Trauma-informed compassionate support. Rooted in real results.
Highly personalised, one-to-one sessions for deep, lasting transformation.
Designed to help women heal the past, reclaim their light, and rise into the fullness of who they’re meant to be.
It’s time to truly invest in your health, self-care, and wellbeing.
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Meet Your Holistic Psychologist
Welcome
Hi, I’m Arissa Brunelli, founder of DIVE Healing®.
You may have found your way here because something within you knows it’s time to look more deeply, beyond surface symptoms, and to gently explore what’s truly at the core of your health and wellbeing.
Many of the women I work with arrive feeling tired of searching outside themselves for answers that never quite land. They may be living with anxiety, emotional overwhelm, chronic fatigue, sleep disturbances, compulsive or self-sabotaging patterns, relationship challenges, or a lingering sense of disconnection, often without a clear explanation as to why.
I know what it’s like to carry pain that feels difficult to name or make sense of.
At DIVE Healing®, these experiences are not viewed as problems to be fixed, but as meaningful signals; messages pointing toward deeper unmet needs, unresolved experiences, or places within that are longing for understanding and care.
What if your healing isn’t about fixing yourself at all, but about remembering who you truly are beneath the layers of coping, striving, and survival?
Deep down, many women sense that they are far more than a diagnosis, a label, or a treatment plan, and that there is a wiser, more whole part of them waiting to be reconnected with.
A Different Way of Healing
DIVE Healing® (Deep Inner Virtue Exploration) offers a unique integration of Women’s Holistic Psychology and Integrative Sound Medicine, grounded in both evidence-based psychological science and embodied, non-verbal approaches to healing.
This work brings together mind, body, and nervous system, supporting healing at emotional, relational, and cellular levels. By integrating psychological therapy with body-based and, where appropriate, sound-based modalities, we create space for deeper integration than talk therapy or somatic work alone.
My approach is trauma-informed, collaborative, and highly personalised. Each session is thoughtfully tailored to your individual needs, intentions, and readiness, and held within a safe, respectful, and ethically grounded therapeutic relationship.
Supporting You to:
Gently heal the impact of past experiences and trauma
Understand and transform long-standing patterns
Reconnect with your Wise Self, inner resilience, and self-trust
Cultivate deeper self-compassion, confidence, and clarity
Move forward with greater alignment, freedom, and vitality
This is not about quick fixes or surface-level change. It is about meaningful, sustainable transformation - supporting you to come home to yourself and live in a way that feels true, grounded, and whole.
If you feel ready to explore what’s really happening beneath the surface of your health and wellbeing, I warmly invite you to take the next step.
Your journey back to wholeness begins here.
If you'd like to read more about my background, credentials, and years of experience as a practitioner, explore my bio (link below):
Common Presentations I Support
At DIVE Healing®, I support women experiencing a wide range of psychological, emotional, relational, and mind–body concerns. These experiences may arise suddenly, develop over time, or feel difficult to fully explain, and are always approached with care, curiosity, and respect for your unique story.
Common presentations I work with include:
Trauma and Stress
A recent disturbing event or trauma
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Complex, intergenerational, or ancestral trauma
Acute or chronic stress
Nervous system overwhelm or burnout
Anxiety, Mood, and Emotional Wellbeing
Anxiety and/or panic
Depression or persistent low mood
Emotional ups and downs that feel overwhelming
Difficulties feeling present, grounded, or connected
Identity, Self-Worth, and Patterns
Low self-esteem, confidence, or motivation
Self-sabotaging or repetitive patterns
Inner criticism, shame, or harsh self-judgement
A sense of disconnection from self, purpose, or meaning
Relationships and Attachment
Negative or recurring relationship patterns
Attachment-related difficulties
Challenges with boundaries, closeness, or trust
Life Transitions and Adjustment
Life transitions or significant life changes
Grief, loss, or identity shifts
Adjustment difficulties during major phases of life
Cognitive, Sleep, and Somatic Concerns
Foggy thinking, memory difficulties, or reduced performance
Sleep difficulties, nightmares, or insomnia
Headaches, migraines, or stress-related pain
Women’s Health–Related Experiences
Women’s health concerns where psychological stress, trauma, or emotional factors may be playing a role, such as PCOS, endometriosis, auto-immune conditions, or pre and postnatal experiences.
A Gentle Note
These experiences are viewed not as flaws or failures, but as meaningful signals, often reflecting how your nervous system, body, and inner world have adapted to life’s challenges.
Therapy is not about fixing what is “wrong,” but about understanding what has been needed for survival, and supporting a return to greater balance, self-connection, and wholeness.
All therapy is tailored to your individual needs, paced with care, and grounded in evidence-based, trauma-informed psychological practice.
