parts and core beliefs shaped by early experiences. The goal is not only symptom relief, but deeper healing, self-compassion, and stronger internal security.
If you are beginning to question the beliefs you were raised in, or if you’ve already left a high-control religious environment and are now unravelling the emotional toll — therapy can be a safe place to land.
If you feel haunted by guilt, overwhelmed by fear of ‘getting it wrong’, disconnected from your own intuition, or unsure who you are without the group — you are not alone. Religious trauma and cultic dynamics can quietly shape your nervous system, your relationships, and your sense of self long after you’ve left.
Therapy offers a space to gently deconstruct what you were taught, restore trust in your own perception, integrate grief and harm, and reconnect to what feels true for you — without pressure, agenda, or judgment. Finding a therapist experienced in post-cult recovery and spiritual abuse is key; someone who understands both the psychological and existential layers of the healing process.
You deserve support in reclaiming your voice, your body, and your freedom — at your own pace, in your own language.
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LGBTIQA+ relationships can be nuanced and the context of queer relationships can play a significant part of a difficult relational pattern for some couples. Intricacies of each queer couple need to be deeply felt and understood so that each person in the relationship can feel seen and held in their life experience and what shaped them to show up like they do.
Relationship counselling for queer couples can be a great way to feel supported in this delicate dance to ensure everyone in the relationship is feeling seen and satisfied.
Practitioners who offer LGBTIQA+ Relationship Counselling
A neurodivergent counselor combines living experience with a deep fascination for the diversity of brains, bodies and beings in the world. People who see a neurodivergent counselor may have a formal diagnosis, self identify as neurodivergent or be curious or questioning of their neurotype. Neurodivergence commonly co-occurs with other experiences including trauma, eating differences, substance use, chronic illnesses and/or pain, and cycles of burnout. Neurodivergent folk are often bilingual in their skills of surviving neuro-normative settings and also have unique and intriguing interests and passions in the world. Seeing a neurodivergent therapist could be seen as an opportunity to be supported in Neuro-rewilding your brain.
Jungian coaching draws on insights from the humanities and natural world. It centres on an appreciation of the imagination, intuition and feeling ways of knowing. Symbolic explorations may include dream work, myth/fairytale exploration, art making, nature connections, movement, symptoms in the body, relationship patterns and synchronicities. Jung was deeply interested in adult development and the shift towards connecting with parts of yourself that may have been temporarily lost or obscured. This modality can be especially supportive when undergoing major life transition or when feeling stuck and without connection to your deep inspiration and life force.
Need some help finding the right person?
If scrolling through a list of practitioners is not your thing, you can answer some questions to help us get an understanding of your needs. Dana will contact you and help you refine your choice of therapist.
The transition into perimenopause is a time when many of us are renegotiating our roles, relationships and our feelings about who we are in the world. Some women may be still caring for young children while managing greater responsibilities in their career. Intimate relationships may be shifting focus. The needs of aging parents may be emerging or we may be processing the illness and death of our elders. Depending on how these factors play out in our lives, we may be feeling excited about recovering some lost freedoms or we might be feeling lost, confused and commonly, physically and emotionally exhausted. The menopause space is a hotly contested area with so much conflicting medical advice and polarising opinion. Therapy can support you to find your own voice and choose your own path.