Linda Staley

Owner & Counseller

Linda is dedicated in providing a holistic approach to healing for each of her clients. She is empathetic and insightful and loves to see her clients empowered and self aware. Simply put, she loves people and their stories.

Linda has a strong passion for her own family. She is married and has three adult children and one grandchild. She has created a unique and safe space and works from her home in the beautiful Sunshine Beach. Stepping into her office through her back garden laden with tropical flora, you are instantly whisked away to a tranquil environment where you can let your guard down.

Linda enjoys creative projects with textiles, loves writing and reading, and is an avid traveller and lover of different cultures. She and her husband have travelled to many different places around the world together - including many countries throughout Europe, North America and Asia. Her most recent travels include Morocco and Papa New Guinea. This passion for travel enables Linda to embrace people with a deep level of understanding, allowing her clients to freely express themselves.

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Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it

/  Tori amos /

Experience

Linda is a qualified and practicing counsellor since 1998.

She has an Advanced Diploma in Counselling from Quest College and an Advanced Diploma in Expressive Therapies from Expressive Therapies Institute Australia.

Linda has completed extensive training with Sandplay Australia and is a Master Practitioner in Sandplay.

Her training also includes Symbol Work, Dreamwork, Process Drawing, Emotion Focused Processes, Therapeutic Writing and the use of Art and Sandplay with Expressive Therapies Institute Australia.

While Linda is a strong advocate for any kind of creative therapy, her passion and expertise lie in Sandplay Therapy.

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One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice -- though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. "Mend my life!" each voice cried. But you didn't stop. You knew what you had to do, though the wind pried with its stiff fingers at the very foundations, though their melancholy was terrible. It was already late enough, and a wild night, and the road full of fallen branches and stones. But little by little, as you left their voice behind, the stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do --determined to save the only life that you could save.

/  The Journey - Mary Oliver  /