Counselling, Coaching & Bodywork Therapies

As professional counsellor and coach, Carissa provides support to her clients navigating various challenges that present in everyday life. From self-worth, anxiety and emotional stresses, Carissa creates a safe, warming environment which allowing clients to reach clarity on what’s holding them back. Understanding how limiting patterns and behaviors have caused tension in the mind and body empowers clients to create true change, creating more peace, joy, and harmony. Carissa has been a counsellor and coach for 4 years and is currently completing her training in energetic bodywork.

Working with Carissa

Bringing clarity and understanding to her clients' situation, Carissa’s sessions are powerful. Holding you with tenderness, while also cutting through to the root cause of physical, emotional, mental symptoms. 

She brings a depth of sensitivity and non-judgement.

“The most important ingredient for healing is taking self responsibility. This simple step allows people to feel true freedom in the moment and then take action towards new outcomes. As humans we tend to complicate things causing tension and stagnation in the body. Change can come quickly from simply recognising the part we play in our own lives.” —Carissa

In my experience and what I stand by, is that true fulfilment comes from being 100% involved in life and taking responsibility for your thoughts, behaviours, emotions.

Carissa brings a wealth of lived experience with a natural ability to connect to people from all walks of life. Working as a practitioner for the last 4 years she has worked with clients moving through… 

- Loss of identity 

- Anxiety

- Life transitions including motherhood 

- Relationship counseling 

- Self worth and confidence 

- Overwhelm 

- Stress 

- Relationship issues/ breakups 

- Special interest supporting women who are self-employed and need a coach for accountability, to conceptualise ideas, branding, authentic marketing along with mindset tools to support your growth.

  • Life will always have its challenges and I’ve always believed that it’s how you manage the challenge, not what I the challenge actually is - as a principle. I could feel small challenges overwhelming me and put me in a state of fight or flight, rather than calm and managed, I had a gut feeling that things could be easier but didn’t know how to get there in my mind. The course offered a place for me to be real, own my challenges and face them with trust and confidence; Trust in feeling safe with any outcome and confident in my own decision and discernment. Ultimately coming home to self and creating space for whatever came up, and knowing my community also had similar challenges brought peace and calm. It’s now a lifestyle for me to come home to self with a deep sense of comfort and ease. Meditation is my go-to and taking time in stillness is a daily practice. Carissa provides a warm approach to every session and offers relevant subjects in the True Essence course that make you want to show up, learn and evolve. The course is a platform for insight, self awareness and growth that impacts your relationships, professional life and simply creates room and space for you to align with your truest self, your true essence.

    Camilla Ingall, Interior Stylist & Owner of Unfolded

  • I felt I was in a place where I had done a lot of 'the work' but it felt heavy, I didn't really understand how it worked and I didn't see really lasting changes so I was a bit miffed with it. The True Essence course had the learnings to back it up - I like research and knowing how and why things work so that was really profound for me. It also made the work so much simpler. It was more about pairing back and letting go than adding and having to 'do' things. It's really about just coming back to the authentic you - I liked that stripping back. Living my true essence today is about making decisions and choices that best reflect me and my desires - being able to say no without feeling bad, trusting my intuition and living my life authentically to bring the experiences, relationships and opportunities that best alight with me in

    Lucy Beaumont, Founder & Director of Scout Pilates

  • The True Essence course brought in an awareness that I didn’t know I needed. It guided me down paths.. into the depths where I thought I had already been and conquered - but that’s the thing.. there is always more, more of us, more of the parts of us that we are resisting - the parts that are tucked away in the wings of our subconscious. This course gave me many deep insights and beautiful teachings of Energetics, Ego & Law of Attraction.. it has brought me to a place of clarity and ease having been given the practice to find my way back for if I may wander off path - I know how to come back home - home to myself. Home to my True Essence. Carissa will hold a mirror up so you can truly witness yourself - it’s not comfortable to do this but so necessary because it is only in this place where you are stripped bare that you can actually be present with yourself.

    Ashlee Bunt, Consultant