Hello, I’m Margery.

Thank you for being here.

I’m a therapist, yoga teacher, and facilitator, based in Sydney, Australia. I support people to reconnect with themselves and create lives that feel authentic and fulfilling.

MY STORY

Returning to a life that’s my own

Several years ago, my life totally changed.

I was working as a lawyer, and I was stressed, burnt out, perfectionistic, and feeling very unfulfilled. Then, one afternoon, during a powerful group inquiry session, it dawned on me: My life wasn’t my own.

It was the construct of other people’s expectations of me, and I’d abandoned my own wants and desires a long time ago. My life was a socially-celebrated, family-condoned, picture-perfect life, but I felt so fake in it.

I remember being at a party around this time and how out of place I felt in my own skin. 

So I had this realisation, and a revolution began: I quit my job, leaving behind my lawyer status and lifestyle, and not knowing where I was heading. For a while, I gave myself permission to explore and experiment. I travelled. I went to yoga, meditation, and relational workshops. I wrote, studied creativity, roamed around without time constraints, and slowly began to remember myself.

I also began working on challenging my strongest subconscious beliefs that stopped me from living the way I wanted to: I’m not good enough. I need to be different so others will approve of me. I won’t be okay in the future. I met emotions of guilt, shame, unworthiness, confusion, hopelessness, and more.

Along this journey, I’ve found my own medicine. Byron Katie’s The Work teaches me to question the beliefs that cause me suffering. Zen meditation and yoga help me allow this moment to be just as it is. Dancing is a healing catharsis and a channel for absolute creative expression.

From these practices I’ve begun to experience a freedom beyond the limiting stories of the mind.

I’m devoted to this path, and feel called to share it. It’s a privilege to accompany others on their own journeys into this terrain – a journey towards a life that is peaceful, fulfilling, and their own.

MY PHILOSOPHY

Freedom to choose

I believe we are deeply conditioned. The combined voices of our parents, teachers, peers, and culture tend to create beliefs about who we need to be to gain love, happiness, and approval, and who we need to be to avoid pain and suffering.

As we become aware of these entrenched beliefs and question them, they begin to lose their hold. And when we allow ourselves to feel the emotions that emerge along with them, we return to a quiet, story-less place within ourselves. From that place comes wisdom and inner knowing.

Then we become free to choose lives that are genuinely our own.

MY APPROACH

Compassion, presence, aliveness

I’m here to hold space for you to see and hear yourself more clearly, so you can live out a life that is true to you. Whether through therapy, yoga, workshops, or retreats, my intention is to offer you my compassion, presence, and aliveness.

Compassion – a non-judging attitude to whatever you’re going through.

Presence – being totally with you, and just you – attuning to what’s right here, in all your ways of being and expressing.

Aliveness – a palpable back-and-forth relating; a we are here-ness, conveyed through my genuine delight and joy in human connection.

Professional background

    • Master of Psychotherapy and Counselling, Western Sydney University (in progress)

    • Graduate Diploma in Counselling (High Distinction), Western Sydney University

    • Bachelor of Law (Distinction), University of Sydney

    • Bachelor of Arts in Sociology (minors in Psychology, Economics) (High Distinction), University of Sydney

    • Australian Counselling Association Registered Counsellor No. 86516

    • Trauma Recovery & Domestic Violence, Jackie Burke Psychology & Consulting

    • DV-alert Training, Lifeline

    • 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training, All Yoga School, Bali

    • I worked at women’s centres for 1.5 years, at Blacktown Women’s Centre, and at Bondi Beach Cottage, offering trauma-specific counselling for women subjected to domestic violence.

    • I’ve taught yoga and mindfulness classes for 7 years at private studios, corporates, and universities.

    • For 6 years I worked in barrister’s chambers and the law courts as a legal researcher and judge’s associate.

    • I’ve also been a freelance writer, copyeditor, and researcher, here and there.

“The wound is the place where the light enters you.”

—Rumi