Online counselling from Brisbane.

Plenty of people search "perinatal counsellor near me" or "online counsellor brisbane" even though they want online sessions. I get it. There's something steadying about feeling like the person on the other side of the screen is in your time zone, gets the weather, knows what suburb you're in.

I work entirely online, with women across Australia, including in Brisbane. I'm not in your city, but I'm in your country, in your time zone, sitting on your screen at the time we agreed. I know what's open at night here. I know the local hospitals you might have given birth in. That's the closeness I can offer.

What I can't pretend to be is your downstairs neighbour. If physical proximity matters to you — being in the same room, walking out together afterwards — an in-person counsellor in Brisbane is the right fit. That's a real thing, not a worse thing.

Brisbane mothers often have a particular geographic problem: the city sprawls, public transport is patchy, and what looks like a 15-kilometre drive on a map becomes a 50-minute crawl with a screaming infant. The "find an in-person perinatal counsellor near me" search returns three names with year-long waitlists and one private psychologist charging $300 a session. That's a real access gap.

I see clients who gave birth at the Mater Mothers' Hospital, the Royal Brisbane and Women's, Mater Springfield, and the bigger private hospitals — Greenslopes, North West, Wesley. Some have moved to Brisbane from Sydney or Melbourne and haven't yet built a village. Some have always been here and have a village, but the village doesn't talk about postnatal anxiety the way they need it to be talked about.

Queensland is also one of the states where perinatal mental health is most actively being worked on at a public-policy level — but the gap between policy and access can still be wide if you live further out from the central catchments.

These are the Brisbane services I'd point a client to depending on what they need. Many of them are free or subsidised. None of them duplicate what I offer — ongoing, private, one-on-one counselling — but they're a vital part of the broader support network.

Brisbane clients I see most often come for: pregnancy after loss, postnatal anxiety (especially first-time mothers in their early thirties), birth trauma from emergency caesareans or instrumental deliveries at the major hospitals, the matrescence work of identity shift in mums who moved interstate for a partner's work, and the broader anxiety that builds up under a long, hot Brisbane summer with a baby who won't sleep.

The Red Nose work I bring to private practice extends to Queensland clients too — Red Nose has a Brisbane presence, and the bereavement support work I've done with them sits underneath everything I do here.