Client Centred, Evidenced-Based, Clinical Excellences

When something feels hard. You don't have to figure it out alone.

Our team of experienced counsellors and psychotherapists work with individuals, couples and young people using trauma-informed, evidence-based approaches. We’re here for the long haul.

Support for where you are right now

Maybe you’ve been carrying something heavy for a long time. Maybe your relationship is in trouble and you’re not sure how to fix it. Or maybe things just feel off and you can’t quite put your finger on why.

 

We work with children, adolescents, adults and couples across the Wollongong area. Anxiety, depression, stress, complex trauma, relationship breakdowns. We see it all, and we take the time to understand what’s sitting underneath.

 

Our team offers in-person sessions at our Wollongong clinic and online appointments if that works better for you.

Meet Our Team

Experienced. Compassionate. Dedicated to You

Each member of our team brings a different lens, a different training background, and a different therapeutic style. That’s intentional. Finding the right counsellor matters, and having options means you’re more likely to land with someone who fits.

Alana

Alana

Clinical Counsellor

Helping children and young people feel heard, understood and at ease.

Rochelle Armstrong

Rochelle Armstrong

Director, Counsellor & Supervisor, Clinical Counsellor, Educator and Clinical Supervisor

Founder of Replenish. Trauma, relationships, and the work underneath.

Graciela (Gracie)

Clinical Counsellor, Social Worker and Family Therapist

A gentle, grounded presence for individuals, couples and families.

Natalie

Clinical Counsellor & Psychotherapist

DBT-trained clinician with hospital-level experience. Deep, skilled trauma work.

Lorelai

Clinical Counsellor & Mental Health Nurse

Nearly 30 years of experience, and a presence that instantly puts people at ease.

megan meet the team

Megan

Counsellor

A calm, grounded space for life's harder seasons.

Sarah

Counsellor

Down-to-earth support for children, teens, parents and women in midlife.

Stina

Online Counsellor

Gentle, collaborative counselling for adults, wherever you are.

Mel

Clinical Supervisor for Counsellors and Social Workers

Supervision for practitioners doing the hard work.

How We Can Support You

Individualised Support for individuals, couples and proffesionals.

Our Wollongong counsellors will take the time to get to know you and support you through your journey.

Relationship and Couples Counselling

When the distance between you feels too wide to cross alone.

Child Counselling

Play Therapy & Sand Tray Therapy

Children speak through play. We know how to listen.

Trauma Processing

Brainspotting, Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR or Psychodynamic Therapy
Some stories talking alone can’t reach. This is where trauma processing can heal.

Family Therapy

When home feels like a battleground, or everyone is just surviving.

Individual Counselling

 A space that is entirely, completely yours.

Depression & Anxiety

You’re not broken. But you deserve to feel like yourself again.

Counselling Supervision

For the practitioners doing the hardest work.

EAP Counselling

Employee Assistance Programme

Supporting your people when it matters most.

WorkCover Counselling

Recovery is more than physical. We support the whole person.

Workplace Training & Wellbeing Workshops

Building teams that are resilient, connected, and mentally well.

Why People Choose Replenish

Our counsellors and psychotherapists have years of clinical experience across complex presentations. Many have worked in mental health for over a decade. You're in good hands.

We look at the patterns underneath your symptoms. Trauma, attachment, nervous system responses. That's where things start to shift.

We draw on IFS, Brainspotting, EFT, CBT, attachment theory and Gottman methods, and we choose the approach based on who's sitting in front of us. One model doesn't fit everyone.

People tell us they feel heard here. We don't rush. We work at your pace, honestly and without judgement.

Getting Started Is Simpler Than You Think

Our Wollongong counsellors will take the time to get to know you and support you through your journey.

Reach out with a quick call, email or book online. No referral needed, no long wait. Just tell us a little about what’s going on.

Your first session. A warm, welcoming, confidential conversation. No pressure. Just a chance to be heard, be seen, and begin to understand what’s possible.

Progress at your pace. You set the pace. Some people need a few sessions. Others work with us longer. It’s your journey, and we’re here to walk alongside you.

Couples Counselling in Wollongong

When you and your partner keep landing in the same arguments, or the silence has stretched on too long, it’s hard to see a way through.

 

Our couples counselling focuses on safety, understanding and honest communication. We use Gottman-informed methods, Emotionally Focused Therapy and attachment-based approaches to help you both see what’s driving the patterns between you, and how to break out of them.

If you’re here to rebuild trust, reconnect after drifting apart, or lay a solid foundation before getting married, we’ll work through it with you.

