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About Soulful Psychotherapy
Our vision is to promote a holistic approach to mental health through evidence-based practice and practice-based therapy. As we adapt to the demands of a competitive society, the escalating high cost of living, and a pandemic focused health care system, our relationships with self and others become vulnerable. We have less time available to cultivate healthy relationships for ourselves and others.
The Soulful approach is different to other practices because we recognise that traditional talking therapies can lack soulful connections and often require additional modalities to deliver a holistic approach to modern healing. We are based locally in the Hunter Valley Region of New South Wales, with additional locations in Woy Woy on the Central Coast, and Bellbird in Cessnock.
About Sally Hainey
Qualifications
Sally is a member of the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW), Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA), and the Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing Association of Australia (EMDRAA). Sally holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work and a Master’s Degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Specialisations
Sally is trained in multiple counselling and psychotherapy counselling interventions. Many clients find the gentle yet effective approach of EMDRA and RI-EMDRA an affective intervention to address trauma related symptoms.
RI-EMDR is a powerful therapeutic approach that combines the proven effectiveness of attachment informed EMDR with the depths of parts work, neuroscience, brain, mind and body connection and mindfulness-based practices. This leads to a compassionate, transpersonal, and spiritual approach honouring relational attachment and ruptures. By honouring these ruptures, we can help clients heal from past wounds, improve current relationships, and build healthier attachments for the future.
What makes RI-EMDR so powerful is the imaginative repair process. Clients are given the gift and opportunity to travel back in time to connect with their younger selves; so, they can finally be heard, acknowledged, and validated. For the adult self to feel this imaginative repair, it can often enable a sense of freedom and perspective-shifting which becomes the main ingredient to enable transformational change. Many elements of transformational change include the healing of wounds from a spiritual connection, collective identity, and the collective unconscious (instincts and archetypes as discussed by the famous psychiatrist Carl Jung).
On Carl Jung
“Yet his embrace of something larger than the physical body and mind is what I find particularly appealing as a therapist who sees the value of science yet also believes that my field is missing something critical if we ignore people’s deep hunger for spiritual and mystical connection.” Jamie Marich.
Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia
Australian Association of Social Workers
Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing Association of Australia
Current Work
Sally is a mental health clinician, working for many years with children, young people, and their families, in the out of home care sector. She has developed a sophisticated understanding of complex trauma and adverse childhood experiences.
Currently working for NSW Victim Services, Sally also works with First Nations people presenting with addictions at a Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centre. She says most of her clients present with unresolved childhood trauma which is often the cause of the addiction and unhelpful coping styles.
Sally is also passionate about helping couples with relationship issues. She provides relationship counselling using the unique method of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy to help couples move through current and past issues that prevent them from living their partnership in harmony. In a non-judgement space, Sally helps couples to identify foundational issues and support to navigate into an improved relationship or uncoupling.
What do clients say about Sally?
Clients say Sally is kind, compassionate and really understands the pathway each of her clients are experiencing.