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Soul-Care
Counselling Psychotherapy & Naturopathy
At Soul Care: Counselling Psychotherapy & Naturopathy, we offer a holistic and integrative approach to mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Our practice is dedicated to providing tailored therapeutic services for individuals, couples, and families, addressing a wide range of concerns—from personal trauma to relationship challenges and spiritual health.
SOUL-CARE SERVICES INCLUDE:
Therapeutic Counselling & Psychotherapy
We utilize a variety of evidence-based approaches, including classical depth-oriented, psychodynamic and analytical approaches (Carl Jung); person-centred therapy (Carl Rogers), experiential-focusing (Eugene Gendlin), and an extensive array of specialised trauma-informed psychological therapies. Our person-centred, trauma-informed approaches secure good client-therapist rapport, encourouge & nurture mental and emotional growth, and guide contemporary understandings of trauma and healing.
Trauma-Informed Psychotherapies
We specialize in advanced trauma therapies such as EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), Thought Field Therapy (TFT), Sandplay Therapy, and The Richards Trauma Process (TRTP). These powerful modalities are designed to address the root causes of trauma and PTSD, helping you heal and regain your sense of safety and well-being.
Spirituality & Christian Counselling
For those seeking a faith-based approach, our Christian Counselling offers support guided by Christian theological principles, providing a compassionate framework for addressing spiritual, emotional, and psychological concerns. We believe in nurturing the whole person—body, mind, and spirit.
Marriage & Relationship Counselling
Healthy relationships are the cornerstone of emotional well-being. We offer expert guidance for couples, addressing everything from communication struggles to emotional disconnection. Our counselling provides tools to help partners manage stress, anxiety, and navigate challenges that may be affecting their relationship.
Naturopathy & Functional Medicine Counselling
We understand the deep connection between mental and physical health. Our functional medicine approach combines clinical pathology testing, including Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA) and Biochemical Profiles, to uncover the root causes of chronic stress, burnout, and physical illness. By focusing on restoring metabolic balance, we help you regain vitality and address underlying health concerns.
A Comprehensive Approach to Wellness
Our integrated therapies provide a unique and holistic solution for those facing chronic stress-related conditions, trauma, and common emotional, social, or spiritual concerns. At Soul Care Counselling Psychotherapy, we are committed to helping you achieve lasting well-being through personalized care that nurtures the mind, body, and spirit.
Your Therapist - Laura Hvala
Founder of Soul-Care:
Counselling Psychotherapy & Naturopathy
Supporting holistic healing of mind, body and spirit.
Welcome to Soul-Care. I’m Laura Hvala — a holistic therapist, naturopath, and Christian counsellor — dedicated to supporting individuals through life’s emotional, psychological, physical, and spiritual challenges.
I founded Soul-Care with a vision to provide comprehensive therapeutic services that address the unique challenges faced by individuals navigating personal and relationship struggles.
With years of experience in both psychotherapy and naturopathy, I offer a safe, compassionate space for people to explore and heal from emotional distress, trauma, and spiritual confusion.
As an integrative health-care practitioner, I have a clear purpose: to help people heal deeply, reconnect with their inherent worth, and discover a life of resilience, meaning, and spiritual purpose. My work is grounded in compassion, clinical excellence, and a deep belief in the healing potential that lies within each person.
My Therapeutic Approach
I provide professional, trauma-informed support for individuals struggling with:
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Emotional distress: anxiety, depression, grief, frustration, isolation
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Trauma & PTSD
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Relationship challenges
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Negative life patterns and behavioural cycles
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Identity confusion, loss of direction, and low self-worth
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Spiritual concerns, including questions of faith, meaning, and connection
With a strong foundation in psychodynamic and depth-oriented psychotherapy, I will frequently integrate a range of evidence-based trauma therapies, including EMDR, TFT, TRTP, and Sandplay Therapy. These approaches offer safe, structured ways to process trauma, release emotional blocks, and promote deep psychological healing.
Spirituality & Christian Counselling
As a practitioner of faith, I offer Christian counselling for those seeking healing that honours their spiritual journey. This can include prayerful reflection, biblical principles, and spiritual integration within therapy — always tailored to the individual's beliefs and preferences.
Whether you're navigating a crisis of faith, spiritual burnout, or simply seeking alignment with your God-given identity and purpose, I aim to create a respectful, open, and non-judgmental space to explore these deeply personal dimensions.
Even for those not of a Christian background, I welcome conversations around spirituality, meaning, and connection as part of a holistic path to wellbeing.
