Therapy
Nurturing healing through one-on-one support – individualised, evidence-based and confidential.
Groups
Connecting through shared creation—therapeutic crochet and knitting in a caring, supportive circle.
Events
Regular gathering space for collective creativity and community gifting—where making meets meaning.
Journal
Your companion in healing—guiding self‑reflection and transformation through mindful craft.
A warm, grounded space for women navigating the deeper questions of life.
Slow Psychology is a small, thoughtfully created psychology practice for women of all ages who feel overwhelmed, burnt out, anxious or stuck in habits that no longer serve them. We offer a steady, gentle space to calm the nervous system, make sense of what’s happening and take realistic steps toward a life that feels more like your own.
Our approach is warm, collaborative and practical. We draw on evidence-based therapies and where helpful, the soothing rhythm of knitting and crochet to support regulation, reduce overthinking and create new, kinder patterns of coping. Every session is tailored to who you are, what you’re carrying and the pace you can manage right now.
We know that meaningful change doesn’t come from pushing harder; it comes from small, supported shifts repeated over time. We walk beside you as you regulate, rebuild and reconnect with yourself.
We are based at Burleigh Heads on the Gold Coast and offer telehealth services nationally.
Individual Therapy
Psychological therapy taking a warm, collaborative and practical approach nurturing the mind-body connection. Sessions provide a safe, reflective space to explore challenges, develop insight and awareness and access useful techniques and strategies to assist in the change process.
Healing Hands Group
A three hour action-packed psychologist-led workshop providing participants with information and education on how to maximise the therapeutic benefits of crochet and knitting. Lots of information and tips to help you get the best mental health and well-being outcomes from your knitting and crochet time.
Healing Stitches Group
A ten session group therapy program for people seeking psychological therapy and the supportive connection of peers. Therapeutic knitting and crochet are used alongside cognitive behavioural therapy to help you put into practice the skills and strategies most relevant to you.
Better Together Group
Monthly community group gathering to support your creative energies in the company of others. The group aims to create a feeling of relaxation, belonging and connection with others interested in ‘woolly wellbeing’. We create gifts to donate to charities and kids in care.
Organisational Support
Healing Hands and Healing Stitches are adapted to suit diverse groups – supporting health, medical and education staff, veterans, first responders and community carers. There is a focus on burnout prevention, emotional wellbeing and compassionate care through creative therapeutic practices.
Clinical Supervision
A collaborative, supportive and safe space for mental health practitioners to reflect on practice, strengthen clinical insight and deepen skills and knowledge. Sessions nurture personal growth and support clinicians to engage in regular reflective practice.
meet us
A stead, gentle space held by people – and practices – that help you breathe again.
I’m Louise, a clinical and health psychologist and have spent more than 25 years supporting women through burnout, anxiety, identity shifts, habit change and heath concerns. My approach is warm, practical and deeply respectful of the realities you’re carrying.
Jymbi is my long-standing therapeutic assistant who has a calm and comforting presence in the therapy space. He greets you gently, sits beside you and offers a steady companionship and quiet warmth that supports the processes of therapy.
And our third team member: the soothing rhythm of handwork. For many women the repetitive, patterned motion of knitting and crochet provides a focus that helps settle the nervous system. Busy hands soften and quiet busy minds. Rhythmic movement quiets spirals, cravings and sensory overload.
Together, we offer a space where you can slow down, feel supported and reconnect with yourself.
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
Viktor E. Frankl
our book – your journal
By Your Own Hands is a groundbreaking therapeutic journal that reveals how you can use knitting and crochet to benefit your wellbeing and mental health. Combining tradition, innovation and evidence-based practice, this comprehensive guide transforms simple stitches into powerful tools of transformation.
By Your Own Hands uses knitting and crochet to help you put the principles of cognitive behavioural therapy into practice in your own life. Covering topics such as self-compassion, motivation, core beliefs, creating healthy habits and connecting to your own cultural traditions, you will deepen and expand knowledge of what keeps you stuck and how to use knitting and crochet to move towards the life you want to be living.
The journal features information on the neuroscience of knitting and crochet, therapeutic information on cognitive-behaviour therapy, practical exercises, reflection prompts and extensive worksheets – it’s a companion for healing using the gentle, meditative arts of knitting and crochet.
We’d love to be part of your journey
Whether you’re seeking stillness, support or simply a softer way to heal, we’re here to walk beside you. Through threads, therapy and shared space, Slow Psychology offers gentle tools to help you reconnect—one stitch at a time.