I’m not here to be your expert. I’m here to be real with you — human to human.
Hello, my name is Brittany. You can call me Bini.
I’m a therapist by training, but that word feels limited. I’m a facilitator, a space holder, a poet. A woman who’s moved through many thresholds. I have knelt in the rawness of my own becoming and stayed long enough to remember my innate worthiness.
I began my path as an Occupational Therapist, curious about what truly helps people change. I didn’t always see the deeper layers of healing.
The Threshold
I started my career in hospitals, community and education settings — thinking in systems and focused on function, outcomes, tools. One day, I was sitting with a man recovering from a heart attack. We were discussing healthy habits. Mid-session, his family walked in with bags of fast food. That moment hit something:
How can we heal, if our environment and the way we relate — to ourselves, to others, to the world — isn’t part of the conversation?
That was the threshold. I began to see differently. This insight changed my direction — and became the ground of my work.
“No thing exists in isolation. The more we try to separate our problems, the further we move from the truth — from remembering the inherent belonging of all things. Emotions. Behaviours. Challenges. It and our relationship to all of It, plays a role in the natural unfolding of our human potential.”
-Bini
Across Continents and Communities
That compass has guided me through many landscapes
✺ Re-structuring learning spaces for children in India living with disability
✺ In shelters supporting women and children fleeing violence
✺ Inside trauma response teams and suicide prevention initiatives, in schools, early leaning spaces and family homes
✺ Co-creating intergenerational, community-wide nature-based learning spaces
✺ Facilitating change for families navigating neurodiversity and behavioural complexities
✺ Spending over 1000hours in silence over multiple meditation retreats and studying in depth advanced spiritual practices
The Truth About Trauma
I’ve seen trauma in many forms — from social, political, environmental, domestic and inter-relational. And this is what remains clear:
Trauma is not what happens to us, it’s what happens inside of us.
It occurs when disconnecting from our authentic self is safer than losing our attachment to our primary source of love and belonging.
Trauma happens in relationship — and, it can be healed through relationship.
I don’t offer quick fixes. I offer spaces for repair. To repair our relationship to that which shapes the world we live in.
My work deepened through Compassionate Inquiry and mentorship with Dr. Gabor Maté and Associates — a practice of softening the protective strategies and meeting the tenderness beneath. Including my own!
But the real teacher? Life.
Through my own journey of childhood adversity, domestic + sexual violence, an acquired brain injury and navigating the western medical system, leading me to pathways of immense grief, despair, rupture, devotion, maidenhood, and mystery, I’ve come to know:
Healing isn’t a performance. It isn’t found in an instagram following or in books.
Healing is an increase in capacity to be present.
Present to honesty, with yourself.
Present to subtle feeling, and the wisdom it carries.
Present to discomfort, and not running away.Healing is your willingness to let presence guide you.
This isn’t therapy-as-usual.
It’s an intentional collaboration between your nervous system, your highest self, this moment and the safety we cultivate, together.
We move slowly. We listen to the body.
We explore the patterns, the protections, the parts that keep showing up.
To self-locate in an objective world, constantly suggesting our fulfillment exists outside of us.
Whether you're a parent, a seeker, a space holder, or simply someone who knows they’re ready for something different — this space is for you.
What Working With Me Feels Like
Modalities I Draw From
Presence-based therapy
Psychosomatic Therapy, informed by Compassionate Inquiry
Nervous system regeneration and Trauma-sensitive holding
Inner child healing and Somatic Parts Work, informed by IFS
Relational repair, communication, and boundary work
Occupational Therapy original roots in creativity and meaning
Ritual, nature, and ancestral reconnection
How It Begins
We start with an Inquiry Call.
This is a gentle, honest conversation — where you share where you’re at, what’s not working, and what you’re longing for.
If we both feel resonance, I’ll offer a plan — one that invites depth, commitment, and sustainable change.
Together, we create a space where healing is not a project, but a process of remembering who you already are.
Education and empowering experiences
Compassionate Inquiry Professional Certification and Mentorship, trauma-informed psychotherapeutic training developed by Dr. Gabor Mate and Associates
Bachelor of Occupational Therapy with Honors (2016) with Monash University
Trauma-informed wellbeing facilitator influenced by Berry Street Education Model with Berry Street Vic, Dadirri Trauma Healing and Aboriginal Mindfulness with We.Al-li, Early Childhood Trauma recovery and community recovery from natural disaster with Emerging Minds
Advanced ‘Being’ Meditation Teacher with Jonni Pollard of 1 Giant Mind
4 year Coaching apprenticeship with Kym Dolcimascolo of Freedom Life Coaching
International Coaching Federation qualified life coach with Ben Harvey of Authentic Education
Landmark Worldwide and Wisdom community graduate
Adult Children Alcoholic and Dysfunctional Families 12 step Program, ACA
200hr Hatha Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training with Heather Elton, of Mahalaya Nepal
50hr Embodied Trantric Yin Yoga Teacher Training and 50hr SPANDA Energetic Yoga Teacher Training with Lara Zillibowitz, of Body Poetry Yoga
Vipassana Meditator as taught by S.N. Goenka
Cha Dao as taught by the Tea Hut Tradition, with gratitude to teachings from Wu De of Global Tea Hut and Barry Boullon of Dragon Tea Temple
Former student of vedic wisdom, with reverence to the teachers, mentors and embodied divinity in Sri Shakti Amma, Jonni Pollard and Thom Knoles