Meet Nisha
Trauma-Informed Counsellor & Somatic Practitioner
“Life’s turning points often awaken strengths we didn’t know we had. I support individuals and couples through grief, relationship challenges, and major life transitions with compassion and trauma-informed care.”
Hi, I’m Nisha
I Came to This Work Through Lived Experiences
I’m Nisha Trivedi (she/her), an Australian PACFA Registered Clinical Counsellor, Somatic Practitioner, and certified Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator (TCTSY-F). Online counselling available across Australia in English, Hindi, and Gujarati.
Based in Brisbane, my work integrates counselling, somatic therapy, nervous system awareness, and relational understanding to support adults navigating grief, burnout, relational trauma, emotional overwhelm, fertility challenges, workplace stress, identity shifts, and life transitions.
Beyond my professional role, I am a person shaped by grief, cultural shifts, fertility challenges, and the strength of silent survival. Hence, I acknowledge that reaching out for support can take a lot of courage. My intention is to offer a grounded, compassionate, and collaborative space where you feel safe to explore your experiences at a pace that honours your story, relationships, and nervous system.
If this resonates, let’s connect and explore how I can support you on your path toward embodied healing and growth.
My Journey: From High-Functioning Survival to Embodied Healing
After nearly two decades in the corporate and government sectors, I was a woman who looked capable and composed on the outside, yet inside, I was carrying the invisible weight of cultural expectations, grief, fertility loss, and the constant pressure to hold everything together. Like many first-generation women, I knew how to survive. What I didn’t yet know was how to feel safe.
That began to change in 2017, when a health scare became a turning point. I started to recognise how unresolved trauma, chronic stress, and emotional suppression had been living in my body. I began to understand that holistic healing cannot be just a cognitive process; it must be embodied. It asks us to reconnect with our breath, our sensations, and the stories we carry within.
What followed was a slow, somatic, and deeply humbling process of relearning safety. Through trauma-informed counselling, body-based therapy, and nervous system regulation, I began to rebuild self-trust and feel at home in my body again.
“Trauma creates change you don't choose. Healing is about creating change you do choose.” - Michelle Rosenthal
These experiences reshaped my sense of self, cultivating deeper compassion and resilience. They sparked a dedication to healing that honours the entire person-mind, body, and spirit. This path led me to specialise in evidence-based, somatic, and culturally responsive care, enabling me to support others with genuine respect for their individual journeys. Through this holistic approach, I am committed to nurturing connection, growth, and meaningful transformation for those I serve.
Today, I sit beside my clients with reverence for what they carry and a grounded belief in the possibility of healing that lasts and healing that begins when we no longer have to carry it alone.
Thank you for taking the time to get to know me. I look forward to walking alongside you at New Leaf with Nisha.
Warmly,
Nisha
My Focus
I work with adults across Australia through online counselling and somatic therapy, supporting clients navigating grief, burnout, relational trauma, emotional overwhelm, cultural identity, workplace stress, and life transitions.
I have a special interest in supporting people through life transitions, because these moments often bring to the surface what has been carried quietly for years.
With compassionate somatic support, turning points become chances for integration, resilience, and self-leadership. Change often reveals hidden layers of developmental trauma, unnamed grief, and family or cultural patterns.
Research shows that transitions in relationships, fertility, career, migration, or identity can activate the nervous system in ways that echo earlier experiences.
“Life transitions remind us that healing often begins in moments of change.
This is where I love to meet people, in the in-between, when the old no longer fits and the new is still forming.”
My Embodied Values
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CONNECTION
Prioritising authentic relationships with self and others, creating a sense of belonging and being seen.
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WELL-BEING
Encouraging emotional, mental, and physical wellness through holistic approaches.
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GROWTH
Supporting personal and relational evolution with humility, self-awareness, and empowerment.
How I Work
Therapy with me is a collaborative, trauma informed, and relational process grounded in emotional safety, nervous system awareness, and cultural humility. Sessions create space to explore thoughts, emotions, body sensations, relationship patterns, and the ways earlier experiences may continue to shape present day coping, self trust, and connection with others.
My work is informed by somatic therapy, attachment aware practice, nervous system regulation, and Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY-F). Alongside what you share verbally, I also pay attention to how your body responds, supporting greater awareness of protective patterns, emotional responses, and internal experiences that may have developed over time.
I hold space with deep respect for human differences and recognise that each person’s experiences are shaped by relationships, culture, family systems, and life history. Rather than focusing on fixing or pathologising, therapy supports understanding, reflection, emotional regulation, relational safety, and more sustainable ways of relating to yourself and others.
Our work may include moments of grounding, mindful awareness, reflection, or gentle body based practices, always guided by choice, collaboration, and attunement to your needs.
Online counselling available across Australia in English, Hindi, and Gujarati.
Professional Experience
Nisha brings 23+ years of experience across counselling, workplace wellbeing, psychological safety, complex systems, and government settings. Her background includes work across Comcare, the Department of Home Affairs, TEQSA, and fertility support settings, alongside her current work as a PACFA Registered Clinical Counsellor and Somatic Practitioner.
Credentials & Trainings
I am committed to lifelong learning and continually deepening my understanding of evidence-based, trauma-focused care. My qualifications reflect a blend of clinical, somatic, and mindfulness-based training, shaped by both science and lived experience.
I have had the privilege of training with respected leaders and institutions in the fields of counselling and body-based healing. My qualifications include:
Master of Counselling | Monash University, Australia
Trauma Centre Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) | Center for Trauma and Embodiment at the Justice Resource Institute (JRI), Massachusetts, USA
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) | Externship and Core Skills with EFTTA, Australia
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) | Training with Dr Russ Harris| Dr. Russ Harris (author of The Happiness Trap)
Introduction to Relational Gestalt Therapy | Gestalt Therapy Brisbane, Australia
Motivational Interactions (MI) | Australian Psychological Society (APS), Australia
iRest Yoga Nidra Meditation Teacher Training Level 1 | iRest Institute, California, USA
Bachelor of Science | Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India
I engage in regular supervision and reflective practice to ensure my work remains attuned, ethical, and responsive.
Modalities I Integrate
I integrate and interweave a range of evidence-based and somatic approaches within trauma-informed counselling and body-based therapy to support whole-person healing from the inside out.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) – for building secure relational connection
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) – for values-based self-compassion
Internal Family Systems (IFS) – for healing inner parts with curiosity
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) – for awareness of thoughts and behaviours
Interpersonal Neurobiology – for understanding attachment and regulation
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) – for reconnection with the body through choice
iRest Yoga Nidra – for rest, integration, and nervous system balance
