My practice
The Baby Calmer, offers a unique, in-home counselling service (based in Brisbane, Australia) that provides therapeutically nurturing, family centred support, practical guidance, emotion focused approaches, and gentle and effective solutions, to parents who are experiencing the stress, exhaustion and frustration associated with a continuously crying baby, a sleepless baby, or a tantrum toddler.
As well as working with parents and their children in the home, I also provide an Individual, Family and Relationships Counselling Service - Anne Thistleton Counselling - where I offer the following modalities: Somatic Experiencing, Somatic Touch Therapy, NeuroAffective Touch, Transforming Touch / Intentional Touch, Brainspotting, Emotional Release Counselling, Sandplay Therapy and Symbolwork for children and adults, Play Therapy, Filial Therapy, Synergetic Play Therapy, Bonding and Attachment Therapy, Breastfeeding Therapy, Interactive Drawing Therapy, Craniosacral Therapy, Aromatherapy, Nutritional Medicine - Mental Health.
My counselling practice focuses on supporting clients who present with symptoms related to post-natal depression, birth trauma, marital stress, family conflict, grief and loss issues, challenging and misunderstood behaviours in young children and adolescents, ADD/ADHD, and school/workplace bullying and harassment.
I hold a Bachelor of Education (with a specialisation in Early Childhood Education), a Master of Education, and a Master of Counselling, along with a Graduate Diploma of Nutritional Medicine - Mental Health.
I have completed a four year post-graduate study and training program in pre, peri and postnatal trauma, through Emerson Training (California, USA), under the tutelage of Dr William Emerson (pioneer and world renowned expert in the field of Pre & Perinatal Psychology and Birth Trauma). I am a qualified Pre, Peri, Postnatal and Birth Trauma Therapist for babies, children, teenagers, adults and birth workers.
I am also a qualified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (developed by Peter Levine) - having completed a three year training program in this modality. I also have over 70 hours of training in Somatic Touch (developed by Kathy Kain), 90 hours of training in Transforming Touch (developed by Steve Terrell) and approximately 50 hours of training in NeuroAffective Touch (developed by Aline LaPierre) and have completed over 180 hours of training in Craniosacral Therapy. I am also a Brainspotting Practitioner (having completed training levels 1, 2, and 3, and a Master class with Brainspotting developer Dr David Grand).
I am a qualified Play Therapist, Filial Therapist and Synergetic Play Therapist. I have also completed formally recognised post-graduate study and training in the areas of Sandplay Therapy and Symbolwork, and Emotion Focused and Transpersonal Therapy.
I am also a Certified Clinical Aromatherapist.