Linda Sawrey

Linda Sawrey provides counselling and psychotherapy through flexible formats, including online sessions and phone consultations, to make therapeutic support more accessible. She draws on a wide range of approaches tailored to each person’s needs and preferences, including Trauma Informed, Neurodiversity-Affirming, Acceptance & Commitment, Somatic, Schema, Gestalt, Play, Nature and Equine Assisted Therapy.

As an experienced Registered Nurse, Linda brings a holistic perspective that integrates mind, body and spirit into her therapeutic work. Her clinical background informs a whole-health approach to care and supports clients with complex health and emotional needs.

Her areas of special interest include working with neurodivergent people, women’s mental health and nervous system regulation, trauma and PTSD with attention to neurobiology, grief and bereavement support, chronic pain and illness as well as ageing, family violence and rebuilding life after abuse, and workplace conflict, stress and burnout including carer fatigue.

Linda is based in the Gold Coast Hinterland where she operates a private practice called Nurtured by Nature Psychotherapy and runs a Quarter Horse Stud named Ricinda Ranch. Her home is surrounded by a herd of mares and foals and set in a secluded valley immersed in nature. That environment and the animals that live there offer a calming setting where clients can unravel, renew and reignite.

Born into a large farming family, Linda has long held a deep connection with the natural world. She remembers feeling different as a child, experiencing bullying and learning to mask her authentic self, while finding safety and acceptance with animals. Her father’s accident, stroke and autoimmune illness when he was 40 marked her childhood and led her to take on caring responsibilities as a young teenager. That experience, together with a love of nursing injured animals, led her into a nursing career.

She then spent three decades working across health care roles, including as an ED Nurse, Patient Safety Officer, Quality and Risk Manager, Counsellor and Psychotherapist. Passionate about helping others and creating safer, brighter futures, Linda draws on both professional training and lived experience to support people in building skills, resources and tools not merely to survive but to thrive.

She is grateful for her family life, which includes three adult sons, their partners, grandchildren, two stepdaughters, one transgender son, and a committed, caring partner.