About Neisha
Who you sit with matters
I’m Neisha. I’m a counsellor, a late-identified AuDHDer and someone who has always been curious about what shapes us—the stories, relationships and adaptations we carry with us.
I know that choosing a counsellor can feel strangely vulnerable. You’re not simply looking at qualifications or approaches; you’re wondering whether this might be someone you can be yourself with.
My way of working is warm, thoughtful and down-to-earth. There is room for humour, uncertainty, quiet, tangents and arriving exactly as you are.
How I work
We can begin there.
You may arrive with something clear you want to explore, or only a sense that the way things are no longer fits. I hold the threads as they emerge—helping what feels scattered, contradictory or difficult to name begin to take shape, without flattening its complexity or rushing it towards an answer.
Words are not the only way in.
Some experiences already have words. Others show themselves through images, sensations, patterns, inner conflict, or a quiet sense that something is there but cannot yet be reached.
My work is IFS-informed and draws from expressive therapies, sandtray and somatic approaches. Sometimes an image, an object, a metaphor or movement—or simply noticing what is happening in the body—can give form to something that has not yet found language. There is no formula to follow; these are different ways of staying with what is emerging and meeting it with the care, imagination or gentleness it may need.
Nothing you bring needs to be made smaller.
I am comfortable sitting with contradiction, sensitivity and the things that have felt difficult to say aloud. Human beings are beautifully complex. I don’t see that as a problem to solve.
I don’t see counselling as a journey towards a perfected or permanently “healed” self. The work is about meeting what continues to arise with attention and compassion, while widening the view to include the many other truths of who you are.
The past does not need to disappear or lose its meaning—but over time, it may become part of all that you are rather than all that you can see.
Professional background
I have worked in private practice since 2019 and am a Registered Counsellor with the Australian Counselling Association (ACA). I am also a member of Animal Therapies Ltd and am currently completing a Master of Counselling.
I continue to develop my practice through supervision, professional development, reflection and lived experience. My learning spans somatic, attachment-focused, expressive, neurodivergent-affirming and trauma-informed approaches, with an ongoing interest in neuroscience and the ways relationships, experience and the nervous system shape how we understand ourselves and move through the world.
Further training
Somatic Attachment Focused Expressive Therapy (SAFE-T®)
Trauma Informed Sandplay Therapy and Symbol Work with Children, Adolescents and Adults
Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing — Institute for Sensorimotor Art Therapy
Professional Certificate of Neurodivergent Affirming Practices
Registered Circle of Security Parenting Facilitator
Professional development and training in Internal Family Systems (IFS), including introductory and applied workshops