Online counselling from Sydney.

Plenty of people search "perinatal counsellor near me" or "online counsellor sydney" even though they want online sessions. I get it. There's something steadying about feeling like the person on the other side of the screen is in your time zone, gets the weather, knows what suburb you're in.

I work entirely online, with women across Australia, including in Sydney. I'm not in your city, but I'm in your country, in your time zone, sitting on your screen at the time we agreed. I know what's open at night here. I know the local hospitals you might have given birth in. That's the closeness I can offer.

What I can't pretend to be is your downstairs neighbour. If physical proximity matters to you — being in the same room, walking out together afterwards — an in-person counsellor in Sydney is the right fit. That's a real thing, not a worse thing.

Sydney mothers carry a particular load. The cost of childcare. The hour each way to the in-laws. The sense, sometimes, that everyone else has a Bondi-walk photograph life and you're trying to figure out how to feed a baby on a balcony with no shade. Real isolation, often hidden behind a postcode that the rest of the country reads as enviable.

I see clients from across the city — North Shore, Inner West, Eastern Suburbs, Sutherland, the Hills, Western Sydney. The women who book most often have given birth at the Royal Hospital for Women, Royal Prince Alfred, the Mater, or Westmead, and want to talk about what happened there. Or they're pregnant after a loss. Or they moved to Sydney for work years ago and haven't built a real village.

Australia's east coast also means we're in the same time zone — sessions at 9am or 4pm Sydney time work cleanly without anyone calculating a time difference. Good for school pickup logistics. Good for a partner who can't watch the baby during their own work hours.

These are the Sydney services I'd point a client to depending on what they need. Many of them are free or subsidised. None of them duplicate what I offer — ongoing, private, one-on-one counselling — but they're a vital part of the broader support network.

The Sydney clients I see most commonly come for: pregnancy after a loss, postnatal anxiety that started during the lockdown years and never quite switched off, birth trauma from a high-intervention birth at one of the major tertiary hospitals, the identity reshaping of having a baby far from family (especially clients whose families are in the UK, in Asia, or in Italy — a thread I notice). And the broader anxiety of running a household in a city that asks a lot of you.

For perinatal grief specifically — pregnancy loss, stillbirth, infant loss — I bring my Red Nose work into private practice, and Sydney is one of the cities Red Nose runs in-person groups in if you'd like both threads of support.