As Lead Facilitator and Director at Hobajing Narrative Practice, my goal is to hold spaces that give voice for all stories. With over 2000 hours of yarning, counselling and supervision practice, I integrate the healing knowledges of my Yuwaalaraay, Muruwari and Scottish ancestors into the Western approaches I have learnt. Though application is different, all Ancestories utilise the concepts of community and yarning, and view health as a combination of parts intertwined with each other.

have you ever taken a friend out to your favourite creek or trail? Somewhere you've been a hundred maybe even a thousand times where you can name every branch, every crevice, every stone and of course you know the way so well that you never sink into a hole or fall over a log. You know the history of the land and how the weather, the people and the fauna have impacted the landscape for good and for bad. and then your friend notices something different something you don't even see at first and maybe insist is not there, but they point it out and it starts to shine. Something you can't believe you have either missed for so long or thought had no importance at all. Narrative yarns are just like that friend bringing other parts of the landscape to the front to learn how it was shapAs Lead Facilitator and Director at Hobajing Narrative Practice, my goal is to hold spaces that give voice for all stories. With over 2000 hours of yarning, counselling and supervision practice, I integrate the healing knowledges of my Yuwaalaraay, Muruwari and Scottish ancestors into the Western approaches I have learnt. Though application is different, all Ancestories utilise the concepts of community and yarning, and view health as a combination of parts intertwined with each other.

from daily frustrations through to truth and repair, collaboration and vulnerability as learning tools in group settings and professional and cultural understanding

I have taken many paths to become the woman I am today. As such, I am very comfortable talking with others about cultural safety, identity, homelessness, child abandonment, sex work, redundancy, divorce, addiction, alcoholism, blended families and any other meta narratives that may have overshadowed their living.

Formally, I have degrees in Adult Training and Development, Career Education, and Narrative Therapy and am currently undertaking PHD research at Charles Darwin University. As a Counsellor, I am registered level four with the ACA, and the Business is registered with Support Nation and IAHA. I have been employed in construction, community services and the public service. In my younger days, I worked behind the counter in the Commonwealth Employment Service, and in administration in Austudy, Abstudy and SQWISI. Prior to Hobajing Narrative Practice, most of my exposure was in construction quality management and safety coaching, with side hustles in team building and problem solving.