General Services - Adults

RMB Psychology helps you develop a compassionate relationship with all parts of yourself. Using Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, we recognize that different parts of you have developed to help you navigate life - some parts may carry feelings of sadness or anxiety, while others work hard to protect you from overwhelming experiences. Perhaps you have parts that push you relentlessly, parts that doubt your worth, or parts that hold memories of trauma (both significant events and smaller, accumulated experiences).

Through IFS, we work to understand these parts with curiosity rather than judgment. You'll learn to access your Self - that wise, compassionate core within you - and from that place of Self-leadership, you can help burdened parts heal and find new, healthier roles. When parts are ready and feel safe enough, we use EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing) to help them release traumatic memories and beliefs they've been carrying, allowing for deep processing and healing. We also integrate Somatic Experiencing® (SE) to work with your body and nervous system, recognizing that trauma lives not just in your thoughts and memories, but in your physical being. SE helps protective parts learn to regulate and calms an overactive nervous system that may have been in survival mode for too long.

The lived experience, academic knowledge, and practical skills of RMB's principal psychologist will support you in building trust with your internal system, unburdening protective parts that may be exhausted from years of managing stress or workplace bullying, and helping wounded parts feel safe enough to heal. RMB Psychology works with adults only.

Emergency Service Personnel

As a first responder, you've likely developed incredibly strong protector parts - parts that help you stay focused in crisis, parts that keep emotions contained so you can do the job, parts that maintain vigilance for danger. These protectors have served you well operationally, but they may now be struggling with burnout or preventing you from connecting with loved ones when you're off duty. Your body may also be holding trauma responses - a nervous system stuck in high alert, chronic tension, or shutdown - that developed to help you survive repeated exposure to critical incidents.

RMB's Principal Psychologist understands this internal system intimately through 30 years of lived experience as an emergency first responder. She knows the parts that emerge in response to operational trauma, the parts activated by organizational dysfunction and workplace bullying, and the parts that carry the weight of things you've witnessed.

We use a combination of approaches tailored to your needs: IFS helps you understand and lead your internal system with compassion; EMDR - a gold standard, evidence-based treatment for PTSD - helps process specific traumatic incidents your parts have been holding; and Somatic Experiencing works with your body to release stored survival energy and restore nervous system regulation. Because she's culturally competent in emergency services culture, she understands why trust, confidentiality, and privacy matter so deeply to the protective parts of first responders. She can help you understand the constant internal pressures - not just external operational demands - whether you're a police officer, paramedic, firefighter, or emergency services volunteer.

Legal & Medical Professionals

Perhaps you're a doctor, nurse, or allied health professional whose caregiver parts have been working overtime for years, absorbing others' pain and trauma. You might notice parts that question your effectiveness, parts carrying compassion fatigue, or parts wondering about the meaning of your life's work. Your body may feel exhausted, depleted, or numb - signs that your nervous system has been overwhelmed by vicarious trauma. Maybe you work in the legal and justice system, and certain parts of you have been forced to witness disturbing testimony and evidence of horrific acts - parts that are now carrying images and stories you desperately want to unburden.

At RMB Psychology, we understand that your professional protector parts - the ones that help you stay composed, objective, and functional - may have isolated younger, more vulnerable parts that are overwhelmed by what you've seen and heard. Through Internal Family Systems therapy, we can help you access the compassionate Self-leadership needed to support these burdened parts. We integrate EMDR to process the specific distressing material your parts have been holding - the testimony you can't unhear, the images you can't unsee - allowing these memories to be reprocessed and stored in a way that no longer haunts you. Somatic Experiencing helps your body release the accumulated stress and trauma it's been carrying, restoring balance to a nervous system that may have been running on empty or stuck in freeze response.

Together, these evidence-based approaches work synergistically: IFS provides the framework for understanding your internal world with compassion, EMDR processes traumatic content when parts are ready, and SE helps your body feel safe again. This mind-body integration allows for deep, lasting healing.