Vanessa Thomas, AASW

Vanessa Thomas is an AASW-credentialed social worker based in Queensland, Australia, with three years of clinical experience supporting people through personal, relational and systemic challenges. She has worked with survivors of trauma, people living with complex mental illness, and those navigating everyday life difficulties such as anxiety, grief and relationship strain. Vanessa brings a person-centered, trauma-informed lens to her practice and focuses on building strengths and clarifying values to support meaningful change.

She integrates a range of therapeutic techniques - including parts work, mindfulness practices, motivational interviewing and values-focused work - and weaves in established modalities like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, somatic therapy and reality therapy. Sessions are tailored to client-defined goals and use a strengths-based process to foster practical coping skills and deeper emotional processing.

Vanessa works collaboratively with people to address issues such as stress, depression, self-esteem, compassion fatigue, parenting and workplace concerns, alongside trauma-related difficulties, dissociation and codependency. She aims to create an empathic, nonjudgmental therapeutic environment that supports growth, resilience and a richer sense of purpose.

Vanessa holds AASW - membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers. Please note she practices from Queensland and people based in Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory may experience scheduling challenges due to time differences.