Healing is the process of awakening to your divine wisdom and gently making the journey home to yourself.
Return to Wholeness offers a caring, grounded presence for those navigating change, emotional challenges, or times of personal transition - supporting meaningful, integrative healing that helps you reconnect with yourself, restore balance, and move forward with greater clarity and ease.
Services
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My counselling approach is integrative and whole-person focused, informed by a deep respect for the interconnectedness of mind, body, emotions, and inner life.
While counselling often centres on emotional and psychological processes, I acknowledge that healing does not occur in isolation — it is influenced by our nervous system, lived experiences, relationships, and sense of meaning.
I support clients to develop self-awareness, reconnect with their inner wisdom, and move toward greater alignment, resilience, and wholeness.
Holistic Counselling can help you to:
Identify thought patterns and beliefs that may be causing distress.
Explore emotional responses and past woundings to promote healing.
Recognise how emotions manifest physically (e.g., tension, fatigue, illness, chronic pain).
Encourage breath work, movement, meditation, or other grounding techniques to relax and restore balance.
Develop healthy lifestyle choices that influence emotional and mental well-being.
Explore deeper questions around purpose, meaning, and personal growth.
Understand how external influences (relationships, work, cultural expectations) can affect well-being.
Set boundaries and learn how to create a supportive, nurturing environment for deeper healing.
Encourage self-expression, creativity, and self-care as part of the healing process.
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Reiki is a gentle yet powerful energy healing practice that supports the body’s natural ability to heal itself. Originating in Japan, Reiki (霊気) translates to “universal life force energy” — the vital energy that flows through all living things.
When this energy becomes depleted or imbalanced through stress, emotional woundings, or life experiences, we may feel stuck, disconnected, or unwell. Reiki helps restore balance, supporting deep relaxation, regulation of the nervous system, and a return to greater harmony.
Energy healing practices have been used across cultures for thousands of years and have been shown to support:
Stress, anxiety, and emotional overwhelm
Fatigue and low energy
Insomnia
Depression and mental wellbeing
Muscular pain, tension, headaches, and migraines
Inflammation and immune support
Soft tissue injuries and chronic discomfort
Click HERE for reference of a large-scale Reiki study conducted in the US and a summary of the results.
A note on integration and support
For some people, Reiki feels deeply nourishing.
For others, energy work can open things emotionally — and without support afterward, this can feel unsettling or leave them unsure how to integrate what’s arisen.This is why I offer Reiki both as stand-alone sessions and as part of a supported, integrative approach, where there is space to reflect, ground, and make sense of the healing process over time.
Healing doesn’t end when the energy work finishes — integration is where it becomes embodied.
What Happens in a Reiki Session?
Your session begins with a brief conversation about your intentions or what you’re currently navigating.
You’ll then rest comfortably, fully clothed, on a massage table or in a chair. The space is quiet and calming, with gentle lighting and music if desired.
I place my hands lightly on or just above the body, working with energy centres and areas of need. I act as a channel for Reiki energy, allowing it to flow where it’s most required.
Experiences vary — you may feel warmth, tingling, deep relaxation, emotional release, imagery, or simply a sense of calm. There is no “right” experience; whatever arises is exactly what’s meant to in that moment.
After the session, we allow time to reflect on anything that came up — sensations, insights, or messages — supporting gentle awareness and integration.
To support energetic shifts, I encourage you to allow yourself spaciousness and rest after your session.
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The Menopause Alchemy Sessions
In ancient traditions and spiritual lineages, menopause is understood as a sacred initiation, a powerful transition into a new phase of wisdom, a phase marked by release, renewal, and self-discovery. It is a time to let go of outdated roles and beliefs, making space for deeper wisdom, empowerment, and personal liberation.
Yet, menopause in our culture is often framed as an ending—a decline, a loss of youth, a phase to be managed with a laundry list of “symptoms” to be medicated. It is shrouded in silence, and seen as something to fear and endure.
