more About First Nations Healing Practitioners
Social Justice Adovcate.
LJ is a proud Quandamooka woman, born on Ngunnawal Country, raised in Magandjin, and now living and working on Wadawurrung Country. Her work is deeply grounded in community, culture, and care. With a strong focus on the out-of-home care space, LJ works alongside First Nations young people who have experienced child sexual exploitation (CSE), especially those navigating life in residential care. She's worked on the frontline, walking alongside people who've experienced sexual assault, family violence, and the impacts of systemic and colonial harm. Her drive comes from a deep commitment to community care, advocacy, and pushing for real systems change that centres justice and healing.
LJ's commitment to justice, healing, and truth-telling is at the heart of everything she does. She works from a trauma-informed, anti-oppressive, and intersectional lens, always centring the voices and lived experiences of the community. As someone with lived experience herself, LJ brings raw honesty and deep empathy to her work, knowing that healing doesn't look the same for everyone and that recovery is not linear.
In 2025, LJ joined the Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity program at the University of Melbourne. Her project focuses on designing a culturally strong recovery framework for First Nations young people who have experienced CSE in care. It's about creating something real, something grounded in what our young people actually need; not just another system response but a community response built on connection, culture, and collective care.
LJ is a researcher, an advocate, and a community member, but her most important role is being a mum to her young daughters, a sister to many, and an aunty to her nieces and nephews. These relationships ground her, guide her, and keep her connected to what really matters.
Her work is about people. It's about making space for stories, holding space for pain, and fighting for systems that see our young people as more than their trauma.
She believes in the power of community to hold and heal. Her work weaves together cultural practice, storytelling, and research to challenge systems and create safer futures for our communities. At the end of the day, LJ wants kids to be safe, heard, believed, and proud of who they are.
First Nations Healing Practitioners
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 works alongside community-based organisations to build real, respectful relationships with local First Nations communities. We’re here to support connection, not just consultation, and to help create spaces where First Nations voices are centred in the conversations that shape services.
Our work is grounded in care, truth-telling, and collaboration. We support organisations to better understand the strengths, needs, and aspirations of the communities they work with. Whether it's through advocacy, research, planning, or funding conversations, we’re especially passionate about place-based service agreements that are led by community, not just delivered to them.
We’re here to yarn, to walk alongside, and to support meaningful change that reflects the realities and strengths of mob on the ground.
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.
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.
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 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 people are upheld and respected at all costs.
Research and Policy Consultancy
At the heart of our work is a commitment to decolonising and indigenising everyday practice in real, grounded ways. We support projects, programs, and policy work that centre First Nations knowledge systems, voices, and ways of being.
Our focus is on making sure First Nations communities are not just included, but genuinely heard and respected throughout the process—from early research through to delivery. We walk alongside organisations, researchers, and policymakers to develop initiatives that are culturally informed, community-led, and grounded in strength, not deficit.
Psycho-Education and Support (for families, children, and young people)
Providing psycho-educational support for families, children, and youth to promote positve mental health and well-being, we offer one-on-one support and tailored group work programming and resources.
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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
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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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