Monique’s career has spanned a range of roles for over a decade, all with a focus on children’s learning and emotional well-being. Beginning as a primary school teacher in an indigenous community, Monique continued to study and moved on to become a behaviour management advisory teacher, a child protection counsellor, a school counsellor and now offers child psychotherapy and parent counselling on the Sunshine Coast as well as training & consulting across Queensland.
Over the past 3½ years Monique has been dedicated to founding and directing InsideOut Counselling & Training Service, a service devoted to promoting her passion – the emotional well-being of children, parents and child professionals.
Monique’s integrated and holistic approach to her work draws from a wide range of life experience and training which includes Child Centred Practice, Behaviour Management, Expressive Therapies, Art Therapy, Movement Medicine, Holotropic Breathwork™, Transpersonal Psychology, Sandplay Therapy, Emotional Release Counselling, Play Therapy, Filial Therapy, Child Protection Frameworks, Feminism, Indigenous perspectives, Australian Bush Flower Essences and Essence of Angels.
Over the past 3½years Monique has been dedicated to founding and directing a service devoted to promoting the emotional well-being of children, parents and child professionals. Monique regularly sees private clients, runs weekly support groups, conducts workshops and training and creates and distributes a quarterly e-newsletter. In 2008, Monique was awarded ‘Finalist’ status in the small business category of the Sunshine Coast Business Woman’s Awards.
Between 2006 – 2008 Monique worked part-time at Lifeline Caboolture in an early intervention Child Protection program where she was an integral member of the team and provided individual therapeutic support to children and families who had experienced sexual abuse.
Between 2000 – 2005 Monique was employed by Education Queensland as a Behaviour Management consultant where she visited a range of schools across the Sunshine Coast supporting students at high-risk, parents, teachers and administrators. In the role, her responsibilities ranged from therapeutic counselling with students to conducting district wide training to other EQ professionals, ie. Guidance Officers, Behaviour Support Teachers and Teacher Aides.
From 1998 – 2000 Monique lived and taught in Woorabinda, an Indigenous community in Central Queensland.
Monique lives on the Sunshine Coast where she spends time with family and friends exploring her interests in dancing, drumming, being in nature, listening to live music, felting, reading and camping. Monique continues to grow her busy counselling & training service, which offers child & parent psychotherapy on the Sunshine Coast as well as training other professionals in Expressive Therapies across Queensland. Her practice is based on the belief that when we care for a child & their care givers, we are caring for our world.