What Our Clients Say

Alana is a warm, compassionate clinical counsellor who works with children, young people and families through life’s challenges. Her trauma-informed, person-centred approach creates a space where clients feel safe enough to open up, and supported enough to grow.

 

She brings solid experience from school counselling and out-of-home care settings, working with trauma, anxiety, emotional regulation, attachment difficulties, Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD and relationship challenges. That background means she’s comfortable with the messy, complicated realities many families are living with, and skilled at meeting kids where they’re at. Alana has a special interest in supporting children and adolescents through creative, developmentally appropriate and nervous-system-informed approaches. She knows that young people rarely respond to being talked at, so she builds the kind of therapeutic connection that lets the real work happen naturally.

 

She works collaboratively with families, schools and other supports, because a child’s healing rarely happens in isolation. Parents who work with Alana consistently describe her as calm, relational and genuinely invested in their child.

 

Specialities: Child and adolescent counselling, trauma, anxiety, emotional regulation, ASD and ADHD, attachment, family support

Rochelle is the founder of Replenish and has been working in mental health for over 15 years. Her clients often describe her sessions as a mix of warmth, honesty and the occasional well-placed laugh, which she’d say is exactly the point. Healing work doesn’t have to be heavy all the way through.

As a Registered Clinical Counsellor and Clinical Supervisor, Rochelle specialises in anxiety, trauma, PTSD and childhood trauma. She also works extensively with couples, and draws on Gottman-informed methods alongside her trauma training.

Her clinical toolkit spans CBT, Polyvagal Theory, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Brainspotting, Gottman Method and Person-Centred Therapy. But Rochelle is quick to say the approach matters less than the relationship. She shapes the work around the person in front of her, not the other way around.

Beyond client work, Rochelle trains and supervises other counsellors and delivers workplace mental health education across the Illawarra. She’s passionate about raising the standard of trauma-informed care in our region, and about making sure clients don’t spend years in therapy that never quite reaches the real stuff.

Trauma & PTSD, complex trauma, couples counselling, anxiety, clinical supervision

Gracie is a dual-qualified Social Worker and Clinical Counsellor with a Bachelor of Social Work, a Master of Counselling, and an Advanced Diploma of Counselling and Family Therapy. She’s a certified clinician with both the Australian Counselling Association and the Australian Association of Social Workers.


Clients describe Gracie as calm, steady and genuinely warm. She has a rare ability to sit with hard things without rushing to fix them, which is often exactly what people need.


Her work spans adults, couples, families and adolescents. She supports people through PTSD, trauma, depression, anxiety and relationship difficulties, and she’s particularly skilled at family therapy work where the dynamics are tangled and emotions run high.


Gracie’s style is pragmatic and person-centred. She draws from a range of modalities rather than sticking rigidly to one, and tailors the therapy to each client’s goals and personality. She’s also committed to ongoing supervision and professional development, because good counselling is never static.

Family therapy, couples, trauma, PTSD, adolescents, depression, anxiety

Natalie is a Registered Clinical Counsellor and Psychotherapist who brings a strong clinical background from private psychiatric hospital settings alongside her private practice work. She’s a former lead DBT Clinician, which means she’s worked at the sharper end of mental health care and brings that skill into every session.


She works with individuals and couples, and has particular expertise in anxiety, depression, trauma, substance use and borderline personality disorder. Her approach integrates Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Psychodynamic Interpersonal Therapy and attachment theory.


Natalie is currently completing a Master of Science in Medicine (Trauma-Informed Psychotherapy) at the University of Sydney. That ongoing study is a good indicator of how she practises: always learning, always refining, always making sure her clients benefit from the most current thinking in trauma-informed care.


People who work with Natalie often describe her as safe, steady and genuinely invested. If you’ve had hard stuff to carry, she’s a good person to carry it with you for a while.

DBT, trauma, anxiety, depression, substance use, borderline personality disorder, couples counselling

Lorelai brings a gentle, steady warmth into every session. People often say they feel at ease with her, held, understood and welcomed just as they are. With close to 30 years supporting children, teens and adults, she carries real depth of experience while keeping her approach grounded, human and compassionate.

 

Her background as a Mental Health Nurse and PACFA Clinical Counsellor gives her strong clinical insight, but her way of being in the room is soft, steady and collaborative. She works from a trauma-informed lens, honouring each person’s story with care and curiosity.

 

Lorelai blends evidence-based practices with creative therapies like play, art and sand tray work. These offer pathways for expression that feel natural and accessible, especially when words are hard to find. That makes her particularly well suited to children and to anyone who has found traditional talk therapy difficult.

