THERAPISTS
“ It’s about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.”
- Brene Brown
Naomi Schuelein
MGest Therapy, PACFA Reg. 24528.
Registered Psychotherapist
Naomi’s passion is to build relationships and connection with each client and couple, offering an authentic experience with a genuine commitment to their wellbeing. As a priority Naomi offers a safe, supportive and confidential therapeutic environment. She works alongside and supports individual clients to navigate their own healing journey. The focus is a holistic, client centred approach. This includes the mind and body and attends to unfinished business that may be impacting the client in the here and now.
Naomi also weaves self-care with realistic goal setting with clients, giving practical tools that can be used outside the therapeutic space. She is dedicated to helping her clients have the most positive, safe and healing counselling experience possible. Naomi is also committed to her own professional development and personal growth journey. She loves to spend quality time with her family and has a passion for travel, food and experiencing new cultures and ways of being.
Naomi is a registered psychotherapist with a master’s degree in Gestalt Therapy. She has an associate diploma in welfare, is a qualified group facilitator and delivers educational programmes in schools and community services as well as running private workshops. Naomi has over 20 years of industry experience in a variety of welfare settings and has a strong connection working with indigenous clients. She also specialises in the field of women and domestic violence and has frontline experience working in mental health, drug and alcohol, youth, women and men. Naomi has completed a significant amount of additional training throughout her career; some of this includes - intimacy and sex, advanced narrative therapy, Depth Enquiry™, trauma informed care and couples counselling under Resnick and Gottman. Naomi’s wealth of experience and training gives her the skills to support and hold clients with many different needs.
Raphael Kunzli
MGest Therapy, PACFA Reg. 24418.
Registered Psychotherapist
Raphael (Raph) is a registered psychotherapist and counsellor with a master’s degree in Gestalt Therapy. He is also a clinical level Resource Therapist and is Level 1 Gottman certified for relationship counselling. He has additional training and experience in working with anxiety, depression, trauma, couples/marriage counselling, adolescents, Depth Enquiry™, domestic and family violence and mindfulness and meditation.
Raph is very down to earth and steers away from clinical style therapy. He brings a relational approach, focusing on building strong trust and rapport together to allow for a deeper therapeutic experience. He is passionate about helping people heal and foster nourishing relationships with themselves and others in order to build full and meaningful lives.
Often the issue isn’t that we feel a certain way, it’s that we are unable to express the feeling. Raph brings an experiential approach to therapy, helping clients connect their mind and body with their feelings to truly experience and express them, leading to healing, growth and forgiveness.
Raph has practiced and studied calm abiding meditation for many years and offers private teachings to his clients as well as weaving mindfulness techniques into the therapy sessions.
Raph offers a warm, inviting and confidential space to practice in and has an ongoing commitment to his own professional and personal development.
“Knowledge is power, but knowledge about yourself is empowerment.”
- Dr Joe Dispenza
