Brenda is a Holistic Counsellor, Founder & Director of The Awakening Group Pty Ltd. She founded the first accredited Holistic Counsellor training program in Australia integrating Systemic and Structural Constellation work.

Over the past 37 years Brenda has taught at universities, lectured at conferences, appeared on TV and radio, written for magazines and conducted seminars throughout Australia and NZ. She has facilitated many workshops for private, corporate and governmental organizations on personal growth and professional development including the use of Organisational Constellations.

Throughout her career Brenda has combined her personal commitment to her own self growth and extensive, yet unique, professional training including Psychology, EMDR, Sensorimotor Art Therapy, Tantra, Eco-psychology, Kinesiology, Family & Organizational Constellation with world renowned facilitators (Dr Gunthard Weber, Dr Albrecht Mahr, Dr Guni Baxa, Dr Ursula Franke, Jakob Schneider, Dr Jane Peterson, Ed Lynch, Stephan Hausner etc). Furthermore, Brenda has trained with Bessel van de Kolk (one of the worlds leading trauma experts), Peter Levine as well as Pat Odgen in body centred psychotherapy. She has also trained in The Work of Byron Katie and is an Effectiveness (Communication) Training instructor.

Brenda combines the latest neuroscience, attachment styles, arousal regulation, memory reconstruction techniques having trained as a PACT Level 1 Couples counsellor with Dr Stan Tatkin, the Founder of the Psychobiological Approach for Couple Therapy. Recently she has completed training in Sensorimotor Art Therapy and combines this with other modalities to work with trauma.

Combining her experience as one of top Tantra teachers in Australia in the 90s and a pioneering counsellor training organisation Brenda develops unique processes combining techniques to elicit dynamic change in clients in a short period of time. For instance her 2018 Australasian Systemic Conference presentation of “My Sexual Self and I” combined research on womens’ Unique Sexual Arousal System (Emily Nagoski’s work) with Internal Family Systems Therapy (Richard Schwartz) and Structural Constellations to disentangle social conditioning, beliefs and familial loyalties affecting womens’ experience of sex and their sexual brakes. Her 2021 presentation ‘Healing Sexual Abuse Trauma from a Systemic Perspective’ combined systemic principles with unique movements that liberated participants.

Furthermore Brenda developed a technique, ‘Walking the Zone’, combining Deb Dana’s work with Systemic Constellations to master the nervous system and disentangle legacy burdens from our nervous system. She has presented this internationally.

Brenda runs the Systemic Constellation Facilitator Training program, the Certificate and Diploma in Holistic Counselling as well as training in Effective Communication, & Family Constellation workshops.