I’m Naomi

I have created Kasi Therapies to support people to live their best life. I believe that life is beautiful.  It’s also chaotic and it’s messy, raw and real and then it can be expansive and amazing again: but sometimes it’s just, hard… While we live within networks and communities - even when we’re surrounded by people we can still feel like we’re alone - yet we’re not meant to work everything out on our own!

So many experiences are woven throughout my life that bring me to this point in time: study, training and work; growing flowers, veggies and a family of three beautiful boys. I have surfed and traveled widely, landing on the beautiful south coast of NSW in the Milton-Ulladulla area with an amazing community of friends. There is room here to play outside in nature for days and I feel so lucky to be here!  I have had my challenges and also been blessed with incredible mentors, teachers and people who have believed in me along the way.

I bring ALL OF IT to my world view and my work. I’m here to support you on your journey, bringing the tools and strategies I have learned in my training and my life as an offering. 

I work out of a beautiful studio in Milton, a shared space that I cohabit - created with attention to detail and love by Monica of Wyld Spaces.

  • Welcome to our Studio

I specialise in working with:

Women:

  • Providing you a space in which you feel seen and heard

  • Strategies for dealing with stress and overwhelm

  • Working to address core beliefs and blocks to your confidence

  • Trauma and PTSD

  • Grief and loss work

  • Addressing the impacts of intimate partner violence

  • Support with navigating life transitions including: becoming a mum, peri-menopause, breakdown of relationships and ageing

  • Providing evidence-based strategies that address mental health concerns including anxiety, depression and mood disorders

Young people:

  • Developing self-confidence and self-esteem

  • Navigating life transitions including puberty

  • Working with body image

  • Working with identity & exploring your sexuality - LGBTIQ inclusive

  • Trauma and PTSD

  • Self-harming behaviours

  • Social skills training

  • Communication skills training

  • Autism and ADHD

  • Evidence-based strategies to address anxiety, depression and mood disorders

Parents:

  • Parenting skills support: developing confidence in your parenting

  • Providing you an outlet to feel seen and heard

  • Pre-natal and post-partum support

  • Grief and loss support

  • Support for parents of young people who have a disability

Veterans:

  • Providing you a space in which you feel seen and heard

  • Working to address the impacts of trauma and PTSD

  • Grief and loss work

  • Support with navigating life transitions

  • Providing evidence-based strategies that address mental health concerns including anxiety, depression and mood disorders

Professional Qualifications:

  • Master of Social Work (Q) (2020) - Monash University

  • Diploma in Transpersonal Art Therapy (2012) - College of Complementary Medicine

  • Bachelor of Science (Ecology)(1999) - University of Wollongong

My Approach:

My clinical work is client-centred, strengths-based and trauma-informed:  I believe that everyone has their own unique wisdom and knowledge about what they need to do to thrive. It is my role to support people who come to see me to build on their innate strengths while I introduce strategies and supports to scaffold around the parts of their life that are not working.

Mental health and wellbeing is my passion and I am constantly researching and pursuing further training and professional development to expand on my knowledge base. I am not the expert in anyone else’s life, however I will share the ‘toolbox’ of strategies I have learned during my training with you, as I walk beside you on your journey to health.  

I am endlessly curious and fascinated by the complexity, the perfection and the imperfection that makes us human; and creativity and a lifelong love of art, music and exploring natural environments is integral to who I am and is woven throughout my approach to my work.