Hey there, my name is Bronte Purcell.
Hey there, my name is Bronte Purcell.
I am a Qualified Counsellor, Psychotherapist, & Bodyworker.
I bring my lived experience and professional education into the work that I do. What truely shapes my knowledge as a therapist is my own mental health journey with anxiety & panic attacks in my late teens, years of receiving therapy in different psychotherapeutic modalities, silent meditation retreats, nature-based vision quests, embodiment workshops, and other personal initiations. I combine all of this rich knowledge with years of institutional study which I list in more detail below.
The work that I do is a body, mind & whole-being approach to well-being. There is an innate wisdom that exists within every living being, that is constantly working towards our survival, our healing, and our growth. Therefore, it is my role as a therapist & practitioner to work in collaboration with you so that you can reconnect to this wisdom.
As a psychotherapist, I create an explorative space built on safety, openness, curiosity, compassion and deep listening as I believe you are your own best teacher and I am here to offer guidance into your own truth. I meet you in the depths of your inner wildness, so that you can dissolve shame and welcome home the suppressed parts of yourself. We dance between all parts of you, so that you can discover more of who you really are and return to a sense of wholeness & humanness.
As a bodyworker, I offer devotional spaces to women & womb holders to receive support through the sacred transitions of life- menarche, menstruation, preconception, postpartum and beyond. This devotional work is centred around rest, regulation and reverence, and is an interplay of various modalities I have studied within bodywork, birthwork, and my own journey as a cyclical being.
-
Psychotherapy
-
Naturopathy
-
Bodywork
-
Birthwork
Qualifications
-
PostGrad Counselling & Psychotherapy
Process-Oriented Psychology — PACFA
-
Bachelor of Health Science (Naturopathy)
Herbal Medicine & Nutritional Medicine
-
Womb Hara Massage Certification
Integrative bodywork- IICT accredited
-
Sacred Birth Doula Training
Celebration of Birth Doula Academy
Other Training
-
Gestalt Art Therapy
Professional Development Training
-
Polyvagal Theory & Application
Professional Development Training
-
Internal Family Systems: Clinical application of IFS model
Professional Development Training
-
TRE® - Trauma Release Exercises
In person workshop
-
Somatic Therapies for Clinicians
Professional Development Training
-
Trauma Informed Care
Blue Knot Foundation
-
Moonsong: Menstrual Cycle Workshop
The School of Shamanic Womancraft
-
Deathwalker Training
Dying, Death, Loss— Zenith Virago
-
Zenthai Shiatsu
Level 1 training
-
Lomi Lomi Massage Training
Level 1, Level 2 — IICT accredited
-
Pregnancy Massage Training
Safe Practice in all Trimesters
-
200HR Yoga Teacher Training
Ashtanga & Hatha Yoga