Our Commitment to Compassionate Care
Empowering Well-being through Connection and Understanding
A Personal Connection to Care
Bernie’s practice is deeply informed by her own lived experience. Living with chronic health conditions and supporting a partner with chronic illness and disability, she understands the challenges clients face navigating life with chronic illness, facing family and societal demands, and dealing with the complexities when working with healthcare systems. Juggling additional roles as a parent and daughter to older parents, Bernie charts the complexities of life balance, which enriches her ability to provide compassionate, empathetic care.
Her personal journey enhances her professional practice, allowing her to connect with clients on a deeper level. Bernie believes that, despite life’s challenges, it also offers moments of peace, beauty and deepening connection to self, the people you care for and the people who care for you. Consider working with Bernie on your own personal path towards better health and quality of life.
Affordable Healthcare
It can be expensive to live with chronic physical and mental illness. We get it. That is why we have partnered with 2 community minded organisations: TMS Hubb and Eunity Ltd to offer a range of affordable mental health care services, depending on your needs and eligibility criteria. TMS Hubb, Eunity Ltd and HPACCare’s services are complementary and synergistic in nature, which is helpful in addressing the dynamic nature of fluctuations in health when living with chronic illness.
A Modern, Holistic Approach
TMS Hubb provides bulk-billing Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) treatment to eligible clients living with depression. There is strong research evidence on the effectiveness of TMS treatment for depression. Many people living with chronic illness also develop depression as a co-morbid condition. Addressing depression can have beneficial effects on overall well-being. There are clients who have received TMS treatment and reported improvements in sleep quality, cognitive functioning and emotional regulation. TMS can enhance neuroplasticity, building on their efforts in psychotherapeutic work. Research into combining TMS and psychotherapy have found additional beneficial effects in clients.
Eunity Ltd offers free mental health and counselling services for people transitioning from hospital based care back into the community. Bernie works together with the Eunity team to support clients in their transitional phase of care, strengthen their social connections and build relationships with their health care team.
