Every offering at Creating Pathways is designed for people who are ready to do real work — at depth, over time.
Below you'll find the different ways we can work together. If you're unsure which is right for you, a free discovery call is always the best place to start.
Gestalt psychotherapy is a somatic, body-centred approach that works with the whole person — not just the presenting problem. For people navigating trauma, life transitions, relationship difficulties, or the felt sense that something deeper wants to shift.
This is not just talking. It goes into the body, the nervous system, and the places where real change happens.
In person · Thornbury, Melbourne
Somatic Experiencing works directly with the nervous system to resolve the physical patterns that trauma leaves behind. Long after the mind has moved on, the body keeps the score.
SE helps your body complete what it never got to finish — gently, at your own pace, and without needing to retell the story.
In person · Thornbury, Melbourne
Preparation and integration support for people exploring or having explored non-ordinary states and plant medicine experiences. For those who want to make meaning of what they encountered — and actually live it.
One on one, in depth, over time. This work honours the experience while helping you bring it home.
In person · Thornbury, Melbourne
Small group retreats held on my property in Chewton, Central Victoria — a place of gathering that has held people on this land for centuries.
These are not weekend workshops. They are genuine containers for deep work — built over days, held with ceremony, intention, and care. For people ready to go somewhere they haven't been able to go alone.
Chewton, Central Victoria · Small groups
A deep commitment to yourself. Three immersive retreats woven together with fortnightly Zoom sessions across 18 weeks — a container for the kind of sustained inner work that creates lasting transformation.
For people who are done with surface-level healing and ready to go all the way. Small group. Intimate. Life changing.
Online and in person · Intake by application
Multi-day immersive trainings for therapists, psychologists, and practitioners curious about the intersection of developmental trauma, somatic work, relational safety, and plant medicine.
Built around the understanding that safety is somatic, relational, and cumulative — and that the container you build before ceremony day is itself the work.
Chewton, Central Victoria · Expressions of interest open
If you need someone to help you work through life’s challenges, Bec is the perfect choice. She’s definitely changed our perception of counsellors after some pretty ordinary experiences in the past.
Bec’s appointments are human, not clinical – there’s no obvious “checklist questions” & conversations just flow wherever they go with a few gentle redirections back to the points at hand if needed. Bec is easy to talk with (even for those of us who don’t like opening up). Her room is welcoming & far from a typical “medical” room making for a much more relaxed environment. Bec is happy to share her own stories as part of discussions if & when relevant which helps making you more comfortable & willing to open up.
If you are looking for someone kind & caring, supportive & encouraging, then touch base with Bec.
We’d be in more of a pickle without her on our journey!
- Rachel & Paddy
George Elliot
Gestalt psychotherapy is a body-aware, present-moment approach to therapy that works with the whole person — mind, body, and nervous system. It is particularly effective for people navigating relationship difficulties, trauma, life transitions, and long-held patterns that haven't shifted with other approaches. Sessions are held in person in Thornbury, Melbourne.
At the heart of Gestalt therapy is awareness — of how you think, feel, and move through the world right now, in this moment. Rather than analysing the past from a distance, Gestalt asks: what are you experiencing right now? And what does that tell us?
It is a deeply relational approach. What happens between us in the room — the moments of connection, tension, recognition — becomes the material we work with.
Most people who find their way to me have already done therapy. They understand their patterns intellectually. And yet something still feels stuck.
Gestalt works differently. It goes into the body, the nervous system, the places that words alone don't reach. You don't need to retell your story. You need to be met in it — with presence, curiosity, and genuine care.
Relationships are at the core of most of the work I do — whether that's a relationship breakdown, family dynamics, struggles in intimate partnerships, or the patterns that keep showing up across different relationships.
I also work with people navigating trauma, life transitions, and the quiet but persistent sense that something needs to shift.
A space to be heard. Really heard.
Not advised. Not fixed. Just met — by someone who remembers the small details, who reflects back what you've said in a way that makes you feel genuinely understood.
I believe the capacity to heal lives within you. My role is not to fix you but to walk alongside you — with presence, curiosity, and complete non-judgement — while you find your own way back to yourself.
With both intense life changes as well as daily struggles in my life over the last couple of years, I have found Becky to be a deeply kind, active-listener with mindful and considered wisdom. Her model of therapy offers a safe space for reflection and personal growth and I couldn't recommend her highly enough.
Antonella
Adyashanti
Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a body-based approach to healing trauma and nervous system dysregulation. It works directly with physical sensation, awareness, and the body's own intelligence to resolve what talk therapy alone sometimes cannot reach. Available in person in Thornbury, Melbourne.
I often say that SE is not a modality — it's a lens.
Gestalt psychotherapy is my foundation. Somatic Experiencing is the way I bring the body's story into the room. Because the body always has a story. And it is often a very different story to the one the mind has been telling.
In practice this might look like slowing down. Paying attention to what's happening in your body as you speak. Noticing sensations — tightness, warmth, heaviness, aliveness. Following those sensations rather than the narrative. Letting the body lead.
Usually people who have already done therapy. Who understand themselves intellectually. Who have talked about what happened — possibly many times — and still feel stuck.
