David Nancarrow
Counselling and Mental Health:
With over 25 years of experience, David Nancarrow has worked extensively in the counselling and mental health sector. His role as a Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner in Family Law demonstrates his expertise in resolving family conflicts.
Managing a Mental Health organization using the ‘Boston Model’ of recovery highlights his commitment to evidence-based practices.
Providing professional supervision to counsellors and being registered with the Australian Counselling Association further underscores his dedication to professional development.
Corporate Sector and Workplace Culture:
David’s work in the corporate sector, particularly in developing healthier work cultures, is commendable. Cultivating positive work environments is crucial for employee well-being and productivity.
His focus on the ‘Core Value Approach’ model, which connects staff back to business values, shows his innovative thinking in organizational dynamics.
Oversees employee assistance programs.
Training and Mediation:
As a qualified TAE trainer, David delivers essential training on critical incidents, suicide prevention, mental health workplaces, communication, and more.
His role as a workplace mediator demonstrates his ability to resolve conflicts effectively, contributing to harmonious work environments.
Leadership Coaching:
Offering one-on-one senior-level people management coaching is valuable for equipping leaders and teams to improve their workplace dynamics.
Overall, David Nancarrow’s multifaceted career showcases his commitment to promoting mental health, fostering positive workplaces, and enhancing professional development. His impact extends to both individual counselling and organizational well-being.
Sabine Vogel
Sabine has a Master in Psychotherapy, a Diploma in Counselling, and a Diploma in Kinesiology and is based on the Sunshine Coast in QLD. Her experience is working with children who experienced and witnessed Domestic Family Violence and abuse.
Sabine is seeing children and young people using music, art, symbols, play therapy. Sabine is supporting children and young people to regulate and communicate their emotions and strengthening their support and resilience. Her field of expertise is anxiety and depression in children and young people.
With a warm, caring approach Sabine aims to create a space in which children and young people feel welcomed, accepted, and safe to explore their experiences.
TINA
Tina is a qualified Counsellor and Psychotherapist with more than 17 years of clinical experience, delivering and applying a wide range of evidence-based mental health and well being interventions across diverse client groups and settings. Her professional practice incorporates modalities grounded in current research, tailored to support individuals, couples, and groups in achieving sustainable emotional and psychological well being.
Tina has over six years of experience working within private mental health retreats and residential recovery facilities, providing both group and individual therapeutic services. Her work in these intensive environments has strengthened her expertise in supporting clients presenting with complex mental health needs, stress, trauma, addiction, relationship difficulties, and life-transition challenges.
She has also contributed significantly to community services through her role with UnitingCare, working within the Parent Support Program. In this position, Tina supported parents and carers through counselling, psychoeducation, case support, and the facilitation of educational and skills-building programs designed to promote healthier family relationships and resilience.
In addition, Tina has co-facilitate professional training in Family systemic therapy to grow of understanding relational patterns, improving communication, strengthening connections, and building functional, supportive family systems. This group-based work further enhances her capacity to deliver collaborative, structured, and outcome-focused interventions in a therapeutic group environment.
For the past three years, Tina has been the co-owner of Suncoast Counselling, overseeing business operations while continuing to provide high-quality therapeutic services. In addition to her private practice work with individuals and couples, she delivers services to multiple Employee Assistance Program (EAP) providers, offering short-term solution-focused interventions to employees across various industries.
Tina’s extensive experience, combined with her compassionate approach and commitment to evidence-based practice, ensures she delivers professional, ethical, and effective support to clients and stakeholders alike.
MEL
With over 15 years of experience in Family Constellations, Mel remains as passionate today as when she first began. Having learned from multiple teachers and refined her own unique approach, Mel focuses on addressing deep-seated cultural and family dynamics, helping participants reconnect with their ancestral strength and voice important truths.
In addition to her work in constellations, Mel's background in psychology, psychotherapy, and Emotion-Focused Therapy shapes her private practice, where she specializes in trauma, addiction, and couples' issues. She is deeply committed to using her lived experience to bridge cultural and linguistic divides.
Born and raised in Bavaria, Germany, Mel moved to Australia in 2006. As a nature lover, gardener, and mother of three boys, she understands the challenges of immigrating, bilingualism, and blended families.