Team
Hope and Heal is a collective of dedicated and qualified professionals. All with lived experience who have come together to create a program that changes lives.
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Nadine Taylor
Founder
Urban & Weekend Retreat Facilitator
Nadine founded H&H with the vision of healing and empowering women who have experienced domestic violence, trauma and abuse. As a dedicated Clinical Nurse with a 30-year journey in diverse clinical settings and extensive medical expertise, she encompasses a profound understanding of trauma and trauma-informed care.
Nadine is a certified Mental Health First Aider, embodying her commitment to holistic well-being and recognizing the importance of mental and emotional healing. She is also a certified Yoga Nidra and Meditation Facilitator and holds certifications as a Reiki 1 and 2 Practitioner and is a Certified Crystal Healing Practitioner.
Carmel Catanuto
Psychotherapist/Counsellor
Weekend Retreat Facilitator
Carmel is a calm and supportive counsellor renowned for empowering individuals held back by self-doubt and relational disconnect. Through exploration, insight, and collaboration, she helps clients build confidence, find purpose, and overcome personal struggles with clarity and resilience.
A clinical member of PACFA, Carmel offers a non-judgmental space to break free from limiting beliefs and relationship challenges. She guides people toward self-acceptance, transforming pain into strength and fostering empowered life choices.
As a trained Gestalt therapist, Carmel integrates Mindfulness, Client-Centred, Art, and Solution-Focused therapies to meet each client’s unique needs. With broad experience, she finds joy in helping adults rebuild confidence and lead more fulfilling lives.
M. Gestalt Therapy
Adv. Dip. Art Therapy
Dip. Counselling
carmelcatanuto-psychotherapy.com.au
Ana Balta
Marketing Manager
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Ana has a diverse range of both professional and life experience covering a 20 year career in advertising, marketing and design.
She has also completed Diplomas in both Counselling and Community Services and with her extensive volunteer work across animal welfare, homelessness and Domestic Violence in NSW and the ACT, the work she does with H+H is a accumulation of her passion for helping the most vulnerable in our society.
Taylor Baker
Admin Assistant
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My passion is to contribute and work with organisations, like Hope + Heal, that strives to improve a community’s needs and an individual's quality of life.
As an International Relations, Development, and Culture Studies Graduate from Macquarie University, I have acquired extensive experience working within administration, customer service, retail, project management, and public speaking roles across the international aid/development, non for profit, and disability/aged care sector.
Jan Christie
Counsellor & Educator
Weekend Retreat Facilitator
For over two decades Jan has worked with women and children in the domestic and family violence field in a variety of services including specialist trauma counselling.
Her focus is helping women understand the impact their experience of trauma has had on their brain and their body. Women’s stories and feedback have informed Jan in the development of her therapeutic and educational workshops, concentrating on the neuroscience of trauma and strategies for empowerment.
BA. Psychology
Grad. Dip. Counselling
Grad. Cert. Developmental Trauma
Tarsila Motta
Energy & Sound Healer
Urban & Weekend Retreat Facilitator
Tarsila is a certified sound healing practitioner, breathwork coach, energy healing including reiki (level 3) practitioner and 5 element modern qigong teacher with the purpose of holding space for deep transformation of mental, physical, energy and emotional bodies.
These synergistic holistic modalities have the power of balancing the nervous system, regulating the vagus nerve, entraining the brain waves into more coherent states of awareness, reducing feelings of anxiety/stress and bringing the body back to its natural state of harmony.
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Celeste Heazlett
Massage Healer
Weekend Retreat Facilitator
Celeste has been a full-time therapist since 2001 after completing a Diploma in Natural Therapies and a Dip in Remedial Massage at the Australasian College of Natural Therapies. Celeste has studied and been trained in Shiatsu, Hot Stone Massage, Lomi Lomi, Pregnancy and Sports Massage. She has studied Reflexology, Polarity Therapy and Nutrition and also Bach and Bush Flower Remedies.
Celeste later completed a Certification in Clinical Hypnosis at the Academy of Applied Hypnosis and this year completed an Accredited Certification in Crystal Healing and also a Certification in Neuroscience at The Neuroscience Academy.
M - 0410 616 737
Fernanda Costa
Massage Therapist
Weekend Retreat Facilitator
Having a Bachelor’s Degree in Physiotherapy and for many years working as a Reiki and Massage therapist, I have an extensive understanding of the human body from a physical and anatomical perspective as well as through a highly tuned energetic intuition.
I offer a therapy that allow clients to release any long term stress and tensions, increase energy, improve mental clarity and focus, improve movement, flexibility, a reconnection between body and mind, release of blockages, increase calmness, overall relaxation and many more.
I work with remedial massage, deep tissue, relaxation, pregnancy, lymphatic drainage and Reiki.
Jo Blayney
Holistic Health Facilitator
Weekend Retreat Facilitator
Jo Blayney is a qualified natural therapies practitioner based on the Northern Beaches, Sydney and the founder of the business Inner Circle of Light. After an early career in scientific research, Jo became fascinated by alternative approaches to health. This has lead to a career spanning over two decades where she has developed a holistic approach to wellness.
Jo tailors sessions drawing on the natural therapy modalities of Massage, Aromatherapy, Reiki, Crystal Healing, Sound Healing, Theta Healing, Deeksha, Intuitive Reading and Spiritual Guidance.
0425 218304 or insta @innercircleoflight
Aline Lage
Transpersonal Psychotherapist
Urban Retreat Facilitator
Aline Lage is a dedicated transpersonal psychotherapist with a focus on trauma-informed therapy. Through the lens of transpersonal psychotherapy, Aline believes that true healing integrates all aspects of our human experience—mental, emotional, physical, psychological, energetic, and spiritual.
With a compassionate and holistic approach, Aline supports individuals in finding meaning and purpose after trauma and navigating difficult life experiences. She incorporates a wide range of tools into her practice, including transpersonal psychotherapy, Kundalini Yoga, meditation, energy healing, and sound therapies, offering a safe and transformative space for healing and growth.
Aline is also the founder of Meaningful Life, a heartfelt initiative created to empower others on their journey of healing, self-realisation, and personal transformation. Her passion lies in helping individuals reconnect with joy, resilience, and the deeper essence of life.
Instagram - @alinemeaningfullife
www.meaningfullife.com.au
Tara Fischer
Holistic Healer
Urban Retreat Facilitator
Tara Fischer has been in the holistic healing field for 25 years having come from her own history of trauma she embodies the work she teaches. She is a Multidisciplinary trauma -informed therapist with a wide range of tools in her kit ranging from kundalini dance, family and nature constellations, emotional clearing/counselling, DAre Practitioner (Dynamic Attachment repatterning experience), and the ceremonial arts to name a few.
She has a deep passion assisting women to build their inner and outer resources so they can move towards a life that is enriching and joyful.
Lisa Bradfield
Sound Healer
Urban Retreat Facilitator
I use instruments with beautiful sounds that heal and restore balance to our physical bodies and hopefully transform lives. I do this through sound baths or one to one sessions at my home studio in Coogee.
Although talking therapy is beneficial, it concentrates on external events potentially increasing the energy behind the feeling, whereas, the soft frequency of sound and vibration can make subtle internal shifts within ourselves.
www.bodhiholistichub.com
