Meet Sacha and what he brings to the With Heart and Grace team…
Available face to face in NSW Northern Rivers, with 15 years of frontline community work and volunteer roles.
“I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion, and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies” Ram Das
We Rise by Lifting Others
You know yourself better than anyone else does. Therefore you already have the tools and knowledge within to bring healing and happiness into your life and your community; to go confidently in the direction of your dreams and to live the life you have imagined.
We will walk side by side collaboratively, mindfully, and compassionately to allow safe exploration and unpacking of identified areas of mental, physical, and spiritual concern and obstacles. We will cultivate, raise, and uplift your self-awareness, enabling a beautiful pathway to emerge which realises your happiness and wellbeing.
My therapeutic framework is multidisciplinary, relational, and holistic. It primarily encompasses Rogerian (person-centred) therapy, as well as engaging narrative therapy, existentialism, ecopsychology, and mindfulness. This is a person-centred, harm-reduction, strength-based framework to enable an alignment of your morals, ethics, and spirit.
Discover who is Sacha?
I believe in kindness and compassion, dignity and justice, equity and empathy, holism, collaboration, and the power of community. I embody this through my professional and personal life; this embodiment helps to enact real, substantive, and authentic change at individual and structural levels while serving community.
I bring to you 15 years of frontline community work and volunteer roles. I’m an advocate and educator promoting inclusion not exclusion, acknowledging inequality and injustice as preconditions for promoting human development – and that collaboration, not competition, is the basis of all life.
These ideals are encapsulated within the constructs of regenerative cultural design and living systems theory to enable individual healing, as well as political and sectoral change.
A believer of kindness, compassion, dignity, justice, equity, empathy, holism, collaboration and the power of community which I embody throughout my professional and personal life
Areas of Specialisation
- Stress, Anxiety & Depression
- Family & Domestic Violence
- Disability Support & Education
- Substance Use & Dependency
- Complex Trauma
- Youth Mental Health
- LGBTQIA+
- Supervision & Personal Growth
- Relationship Development & Family Relations
- Identity & Gender
- Equitable Social Capital Development
- Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
- Conflict Management & Resolution
- Health Systems Strengthening & Delivery
- Access & Inclusivity
- Public Speaking
- The Ethics of Care
- Communication & Education Development
- Complex Systems Analysis & Development
- Justice Doing & Power Dynamics
- Decolonisation & Human Rights
- Environmental Politics & Gaia Theory
- Regenerative Cultural Design
- Political Economy & Political Policy
Skill set summary
- Counsellor and Therapist – Face to Face & Synchronous Telehealth
- Senior Social Educator Disability Services
- Social Justice Warrior
- Community Project Officer
- Domestic Violence Case Worker
- Youth Homelessness Case Worker
- Crisis Worker
- Outreach Mental Health Worker
- Assertive Homeless Outreach Representative with the City of Sydney and Inner West Councils
- Reflective Practice Facilitator and Educator
- Highly Developed Emotional Intelligence, Communication and Leadership Skills
Qualifications and Experience
- Master of Development Studies – the University of Sydney
- Bachelor of Counselling – the Australian College of Applied Psychology
- Advanced Diploma of Music Production – JMC Academy
- 2021 New South Wales Volunteer of the Year – Mid Western Sydney (Newtown Neighbourhood Centre Volunteer Counsellors)
- Individual and Group Counselling
- Community Project Management
- Reconciliation Action Plan Committee Member
- Inner West Domestic Violence Committee
- High Level Network and Channel Development
- 15 years of Community Volunteer Roles
- Reflective Practice and Mindfulness Facilitator
- SMART Recovery Facilitator
- Solution Focused Justice Doing Intersectional Case and Social Work
- Individual and Group Counselling
- Systems and Operational Analyst
- Percussionist and Passionate Music and Arts Enthusiast
- Current Criminal History Check and Working with Children Check