Counselling & Psychotherapy for Women Healing from Emotional Eating, Trauma & Low Self-Worth

Based on the Northern Beaches of Sydney & Australia-wide Online

Hi, I’m Jodie

I am a Northern Beaches counsellor and psychotherapist specialising in emotional eating, trauma and issues of self-worth.

My registration is with PACFA as a Registered Clinical Psychotherapist, Registered Clinical Counsellor and with the Carolyn Costin Institute as a Certified Eating Disorder Therapist & Recovery Coach with over 25 years’ experience helping women heal from emotional eating, childhood trauma and feeling not good enough.

With my own lived experience of recovery from bulimia, emotional eating, low self-worth and early childhood trauma, I know what it’s like to long for peace with yourself – to stop striving, comparing and criticising, and instead feel confident, connected and whole.

Through evidence-based, trauma-informed and soul-centred approaches, I help women uncover the roots of their struggles with food and create lasting change from the inside out.

I Help Women Who Want To:

• Recover from emotional eating, binge eating, disordered eating and body image struggles
• Build healthy self-esteem, self-worth and confidence
• Navigate complex mother–daughter and father–daughter relationships
• Heal from underlying trauma – physical, emotional, relational, sexual or spiritual
• Reconnect with their authentic, creative and soul self

Why Work With Me?

I’ve spent more than two decades helping women transform their relationships with food, body, and soul. My own healing journey began after a peak experience swimming with wild dolphins in Ireland – a spiritual awakening that set me on a lifelong path of personal, psychological and spiritual growth.

Through long-term, depth psychotherapy, I recovered from early childhood trauma, low self-worth, addiction and an eating disorder. The unconditional love, empathy and wisdom of my own psychosynthesis psychotherapist changed the course of my life – and inspired me to help other women find that same freedom and wholeness.

Now, as a counsellor and psychotherapist on the Northern Beaches of Sydney & Australia-wide, the founder of Jodie Gale Counselling & Psychotherapy & TraumaWarriors.Online – a healing, self-development and post-traumatic growth centre for women – I continue to walk alongside women who are ready to reclaim their worth, their power and their voice.

My Trauma-Informed Counselling & Psychotherapy Approach

My work as a Northern Beaches counsellor weaves together many psychotherapeutic modalities including Depth Psychotherapy, Psychosynthesis, Inner child and Subpersonality work (IFS: Internal Family Systems), Attachment and Interpersonal Neurobiology, Self-Psychology, Somatic Awareness, Eco-therapy, Energy Psychology (EFT Tapping), Eating Psychology and Health at Every Size, and Transpersonal Psychology.

At its heart, my approach is soulful, integrative and trauma-informed. I meet you exactly where you are – with compassion, curiosity and respect – and together, we work gently to reconnect you with your innate wholeness and wisdom.

Experience & Expertise

I’ve had the privilege of working with women from all walks of life across Australia and the Globe – from those navigating everyday challenges, eating concerns and to those carrying the weight of deep trauma and unhealthy ingrained patterns.

As one of Australia’s leading specialists in women’s trauma, disordered eating and other food, weight and body image concerns, my work has been featured in:

YES!, SHE KNOWS, CLEO Australia, Australian WellBeing, Australian Yoga Journal, MammaMia, BodyMatters, Australia Counselling, The Manly Daily, Recovery Warriors. PACJA: Psychotherapy & Counselling Journal of Australia, ABC & 2UE Radio, The World of Psychology, Clinicians on the Couch, and PsychCentral.

I’ve also trained with many of the world’s foremost trauma and eating disorder experts including Carolyn Costin, Dr Anita Johnston, Bessel van der Kolk, Stephen Porges, Dan Siegel, Dan Hughes, Marion Woodman and Geneen Roth.

Let’s Begin Your Healing Journey

Whether you’re feeling stuck, anxious, overwhelmed or disconnected, therapy with me offers a safe and nurturing space to reconnect with your true self.

Reach out for a complimentary 10-minute call – it is a time for you to get a sense if I am the right therapist for you.

And Just In Case You’re Wondering About Qualifications…

Building a thriving practice takes more than a stack of certificates – it takes lived experience, compassion, and years of walking alongside women in their healing. But just in case you’re curious, here’s the formal bit:

• PACFA Registered Clinical Psychotherapist
• PACFA Certified Clinical Supervisor
• Grad. Cert. Professional Supervision (Clinical) – PACFA & AASW recognised (Australia)
• Cert. Step-Up Individual & Group Clinical Supervision – ACA, PACFA & AASW recognised (Australia)
• M.A. Psychosynthesis Psychotherapy (UK)
• Dip. Psych. Therapeutic Counselling (UK)
• Cert. Nature-Based Therapy (UK)
• Cert. Eating Psychology Coach (US)
• Cert. CCI Eating Disorder Coach (US)
• B. Social Work (Australia)
• Cert. IV in Training and Assessment (Australia)
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Specialisation: CBT, MiCBT, ACT & DBT (Australia)

Professional Memberships

My professional registration is with PACFA: Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia. I am a PACFA Certified Supervisor, PACFA Registered Clinical Psychotherapist, PACFA Registered Clinical Counsellor, PACFA College of Psychotherapy Deputy Convenor

I am also a member of InsideOut: Institute for Eating Disorders the Carolyn Costin Institute for Eating Disorder Coaching and the ACFEB Practitioner Network for Eating Disorders and Weight Concerns.