Strategic Psychotherapist
Clinical Hypnotherapist
BSc Psych | Dip Psychoth | Dip Hyp
Breathwork Facilitator
Hi, I’m Deb. If you're tired of feeling unwell and want to feel better — not someday, but now — you've landed in the right place.
I’m a qualified Solution-Focused Strategic Psychotherapist and Clinical Hypnotherapist, with advanced training from the Institute of Applied Psychology in Sydney, at the forefront of the strategic approach, with the most comprehensive qualifications available today. I have a 4-year Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology from Canada’s esteemed McGill University.
In addition to my private practice, I work at the Black Dog Institute, a world-leading mental health research organisation, promoting the prevention and treatment of anxiety and depression. This helps inform my work, giving you access to the latest science and evidence in creating better mental health, as well as effective digital tools, resources and strategies.
I started Fork in the Road Wellness to help people who are at a crossroads with their health — facing a diagnosis, disease, injury, trauma, loss, or a chronic condition — reclaim their wellbeing and take back control of their life.
The people I work with are often sick and tired of being sick and tired. Their body and mind are telling them that something must change, yet they feel stuck, unable to do it, unsure where to turn, or exhausted from trying approaches that haven’t worked. They’re ready for a holistic, mind–body approach that creates real change from the inside out.
People come to me with a wide range of challenges including obesity, metabolic conditions, chronic pain, anxiety, depression, migraines, gut and microbiome issues, menopause, sleep issues, addiction, and many others.

Through clinical hypnosis, strategic psychotherapy and breathwork, I create the internal environment where the body can restore balance, recalibrate, and heal. By guiding the nervous system out of chronic stress and into a state of rest, repair, and regeneration, the brain can be retrained, symptoms reduced, and wellness can return. Change becomes possible not just at the mental level but at the cellular one.
This is not a quick fix, and it’s not about wishful or positive thinking. It’s about accessing your body’s natural pharmacy, the chemicals, signals, and biological processes that support healing, and removing the unconscious barriers that keep you stuck.
This isn’t generic guided meditation or surface-level relaxation. It’s a deeply personal, science-based process that works with the processes of your mind that shapes emotions, beliefs, and behaviour — helping you create lasting change from the inside out.
In this calm, focused state, your brain becomes more flexible and open to new perspectives and healthier patterns. You’ll learn how to quiet the stress response, regulate emotions, and shift unhelpful habits at their source. Many people describe it as finally understanding themselves on a deeper level and feeling hopeful again.
Each session is recorded and sent to you to practice between appointments. Just like exercise strengthens the body, repetition strengthens new neural pathways, helping these changes take root until they become your new normal.
This is a holistic, empowering approach that helps you regain control of your health, your emotions, and your future. Your body already holds some of the most powerful chemical messengers for healing, this process simply teaches your mind how to use them.
When nothing else seems to help and when medication only masks the problem or creates new ones, it’s time for a different kind of healing.
Most people don’t realise that around 95% of our thoughts, emotions, and behaviours are driven by unconscious patterns and regulated by the autonomic nervous system.
This system controls vital processes including inflammation, hormone production, immune function, digestion, blood sugar regulation, cardiovascular function, sleep, stress responses, and pain perception.
Dysregulation in these mechanisms can contribute to a wide range of health challenges, from metabolic and immune conditions to anxiety, depression, chronic pain, cardiovascular issues, digestive disorders, insomnia, and menopausal symptoms. Conventional medicine often overlooks this side of health, yet targeting these underlying processes through mind-body approaches, clinical hypnosis and lifestyle interventions can unlock profound and lasting healing.
You’ve simply been reinforcing patterns, often for years, that no longer serve or protect you. Those patterns can be changed in ways that feel achievable, grounded, and even enjoyable.
My work honours curiosity, compassion, and your capacity to move forward in a new direction. I have a deep reverence for the power of the mind, the wisdom of the heart, and the resilience of the human spirit.

Having faced my own health challenges over the past two decades, I understand the frustration, fear, and despair that can come with not having answers — or feeling like you’re being passed from one specialist to another without relief. I get what it’s like to feel unheard or powerless in your healing. I also know how soul destroying it is to want to create healthy habits, know you need to but still can't do it.
My own experience has helped inform my approach.
That’s why my work is built on empowerment — helping you shift patterns, regain control, and support your health from within.
The following examples are how I was able to restore balance, interrupt deeply ingrained habits, and reclaim my health and wellbeing:
This isn’t just theory for me. It’s lived experience. How you live your life 24/7 has a huge impact on your health and healing.
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