Coming Home to a Balanced Self

Balance

Alignment

Ease

Hello, I’m Michelle White

Counsellor & Psychotherapist

Dip. Counselling, Dip Clinical Psychotherapy, Dip. Mental Heath, Dip. Community Services.

Registered practicing member of the Australian Counselling Association (ACA).

Meditation practitioner and facilitator.

My practice is shaped by trauma-informed and dynamic somatic principles, informed by formal training and years of embodied, relational work with clients.

I’ve been a counsellor and psychotherapist in private practice for 14 years. Over that time, I’ve come to understand that our bodies hold everything - our stories, our complaints, our stress, our imbalances, and our longing for ease.

Whether you come with stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, physical pain, gut disorders, chronic illness or just overwhelm with the human condition, our work begins with listening inwards.

The process I offer is not about fixing; it’s about finding balance for the inner conflicts that shapes our lives and bodies.

I’ve spent 14 years with a focus on gut disorders and chronic ill health. While this remains a focus in my work, the deeper thread and need through any presentations are the same; a return to balance and self.

Through my understanding of the gut-brain-nervous system connection, I have witnessed that resolving gut disorders and chronic ill health starts with regulating the nervous system by attending to life’s experiences that are creating all forms of stress (and therefore symptoms) within you.

My practice is shaped by somatic and relational perspectives, and draws on what I’ve learned from years of sitting with people’s real, complex, unfiltered stories. It’s about making room for all of who you are so you can become who you want to be.

I’m trained in somatic, trauma-informed mind-body approaches.

If you’d like to work together, you’re welcome to book a session or reach out with any questions.

Offerings

Counselling & Psychotherapy

I offer grounded, relational therapy for people navigating life - emotional distress, transitions, trauma, gut disorders, chronic health conditions, physical pain or simply the desire for more ease.

My approach integrates emotional, somatic and relational awareness - meeting you exactly where you are and navigating what’s hard, unclear or unhealed together.

This approach is more than talk therapy; it welcomes your whole self—mind, emotions, and body—and honours the nervous system’s role in how we survive, adapt and heal.

A key part of my practice has been supporting people who live with gut disorders, digestive distress and chronic conditions. I have specialised for the last 14 years in the emotional and psychological impacts of gut and chronic conditions, including the unseen toll they take on daily life, identity and relationships.

Gut focused therapy gently explores the complex relationship between the mind, emotions, nervous system and gut.

Whether you're navigating illness or simply being human, our work together is about being met, fully, as you are.

Online Course

Stop The Stress of IBS, is a self paced course designed to ease the emotional toll of gut distress, flowing on to regulate the nervous system and reduce or eliminate physical symptoms.

The course brings together my 14 years of clinical experience supporting clients with gut disorders and chronic conditions.

The modules are designed to facilitate a fundamentally different way of relating to your body, thoughts, and the anxiety that fuels the cycle of symptoms, thereby fostering a more permanent solution.

The course includes videos, audio and worksheets for each module to facilitate deep insight and integration.

The 10 Modules of the course cover:

  1. The Relationship Between the Brain, Nervous System and Gut

  2. Your Body is Highly Responsive to Your Thoughts

  3. The Softening of Acknowledgment and Validation

  4. Interpreting The Body Signals With Curiosity Rather Than Fear

  5. Embody Your Whole Self

  6. Create Your Internal Environment

  7. Safety Behaviours

  8. Stop Striving and Just Be

  9. Don’t Blame the Food

  10. Future Affirming Actions

Podcast & iPhone app

The Happy Inside Podcast

The podcast offers over 100 episodes of insights and strategies on the psychological, emotional and physical landscape of living with IBS, gut disorders, chronic health conditions and the related stress and anxiety.

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The Happy Inside iPhone App

A guided audio app designed to help regulate your nervous system and ease the stress of gut symptoms.

Built with gut directed imageries, pain softening and other guided imageries and meditations, to offer support that you can reach for any time you need grounding, soothing, and relief from anxiety or physical symptoms.

I use the imageries and meditations in the app in conjunction with one-on-one consultations with clients.

Please know that digital products are not a replacement for individual therapy that is catered to you.

App Store

  • "Michelle, was incredibly insightful and instrumental to my moving forward in my life. I highly recommend her".

    Client

  • "I can’t thank Michelle enough for the work we did together! It’s been a year since our 6 weeks of work and I’m now able to do things I never used to do or even think about doing.. Times I used to have extreme symptoms, I’m now symptom free or down to minimal. It’s still a work in progress, I’m still always practicing the things I learnt but it’s getting easier and easier - some days I realise I did things symptom free without even concentrating. It’s opened up a new world for me and I couldn’t be more thankful ☺️ I love that the work doesn’t stop at 6 weeks but it sets a foundation to move forward on!"

    Client

  • "This is a marvelous resource for people with any gut symptoms. I am a pelvic floor PT specialist and I will be referring my patients to this course and to the imagery meditations. Thank you."

    Course Participant

  • "This course is so helpful for me! There was so much valuable information that I could implement into my life right away. In such a short time it has already helped me make some powerful changes to the way that I respond to stress & anxiety which is really helping my gut! Thank you so much for offering this. Many blessings to you!"

    Course Participant

  • "Michelle, this course was phenomenal. I’ve tried so many things to relieve my gut symptoms and your approach is spot on. Lesson 8 was particularly illumuniating. I really appreciate you sharing your wisdom and experience here with all of us."

    Course Participant

  • "I have battled with severe IBS since I was an early teenager, been on numerous elimination diets and was reliant on medication to manage my symptoms- though found no relief. When my Doctor suggested I try the Happy Inside app I was honestly sceptical it would make any difference, but I committed to listening to it everyday and it made a HUGE difference! I have hardly any symptoms anymore! I don’t really understand how it works, all I know is it works and my quality of life is so much better. I’m very grateful to Michelle :)"

    Client and App User

  • "Very informative and helpful. I often felt that you hit the nail on the head and described me and my symptoms perfectly. I’ve already made some changes and noticed real progress, the future is brighter! Thank you!"

    Course Participant

Schedule an appointment

All consultations are via Zoom.

No referrals are required for booking.

I kindly ask for 48 hours notice to be provided when cancelling or rescheduling appointments. This allows other clients the opportunity to fill your appointment time.

Consultation fees are listed in Australian dollars and will be converted to your relevant currency at the time of payment.

Terms and Conditions provided within the booking process.