Heal from trauma and reclaim your life.
Move through fear, overwhelm and panic to peace, safety and freedom.
Welcome to Process Therapy
Hi, I’m Sam
Has something happened in your past that, no matter how hard you try, or how much time has passed, you can’t seem to move on? Has it left a vivid imprint that weighs heavily on you and interrupts you every day?
You may have done therapy before, told your story, again and again, yet things haven’t shifted in the way you hoped. You might still feel anxious, overwhelmed, or in need of coping strategies that are now doing more harm than good.
The truth is, when difficult experiences aren’t fully processed, they can keep you trapped in patterns that are exhausting and painful. Good news, though, you don’t need to keep revisiting your past to heal from it, because at Process Therapy, something different is on offer.
Using a structured, compassionate, and evidence-based approach, I safely and effectively reduce the emotional intensity of past experiences. Utilising the latest cutting-edge methods of Multichannel Eye Movement Integration (MEMI), Strategic Psychotherapy, Clinical Hypnotherapy and Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), combined with a deep understanding of how trauma lives on in the mind and body, you can feel confident that you can find profound relief from the symptoms of trauma that have been holding you back.
Offering in-person appointments in Robina, Gold Coast and online across Australia.
Together, we’ll work with your limbic system to calm your mind and body, releasing what’s been holding you back, without retraumatising you locking you into months or years of therapy.
This is safe, practical trauma therapy that creates real, lasting change. With a clear, theoretical, empowering process, you can heal, get unstuck, and take your life back - often in just a few sessions.
If you’re ready to feel lighter, freer, and more in control of your life, you’re in the right place.
I understand that starting therapy or trying something new can feel daunting. That is why I offer a complimentary 20-minute consultation, where you can talk directly with me, ask questions and get a feel for how I work, allowing you to make an informed decision about whether my approach is right for you.
Healing from Anxiety
Does anxiety stop you from getting through the day, connecting with others, or focusing on what you want to do? If you’re constantly agitated, fearful, and on edge, then your nervous system is likely stuck in its “fight or flight” stress response, keeping you prepared for the worst even when things are good. By working with the limbic system to reduce emotional reactivity, we help your brain reprocess stuck and troublesome thoughts, leaving you feeling calm, safe, and grounded, ready to reclaim the day.
Managing
Phobias
Does your fear of flying or driving restrict your life? Do social situations or confined spaces cause overwhelming panic? Perhaps spiders, dogs, or birds evoke a terror that exceeds the actual danger. Even though you know this fear isn’t rational, you still feel as if your life is in peril. Left untreated, this can continue to affect your mental health and daily life, especially if your phobia is something you encounter regularly.
Post Traumatic Stress and Trauma Relief
When you’ve experienced something deeply disturbing or traumatic, it can shake you to your very core and make it impossible to move on, especially when invasive, recurring thoughts take hold. Whether you witnessed or experienced a car accident, a violent assault, a natural disaster, or bullying at school or work, any difficult experience can leave a lasting impact.
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MEMI, a fast and safe approach to heal from trauma
Multichannel Eye Movement Integration (MEMI) is a breakthrough therapy designed to help you move forward after distressing or traumatic experiences. Safely and effectively, MEMI helps process what’s holding you back, without the need to relive or retell painful memories.
MEMI uses structured, multilateral eye movements and strategic voice prompts to help your brain safely reprocess distressing memories and unhelpful emotional responses, easing their hold on your daily life. This process allows your limbic system to reevaluate and reorganise how past experiences are stored, and reduce the reactivity and emotional charge associated with those memories.
What makes MEMI unique is its speed and effectiveness. Unlike traditional talk therapies that can take months or even years, MEMI often brings noticeable symptom relief in just one or two sessions, creating faster, gentler relief from emotional distress.
If you’re feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or weighed down by something from your past, MEMI offers a safe and efficient way to find calm and a path forward.
With MEMI, you can release what’s been holding you back and finally feel lighter, freer, and more in control.
Let go of unhelpful coping strategies
It is not uncommon, when living with unresolved trauma or prolonged distress, to adopt coping strategies to get through each day, such as drinking, drug use, overeating, or withdrawing socially and emotionally. Eventually, these behaviours can become the very things that keep us stuck. Often starting as a survival mechanism, they can quickly become all consuming.
Even though MEMI can gently reprocess the difficult memories at the root of your pain, reducing the need to self-soothe or self-medicate, there may be instances when these “coping strategies” persist, even after the event has been desensitised and no longer requires suppression.
This is where Strategic Hypnotherapy comes in, as it targets the deeper patterns behind your behaviours, in your unconscious brain. This is why I sometimes recommend a combination of MEMI and Strategy Hypnotherapy.
Hypnotherapy is often described as a state of heightened awareness where you become relaxed and more receptive to positive suggestions. It is not magic or mind control; indeed, Strategic Hypnotherapy is one of the most advanced and effective forms of modern therapeutic intervention in Australia today.
In your Strategic Hypnotherapy sessions, our focus is on creating change at the unconscious level, where habits live. The goal is to shift the thinking patterns that create and maintain the problem, allowing you to make better choices.
When you understand how your thought processes keep you stuck, it becomes easier to create change. Together, we identify where things start to go wrong in your decision making process and work to change them at the source, helping you replace persistent unhelpful habits with more useful strategies.
Lasting change begins here
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Many of the behaviours that cause us distress, like substance use, avoidance, or emotional overwhelm, are driven by unconscious patterns shaped by past experiences. These patterns can feel deeply entrenched, but that doesn’t mean they have to be permanent.
At Process Therapy, we’ll create a clear and compassionate process that helps you interrupt those patterns at their source. Together, we’ll build new, more helpful ways of responding, thinking, and coping, so you can break free from the past and move forward with confidence.
This isn’t just about feeling better in the moment. It’s about creating meaningful, lasting change that flows into every part of your life.
Real success stories
“I had the pleasure of being treated by Sam several times and haven’t looked back. Her direct and client focused manner breaks through the problem areas and her wonderful sense of humour and gentle presence are both welcoming and immediately put you at ease. I am witness to her professionalism and expertise throughout all her hypnosis sessions and would recommend her professionally in a heartbeat. Sam is a ‘salt of the earth’ kind of person and therapist, with great passion for helping people achieve their goals and get out of their problem space to become the very best version of themselves.”
Michelle, NSW, Clinical Hypnotherapy client
"I am thrilled with the outcome from my sessions with Sam. I have tried for years to get rid of my need for chocolate or something sweet throughout the day, particularly at night. I genuinely believed nothing was going to work. I have tried everything - diets, gym, fasting. Although I could stop for a couple of weeks at a time, I would always slip back into my old ways. After 4 sessions with Sam, my whole relationship with sugary treats changed. I just don't want them anymore. I don't look at those cakes on the counter and feel my mouth water anymore. I genuinely don't feel anything. It’s like they're not even there. I have finally lost those irritating kg's - I thought they were a hereditary sign of ageing but instead, I feel GREAT and look better than I have in years. If you're struggling with emotional eating, Sam's the one for you."
Sarah, Gold Coast, Hypnotherapy client
