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In my "previous" life I studied Fine Art (Sculpture) and circuitously became an international performer for 20 years, residing mostly in the UK/EU as well as New York and San Francisco. I'm now happily living a much quieter life with my husband and daughter here in Sandringham.
I have only recently moved to Bayside from the UK and am very much enjoying the seaside life.
This year I have been adventuring into Cold Water Swimming (actually it's not that cold yet, but I'm practising!) as I am very interested in the benefits of cold exposure and just love the beach in the early mornings.
I am a long-time meditator in the Mindfulness/ Buddhist tradition, an avid reader and researcher and besotted art-lover.
Kalki Henenberg Hypnotherapy
I work with people with sub-clinical issues, including anxiety, shyness, low confidence, exam-stress, chronic pain, IBS, menopause symptoms, low mood, habits and addictions and much more.
My approach is tailored to individuals, understanding that every person is unique. I draw mostly from my CBH and Art Therapy training, a wealth of life experience, as well as continued professional development in psychology and TEAM CBT. It is important to me to keep up to date with the current research in psychology and neuroscience. Similarly, I am committed to continued professional development and study in hypnosis and hypnotherapy.
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Distinguished and Famous people from Harvey
🌿 May Gibbs
Children’s author and illustrator May Gibbs spent part of her childhood on the Harvey Estate after her family moved there in 1885. She later created Snugglepot and Cuddlepie and the broader world of the gumnut babies. Harvey’s heritage account identifies her childhood residence and regards the surrounding bush as an influence on her imaginative characters.
Gibbs remembered the Harvey River farm as a particularly happy part of childhood. She wandered through bushland, swam, fished and searched for frogs before the family moved to Perth. Those close encounters with Australian plants and animals later fed an imaginative world of bush babies and banksia characters. The small-scale adventures beside the river give a lively background to the much larger adventures she eventually put on the page.
🎭 Jack Davis
Poet and playwright Jack Davis grew up at Yarloop before years of stock work and a later move into full-time writing in Perth. He had begun writing as a teenager, but The First Born, his first collection of poems, appeared in 1970. Plays including The Dreamers and No Sugar brought Aboriginal experiences to audiences in Australia and overseas. No Sugar follows a family confronting discrimination during the Great Depression, turning public history into the lives and arguments of recognisable people. Davis also took a prominent role in Indigenous rights. His literary career developed through working life and community knowledge, rather than arriving fully formed from an early publishing success.
🩺 Vicki Hobbs
Vicki Hobbs included Harvey Hospital among her nursing appointments in the years before the Second World War. Military service then carried her through demanding postings overseas and within Australia, followed by a substantial career teaching nurses. Retirement brought another project: collecting oral histories and writing about the development of nursing in Western Australia. Her humour and eye for the ridiculous helped make her approachable to students and colleagues. Harvey’s association is a documented hospital job, one of the workplaces that preceded her effort to ensure that nurses’ experiences were recorded rather than quietly forgotten.
