more About First Nations Healing Practitioners
LJ is a consultant, advocate, educator and healing practitioner.
LJ is a proud Blak woman born in Ngunnawal Country, raised in Meanjin, and now residing in Wadawurrung Country. She works from an anti-oppressive, trauma-informed and intersectional perspective, hoping to emphasise connection and collective care within all communities. As a counsellor, practitioner, academic, facilitator, and consultant, LJ aims to foster environments built on compassion and cultural safety where mutual learning and growth can flourish.
With a deep connection to the country and cultural knowledge, LJ cultivates a curious and nurturing environment that addresses collective trauma and care theories. She understands the complexities of the therapeutic healing journey, acknowledging that healing, recovery and renewal look different for everyone.
Her primary goal is to create trauma-informed and culturally safe spaces, promoting wisdom and knowledge by drawing from traditional healing practices, evidence-based research and educaring to collaboratively nurture an environment of sharing, caring, recovery, and renewal.
LJ is accredited and insured with ACWA, a current We al-li facilitator (under training), and a research academic with solid ties to the First Nations community in Western Melbourne. She is a mother, sister, aunty, tidda, and friend. Her work integrates Aboriginal cultural practices with storytelling, clinical yarning, and lived experiences, leading advocacy efforts centred on collective care.
As a contemporary researcher, LJ focuses on culturally informed curricula with various Victorian universities, reshaping educational paradigms. LJ hopes to address systemic injustices through grassroots-level advocacy. Her lived experience as a survivor drives LJ's work, incorporating cultural practices to promote an understanding of different ways of learning, engaging and understanding the experiences of trauma and recovery.
Believing in the power of community to foster resilience and healing among First Nations women, children, and families, LJ expands grassroots support and offers specialised services to First Nations children, young people, families and allies. Bridging gaps with empathy and expertise, LJ emphasises culture as a protective factor for all, striving to make a positive impact through frontline services that are culturally safe and trauma-informed.
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Services offered through First nations healing practitioners
"The most radical act of today's society is to heal yourself and gently help others to heal too"
At FNHP we centre collective care and the resistance of restorative rest and reflective practice"
First Nations Healing Practitioners provides consultation and facilitation services to help community-based organisations establish meaningful connections with the local First Nations community. Our goal is to foster a deeper understanding of First Nations communities' unique needs and interests. We are particularly interested in supporting the development of place-based service agreements and are happy to facilitate discussions that focus on advocacy, research, planning, funding, and service delivery.
Cultural Consultancy
We provide culturally safe and trauma-informed advice and guidance on integrating First Nations cultural knowledge and practices into your organisation and professional practice. Our goal is to help you ensure that your services are culturally safe and respectful for all people.
Cultural Supervision
We support First Nations professionals with culturally appropriate supervision to enhance their practice skills and well-being and to address burnout and the colonial load.
Cultural Healing Sessions/Supports
We offer the facilitation of individual and group counselling/ healing sessions and support for individuals and communities rooted in First Nations healing practice.
Workshops and Safe Space Yarning
We develop and deliver tailored workshops and yarning sessions that foster understanding and respect for First Nations cultures and are tailored to diverse groups and demographics. This includes community organisations, businesses, and government departments. I specialise in working with young people, families, and those who are with them.
Community Advocacy
We champion the rights and needs of First Nations communities, striving for systemic change and social justice. This service is offered free of charge and is deeply rooted in principles of abolition and collective care. Our advocacy ensures that the human rights of all First Nations people are upheld and respected.
Research and Policy Consultancy
At the heart of our work is the importance of culturally effective decolonising and indigenising research projects and policy development. We leverage our expertise to assist in policy development by consulting on research projects and program development. Our aim is to foster initiatives that respect and incorporate First Nations perspectives and knowledge systems, ensuring that programs for First Nations communities are delivered with a unique and culturally informed approach.
Cultural Awareness Training
Delivering tailored training programs to increase cultural competency, understanding, and respect for First Nations cultures in various sectors. Acknowledging that culturally safe practices require lifelong learning and engagement with First Nations perspectives and ways of knowing, being and doing.
Psycho-Education and Support (for families, children, and young people)
Providing psycho-educational support for First Nations families, children, and youth to promote mental health and well-being, we offer one-on-one support and tailored group work programming and resources.
Presentations/Speaker Engagements
Engaging audiences with informative and inspiring presentations on First Nations issues, culture, and history; again specialising in cultural safe practices to working with children, young people and families.
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0432 952 582
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Wyndham Vale Victoria 3024, Australia
Open today | 09:00 am – 05:00 pm |
Culture is key to healing trauma - to rebuild connection to community, family & kin - to country, body, mind and spirit-spirituality.
When we create culturally safe environments, that let us both find and tell stories, feel the feelings, moving through the layers of loss and grief to ownership over choices.
This is how we collectively strengthen culture and spiritual identities”.
Aunty Judy Atkinson, WE AL LI
Acknowledgement of Country
FNHP acknowledges First Nations peoples as the traditional custodians of lands, seas, and skies.
We pay respects to Elders past and present, reminding everyone that sovereignty was never ceded.
It always was and always will be.
We acknowledge the historical injustices of colonial violence, genocide, and dispossession, recognising the enduring impacts this continues to cause today.
We extend this acknowledgment to Palestinians enduring colonial and genocidal violence, standing in solidarity in the struggle to dismantle, resist, and divest.
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