In popular media, menopausal women are often portrayed as irritable, overly emotional—bordering on irrational or even mad—leading to our experiences and thoughts being dismissed. Without a positive, supportive narrative surrounding this phase, it can feel like a loss of self-worth or societal relevance.
In The Menopause Alchemy Sessions I work with women to reframe the menopause experience as a holistic journey, acknowledging the emotional, physical, energetic, and spiritual dimensions of this transition—offering support, insight, and practices to help women reclaim their inherent power and wisdom.
My intention is to restore dignity to this passage by reframing menopause as a process of spiritual alchemy, where woman can create space for renewal, vitality, and the freedom to embody our fullest, most authentic selves.
The Menopause Alchemy Sessions: A Six-Session Guided Exploration.
The exploration we will undertake consists of six transformative, 2-hour sessions. Through knowledge sharing, emotional processing and energetic healing, you will learn what menopause is for you and how to navigate it with grace, while cultivating a deeper sense of purpose and presence.
Through our work together, we will:
Learn what menopause is within a medical context.
Explore the wisdom and potential of menopause as a time of personal liberation and renewal.
Release old patterns and beliefs that no longer serve you.
Embrace your changing self with compassion, confidence and grace.
Discover deeper self-awareness and intuition.
While each session is individually powerful, it is the commitment to the full six-session journey that can create lasting transformation. Together, we will build a foundation of self-trust and insight that will help you navigate this sacred transition with dignity and reverence.
The commitment you make is a promise to yourself—to honour the natural cycles of the female body and see menopause as a process of self-evolution rather than something to be “fixed.”
Far from being an end, menopause is a powerful new beginning.
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A Dementia & End-of-Life Doula provides non-medical, emotional, practical, and spiritual support to individuals living with dementia, those facing serious illness, and people approaching end-of-life.
Death is a natural and sacred part of life, yet it is often hidden or medicalised in modern culture. My role is to offer a more human, grounded presence — walking alongside individuals and families with compassion, clarity, and respect for dignity and choice.
Drawing on experience in dementia care, palliative care, and active dying, I provide person-centred support through diagnosis, disease progression, ageing, and end-of-life. I work alongside individuals and provide advocacy and calm during what can be an uncertain or overwhelming time.
Support may include:
Advance care planning, emotional wills, legacy work, and funeral wishes.
Ongoing support while living with dementia or life-limiting illness - including helping in the home and personal care.
Non-medical support during palliative care and active dying - including personal care.
After-death care, vigils, and honouring cultural or spiritual practices.
Funeral or memorial planning.
Bereavement support for families and loved ones.
I can also help individuals and families navigate the health system, communicate with care providers, and support better understanding around choices and rights, helping to ease the emotional and practical load.
You remain the expert in your own life. My role is to walk alongside you — or your loved one — through living with dementia, serious or terminal illness, and end-of-life, by offering steady, compassionate support that honours dignity, choice, and what matters most to you.
About
Hi, I’m Amanda.
I was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and grew up with a deep connection to Mother Nature. My early childhood was spent barefoot in the bush and streams—catching eels, climbing trees, watching birds, and building forts. I had an innate love for the ocean, spending countless hours swimming and playing in the sand. I like to say I have salt water in my veins.
As a teen, I was both sporty and creative—excelling in netball and swimming, and totally immersed in the world of singing and performance. I was a self-proclaimed drama nerd, often found foraging through the high school costume department, creating characters and bringing them to life.
In adulthood, I channelled this creative energy into building a successful career in production. I started out in television, later moving into advertising, where I ran award-winning production companies and built production businesses within global agency networks. I was successful, accomplished—and very good at what I did.
But when I reached my mid-thirties, something shifted. On paper, my life looked great: I earned good money, and ticked all the boxes that my parents and society taught me if ticked would make me happy - but I wasn’t. I was anxious, depressed, chronically unwell, addicted to alcohol, and utterly and completely exhausted. I realised I had become really good at pretending to be okay, hiding how I was really feeling - even from myself.
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Life had become so unbearable I was forced to look at myself and ask “why do I feel this way?”. Asking this question led me to remember experiences from my life that had caused me deep pain, pain I had been avoiding for years through my addictions.