Naturopathy & Mind-Body Healing
In addition to psychotherapy, I’m a registered Naturopath with a special focus on the effects of chronic stress and trauma on the body. I use Herbal Medicine, Nutritional Therapy, and lifestyle interventions to support physical healing from conditions such as:
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Chronic pain and inflammation, sleep disturbance
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Anxiety, depression, irritability, mood disorders
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Chronic fatigue, burnout, exhaustion, dysregulation
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Nervous system disorders - stress, trauma, PTSD
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Hormone disorders, digestion and metabolic disorders
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Immune disorders - poor immunity, SIBO, auto-immunity, hyper-reactivity
This integrative approach bridges the gap between the mind and body, functioning and helps clients regain balance and vitality on all levels.
A Safe Place for Whole-Person Healing
“Healing the whole person — mind, body and spirit.”
At Soul Care, you are never simply a diagnosis, a set of symptoms, or a problem to be fixed. You are a whole person — with a unique story, inherent worth, and the capacity to learn, grow, heal and change.
My role is to walk alongside you with compassion and curiosity as you make sense of life’s challenges, understand the patterns that have shaped you, and reconnect with who you are beneath the stress, pain or expectations you may have carried.
Together, we can work toward greater emotional and psychological wellbeing, a stronger and more authentic sense of identity, and a clearer understanding of your strengths, vulnerabilities, values and needs. Therapy can also help you recognise what matters most to you, what motivates you, and how you want to move forward in ways that are more intentional, meaningful and aligned with the life you want to live.
Healing is not simply about reducing symptoms. It is also about becoming more deeply connected with yourself — understanding where you have come from, recognising what has helped you survive, discovering what may now need to change, and developing the confidence and resilience to make choices that reflect who you are becoming.
Whether you are seeking counselling and psychotherapy, spiritual support, naturopathic care, or an integrated combination of these approaches, I offer a safe and respectful space where your whole person can be considered — mind, body, relationships and spirit.
My hope is that you feel genuinely heard, understood and supported as you move toward greater clarity, healing, meaning and wholeness.
Laura Hvala
Founder — Soul Care: Counselling Psychotherapy & Naturopathy
Specialising in...
Counselling Psychotherapy
Spirituality & Christian Counselling
Trauma & PTSD
Soul-care counselling psychotherapy is a holistic, depth-oriented, trauma-informed approach that integrates psychodynamic insight with spiritual understanding. It honours the whole person—emotionally, psychologically, relationally, and spiritually—while recognising both conscious experience and the deeper influences of trauma, family patterns, identity, and spiritual realities.
Relationship Therapy
Relationship problems are the main reason that people seek help from counselling psychotherapists in Australia. Relationship therapy works with married partners and committed couples to improve communication, connection and love.
It helps people invest in creative solutions to conflict, and establishes healthy and enduring relationships based on honest communication and trust, and open channels of love and affection, that keep on growing.
Spirituality and Christian Counselling recognises that human beings are created by God as complex and integrated persons—physical, psychological, emotional, relational, and spiritual. Our lives, identity, and experiences are shaped by both conscious and unconscious influences, as well as relational, generational, cultural, and spiritual dynamics.
This modality integrates biblical faith and values with sound psychological approaches, providing a relationally centred framework for clients to process life’s challenges. It supports personal growth, healing, and transformation while nurturing hope and a deeper relationship with God.
Trauma is an overwhelming response to distressing events that disrupts a person’s ability to cope, often with lasting emotional, psychological, spiritual, and relational effects, including symptoms such as anxiety, intrusive memories, and despair. Trauma-informed psychotherapy integrates neuropsychological, relational, and depth-oriented approaches, recognising trauma’s impact on the brain, body, and sense of self while prioritising safety, regulation, and collaboration.
Working beyond surface symptoms, it supports the integration of traumatic experiences through exploration of unconscious patterns, attachment, and embodied experience—fostering resilience, restored identity, connection, and wholeness.
Sandplay Therapy
Sandplay therapy is an experiential depth psychotherapy where sand, water and small figures are arranged in a tray, to symbolically reflect the clients internal world & psychic dynamics. It is a non-verbal method that facilitates the natural human capacity for self-reflection and insight into ones problems; with capacity for correction, self-organisation & growth.
Sandplay is an effective therapy, not just for children & adolescents; but for adults, couples and family groups; and for complex issues of trauma / abuse.
Naturopathy
Naturopathy is a holistic medical system, rooted in ancient wisdom traditions that believe that life, health & disease follow certain natural & holistic laws; and living by these fundamental principles is the easiest way to keep and restore health and live well.
Naturopathy uses these principles as remedy - applying herbal medicines, nutrition therapy, diet, fasting & detoxification to restore the building blocks of metabolic functioning & healing processes of the mind & body.
