Leila Fanni trauma counsellor Sydney

Clinical Trauma Counsellor and Registered Supervisor

Who am I

I am a registered clinical trauma counsellor with a long background in the health industry. My educational knowledge together with great experiences as a trauma counsellor, clinical lead, program manager and provider of supervision throughout my career are undoubtably my best tools for delivering outstanding results for my clients.

Background

I started in midwifery working with mums and kids in the community while soon discovered a passion for helping people with trauma. Therefore, I rather focused further on studies in clinical counselling together with specialist techniques as well as gathering my experience working with major organizations in Australia simultaneously before launching my own practice in 2016.

My Experience

For over a decade, I have been specialized to work as a multi-generational family trauma counsellor and help on complex crisis such as PTSD, and consequently, I have applied variety of techniques tailored to specific the client needs.

I have great experience in working with very difficult multi-generational family trauma, complex crisis trauma and PTSD cases. In addition, I went through many challenges in working with individuals and families. Specifically, I have dealt with clients’ issues including identity problems, shame, guilt, culture, loss and grief, childhood attachment, anxiety and depression and stressful transitions during the lifespan. Moreover, I have the experience and special approach for relationship issues and cases of domestic violence.

As a trauma counselor, my approach is focused on isolating and understanding the core problems so we can help people grow and move forward. Hence, I do not focus on symptoms like stress or lack of sleep. Instead, I delve deeper to uncover the underlying drivers.
Also, my specialized EMDR method has proved to be a very useful approach for my clients as a way to regulate emotions. 

Clients' Testimonials