Well Beans Therapy Principal Counsellor

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I’m Jo, 

The unconventional therapist behind Well Beans Therapy.

I am a PACFA-registered therapist, a mum of two neurodivergent kids, and someone who only discovered her own ADHD after finishing every degree the hard way... classic Jo style.

I’ve spent over a decade wrangling trauma, behaviour, and bureaucratic buzzwords in schools, families, and systems. I bring brain-based insight to help others see the human story behind the struggle, and I do it with humour, honesty, and a mild swear warning.

My work is grounded in attachment theory, family systems thinking, and the science of how our bodies, brains, and relationships shape behaviour. But it’s also grounded in reality the kind where you’re juggling school refusals, meltdown management, and bureaucratic systems that don’t get it.

There are no ‘bad kids’ or ‘bad parenting’. We have nervous systems doing their best in tough moments, humans who often shame spiral because they aren't doing better.

I believe in supporting the whole system with warmth, evidence, and sensory-informed strategies that feel human not clinical. 

I believe kids want to do well. I believe parents do too. And I believe we don’t have to choose between science and soul.

In a world where therapy can feel either too whispery or too worksheet-y, I bring something different:

Real connection. Real neuroscience. Real permission to be your weird, wobbly, wonderful self.

Kids have called me "the kid in the adult body" which I take as high praise. I’m known for telling it like it is, never faking it, and always making space for big feelings, big movement, and big truths.

I’m not the expert on you or your child, I’m your co-regulator, co-investigator, and co-conspirator in the healing stuff.

Well Beans was born from lived experience, professional frustration, and a mispronounced word from my three-year-old. It’s a space for people who feel too much, care too hard, mask too well, or have been misunderstood for too long.

If you're looking for support that celebrates neurodivergence, makes room for complexity, and ditches the bandaids in favour of something that lasts , well then, you're in the right place - thats Well Beans for ya. 

Qualifications 

(Because apparently they matter too)

My accumulating educational debts have resulted in:

• Master of Counselling (Distinction)
• Bachelor of Psychological Science (Honours)
• Certified Practising Counsellor – PACFA Registered
• Accepted into a Master of Social Work (Qualifying)

I’ve spent over a decade supporting kids, families, and the professionals who hold them. My practice is grounded in neuroscience, neurodevelopment, attachment, and trauma-informed care; delivered through connection-first, relational communication.

I’ve also recently been accepted into a Master of Social Work (Qualifying); I am not continuing study because I love essays, but so I can make therapy services more affordable to families like yours who are doing the hard yards and needing to make every dollar count... and If I am studying I cannot also be expected to fold the laundry.. should I?

                                                                    I look forward to meeting you.