About Me

Based on the Fraser Coast, Hervey Bay, QLD, I offer face to face and some online sessions (depending on the session format), for individuals. I also facilitate group workshops and can do ceremony and ritual work. 

Hey, I’m Tanya and I am fascinated with healing, empowerment,  and self-awareness. I love self-discovery, and the innate power each of us has inside of us. My aim is to create a safe, nurturing and therapeutic space for you, to be able to freely express all parts of you. Be Everything Therapies is about expressing everything that needs to be expressed, so you can be everything you would like to be.  We cannot be everything when we have core wounds, belief’s and stories blocking our way. I use Expressive Therapies as my core modality, as I have found it to be one of the best ways to understand the self, and express the oppressed and unsupported parts of ourself. This enables us to heal holistically and support all parts of ourselves, physically, mentally emotionally and spiritually.  

When we can express ourselves in ways that align with our authentic selves, we can process and integrate safely, in ways that help us grow, understand ourselves, make positive change, and see ourselves and our challenges in a different light. A way that is calmer, kinder, healthier, balanced and best of all it improves our relationships first and foremost with our selves and then with our loved ones.  We all have the power within us to heal, we may need a supportive guiding hand, to hold us for a while, until we find our feet, our grounding to be able to hold ourselves again. 

I love working symbolically, with symbols whether they be a physical symbol, a word, a colour, a shape or a combination. Sometimes it can be moving the body or using music or rhythm. Sometimes poetry can help to shift the way trauma is held in the body. It is no wonder that I am drawn to this way of healing. There is no ONE way of healing. 

You know when the path you are walking is healing you, because you stop looking back at what happened and you start looking forward to what’s coming.  Kate Spencer

I do what I do because, I have been on my own personal journey. Had my own therapy, and sought complimentary therapy to help me heal.  I have been on retreats, had others hold space for me and learnt what works best for me along the way. I intuitively used art to work through my pain. I have learnt many different modalities within my own healing space using: art, expressive therapies, symbols for storytelling, expressive writing and journaling, using visualisation and mindfulness, as well as crystal therapy and kinesiology along the way. My aim is to support you, on your own journey, in whatever form that feels right for you, so you can find your safe space to be everything so you can shine your light, in the world.  Being free to reach your potential, live your life on purpose, with empowered intuition and connection to your body to reclaim your heart, your life and your voice.

More things about me:

• I love to dance, I love embodied dancing and do it as often as I can, even if this means at home while cooking dinner
• I love crystals … I have loved them since I was 16, they call and sing to me, I always come back to their cool vibey essence
• I love creating and making things, being crafty and arty in many ways .. learning different ways to express myself .. (this is an ongoing journey, that I hope never ends ..)

The Symbols I have chosen:

I think it is only right that we explore the symbols I have chosen as part of my logo, especially since symbols are such an important part in the work that I do.

Infinity Symbol: Has no beginning and no end. It is the universal connectedness and flow of everything, life  love and spirit have no beginning and no end. Infinity notes connection to all. For me, it is a sideways number 8. Eight in numerology depicts balance between the physical and spiritual worlds, continuous cycles of giving and receiving, about using our resources wisely and turning our challenges into opportunities. The infinity symbol represents the every changing wisdom we each hold. We go through many cycles, but our spirit, our very essence, is what stabilises us, giving us strength and courage to continue on our journey to everlasting love.

Dragonfly: represents transformation, change and new beginnings. Being adaptable in our own life, starts in water (emotion) and can stay underwater for up to 4 years. When the conditions are right it will grow wings to take off  and fly in the sky (air). The dragonfly has been around for 300 million years. The dragonfly represents the power we each hold, to transform our beliefs and patterns the stories we were told and we tell ourselves. The dragonfly holds the key to infinite wisdom, to our very cerebral life (our human identity). Embrace life and live it fully. We are here to lessen the load of the stories you hold and carry. Once the baggage is gone, you can fly and experience life more freely.

Lemurian Star: or Star of Bethlehem, (placed at front and behind dragonfly), is an 8 pointed star, meant to guide and connect you to the four Emissaries of LOVE (Living One Vibrational Energy): Emissary of Light (represents expressing inner truth, acting as a representative of universal love), Emissary of Kindness (represents being gentle care and helpful, understanding and grace) Emissary of Remission (represents expressing lesser intensity, or when something subsides or is more manageable) and Emissary of courage (represents being brave to face our own pain or grief or something that frightens us, perhaps our own fear). The Lemurian Star is the seed of grace and longevity. It is around to show you the many directions you can go. But remember to face the one that brings you the most light. The light within you, the light that shines brightly. Your own essence is worth listening to! 

Qualifications:

I have worked in various roles within my career so far, each one teaching me more and more about how I want to work with people to support them in their life:

Therapy is a gift. It is a chance to finally be heard, understood and supported.

Bessel Van Der Kolk