Registered Psychotherapist & Somatic Movement Therapist
Byron Bay, NSW Australia
jennifer@jenniferlalortherapy.com
Compassionate care for life's challenges and transitions
Hello & Welcome
I am Jennifer Lalor, a registered psychotherapist, somatic movement therapist, leadership coach & educator based near Byron Bay in northern NSW, Australia. I work in person and online with clients from across Australia and beyond.
I work within a developmentally informed and trauma aware perspective. That means I bring trained awareness to the different ways stress and trauma might impact a person's engagement with their life and relationships.
I respect that you are the expert in your life. I trust that you can access your own wisdom and discover answers to your most pressing questions - sometimes it simply helps to have some guided support to do so.
I can support you to discover and understand the feelings, beliefs and other signals in your body/mind (both unhelpful and helpful) that drive your way of being and acting in the world. Those patterns, or habits, likely helped you to cope with life challenges in the past but may now be causing distress, or holding you back from living your life in the ways you'd like to.
None of us is exactly the same. Therefore, I listen deeply to your unique needs in order to guide you on your individual journey. I draw from my training and experience in Somatic (body oriented) Psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Schema Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), life skills development, Expressive Therapy and leadership coaching.
As well as working with a whole spectrum of people in my private practice, I have a keen interest in the mental health and well being of medical workers and other 'helping professionals.' I provide coaching and counselling that assists health professionals to navigate the individual, work-related and organisational risks to their mental health that these professionals face on a day-to-day basis.
If you'd like to explore working together, feel free to email or call me. I look forward to hearing from you.
Main Practice Areas
Include but are not limited to:
01
Stress & Burnout
The World Health Organisation claims stress is the health epidemic of the 21st century. Stressors and the effects of stress vary between individuals depending on personality and life skills. There are many practices we can learn to mitigate stress and strengthen resilience. Psychotherapy, Somatics and creative arts practice are evidenced based pathways for learning how to complete the stress cycle so stress is less likely to build up in our body/minds in toxic ways.
02
Post traumatic stress is an experience where the past comes alive unbidden in the present causing distressing and at times debilitating symptoms. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a structured therapy which is associated with a reduction in the vividness and emotion associated with the trauma memories. EMDR therapy is an extensively researched, effective psychotherapy method proven to help people recover from trauma and PTSD symptoms. https://www.emdria.org/about-emdr-therapy/
03
Anxiety
Everybody experiences some worry or anxiety from time to time. Small amounts of anxiety can actually heighten performance. However, anxiety that doesn't go away or becomes obsessive worry can interfere with concentration, sleep and appetite, or wreak havoc in other ways in our daily lives. Learning to notice and normalize the sensations that we automatically link to anxious thoughts can be one first step in re-framing our relationship to anxiety & regaining a sense of balance and well being in our lives.
04
Life Transitions
Becoming a first time parent, experiencing the death of a loved one, being given more responsibility at work, entering a blended family, menopause, children leaving home, divorce, receiving a health diagnosis... All of these transitions require adjustment and adaptability and may mean that we are grappling with loss. Even the transitions we experience as positive can sometimes be destabilizing. And sometimes we just need a little support to navigate through the change.
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Relationships
Connecting, communicating and collaborating with others can be challenging whether in our personal or professional lives. We may think our rational brain is in charge but our behavior may tell a different story! Our implicit right brain self (i.e. below conscious awareness) is often more in the driver seat than our logical left brain self. Exploring and bringing these two sides of ourselves into partnership helps us take responsibility for our 'triggers' & build a foundation for aligning our values, intentions and actions in relationships.
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Leadership Coaching
Leadership coaching is a collaborative and individualised partnership between a coach and a leader - whether executive, group leader, business owner, manager, teacher, or parent. Coach and leader work together on specifically tailored & agreed upon growth opportunities. The aim of this working relationship is to bring about sustainable mindset and behavioural changes that align with the trajectory the leader has set for themselves, transforming the quality of the leaders personal and professional life in ways that benefit the individual as well as the organisation (or family).