Bianca's Background

Specialties and Areas of Focus

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Bianca specialises in providing affirming care tailored to the LGBTQIA+ and neurodivergent communities. Her expertise spans several critical areas within mental health, ensuring comprehensive support for her clients:

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• Generalised Mental Health: Addressing a wide range of mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, and stress, with a particular sensitivity to the unique challenges faced by queer and neurodivergent individuals.

• Complex Trauma: Offering trauma-informed care for those who have experienced significant, often chronic, traumatic events, helping them navigate their healing journey with empathy and understanding.

• High-Risk Complex Presentations: Managing and supporting individuals with complex, high-risk mental health presentations, providing the intensive care and coordination they require.

Services Offered

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Bianca's practice is characterised by a holistic and client-centred approach, with services designed to meet the diverse needs of the LGBTQIA+ and neurodivergent communities:

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• Counselling: One-on-one sessions to address mental health concerns, fostering personal growth and resilience in a supportive and affirming environment.

• Parental Counselling and Support: Assisting parents in understanding and addressing their children’s mental health needs, with a special focus on supporting LGBTQIA+ and neurodivergent children and youth.

• Crisis Intervention: Providing immediate, responsive support during mental health crises, ensuring safety and stability for individuals in acute distress.

• Clinical Case Coordination: Coordinating comprehensive care plans that integrate various services and supports, ensuring a seamless and effective treatment process for complex cases.

• Training and Professional Development: Educating other professionals on best practices for working with LGBTQIA+ and neurodivergent clients, sharing expertise to enhance the quality of care across the field.

My professional values/approaches:

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• The central social work values of respect, social justice and professional integrity are close to my heart. Furthermore, as a bi-racial queer person, I am particularly passionate about promoting values of diversity, inclusion, equity, empathy and self-determination.

• My practice is governed by an evidence-based and trauma-informed approach. Additionally, an intersectional lens is paramount to my work. Members of the LGBTQIA+ community can often experience multiple layers of discrimination due to their intersectional identities. 

• Neuro-affirming practice. Moreover, my practice is governed through the social model of disability. 

• As a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, I know that we can often have similar lived experiences of both hardships and resilience. At the same time, I am committed to person-centred practice to ensure clients are not homogenised (i.e., stereotyped), and receive individualised help to promote their mental wellbeing.

• Passionate about creating spaces/opportunities which highlight and celebrate queer joy, resilience and strengths.