 

She’s a beautiful fit for anyone wanting a space that feels safe, calm and deeply respectful.

 

Availability: Online Monday and Tuesday, in person at our Wollongong clinic Wednesday and Thursday.

 

Specialities: Children, teens and adults, trauma, play therapy, art therapy, sand tray therapy, mental health nursing background

Megan offers a calm, welcoming and grounded counselling space for adults working through life’s challenges, transitions and painful seasons. Her approach is warm, compassionate and authentic, and she’s not afraid to bring humour into the room when it feels helpful.


She supports people with anxiety, trauma, complex trauma, grief, stress, alcohol and other drug concerns, relationship difficulties, parenting challenges, anger, self-esteem, identity concerns, bipolar disorder and major life transitions.


Megan believes meaningful change begins with a strong therapeutic relationship, one built on kindness, trust, curiosity and genuine connection. Her counselling style gently balances empathy with thoughtful challenge. She’ll sit with you in the hard stuff, and she’ll also help you move through it.


She works from an integrative framework, drawing on humanistic and person-centred counselling, ACT, CBT, TF-CBT and DBT, and weaves creative practices, narrative approaches and parts work into her sessions depending on what fits you best.


Availability: Online only.


Specialities: Adults, anxiety, trauma and complex trauma, grief, alcohol and other drug concerns, relationships, parenting, self-esteem, bipolar disorder, life transitions

Sarah is a warm, friendly and down-to-earth counsellor who believes counselling should feel like a safe space where you can be yourself, without judgement or pressure.

 

She brings seven years’ experience as a school counsellor, supporting children, teenagers and families through a wide range of challenges. She has also worked at a Women’s Centre, supporting women experiencing domestic and family violence and parental isolation. That background means she’s comfortable with the hard stuff, and skilled at meeting people exactly where they are.

 

Sarah’s approach is client-led. Sometimes that means having space to talk things through and gently make sense of what’s happening. Other times it means a more structured approach with practical strategies and clear goals. She draws from mindfulness and somatic strategies, CBT, DBT and solution-focused therapy, choosing what feels most helpful for each person.

 

She has a particular interest in supporting women through midlife, as well as children, teenagers and parents, especially where communication and connection within the family have become difficult. As a mum to two teenage boys herself, Sarah brings both professional experience and a genuine understanding of the complexities of family life and raising teens. She values a family-inclusive approach where appropriate.

 

Outside of counselling, you’ll usually find Sarah at the beach, lost in a good book or walking her dog. Her approach is simple: you don’t have to have everything figured out before you come. She’ll meet you where you are and work alongside you, at a pace that feels right for you.

 

Specialities: Children and adolescents, parenting, women in midlife, anxiety, stress, grief, trauma, self-esteem, family communication

Stina is a warm, gentle and thoughtful counsellor who works with adults navigating anxiety, trauma, relationship difficulties, grief, stress, low self-esteem and the many transitions life can bring.

 

Her approach is person-centred and grounded in the belief that you are the expert in your own life. Stina takes the time to understand what you need, what feels safe, and what you hope to change, creating space to explore what’s happening without judgement or pressure. She won’t force you to go somewhere you’re not ready to go. Instead, she’ll walk alongside you, offering guidance, structure and practical strategies at a pace that feels right.

 

Stina draws from CBT, Mindfulness-Based CBT, Motivational Interviewing, DBT skills and the Gottman Method, incorporating tools such as mindfulness, emotional regulation and distress tolerance where helpful. She brings an attachment and trauma-informed lens to her work, and is continuing to develop her practice in IFS, ACT and Emotionally Focused Therapy.

 

For couples, Stina helps partners gently explore the patterns that keep them stuck and work towards healthier ways of connecting, communicating and responding to one another. She also offers Christian counselling for clients who would like their faith and spirituality respectfully incorporated into their counselling journey.

 

Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed, trying to make sense of past experiences, navigating a major life change, or simply know something needs to shift, Stina offers a safe and compassionate place to begin. You don’t have to have everything figured out first. You just need to be willing to take the first step.

 

Availability: Online only.

 

Specialities: Anxiety, trauma, grief, stress, self-esteem, relationship difficulties, couples counselling, life transitions, Christian counselling

Mel is our dedicated Clinical Supervisor, working with counsellors and social workers across Australia. Her expertise sits across trauma, domestic and family violence (DFV), social work, NDIS support, LGBTIQA+ practice and general counselling.

