Counsellor · Sydney · Virtual Sessions Internationally

"Real change happens when you can finally feel what you've been thinking about for years."

Amy Shi

Body-based counselling for professionals and entrepreneurs navigating burnout and disconnection.

You may already understand yourself very well. You know your patterns, done the thinking. You've analysed why you are the way you are.

And still, you feel on edge, tired, disconnected.

The Work

Real change doesn't come from more insight

It comes when there's enough safety to finally feel what's been held for years.

My work is with professionals and entrepreneurs experiencing burnout and disconnection. Many have tried traditional therapy but found that understanding their patterns cognitively wasn't enough to shift them.

When you've spent years being the responsible one, the capable one, the fixer—you learn to live from your neck up. You become skilled at analysing, planning, solving, but disconnected from what you're actually feeling.

This work focuses on:

Present-moment awareness—what's actually happening in your body

Where you lose contact with yourself

How you've learned to disconnect as a survival strategy

How to come back

You:

You're stuck in patterns that aren't serving you and finding it difficult to shift them on your own. You're mentally cluttered, emotionally exhausted, and feel disconnected, both from yourself and from genuine intimacy with others. You're looking for a way to finally feel different, not just think differently.

Me:

I provide a space where you don't have to perform competence or stay composed. Where insight isn't the goal—presence is. We work with what happens in your body, not just what you think about it. I help you clear the mental static, calm your nervous system, and access what neck up understanding alone can't reach.

We:

Together we slow down enough to notice what you've been moving too fast to feel. Where you tense, where you shut down, where you've learnt to override yourself to stay functional. We build the capacity to actually feel what you've been thinking about for years. This is where real, deep in your gut kind of change begins.

How We Work

Individual sessions · 60 minutes

Virtual or in-person (Sydney)

Individual sessions start at $175

Legal Trauma Counselling and Preparation & Integration Support also available

If this resonates, let's talk

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