About Heartful Growth
Clarity begins within
Heartful Growth offers counselling, coaching, and group sessions for people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or in transition. Through one-on-one sessions, groups, and workshops, the work is designed to help people make sense of what they are experiencing, find relief, and move toward a way forward.
Who I Am
Heartful Growth was founded by Jenny, a counsellor and coach who brings together professional training, neuroscience-informed understanding, and lived experience. With a Bachelor of Psychological Science with a minor in Neuroscience, a Diploma of Counselling, and provisional membership with the Australian Counselling Association (ACA), she created Heartful Growth to offer a grounded and practical approach to change.
Her work also includes education and training in neuroscience-based practices for individuals, groups, and organisations. Years of team leadership and project experience shape the way Heartful Growth works: grounded, organised, and focused on real-world change.
What Heartful Growth Offers
Individual Counselling & Coaching (online or in-person in the Illawarra)
Private, tailored counselling and coaching sessions that help you make sense of what you are experiencing, find relief, and move toward a way forward.
Group Sessions
Guided small-group spaces that support reflection, emotional understanding, and shared learning around common life experiences.
Workshops
Practical and interactive workshops for organisations, teams, and community groups, focused on self-awareness, emotional regulation, and everyday tools that can be applied in daily life.
How Heartful Growth Works
At Heartful Growth, the focus is on creating the conditions for understanding, relief, and meaningful change.
The work slows things down so you can notice more clearly what is happening in your body, thoughts, and daily experience, then begin to take small, manageable steps forward.
My approach blends counselling, coaching, and learning-based practices, including:
- Person-centred counselling - empathy, collaboration, your pace.
- Neuroscience-informed practice - especially predictive processing and how the brain updates patterns.
- Trauma-aware care - choice and safety come first.
- Leadership know-how - translating insight into everyday action at home and work.
Why Choose Heartful Growth?
- Plain-spoken and evidence-informed: brain science translated into everyday language.
- Actionable: you'll leave each session with one or two simple practices to try.
- Respectful: your pace, your goals, your choices.
- Whole-person lens: emotions, body cues, and context - at home and at work.
What You Can Expect to Learn
- Spot body-brain "early warning lights" that signal a mood shift.
- Use a free-minute reset to calm your physiology before words spiral.
- Map long-held triggers, reframe them, and free up energy.
- Install a five-minute morning ritual to set your internal climate on purpose.
- Bring the same tools into your family or workplace so the benefits ripple outward.
Core Lenses We May Use (optional, when helpful)
- The Inner Landscape - map how feelings and experiences shape your day so you can respond, not react.
- The 3D Book - notice the stories written into body and mind, and update what no longer serves today.
- The Dragon in the Cellar - meet what has been hidden with care; integration turns fear into strength.
Not sure where to start?
Get in touch if you'd like to learn more about Heartful Growth and how I work.
If it feels right, you're also welcome to arrange a free introductory conversation - no pressure, just straightforward guidance.