About Healing Arts

Meet Nerrelle

Hi, I’m Nerrelle Champion, a PACFA and ACA registered counsellor providing integrative counselling and psychotherapy. I hold a Master of Counselling and have completed additional undergraduate study in psychology and behavioural science. My postgraduate training includes crisis and trauma, relationship and family dynamics, child and adolescent counselling, loss and grief, alongside specialist training in family and domestic violence (FDV), coercive control, trauma recovery and PTSD.

I created Healing Arts Psychotherapy & Counselling to be a place where people feel genuinely seen, supported and empowered. Whether you’re recovering from trauma or abuse, navigating anxiety, living with ADHD or autism, struggling with relationships or moving through a major life transition, my aim is to provide a safe, respectful space where you don’t have to carry everything alone.

Reaching out for counselling can feel overwhelming, particularly when you are unsure where to begin. You do not need to have the right words or a clear explanation of what is happening. Sessions with me are relaxed, collaborative and free from judgement. We work at your pace, with space for both practical support and deeper exploration.

I believe meaningful therapy is about more than reducing symptoms. While practical strategies are an important part of the process, lasting change often comes from understanding the experiences, relationships and patterns that shaped the way you think, feel and respond today. My aim is to help you build emotional resilience, deepen self-understanding and create meaningful, lasting change that continues well beyond therapy.

My work is informed by contemporary understandings of trauma, attachment and neuroscience, including how stress, threat, past experiences and relationships can influence emotional responses, nervous-system regulation and repeating patterns of behaviour and relating.

This perspective helps me understand not only what someone is experiencing now, but how earlier experiences, relationships and patterns of stress may still be influencing the way they feel, respond and relate today.

Areas I can support you with

I have a particular focus on trauma and complex trauma recovery, including CPTSD/PTSD, family and domestic violence (FDV), coercive control and emotional abuse.

I also work with:

• anxiety, stress and emotional overwhelm

• emotional regulation and BPD-related difficulties

• ADHD, autism (ASD) and neurodivergent support

• grief and loss

• self-worth and identity

• relationship difficulties and unhealthy relationship patterns

• difficult childhood experiences

• major life transitions

• general life challenges and adjustments

I undertake ongoing professional development across the areas of my practice to keep my work current, evidence-informed and responsive to the people I support.

My practice is neuroaffirming and LGBTQIA+ affirming, and I aim to work in a way that respects each person’s identity, circumstances, values and lived experience. Above all, I believe therapy should help you understand yourself with greater compassion rather than judgement. My hope is that you leave counselling not only with practical tools, but with greater clarity about who you are, why certain patterns developed and how you can move forward with more confidence, resilience and self-trust.