Dr Lesley Porter
/Location
Adelaide, South Australia
Contact information
drlesley@relationalnarrativetherapy.com.au
www.relationalnarrativetherapy.com.au
Overview
Lesley is a Relationship and Trauma Therapist and Breathworks Mindfulness Meditation Teacher and Supervisor based in Adelaide Australia. Her therapy practices draw on the client’s resources (body, breath, mind, heart & spirit), their language, strengths and culture to enter into a place of sense making and inquiry. She is a relational narrative therapist engaged in compassion focused practices and in somatic and body integrated approaches in trauma therapy. Lesley’s PhD thesis focused on therapists, their therapeutic relationships and the ways they make their therapy practices and their practice ethics through the making and doing of their therapy. She is drawn to the invitational and transformative moments in therapy and supervision. Lesley has experience with compassion focused therapies as a Mental Health Clinician providing psychological services and in private practice
Language/s spoken: English
Highest degree / qualification: PhD
Professional registration / licensing details: AHPRA Registered Nurse
Format of therapy offered: Individuals, Couples
Therapist supervision offered: Yes
Overview of CFT training, supervision, and experience: Compassion Focused Therapies Advanced Training, 2 Days 2019 with Paul Gilbert