About Ginny

Mother • Child & Family Play Therapist • Teacher • Parent educator

If there’s one thing I know for sure, it’s this:

Emotional intelligence isn't a ‘nice to have’. It is totally ESSENTIAL for a healthy, happy life! And it unfolds through emotionally safe relationships.

Before I became a Child & Family Play Therapist, I spent a decade immersed in education – teaching, leading, observing and delighting in children across the United Kingdom and Australia.

More than any lesson plan, it was the emotional world of children that called me in. Over time, I came to see every child’s behaviour as a fascinating story about their inner world. And I became determined to learn how to listen.

That intuitive nudge led me to study emotional ontelligence and complete a Master’s degree in Child Play Therapy.


Now, as a child therapist, mother and facilitator, I support children and families to deepen connection, grow emotional intelligence, and build lifelong resilience and self-belief.

before you scroll:

there's one thing you should know about me.

I’m not interested in rigid, black-and-white parenting rules or the shame-filled “shoulds” that saturate parenting advice today.

Raising secure kids does not require us to be perfect - it requires our overall responsiveness, repair and a tonne of compassion. Children don’t thrive because we get it 'right' every time; they thrive because we reflect, take responsibility, and reconnect. It's the overall relational patterns that shape our kids, not isolated moments.

So if you are ready to parent from awareness instead of autopilot, from connection instead of control, and from compassion instead of guilt...

You’ve exactly where you need to be.

Growing Us Values

unconditional love

Choosing to see our children (and ourselves) as worthy and ‘enough’, knowing that we are inherently good humans doing the best we can with the current capacity and skills we have.

self Responsibility

Becoming aware of the parts within us that get activated, and looking at our reactions with radical honesty and self-compassion, so that our responses can be intentional.

seekING to understand

Wondering about the ‘why’ beneath the words and actions, knowing that children's behaviour shows us a feeling, need or skill that they need help with.

What makes me

qualified?

The online world is LOUD. And when it comes to your child, it really matters who you let in. You deserve to feel confident that the person supporting your family has the training, experience and credibility to back it up.

  • Master of Child Play Therapy - Deakin University

  • Bachelor of Education (Primary) - ACU

  • Registered with PACFA, APPTA & QCT

  • Circle of Security™ & Tuning Into Kids® Facilitator

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