What type of therapeutic approaches do you offer?
"Over the years I've learned how to facilitate meaningful change by crafting a health care approach that brings science and spirituality together - an integrative and holistic approach that gets to the core of the issue, and is personally tailored to support the whole of you ~ mind, body, and spirit. I offer a welcoming and sacred space where you can be supported in your healing journey. "
How I enter the work
I offer evidence-based psychological therapy within a trauma-informed, person-centred framework. All therapeutic work is individually tailored and grounded in contemporary psychological practice, with a strong emphasis on safety, collaboration, consent, and sustainable change.
I enter each therapeutic relationship with the understanding that healing unfolds most effectively when a person feels seen, respected, and supported at their own pace. My role is not to direct or fix, but to walk alongside you, offering clinical expertise, attunement, and a steady relational presence that supports depth without overwhelm.
Clinical Foundations
My work commonly integrates mindfulness-based approaches, which support emotional regulation, self-awareness, nervous system stability, and psychological flexibility. These approaches form a consistent foundation for deeper therapeutic work.
Depending on your goals, presentation, and clinical needs, therapy may draw on established, evidence-based, trauma-informed modalities, including:
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Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
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Internal Family Systems (IFS-informed therapy)
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Somatic or Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Where appropriate, I also integrate mindfulness-based behavioural therapies, including:
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
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Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
All psychological interventions are delivered within scope of practice and in accordance with the ethical guidelines, professional standards, and regulatory requirements for registered psychologists in Australia.
Integrative Sound Medicine
For clients who are interested, and where it is clinically appropriate, longer sessions (90 minutes) may be booked to incorporate Integrative Sound Medicine, including Acutonics® and Biofield Tuning®.
Sound-based work is:
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Introduced only with informed consent
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Carefully paced
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Clinically held within a psychological framework
It is used to complement, not replace, psychological therapy, supporting emotional processing, nervous system regulation, and non-verbal integration.
Further information about these approaches is available on the Integrative Sound Medicine page.
Where appropriate, modalities such as Medical Astrology may also be shared as part of your holistic support. These esoteric tools are not used as prescriptive frameworks, but rather as insightful springboards to inspire a deeper commitment to self-care and a regular practice that supports physical vitality, breath awareness, mental clarity, and spiritual connection.
While each individualised plan is uniquely tailored, the overarching intention remains the same: to help you create meaningful, sustainable change, and to support you in navigating life with greater intelligence, resilience, and alignment.
Let's being your healing journey - together
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Begin the Journey Back to Yourself
What if your healing could be the beginning of something much bigger?
Imagine stepping into a journey that not only transforms your inner world, but also empowers you to experience breakthroughs you once believed were out of reach.
This work isn’t just about reducing symptoms or getting by. It’s about reclaiming your clarity, confidence, and the deep sense of connection that comes when you return to your true self.
Now imagine becoming the very beacon of hope and healing you’ve been searching for.
When you choose to do this work, courageously, consciously, and compassionately, you don’t just create change in your own life. You create space for others to rise too. Your healing becomes a ripple effect, a quiet revolution, and a reminder that transformation is possible.
This is your invitation to go deeper than coping. To stop just surviving and start thriving.
If you're ready to reconnect with your purpose, honour your truth, and begin your path toward lasting transformation...
I'm here to walk beside you.
Holistic Psychology In Person
Psychologist In Person
Connect in person at our peaceful residential therapy space in Currumbin Waters, Queensland. You'll be able to soak up the good vibes we create here, and feel at ease in our space.
Your one-to-one sessions will be also be supported by a range of practical resources especially tailored for your holistic psychology sessions.
Holistic Psychology Online
Psychologist Online
Work with a psychologists online, allowing you to connect from anywhere, eliminate travel time, and enjoy more flexibility.
Your sessions will also be supported by a range of curated resources especially tailored for your online holistic psychology sessions.
"Within each of us is a wise, compassionate essence of goodness that knows and is capable of learning to relate harmoniously, and make decisions from a place of greater self-trust, rational understanding and intuitive knowing."
Reclaiming Holistic Practice as a Preferred Path to Health - Not Just an 'Alternative'
When I first began practicing psychology, the word “holistic” was rarely, if ever, part of the mainstream conversation. Within many medical and psychological communities, it was often dismissed in favor of a symptom-reduction approach that prioritised short-term fixes over deeper healing. Simply mentioning the word “holistic” was enough to invite skepticism, sometimes even defensiveness, or have it written off as “woo.”
During these formative years, it was deeply disheartening to witness respected doctors within the medical community being influenced by the pharmaceutical industry's agendas, often incentivised to prescribe certain medications as a first-line response. For many patients, their health and overall wellbeing were shaped by these decisions, made by those they trusted most as primary care providers.
