Compassionate Therapy, Specialist Support—Online, Accessible, Australia-wide

Our books are currently open.

Referral Form is at bottom of this page.

From 2026, we re-opened our books to private consultations.

We offer senior specialist counselling psychotherapy and behaviour support nationwide. Our telehealth practice is highly regarded.

Our evidence-based, compassionate, and person centred services include creative and innovative therapy approaches designed to enhance learning, engagement, and positive outcomes.

We are also an NDIS‑registered provider for behaviour support and counselling.

Dwayne Andrew Wannamarra Wyndier Kennedy PhD and

Joseph (Jorandi) Randolph Kisiku Sa’qawei Paq’tism Bowers PhD

Specialisations and Areas of Interest

We have extensive experience with decades of work in the helping professions and specialist counselling psychotherapy and behaviour support. We’ve collectively published well over 200 works, including many peer reviewed papers and books.

Over time we developed specialisations and unique interests in counselling psychotherapy and behaviour support with experience in many areas including,

  • Autism (Levels 1-3)

  • ADHD, ODD

  • School-based Issues, Home Schooling

  • Sleep Disorders

  • Hearing and Vision Loss

  • Sensory Disorders

  • Down Syndrome

  • Intellectual Disability and Developmental Disorders

  • Rare Chromosomal and Genetic Disorders

  • Advanced Epilepsy

  • Non-verbal

  • Anxiety

  • Depression

  • Mood Disorders

  • Schizophrenia

  • Self-Harm and Aggression

  • Prader-Willi

  • Complex Neuro Physical Disability

  • Dementia

  • Aged Care

We work with a range of issues and people, from all walks of life, and our clients continually reflect a five star evaluation of our efforts. We have also received ‘Best Practice’ independent external audit reviews by government registered auditors.

  • Mothers of Children with Special Needs

  • Parenting and Child-centred Behaviour Support

  • Siblings of Special Needs Brothers and Sisters

  • Disability Support Workers, Mental Health Staff

  • Managers, Team Leaders, Organisations

  • Training, Courses, and Coaching

For NDIS and private cases we design training packages and modules using online and telehealth methods, enabling direct access for family and staff and tailored to each person’s unique presentation and needs.

We have assisted in concerns related to

  • Identity

  • Life-transitions

  • Coming of age

  • Retirement

  • End-of-life issues

  • Grief and loss

  • Communication

  • Workplace issues

  • Social conflict and

  • Relationships

As senior specialists with doctoral qualifications, and with published research outcomes over the years including books and professional articles - our work with clients often focuses on facilitating change and growth, co-creating solutions and therapeutic planning.

  • Sexuality and sexology

  • Individuals in Counselling

  • For Couples Issues & Couple Counselling we rarely engage with new cases and only take on clients who match our service - and they need to demonstrate over time clear commitments to radical growth and to longer term therapy

  • Gender

  • Non-binary

  • Transgender and Gender Diverse

  • LGBTI+

  • Two Spirit, Sister Girl, Brother Boy

  • Men’s Straight, Bi, and Gay Issues

  • Women’s Straight, Bi, and Lesbian Issues & Culturally Grounded Indigenous Women’s Issues

  • Aboriginal and First Nation

  • Culturally Informed Holistic Care

  • Growth, Spirituality, and Meaning-Making

  • Contemplative Spiritual Practices

  • Meditation & Mindfulness Practices

  • Contemporary Culturally Grounded Methods in

    • Western (Christian Contemplative, Mystical and Earth Based, Celtic, Druidic, Wiccan) and

    • Eastern (Buddhist, Hindu, and Ayurvedic Medicine)

  • Trauma recovery

  • Grief, loss, and life transitions

  • Solitude, Social Isolation, and Radical Independent Living (i.e. Contemporary Hermits and Solitaries)

Telehealth Therapy Services

  • Imagine having your Senior Counselling Psychotherapist and Behaviour Specialist at the ready - in your hands on your mobile or device.

  • Our clients love to use their phones or devices to communicate with us.

  • Telehealth can be video chats, phone calls, emails, sharing documents and resources.

  • Clients with complex disabilities or underage may not communicate directly.

  • We work closely with parents to build skills and abilities to empower parents to be part of therapy.

  • Our books are often open to new referrals.

  • We understand that many waiting lists are longer than 6-12 months. We have provided support to people in rural and remote Australia, and to others in major cities who cannot access local therapists.

  • Are you seeking a compassionate, person-centred, and highly trained and experienced counsellor, psychotherapist or behaviour specialist?

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Counselling

Your needs for counselling supports are met online from the comfort of your home and device.

Specialist Counselling Therapies are the heart and soul of our work. We also support parents and people with special needs.

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Assessment & Therapy

Assessments help to clarity issues and needs. They also assist with funding reviews, access issues, setting up services and supports, and for many other needs.

Therapy can be short-term or longer-term, and our work co-creates outcomes and goals.

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Specialist Behaviour Support

We can help to assess behavioural concerns, reduce risks, and set up safety, prevention, and intervention plans.

We are NDIS Registered and have five star client reviews for many years and NDIS Audit 2024 awarded Best Practice.

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Contact Form

Let’s work together

Contact Us Below

Referrals for Specialist Counselling Psychotherapy for private clients - self-referral is the easiest, and we can also receive your referral from parents, GP, psychologist, therapist, teacher, or other support person. Medicare rebates are not available. If you have private health insurance that covers counselling, let us know - we may not have this set up but we can look into this by request.

Referrals for NDIS funded Specialist Behaviour Support and/or Counselling - we rely simply on your contacting us directly to let us know your request for service. We also take NDIS referrals from Support Coordinators, parents, other health professionals.

We answer all inquires quickly usually within a day or two and we respond with a return email, call or text as you wish.

The process is to

  1. Assess if we can help, and if we have space on our books,

  2. Let you know about our services and fees.

  3. When we both feel we are the best service to assist your needs - for NDIS participants we give you our consent form and create a Service Agreement draft for you to complete.

  4. For private clients we provide a consent form, and where requested we can create a service agreement.

  5. We start the service.

Generally we have no waiting lists. We consult Tues-Thurs 10 to 3, and are usually with clients or working for our clients. Chats and meetings are by appointment only.

Simply fill in the details below and we will be in touch.

Welcome

Dwayne & Jorandi look forward to hearing from you

Referrals - please just fill in the form above and send. We’ll be in touch.

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