I had a choice: to keep living in this quiet misery—or to choose something else. To choose happiness. I chose the latter.
That moment marked the beginning of my healing journey. A slow, transformative path inward, guided by practices and modalities that were tools for self-discovery, understanding, and ultimately, healing.
Through my own healing I have learned that I am not broken. That I am loving awareness and powerful beyond measure. I have learned that I have a purpose on this earth and I am exactly as I am meant to be in this moment. I am enough. I am whole.
Over the past decade, I have trained in a variety of healing modalities, including Reiki and Ashati energy healing, Counselling, Yoga, breathwork, and meditation. Additionally, I have completed specialised training in aged care, focusing on dementia. palliative and end-of-life support, as well as studies in End-of-Life Doula work. This diverse training equips me to be present with those navigating the healing journey, as they move toward inner peace and happiness.
Pricing
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$90 / 1 hr
$240 / 3 x 1hr (package)*
$490 / 6 x 1hr (package)*
Package Terms & Conditions
3 x 1hr packages must be used within 2-months. 6 x 1hr packages must be used within 4-months of first appointment date.
All packages must be paid upfront. Payment plans may be offered on a case by case basis.
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Single Session
Good for maintenance, grounding, and energetic support.
$110 / 1 hr
Integrative Reiki Healing
Healing doesn’t end when a Reiki session finishes. Often, what unfolds afterward is where real change takes place.
Integrative Reiki Healing offers Reiki healing alongside gentle integration and counselling support, helping you make sense of what’s arising and bring your healing into everyday life.
This is a committed healing container for those ready to go deeper.
What is included:
Reiki healing
Space to reflect on what is emerging
Gentle counselling and integration support
Practices or reflections to support you between sessions
Who this is for
You feel stuck in repeating emotional or energetic patterns
Are moving through a life transition or are on a deeper healing journey
Sense that “something is coming up for release” and want grounded support
Are ready to commit to your healing rather than dip in and out
This offering is not a replacement for medical or psychological care, but a complementary, supportive space for holistic healing.
Available as:
Focussed – focused support for a specific intention or transition. $750 (6hrs)
Deepening – deeper healing for longer-term patterns or life changes. $1500 (12hrs)
Package Terms & Conditions
‘Focused’ packages must be used within 2 months of first appointment date. ‘Deepening’ packages must be used within 6 months of first appointment date.
All packages must be paid upfront. Payment plans may be offered on a case by case basis.
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$1800 / 6 x 2 hr sessions
Package Terms & Conditions
Package must be used within 6 months of first appointment date and must be paid upfront. Payment plans may be offered on a case by case basis.
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Please contact me for more information.
Client Testimonials
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Amanda’s gentle, authentic energy stood out immediately—she made me feel truly seen and comfortable. From the moment I arrived, I felt completely at ease. Amanda’s space and presence were grounded, calm, and welcoming. The session itself felt deeply relaxing and nurturing; I felt held, comfortable, and able to fully drop into the experience. It was a beautifully considered and genuinely magical session from start to finish.
Aleena
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Amanda made me feel welcome and completely comfortable in her space. The initial guided breathing helped me to relax. I could feel energy moving through my body and being released and I felt supported throughout.
Anonymous
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I was a little resistant at first when I laid on the table, not knowing what would happen, however, after the meditation, that all slipped away. Amanda's voice was so comforting, it made me drift off and helped me go with the flow. Amanda was so friendly and has a beautiful nature, she made me feel really comfortable and at ease throughout the whole time I was there
Sherelle
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I felt very comfortable with Amanda, and the space was calm and welcoming. The session was really relaxing, and I felt supported the whole time.
Steven
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I want to say thank you very much for giving me your time to do Reiki on me and for chatting with me. It was amazing, I was just floating and I didn’t even have any of my twitches during the session! I feel very light and dare I say happier than when I got up this morning. The feedback on my inner child took my breath away; it is so accurate, wow!
Kim
How to connect
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