HOLISTIC COUNSELLING

You don’t have to wait until you’re in crisis

 

Life doesn’t always fall apart dramatically.

Sometimes you wake up one morning and realise things feel different. You may have been holding everything together for so long that you’re no longer sure what it would feel like to set some of it down.

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Pregnancy as a Rite of Passage with Shekinah Leigh

Whatever has brought you here, you don’t have to navigate this season alone.

Things may have changed in ways you never expected. Beneath the roles, responsibilities, expectations and everyday demands, you may feel less connected to yourself, or unsure of what you need now. 

You might be functioning. You might still be showing up, getting things done and caring for others. Underneath it all, there may also be tiredness, overwhelm, grief, anger, numbness, uncertainty, or a persistent sense that something in your life is asking for attention.

Motherhood may have changed you. Your children may have grown. A relationship may have shifted. Birth, grief, burnout, trauma, menopause, caring responsibilities, work, illness, disability, identity change, or another significant life transition may have reshaped how you understand yourself.

You don’t need to have the right words for what is happening. You don’t need to know exactly where to begin.

Something else is possible

 

You can begin to feel more steady, connected and clear about what you need, what matters now, and what kind of support feels right for you.

Our sessions create space to make sense of what has changed, explore what you have been carrying, and reconnect with parts of yourself that may have had less room lately.

This work is not about becoming someone new. It is about returning to more of who you already are, while strengthening your self-trust, boundaries and freedom to shape what comes next.

I can’t recommend Shekinah enough. I came to her during a really difficult time, feeling emotionally heavy and disconnected, and I left with a completely different sense of clarity and peace.
She created such a safe, grounded space and offered insights that genuinely shifted the way I was seeing both myself and my circumstances. Whether you believe in the spiritual side or simply appreciate someone with incredible intuition and compassion, her ability to help you reconnect with yourself is truly something special.
I walked away feeling lighter, more at peace, and with a renewed perspective on my life. I’m incredibly grateful for the experience and would highly recommend Shekina to anyone feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or looking to gain deeper insight into themselves.
Thank you for everything Shekinah

– NURA HELMY

“Shekinah was spot on before she even started the healing session! We talked briefly and she was already gently pointing out things that resonated with my inner place of truth and innate healing. She is really friendly and switched on. She has a great combination of professionalism, compassion and spiritual channel that made for a really lovely, healing, easy experience”

– LIANA

Birth Trauma Assessment

Holistic Counselling

Motherhood and matrescence, birth experiences, relationship breakdown, grief, burnout, trauma, identity shifts, menopause and the moments when you simply don’t recognise yourself anymore.

Birth Story Reframing

A gentle space to revisit your experience, make sense of what happened and explore the meaning you have attached to it.

The Sacred Threshold™

There are moments when you know you cannot go back to who you were, but have not yet found your way into who you are becoming.
The Sacred Threshold™ is a 12-week guided journey for these in-between places.

NDIS Support

A beautiful way to celebrate your baby, honour their arrival, and mark their place within your family and community.

Women’s Health Professionals

A beautiful way to celebrate your baby, honour their arrival, and mark their place within your family and community.

Why birth debriefs matter!

 

Understanding, Integration & the Nervous System
Birth is not something we simply “get over.”

For many women, the body moves on faster than the mind. Memories surface later — in quiet moments, in unexpected emotional responses, or when another pregnancy begins. Questions linger. Parts of the story feel missing or unresolved.

A birth debrief offers the opportunity to gently revisit the experience — not to relive it, but to understand it.

How I work

I don’t believe you need to be fixed.

My approach is not about repairing something broken. It is about creating a grounded, compassionate and choice-led space where you can slow down, listen deeply and begin to understand what is happening beneath the surface.

In our work together, we explore what you have been carrying, the patterns that may keep drawing you back into familiar places, and the parts of yourself that may have been pushed aside while you were simply trying to get through.

My approach brings together counselling, embodied and holistic practices, conversation, ritual and deeper reflective work. With your clear and informed consent, this may also include shamanic or other transformational approaches.

No practice or modality is assumed. We discuss what is being offered before we use it, and you are always welcome to pause, decline, question, slow down, or change direction.

Your pace, boundaries, beliefs, culture, body, access needs and preferences matter in the process.

Rather than fitting you into a particular method, we follow what feels meaningful, supportive and respectful for you.

At times, the work may be about understanding what has happened. At other times, it may be about releasing what is no longer yours to carry, grieving what has been lost, reclaiming something that has been quieted, or finding a way to meet the version of yourself that is emerging.

There is no one way through. We begin where you are.

For many people, being witnessed with care can create room for change. My role is to support a space where your experiences can be heard, your boundaries respected, and your own wisdom and inner authority given room to emerge.

This work is for moments of change, uncertainty and becoming. It is for the times when life asks you to meet yourself differently, and for the journey between who you have been, who you are now, and who you are becoming.

Shekinah was the best celebrant we could have chosen to help us have a unique ceremony that reflected who we are as a couple. She provided advice and encouragement when we needed it. We found her to be natural and authentic in her communication and on the ceremonial day. With her help we were able to ritualise our union with Tying the Knot and Jumping the Broom. Our guests commented on how genuinely loving and flowing the ceremony was and we are so happy to have created this wonderful wedding day with Shekinah.

– SUZANNE SWAN

My husband and I would like to say a huge thank you to Shekinah for helping us have the most magical wedding day ever! The whole experience was amazing and everything we wanted! It was such a smooth and stress-free couple of months leading up to the big day and on the day! Shekinah always had our best interests at heart and was truly interested and engaged in our lives and our journey.
Shekinah was truly amazing and made the whole ceremony amazing and exactly what we wanted!
We would recommend Shekinah to everyone we know!

LUKE BRASLIN

You don’t have to know where to begin

Send me an enquiry and we can start with a simple conversation about where you are and what you’re looking for.