Registered Clinical Psychotherapist (PACFA & ANZAP)
Accredited Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator (TCTSY-F with The Boston Trauma Centre)
Pippa has over 33yrs experience working as a psychotherapist and counsellor in a variety of government agencies. These include a sexual assault service, a rape crisis service, a victims of crime support service, and a women’s health service. She also has extensive experience working in private practice – 11yrs in Sydney & 6yrs in Canberra. Pippa is passionate about supporting people’s recovery from trauma with a focus on promoting self-understanding and addressing its impact on the mind, body and relationships.
Pippa has specialised in working with people with histories of complex trauma, developmental & attachment trauma, and trauma in adulthood (including neglect, childhood sexual abuse, emotional & psychological abuse, family violence, coercive control in relationships & adult sexual assault). Further, she has expertise in working with those adjusting to the demands of parenthood, particularly in the perinatal period, and who may also be wanting to process birth trauma.
Given the evidence-based research on the short and long-term effects of trauma on the body Pippa has completed comprehensive training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy with the SP Institute in the USA. She has also completed training in Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Self-Psychology (a psychodynamic intervention model), both of which support a deep understanding of the unmet developmental needs resulting from trauma in childhood and which also offer effective ways of managing and transforming the same.
In line with the widespread understanding of the impact of trauma on the body, and a person’s relationship with their body, Pippa is an accredited Trauma Centre Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator (TCTSY-F) offering classes and private sessions.
Pippa’s love of nature and the outdoors has been instrumental in both her sense of adventure, her personal application of self-care, and her life perspective in general.
For more information about Pippa’s training and expertise please feel welcome to visit her website at www.psychotherapycanberra.com.au