Thankfully, I learned to trust my intuition (a story I’d love to share with you another time). For as long as I can remember, I’ve felt called to educate and inspire others to truly understand what it means to live and heal holistically. My mission has always been to help pave the way for a more conscious, compassionate approach, one that empowers people to realise their potential, elevate their quality of life and awareness, and heal their body, mind, and spirit from a place of deeper understanding, integrity, and choice.
Today, the term “holistic” is becoming more widely recognised, and I believe that’s largely because more and more people are awakening to the truth of our interconnectedness. We're beginning to understand that health and wellbeing aren’t fixed or purely determined by genetics, but are dynamic, ever-evolving reflections of how we live, feel, think, and relate to ourselves and the world around us.
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What is Holistic Psychology?
HOLISM refers to the understanding that the character of “wholeness” meets us everywhere and points to something fundamental in the universe, that the essence of nature is to form ‘wholes’ that are greater than the sum of the parts through creative evolution.
Despite some of the best intentions, our medical system has become more about prioritising treatment of symptoms and reducing pain over understanding how patients entire lives contribute to their health and/or disease. Medical systems are designed to serve as many patients as possible, and shortages of medical providers mean that not all patients receive care when they need it.
Conversely, a holistic health practitioner may ask themselves and their patients to deeply consider the ways that bodies, minds, spirits, relationships, and the spaces we inhabit all coalesce, manifesting and shaping one’s health outcomes and well-being.
As a HOLISTIC PSYCHOLOGIST, my approach goes beyond simply managing symptoms—I work with individuals to uncover and heal the root cause of their challenges. Rather than applying surface-level solutions, I guide people to rewire patterns at the spiritual, emotional, and somatic levels, where the true imprint of our experiences lives. Our bodies and spirits remember what the mind may try to forget, and it’s often from this deeper emotional landscape that our thoughts, behaviours, and decisions arise. By addressing the core, lasting transformation becomes possible, creating space for greater clarity, balance, and freedom.
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How Does Holistic Psychology Help?
True healing begins when the body feels safe. Once we expand the capacity of the nervous system and gently stretch our window of tolerance, the body can begin to relax, and in that state of safety, awareness naturally grows. From this grounded place, we can start to connect the dots between our symptoms, thought patterns, emotional responses, and behaviors, often uncovering how they’ve quietly shaped the life we’re living, and perhaps held us back from the life we long for.
Lasting change doesn't come from treating symptoms in isolation, or layering one effect over another, like masking emotional pain with medication or temporary fixes. While those interventions may offer short-term relief, they often miss the deeper drivers beneath the surface, and when those roots are left untouched, the patterns tend to repeat, intensify, or evolve into new challenges.
Equally, shifting our mindset at a purely conscious level, without addressing the emotional imprints stored in the body or the unconscious beliefs that quietly steer our decisions, rarely leads to true transformation. Sustainable healing requires us to work with the whole system - body, mind, and spirit- as one interconnected landscape.
Whether the issue is anxiety, compulsive behaviors, chronic fatigue, sleep disturbances, relationship struggles, emotional overwhelm, or a persistent sense of disconnection, a holistic approach invites us to see symptoms not as the problem, but as messengers pointing to deeper needs. As a holistic practitioner, I believe it’s not only my role, but my responsibility, to help you understand the bigger picture your symptoms belong to, and to support you in navigating your way back to wholeness with compassion, clarity, and care.
Meaningful change begins when you feel empowered to make informed choices and take responsibility for your own healing journey. This process not only improves your health, life, and relationships, it also builds deep self-trust and a renewed sense of self-love.
When you're ready to reclaim your wellbeing from the inside out, I’m here to walk alongside you.
I'm ready to make meaningful and lasting changes to my life
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How Will You Feel After our Sessions Together?
Past clients tell us of their own experiences....
Before...
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Feeling overwhelmed, scattered, exhausted or 'burnt out'
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Feeling consumed by thoughts of worry, self-doubt, or feelings of anxiety
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Feeling insecure, lonely, or socially withdrawn
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Feeling un-motivated and held back by self-criticism, or comparing yourself negatively to others
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Negative relationship behaviours and patterns
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Nightmares, flash-backs or disturbing future predictions
After...
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Sense of safety, calmness and ease
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Greater sense of self-acceptance, compassion, and fulfillment
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Feeling confident to be yourself with others
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Energy to live your day and feel connected with the sweetness of life
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Healthier boundaries and self-worth
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The past no longer defines or holds you back
Your transformational journey towards healing and empowerment beings here