She holds a Bachelor of Social Work and a Master of Counselling, and her practice is grounded in Internal Family Systems (IFS), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and a trauma-focused approach to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Her framework draws on Polyvagal Theory, attachment theory, feminist theory and person-centred principles.

What makes Mel an exceptional supervisor is her ability to hold space for the clinical work and the clinician. She helps practitioners work through complex cases, develop their skills, and look after their own wellbeing in work that can be demanding. She supports both newly registered counsellors building their foundations and experienced clinicians working through difficult cases, offering thoughtful, practical supervision that makes a real difference.

Clinical supervision, trauma, DFV, LGBTIQA+, NDIS, social work practice

Enhance connection and alignment with our couples counselling here in Wollongong or online.

 

Every relationship goes through seasons, and some of them are hard. Maybe you’re having the same argument on repeat. Maybe the warmth has faded and you can’t remember when. Maybe something happened that broke the trust, and you’re not sure it can be repaired. Or maybe things aren’t dramatically broken, they’re just not what you want them to be.

 

Couples counselling in Wollongong gives you both a neutral, safe space to actually be heard, not just by your partner, but by yourself. We help couples slow down the patterns that keep them stuck, rebuild genuine connection, and have the conversations that deeply matter.

 

Whether you’re navigating a crisis, preparing for a big life change, or simply wanting more from your relationship, these sessions are for you.

We can help with:

You don’t have to be on the edge of separation to seek couples counselling. The earlier you reach out, the better.

Children don’t always have words for what they’re carrying. What shows up as tantrums, withdrawal, school refusal, or big emotional outbursts is often a child trying to communicate something they can’t yet express in language.

 

That’s where play therapy and sand tray therapy come in.

These approaches meet children exactly where they are. Through carefully guided play, creative expression, and miniature world-building in the sand tray, children can process emotions, experiences, and fears in a way that feels natural and safe, not clinical or confronting.

 

Sand tray therapy lets children (and adults) create scenes using figures and objects in a tray of sand. It bypasses the need for verbal explanation and reaches the deeper parts of the mind where big feelings live. It’s a gentle, powerful tool, especially for children who have experienced trauma, loss, or change.

 

Play therapy is evidence-based and internationally recognised. It’s not just free play. It’s a therapeutic process guided by a trained counsellor, creating the conditions where healing happens naturally.

We work with children experiencing:

You don’t have to watch them struggle and wonder what to do. Help them find a space for their emotions to be processed with care and support for you.

Traditional talk therapy is powerful. But trauma, the kind that lives in your body, that hijacks you without warning, that you can’t simply think your way out of, often needs something more.

 

All our experienced counsellors support you to process trauma in your own way, with each bringing a different lens to the therapy.


Rochelle works from both Brainspotting and IFS to help the brain recover from trauma.
Brainspotting is a cutting-edge, brain-body therapy developed from EMDR that accesses and processes trauma stored deep in the nervous system. Using the direction of your gaze, your counsellor helps you locate where trauma is being held in your body and create the conditions for it to be processed and released, gently, and at your pace. You don’t need to retell your story in detail. You don’t need to relive it. Your brain and body do the work, with a skilled guide beside you.


Internal Family Systems (IFS) takes a different, equally powerful approach. IFS understands the mind as made up of different parts, inner voices, protectors, wounded younger selves. Trauma, anxiety, and self-sabotage often stem from these parts being stuck in old roles. IFS helps you build a compassionate relationship with every part of yourself, leading to profound healing and inner peace.


Together or separately, these approaches offer something many people have spent years searching for: real, lasting change, not just coping.

These approaches are helpful for:
You have likely been carrying this longer than you should have to. There is a way through, and it doesn’t have to be as hard as you fear.

Families are complex systems. When one person is struggling, the whole family feels it. When communication breaks down, everyone suffers, even the ones who seem fine on the outside.


Family therapy brings the whole picture into the room. Rather than focusing on one person as the problem, we look at the patterns, dynamics, and relationships that shape how your family functions and how they can change.


This isn’t about pointing fingers or assigning blame. It’s about helping every member of your family feel understood, and finding new ways to connect, communicate, and move forward together.

Family therapy can help with:
Families don’t need to be in crisis to benefit from therapy. Sometimes the greatest gift you can give your family is a space to finally be heard.

Life is full of expectations, of who you should be, how you should feel, how you should cope. Individual counselling gives you a rare and protected space where none of that applies.

