Welcome

I’m Athena, and I’d like to offer you a very warm welcome. I am writing to you from the unceded lands of the Arakwal, Minjungbal & Widjabul peoples of the Bundjalung Nation, the Country where I gratefully live and work.

I am a midwife, counsellor & psychotherapist based in the Northern Rivers. I’m mother to a beautiful young man and partner to an amazing woman. If you’re looking for me, you’ll likely find me swimming in the river, at the bookshop, making biscuits or moving the furniture around.

About six years ago I founded The Birth Counsel, a specialist counselling service focused on birth and the maternity care system. Since then my work has grown and there are now four primary ways that I create and connect with community:

• As a therapist working with long term individual clients

• As a specialist birth trauma counsellor, and a specialist counsellor for midwives and obstetricians

• As creator and co-facilitator of Collective Care for Midwives

• As a trainer, presenter and facilitator

I love my work, and my community of clients. I see a range of folks with diverse experiences and identities.

Long term clients say that counselling and therapy with me is affirming, useful, transformative, supportive, surprising, creative and sometimes very funny. I invite you to come and dip your toe in - let’s see what happens together.

If you have questions, you can use the ‘get in touch’ button below. We are currently in a phase of gentle expansion, so exciting new things will appear in this space over the next little while. Come back and visit again.