Team
Hope and Heal is a collective of dedicated and qualified professionals. All with lived experience who have come together to create a program that changes lives.
Nadine Taylor
Founder
Urban & Weekend Retreat Facilitator
Nadine founded H&H with the vision of healing and empowering women who have experienced domestic violence, trauma and abuse. As a dedicated Clinical Nurse with a 30-year journey in diverse clinical settings and extensive medical expertise, she encompasses a profound understanding of trauma and trauma-informed care.
Nadine is a certified Mental Health First Aider, embodying her commitment to holistic well-being and recognizing the importance of mental and emotional healing. She is also a certified Yoga Nidra and Meditation Facilitator and holds certifications as a Reiki 1 and 2 Practitioner and is a Certified Crystal Healing Practitioner.
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Jan Christie
Counsellor & Educator
Weekend Retreat Facilitator
For over two decades Jan has worked with women and children in the domestic and family violence field in a variety of services including specialist trauma counselling.
Her focus is helping women understand the impact their experience of trauma has had on their brain and their body. Women’s stories and feedback have informed Jan in the development of her therapeutic and educational workshops, concentrating on the neuroscience of trauma and strategies for empowerment.
BA. Psychology
Grad. Dip. Counselling
Grad. Cert. Developmental Trauma
Trace Nikitaras
Trauma Informed Yoga Therapist and Breathwork Facilitator
Weekend Retreat Facilitator
Trace is a certified Yoga Therapist, Functional and Therapeutic Breath Retraining Therapist
and Sound Therapy Practitioner. Combining professional knowledge with an intuitive and
personalised approach, she draws on gentle movement, therapeutic breathwork and
sound practices to support relaxation, nervous system regulation, balance and inner
calm.
With warmth and compassion, Trace supports participants to slow down, reconnect with their breath and body, and explore practices that can encourage a greater sense of ease, restoration and wellbeing.
Anna Kellerman
Art Therapist & Educator
Weekend Retreat Facilitator
Anna is a trained art educator, with a Bachelor of Art Education, majoring in Educational Psychology, and a registered clinical art psychotherapist with a Masters in Art Therapy. She is currently a tertiary lecturer at the Ikon Institute of Australia, and a clinical supervisor guiding and supporting emerging therapists. She has also worked, both in Australia and Europe, as a qualitative research specialist for 20+ years.
Anna has been working with families, children and adolescents with a range of emotional and behavioural presentations for over 15 years. Her areas of interest and expertise include working with children and anxiety presentations, trauma, grief and loss, parental separation, and domestic violence.
Anna runs art therapy groups for adults in an inpatient ward at a private hospital and at an aged care facility. She has also developed a 10 week art therapy program for outpatients as well as for women from domestic violence backgrounds. She uses a trauma-based approach which focuses on empowering clients with supportive coping skills to help manage lifelong issues. These can include working with expressive materials such as clay, paint and water, or more containing structured activities. The main themes Anna works with relate to safety, building trust and resilience, ways to regulate emotions, connecting with their creative spirit and having some fun along the way.
Over the years, in her various roles, Anna has facilitated hundreds of workshops, classes and groups with adults, children and adolescents in a range of settings. She loves facilitating opportunities for people to connect with the creative process as a powerful process for personal transformation.
Taylor Baker
Admin Assistant
My passion is to contribute and work collaboratively with organisations, like Hope & Heal, that strives to improve a community’s needs, support services for women, and/or an individual's quality of life.
As an International Relations, Development, and Culture Studies Graduate from Macquarie University, I have acquired extensive experience working within administration, customer care, event and project management, and case management roles across the international aid, community development, non for profit, employment services, and disability/aged care sector.
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Celeste Heazlett
Massage Healer
Weekend Retreat Facilitator