Loretta Bennett

Family Therapist

With 17 years’ experience working with children and families in a variety of settings, Loretta is a professional and approachable counsellor. Registered with the Australian Counselling Association (ACA–Level 4) and PACFA (Clinical membership). Loretta provides a supportive environment for clients of all ages with particular interest in couples, parenting and family relationships.

Loretta is committed to helping her clients develop effective strategies to address their concerns and challenges. Her warm and genuine approach creates a safe and comfortable environment for clients to explore issues, and discover underlying beliefs and values. Clients discover insights into how they can effect change in their lives to find meaning, connection and purpose. Loretta works hard to ensure that clients come away feeling that they have had a positive experience of being heard and supported. She is non-judgemental and respectful of all clients and has a strong desire to see clients achieve a sense of acceptance, connection and direction.

Each session with Loretta is tailored to clients’ individual therapeutic needs. Loretta uses an integrated, client centred approach, drawing on many contemporary models of counselling, including attachment and trauma informed, narrative, and solution focused therapy, family therapy, Bowen Family Systems Theory and Gottman Method couples’ therapy. Loretta believes counselling should be a rewarding experience and she looks forward to helping you achieve greater understanding, peace, connection, health and happiness.

Contact Loretta and discuss how she can support you to have better family relationships at all stages of life.

Ivy Ireland

Individual Therapist

Ivy Ireland is a registered counsellor, lecturer, and published writer with experience supporting adults and young people through anxiety, grief and loss, life transitions, relationship challenges, stress, self-esteem concerns, and questions of identity and purpose.

Ivy's approach is client-centred, strengths-based, and informed by Narrative Therapy. She works collaboratively with clients to explore the challenges they are facing, recognise their existing strengths and resources, and develop meaningful pathways towards change and wellbeing.

Alongside traditional counselling approaches, Ivy has a particular interest in expressive and writing-based therapies. She believes that creativity, reflection, and storytelling can be powerful tools for healing, growth, and self-understanding.

Ivy is committed to providing a warm, respectful, and non-judgemental space where clients feel heard, supported, and empowered to create meaningful change in their lives.

Contact Ivy and discuss how she can support you to create meaningful Change.

Qualifications

• PHD - University of Newcastle
• Master of Counselling - APIC
• Bachelor of Arts (Hons) - University of Newcastle & Queens University, Belfast
• Level 2 Member of Australian Counselling Association

Kat Mok

Family Therapist

Kat is a Masters-accredited counsellor who supports individuals, couples and families to navigate life’s many transitions. Whether that be parenting or children leaving home, navigating relationship challenges, separation or divorce, supporting ageing parents, experiencing perimenopause or menopause, or living with grief and loss, Kat offers a compassionate space to pause, reflect and find your way forward.

Clients often appreciate Kat's calm, curious and compassionate approach. She believes people are not defined by the problems they face and are the experts in their own life. Counselling offers an opportunity to slow down, make sense of life's challenges, deepen self-understanding, and strengthen relationships with those who matter most, including ourselves.

Kat's work is grounded in narrative therapy, a collaborative approach that explores how our stories influence the way we see our lives, our relationships and our possibilities. Together, you might explore the stories shaped by family, culture, expectations or difficult experiences, while also discovering the values, strengths and preferred stories that can help guide the next chapter of your life.

Before becoming a counsellor, Kat built a successful corporate career across Australia and Japan and speaks Japanese fluently. Her background in language, culture and communication has given her a deep appreciation for the many ways people make meaning of their experiences, and how easily we can feel misunderstood. This perspective informs her work with people navigating life’s transitions, helping clients feel genuinely heard while exploring what matters most to them.

Contact Kat and discuss how she can support you.

Qualifications

• Master of Counselling with distinction – Queensland University of Technology
• Master of Arts in Japanese Interpreting and Translation -University of Queensland
• Bachelor of Business in Marketing – Queensland University of Technology
• Member of the Australian Counselling Association

Additional Training

• Approved facilitator for Tuning into Kids and Tuning into Teens
• Gottman Level 1 Couple Relationship Training
• Certificate IV in Training and Assessment