Sometimes there are physical symptoms that don't have a clear medical explanation. Sometimes there's a sense of being too much in the head and not enough in the body. Sometimes it's simply that something hasn't shifted, and they know it needs to.
These are the people SE is for.
SE helps you become aware of sensation in your body — where you hold tension, where you feel numb, where something is trying to move but can't quite get there.
It builds your capacity to regulate your own nervous system. To come out of the freeze, the hypervigilance, the chronic activation that trauma leaves behind.
And it brings awareness to where trauma is held in the body — not to relive it, but to help the body finally complete what it never got to finish.
“Within a couple of sessions, Becky's calm and practical advice, the strategies she shared and the safe, open and receptive approach, had me feeling better about work and able to work through issues that had been suppressed for decades. Her flexibility, availability and client driven approach was pivotal in my ability to deal with barriers and challenges in my life and enable me to grow into a healthier, happier and more productive individual; all of which had a positive influence in both my personal and professional life.”
SAMANTHA
Rumi
Psychedelic integration is the therapeutic process of preparing for, navigating, and making meaning of psychedelic experiences. It supports people to approach these experiences with intention — and to integrate what they encounter into their everyday lives. Available one on one, in person in Thornbury, Melbourne.
Psychedelic integration encompasses the whole journey — before, during, and after.
When someone chooses to work with psychedelics intentionally, the experience itself is only one part of the process. Preparation, set and setting, intention, and what happens in the weeks and months that follow — this is where the real work lives.
Without integration, even the most profound experience can fade, become confusing, or feel impossible to translate into ordinary life. Psychedelics often deliver wisdom and healing in metaphoric, symbolic, or deeply felt ways that need careful unpacking. Integration is how you make sense of what you encountered — and how you actually live it.
I work with people from all walks of life.
Some are carrying immense trauma — PTSD, CPTSD, years of trying everything and still feeling stuck. Some have had spontaneous or recreational experiences that opened something unexpected and don't know what to do with it. Some are simply on the path of personal development — wanting to deepen their relationship with themselves, move past blockages, or connect with a higher sense of who they are.
What they share is a readiness to go somewhere real.
Preparation is about getting clear.
Why are you doing this? What do you want from this experience? What's the pain point — what needs to shift, what do you want to feel differently about, how do you want your life to be different on the other side?
From that exploration we land on a clear, succinct intention for the journey. That intention becomes the thread you carry in — and the thread that guides the integration work that follows.
Set and setting matter enormously. Who you are when you walk in, the safety of the space, the quality of support around you — these shape everything that happens.
Integration is the slow, sometimes unglamorous work of letting what you were shown actually change how you live.
It might mean working with images, symbols, or felt sensations from the experience. It might mean sitting with something that doesn't yet have words. It might mean making changes — to relationships, to patterns, to the way you inhabit your own life.
I bring Gestalt psychotherapy, Somatic Experiencing, and seven years of sitting with people through these thresholds to every integration session. This is nuanced, careful, deeply personalised work.
The experience opens a door. Integration is everything that happens after you walk through it.
“I have been having regular psychedelic integration sessions with Becky after a recent journey uncovered a memory of childhood sexual abuse (that occurred 50 years prior). During integration, Becky has been by my side every step of the way, offering wise counsel, loving care, and empowering words and practices to assist me to continue processing this material, but not stay ‘stuck’ there. Her encouragement, kindness, insight, empathy and professionalism are ‘gold’ and are proof, for me, that the therapeutic relationship itself can be a key ingredient in one’s healing. Carl Rogers named it – ‘unconditional positive regard, empathy and congruence’ – Becky offers this…and more. Forever grateful”
FIONA
Creating Pathways retreats are small group immersive experiences held on Becky's property in Chewton, Central Victoria. Three to four days of deep inner work — held with ceremony, intention, and care. Residential, catered, and limited to nine participants. Retreats start from $1800.
A retreat is not a workshop. It is not a series of presentations or a schedule of activities.
It is a container — a held space where something different becomes possible.
Over three to four days we sit in circle, connect with the land, share meals, move through ceremony, make art, and go to the places that ordinary life doesn't leave room for. The four day retreats hold something particularly special — by day three people have dropped in deeply, and what becomes possible in that space is unlike anything a single day can touch.
The property in Chewton sits on ancient land anchored by a grandmother eucalyptus tree over 200 years old — a place of gathering long before the retreats began. The house is warm, the beds are comfortable, and the food is beautiful.
You will be held here. Fully.
People who are ready to go somewhere they haven't been able to go alone.
You may have done therapy, read the books, understood your patterns. And still something wants to shift at a deeper level. The retreat container — days of shared vulnerability, nature, ceremony, and genuine community — creates a safety that allows people to access parts of themselves that weekly sessions rarely reach.
Maximum nine participants. Always intimate. Always real.
All meals — nourishing, beautiful, and carefully prepared Comfortable accommodation on the property Ceremony and ritual throughout Art therapy and somatic practices Connection with the land and nature Small group — maximum nine people
I am currently planning my next retreat dates for July/August. If you'd like to be the first to know when dates are released — or if you'd like to register your interest for a specific type of retreat — I'd love to hear from you.
