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If you are losing it at the people you love
it is time to start living like you matter.

Lisa Quinney, Counsellor in Geelong
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If you’ve ever slammed a drawer too hard, snapped at your kids, then felt instantly guilty… I help you understand why you’re really angry, and how to express it without blowing up or shutting down.
Healing through reclaimed power, self-love and creative expression.

 

I am here for the mum who says “it’s fine” while cleaning up dinner plates with clenched teeth—then lies in bed beside her partner feeling invisible and angry—I’ll help you speak up with honesty and love, instead of letting resentment boil over.

I work with mums who are tired of repeating the same argument—"I need more help!"—only to be met with defensiveness or nothing at all. I teach you how to ask for support in a way that actually lands, and feels good to say.

If you’ve ever found yourself yelling, then apologising, then feeling like the worst mum in the world—this work helps you pause, breathe, and respond instead of react. So you feel proud, not regretful, at the end of the day.

Affirmation Cards for Mums

Join The Circle for Mums: Unwinding with Art & Sisterhood 

A sacred space where you can breathe again.
A place to unlearn the ‘shoulds’ and reconnect with who you truly are.

  • Guided journaling & creative expression

  • A safe, judgment-free space to be fully seen

  • Healing conversations & self-discovery

  • Tools to release guilt, anger & stuckness

The Circle for Mums in Ocean Grove

Self-paced creative journaling experience:

Your inner critic doesn’t have to run the show.

You can respond with kindness instead of spiraling into self-blame.
You can trust your instincts, speak your truth, and stop apologising for needing space.

And no, you don’t need to be an artist.

The Art of Self-Compassion is a self-paced online experience to help you quieten your inner critic (without silencing her).

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I help mothers reclaim their full emotional truth, including the parts they’ve been taught to fear, hide, or shrink.


I guide them to see anger not as a problem, but as a sacred signal — a doorway back to self-respect, clarity, and love.


Through tender, compassionate space-holding and fierce emotional truth-telling, I support women in alchemizing shame into power, and resentment into honest, heart-led connection.


My mission is to create spaces where women can be wildly real and deeply held — where nothing is too much and everything belongs.

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I hold space for mothers who are done shrinking, silencing, or shaming themselves.
I guide them in reclaiming their anger, their boundaries, their emotional truth — not by fixing themselves, but by remembering who they are beneath all the roles, shoulds, and silence.
I bring fire and softness, side by side. Truth and tenderness.
And I do this not because I’ve transcended the work — but because I’ve walked through it, and I continue to walk it every single day.

Lisa Quinney

How can I support you?

Resources

I have put together some eGuides, created affirmations cards, provide a blog and am a regular guest on podcasts.

1:1 Sessions

I am offering private and confidential sessions online or in person in the Geelong or Bellarine region.

Groups

The Circle for Mums is a nurturing and safe space to express yourself creatively alongside other mums.

Lisa was of tremendous support for me. She is a wonderful listener and helped me regain my mental and emotional balance (those postpartum hormones are no joke!). Sometimes I'd just need some reassurance and compassion, sometimes she helped me find a much needed new perspective. 
I cannot recommend Lisa highly enough!
Lisa gave me practical tips to manage stress and anxiety. It was like having a personal coach for my emotions.

I seriously can't imagine going through this life-changing time without her. If you're expecting and want an awesome counsellor who knows IFS, go see Lisa!
With her expertise and life experience Lisa has given me guidance, support and compassion when I truly needed it. Her understanding of the roller coaster that is motherhood has been so reassuring. She has enabled me to seek help when needed, be kind to myself and accept imperfection.

Hi, I am Lisa

I’m a mama, a counsellor, a creative — and so much more.

For years, I thought there was something deeply wrong with me.

I lived with undiagnosed postnatal depression, anxiety, and PTSD for six years.
I tried to be the “perfect” mother and wife — the version I thought I should be.
But no matter how hard I tried, it never felt right.

I thought I was the problem.
That I wasn’t cut out to be a good mum.

But here’s what I’ve come to know:
It wasn’t me.
It was the version of motherhood I was taught to aspire to —
one that glorifies sacrifice, silences anger, and rewards women for disappearing.

That’s what made me sick.

Lisa Quinney and her family

Everything changed when someone finally listened.
When I was taken seriously — and met with compassion instead of diagnosis.

I wasn’t broken.
I was conditioned to suffer.

Through IFS therapy, creative expression, and deep self-reclamation, I began to rebuild.
I let go of impossible expectations.
I stopped shrinking and silencing myself.
I created a version of motherhood — and a version of me — that felt expansive, honest, and true.

I forged a strong, safe bond with myself, my children, and my partner — not by becoming someone else, but by coming home to who I really am.

Now, I help other mothers do the same.

This is your permission slip to stop shrinking.
To stop waiting.
To take back your power — with tenderness, with courage, and with your whole self intact.

I invite you to step into the life you were always meant to live.
You don’t have to earn it.
You just have to return to it.

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Please fill out the contact form to get in touch with me.

 

You will hear back in the next 48 hours to organise an initial chat and to book your first appointment.

 

This initial phone call is confidential and free of charge.

Or call me now: 0493 755 709

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Woman's Prayer

I will not rescue you.

For you are not powerless.

I will not fix you.

For you are not broken.

I will not heal you.

For I see you, in your wholeness.

I will walk with you through the darkness,

as you remember your light.

by Sheree Bliss Tisley

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