About

Welcome to The Insight Couch

Where honest conversations lead to personal growth, healing, and change.

Why I Started The Insight Couch

I’ve spent years sitting across from people who felt misunderstood, labelled, or talked at instead of listened to. Too often, real struggles were buried under buzzwords, checklists, or well-meaning advice that missed the point.

The Insight Couch started as a response to that.

This isn’t a space for polished answers or surface-level positivity. It’s a place for honest conversations about the things people actually wrestle with — addiction, mental health, fatherhood, relationships, neurodiversity, grief, and the work of rebuilding when life falls apart.

The couch exists to slow things down, strip away the noise, and talk about what’s really going on — with clarity, lived experience, and respect. Not to fix people, but to help them make sense of what they’re carrying and decide what comes next.

This is where real conversations start — and where real change has room to happen.

What We Dive Into on The Insight Couch

(No fluff. No jargon. Just real conversations that matter.)

These aren’t services or labels — they’re the conversations that keep showing up on the couch, because they’re the ones people actually need to have.

🔶 Addiction Recovery – In All Its Forms

Whether it’s substance use, gambling, porn, or emotional crutches — recovery isn’t one-size-fits-all. I meet you where you’re at, without judgement.

🧠 Men’s Growth & Reinvention

You don’t need to break to rebuild. We talk motivation, purpose, anger, identity — the stuff that makes or breaks modern masculinity.

💔 Separation & Relationship Fallout

When it falls apart, it hits hard. Whether you're navigating co-parenting, loss, or rediscovering who you are post-breakup, I’ve got your back.

🌑 Depression — and Getting Through It

No toxic positivity here. Just honest support, lived experience, and practical ways to cope when your tank’s on empty.

🐾 Pet Grief That Actually Gets It

Losing your dog, cat, or any animal companion hurts. It’s not “just a pet.” Here, you can talk about it without minimising the bond.

👨‍👧 Parenting with Autism in the Mix

From meltdowns to milestones — I help parents make sense of the chaos, build connection, and survive the hard days with their neurodivergent kids.

🔄 When Relationships Get Complicated

Struggling to communicate? Clashing values? Dealing with emotional walls? Let's untangle it, together — whether you’re staying, going, or undecided.

🧩 Just Diagnosed with ASD? Let’s Unpack It.

A late diagnosis (for you or your child) can feel like a bomb and a blueprint. I help break it down — what it means, what it doesn’t, and what’s next.

Experience I Bring to the Conversation

This work is grounded in formal training, professional accountability, and lived experience — not theory alone.

✔ Diploma of Counselling

✔ Accredited Member – Australian Counselling Association (ACA)

✔ Counselling Clients with Addictions

✔ Working with Behavioural Addictions

✔ Working with Substance Use Disorders

✔ Grief and Loss Counselling

✔ Relationship Counselling and Conflict Resolution

✔ Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) Therapist

✔ Working with Trauma: Interventions That Foster Resilience

✔ Evidence-Based Parenting: Raising Children to Thrive

✔ Working as a Gatekeeper for Domestic Violence

✔ Expanding the Window of Tolerance: Empowering Clients Through Self-Regulation

✔ 14+ Years of Lived Experience Supporting Neurodivergent Families

✔ Co-Owner of Repploy Counselling & ASD Services