FOR COACHES & THERAPISTS
Hold, Lead & Serve
From Your Truth.
The quality of our work is shaped by more than what we know. I work with coaches, therapists and other helping professionals to deepen self-awareness, understand the patterns they bring into their work, and develop greater presence, confidence and integrity in practice.
Online across Australia. Individual sessions, Group Supervision and bespoke support.
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20+ years mindfulness & personal development · 10,000+ hours facilitation · PACFA Registered Clinical Therapist · Online Australia-wide
PRESENCE · SELF-AWARENESS · ATTUNEMENT · REFLECTIVE PRACTICE · BOUNDARIES · COMMUNICATION · CONFIDENCE · ETHICS · PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
From Knowing The Work
To Embodying The Work
Professional development is not only about learning more models, techniques or interventions.
The deeper work is learning to recognise what is happening in ourselves, our clients and the relationship between us, so that we can respond with greater awareness, flexibility and choice.
This work brings together reflective practice, mindfulness, psychology, somatic awareness and practical professional development to help practitioners deepen both who they are and how they work.
How practitioners get stuck
Over-Responsibility
Carrying too much of the work
Trying to fix, rescue or create the outcome; overworking, weak boundaries, difficulty letting the client own their process, or feeling responsible when change does not happen.
Overthinking
Knowing more, but feeling less clear
Getting caught in formulation, technique, analysis or finding the “right” intervention while losing connection with what is actually happening in the room.
Avoiding Friction
Holding back when something needs to be addressed
Self-doubt, people pleasing, fear of getting it wrong, avoiding challenge, difficulty naming relational dynamics, or staying comfortable rather than working with what needs attention.
What we build instead
Presence
Grounded connection to yourself and the person in front of you
Greater regulation, awareness, attunement and the capacity to remain present with complexity, uncertainty and emotion.
Discernment
Seeing what is happening more clearly
Recognising patterns, assumptions, relational dynamics and blind spots while distinguishing what belongs to you, what belongs to the client and what is emerging between you.
Practice
Responding with greater clarity and choice
More confidence in intervention, communication, challenge, boundaries, ethical decision-making and knowing when to act, wait, enquire, refer or simply stay present.
Choose How You Want To Work
Different practitioners need different levels of reflection, structure and support.
Choose the way of working that best fits your practice, professional development and where you are now.
ONE-OFF $180
Focused Support for What’s Happening Now
Bring a particular client dynamic, professional challenge, decision, boundary issue, ethical question or aspect of your practice you want to understand more clearly.
A focused session to explore what is happening, identify what may be difficult to see from inside the situation and determine the most useful next step.
Best for: a specific issue, decision or immediate challenge.
GROUP SOUP $399
Reflect, Learn & Develop Together
Small-group supervision for coaches, counsellors, therapists and helping professionals wanting a regular space to reflect on their work alongside other practitioners.
Explore cases, relational dynamics, boundaries, professional challenges while learning through both your own work and the experience of the group.
Best for: practitioners wanting regular supervision, shared learning and connection with other professionals.
BESPOKE
Ongoing Support Built Around Your Practice
Flexible one-to-one support shaped around your professional development, current work and the areas of practice that need your attention.
Rather than following a fixed program, we create an arrangement that allows us to work with what is actually emerging.
Best for: practitioners wanting flexible, ongoing one-to-one support without following a structured program.
NOT SURE WHAT YOU NEED?
If you’re not yet sure which level of support is right for you, book a free 30-minute conversation.
We can talk about your practice, what you are looking to develop and whether a one-off conversation, group support or an ongoing arrangement is the best fit.
What Facilitators are Saying
Deepen Understanding
See more clearly what is happening beneath the surface.
Explore the patterns, assumptions, relational dynamics and professional challenges influencing how you work.
Process
Turn towards what is difficult to see when you are inside the work.
Explore emotional responses, uncertainty, blind spots and the parts of yourself activated through working closely with other people.
Practice
Develop the skills and capacities that support more conscious practice through mindfulness, self-inquiry, communication, embodiment, boundaries and intentional action.
Experiment
Take the work back into the room.
Try something differently, notice what happens, reflect on the outcome and continue developing through lived experience rather than theory alone.
About Mike
For more than a decade, Mike has worked across counselling, coaching, mindfulness, facilitation, leadership development and therapeutic practice with individuals, couples, families, practitioners and organisations.
His work brings together more than 20 years of study and practice in mindfulness, counselling and human development, with thousands of hours supporting people through meaningful personal, relational and professional change.
Alongside his client work, Mike has facilitated meditation, workshops, men’s groups, retreats and professional development, and has worked with practitioners and leaders seeking to deepen both their personal development and the quality of their work with others.
His approach integrates mindfulness, self-inquiry, psychoeducation, relational and somatic psychotherapy, helping practitioners bring greater awareness, presence, discernment and integrity into their work.
Michael Vaccaro, BCouns, GradCertAppMind, CertMedHolCouns
PACFA Registered Clinical Therapist | Creator of The Powerful Man Program