 

Here, you can say the things you can’t say to anyone else. Explore the parts of yourself you’ve pushed aside. Work through what’s holding you back, what’s keeping you small, or what’s simply been weighing on you for too long.


Our counsellors work collaboratively and warmly, meeting you where you are, just as you are. We draw on a range of evidence-based approaches tailored to you, your personality, and your goals.

People come to individual counselling for many reasons:

You don’t need a diagnosis, a crisis, or a compelling reason. Wanting to feel better is enough.

Depression isn’t just sadness. It’s the flatness. The not-caring. The exhaustion of pretending to be okay. The sense that nothing will change, and even if it could, you’re not sure you have the energy to try.


Anxiety isn’t just worry. It’s the racing thoughts at 2am. The tension you carry in your body. The avoidance that slowly shrinks your world. The constant hum of something being wrong, even when everything looks fine.


Both are incredibly common. Both are treatable. And both respond remarkably well to the right therapeutic relationship and approach.


We don’t just help you manage symptoms. We help you understand what’s beneath them, what’s maintaining them, and how to genuinely shift them. You deserve more than just coping strategies. You deserve relief.

We work with:
Depression and anxiety can make reaching out feel impossible. If you’ve made it this far down the page, that is already courage in action. We’ll meet you the rest of the way.

Supervision isn’t a luxury. It’s the foundation of ethical, sustainable practice and growth.


Whether you’re a counsellor in training, newly graduated, or an experienced practitioner navigating complex client work, regular supervision protects your clients, your practice, and most importantly, you.


Our supervision is warm, collaborative, and practically grounded. We create a space where you can bring your hardest cases, your professional doubts, and the weight of the work without judgement. We draw on reflective practice, case conceptualisation, and our own depth of clinical experience across trauma, relationships, children, and family systems.

Supervision is available for:
The best thing you can do for your clients is take care of yourself as a practitioner. Let’s build a supervision relationship that sustains you in this work.

Your employees are your greatest asset. And when life gets hard, as it inevitably does, the quality of support available to them shapes everything: their performance, their loyalty, their wellbeing, and your workplace culture.


Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) counselling provides confidential, professional counselling to employees and their immediate family members, funded through the workplace. It removes the barrier of cost and makes it easy for people to access help early, before small struggles become serious ones.


We partner with businesses, organisations, and teams across the Illawarra and Wollongong region to deliver EAP services that are genuinely useful, not a tick-box exercise. Our counsellors are experienced across the full spectrum of personal and professional challenges your people may be facing.

EAP sessions can support employees with:

For employers, EAP delivers:

A workforce that feels supported performs better, stays longer, and shows up more fully. EAP counselling is one of the highest-return investments an organisation can make in its people.

We provide WorkCover-approved counselling for people navigating psychological injury claims or the emotional and mental health impacts of physical workplace injuries. We understand the unique pressures of the WorkCover process, the appointments, the paperwork, the uncertainty, and we provide a stable, consistent therapeutic relationship throughout.


Our counsellors work collaboratively with your treating team, insurer, and employer where appropriate, making sure your recovery plan reflects the whole picture, not just what’s visible.

We support WorkCover clients with:
Practical information:
You deserve support that sees you as a whole person, not just a claim number. We’re here for the parts of recovery that paperwork can’t touch.

The most effective mental health strategy in any workplace isn’t reactive, it’s proactive. When teams understand mental health, communicate better, and know how to support one another, everything improves: culture, retention, productivity, and wellbeing.

 

We deliver engaging, practical workplace training and wellbeing workshops tailored to your team, your industry, and your goals. Our facilitators bring both clinical expertise and real-world understanding of workplace dynamics, so sessions feel relevant, not generic.

 

Whether you’re a small business wanting to build a mentally healthy culture, a team navigating change, or an HR professional looking to upskill your leaders, we have a workshop for you.

Popular training and workshop topics include:

Mental Health Awareness in the Workplace — Reducing stigma, recognising signs of struggle, and knowing how to have the conversation.

 

Psychological Safety & Communication — Building teams where people feel safe to speak up, ask for help, and be honest.

 

Burnout Prevention & Stress Resilience — Practical tools for sustainable performance, for individuals and teams.

 

Supporting Employees Through Difficult Times — For managers and team leaders, how to support without overstepping.

 

Wellbeing at Work: Building Healthy Habits — Evidence-based strategies for energy, focus, and long-term flourishing.

 

Critical Incident Response & Debriefing — Structured support for teams following a significant workplace event.

All workshops can be:
We help your team build the language, the awareness, and the safety to look after each other.