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About

Nina Isabella

Holistic Counselling, is a natural progression following two decades of compassionately supporting women and gender diverse folk through their fundamental life transitions as mamashanti.  

I am a mama; yogini; birth attendant and somatic pelvic floor practitioner. Moving and breathing with hundreds of women since 2005 for enhanced fertility; peaceful pregnancy; positive birth; nourished postpartum; inspired parenting; healthful and vital menopause and through it all - lifelong pelvic floor integrity.

In moving through careers from landscape architecture to establishing mamashanti in 2005 and now as the Womanly Counsellor, the unifying thread has been my abiding commitment to honouring the common humanity of my clients.

What I can bring to support you in your process, is the warmth of intuitive therapeutic presence that I have honed for the past 25 years of being in service to hundreds of birthing women and their partners. Bearing witness to the raw and magnificent vulnerability of humanity time and time again, has opened me to the healing that can be experienced when one is held in another's unconditional positive regard.

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A Lifetime of

Lived Experience &
Professional Development

I bring breadth of professional perspective and depth of life experience. I have experienced the ache of thwarted fertility; the anguish of prolonged misdiagnosed conditions - PCOS (10+years) and endometriosis (25+ years); living with chronic pain and inflammation and the impacts on my sense of self, self-purpose and self-worth.

I am grateful to have been supported through my significant life transitions, career changes and health challenges. I've mined the gold hiding in the depths of these experiences and have arrived to be of service.  

My counselling practice is inclusive, trauma informed and person-centred, this means I regard you as sovereign - the expert in your life and circumstances. I will meet you where you are with empathy; offering wholehearted connection; supported by evidence based, culturally sensitive counselling and psychotherapeutic interventions to support you to love living in your beautiful skin.

Qualified & Registered

Master of Counselling 

University of Canberra 

Australian Counselling Association 

Registered Member L2

Yoga Australia

Registered Senior Yoga Teacher L3

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As Well As......

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture - University of Canberra

Bachelor of Applied Science - Environmental Design - University of Canberra

Advanced Diploma of Yoga Teaching 1000hr+ - Australian Institute of Yoga Therapy 

Certificate IV Workplace Assessment Training - Melbourne College of Advanced Education

Certificate IV Small Business Management - RMIT University​

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and because I am a constant gardener to my personal and professional development, here's a bit more of what I've been up to:

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Compassion Focussed Psychotherapy:

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) - ACT Mindfully

Trauma Focussed Somatic Psychotherapy:

Trauma Focussed Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (TFACT) - ACT Mindfully

Perinatal Mental Health: 

Perinatal Mental Health Training Courses - COPE and PANDA

Abortion, Contraception & Sexual Health: Supporting Client Access - Royal Women’s Hospital

Pre and Post Abortion Practice & Counselling - Children by Choice

Diversity & Inclusion Practice:

LGBTIQA+ Inclusive Practice 

Trans Vitality Trans Affirming Practice

Somatic Awareness Training:

Psoas Savvy Somatic Movement Professional Application Course - Liz Koch Core Awareness

Loss & Grief Training:

Grief & Family Work - Bouverie Centre LaTrobe University

Death Doula Training - Opening to Life

Childbirth Education & Doula Training: 

Certified BirthSkills™ for Mind; Body & Baby Practitioner with Dr Shari Read 

Trauma Informed Birth Attendant Training with Rhea Dempsey Birthing Wisdom

Childbirth Educator Training Course for Health Professionals - NACE

Prenatal Yoga:

Awakened Woman - Conscious Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training 

Family Violence Training:

Protecting Vulnerable Children & Responding to Vulnerability 

MARAM Training

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I continue to pursue specialist training and personal research to enrich my capacity to mindfully support women and gender diverse individuals through their life transitions:

 

Somatic awareness; applied polyvagal theory; applied neurobiology; Traditional Chinese Medicine, acupressure, shiatsu, reiki.

Holistic Women's Counselling & Somatic Psychotherapy Appointments:

In Person Appointments:

Thursdays: Twentynine - 29 High Street Kyneton

Fridays: Kundalini House – 391a St Georges Road Fitzroy North

Telehealth Appointments:

Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays

To make an appointment, please contact Nina 0432078899

I acknowledge the traditional owners of this beautiful, fertile land on which I live and practice - the Wadawurrung, Dja Dja Wurrung and Taungurung people. I pay my respects to all first nations people and elders, both past, present and emerging. I recognise sovereignty of these lands was never ceded.

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