Katie Murray (Albury)

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Currently available Wednesdays in Albury.

Hello, my name is Katie. I am so looking forward to my student placement with Mel and the team at Phoenix Wings Wellness. I am studying for my Graduate Diploma of Counselling with the Australian College of Applied Professions (ACAP) and have been working as an Equine Assisted Learning and Development Practitioner for five years. Stepping out of the horse paddock and into the artful space with the team at Phoenix Wings is a welcome opportunity for me, in which I look forward to supporting others in a different, room-based way, and immerse in the offering of creative therapies under Mel’s guidance and support.  

My own journey has explored a professional path within health and wellness for the last three decades, including fitness instruction & personal training, Reflexology, Bachelor of Health Sciences (health promotion), Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (based on mindfulness, Somatic Experiencing, and Gestalt theory), and more recently, Counselling. I’m also currently a student of energy psychology, a simple technique called ‘Intention Tapping’ (like Emotional Freedom Technique - EFT) utilising body meridians, mind & body feedback. I’m also upskilling with ‘Music as Medicine’ techniques, utilising basic voice, rhythm & music for nervous system health and regulation, and as a path to finding and expressing ourselves through voice.

In the therapeutic environment, I deeply value creating a safe space, as a warm and supportive fellow traveller (your equal) who joins you for this short part of your journey; a supporter who enquires, listens, and empathises, explores with you, and sits comfortably with you in the knowledge there is nothing about you that is broken or needs fixing. Together we can begin to explore and welcome aspects of you (eg feelings, thoughts, behaviours) with kindness, compassion and acceptance - this is the place where newness can emerge. My lived experience has helped shape my therapeutic approach which is trauma-informed, and includes neuroscience-based regulation skills, enquiry, empathy, compassion, mindfulness, the somatic experience (body sensations and emotions), experiential techniques, and various forms of self-expression.