About Malise

Come Home to Yourself.

I’m Malise — a counsellor, coach, mentor, educator, artist, and heart-based leader.

For more than 20 years, I’ve been exploring what it means to be human: how we understand ourselves, how we change, why we sometimes lose connection with who we are, and what becomes possible when we begin listening more deeply to ourselves.

My professional path has moved through counselling, education, coaching, psychology, intuition, creativity, spirituality and personal development. Along the way, I’ve worked with people in many different settings — supporting personal growth, teaching and assessing counselling students, facilitating creative experiences, and working one-to-one with people navigating change and uncertainty. I’ve also walked the hero’s journey just like you, having navigated trauma, addiction, loss, seeking and uncertainty in my life.

I’ve come to see these different areas not as separate worlds, but as different ways of understanding the same thing: the person underneath everything you’ve been told you should be.

I don’t believe you need someone else to have all the answers.

I don’t see my role as telling you who you are, what you should believe or which direction you should take. Instead, I see my role as creating a space where you can slow down, look honestly at what is happening within you and become more attuned to your own knowing.

Sometimes that means exploring thoughts, emotions, relationships or patterns that keep repeating.

Sometimes it means understanding an inner conflict, finding your way through a major life transition, rebuilding your confidence or working out what you actually want after years of putting other things — or other people — first.

And sometimes it means listening to something deeper.

Intuition has always been an important part of how I experience and understand the world. My intuitive work includes “seeing” and intuitive reading, energy work and connecting with inner knowing. I bring this perspective into my work alongside my professional background in counselling, coaching and human development.

My qualifications include a Diploma of Counselling, life coaching, NLP Master Practitioner training, hypnotherapy and teaching qualifications, together with further professional development in areas including expressive therapies, relationships and conflict, mindfulness, shadow/inner child work, and Internal Family Systems (parts work).

I have also worked extensively in counselling education as a Trainer and Assessor, supporting students as they develop their own skills and confidence as emerging counsellors.

Creativity has remained an important thread throughout my life. I’m an artist and educator, and I’ve facilitated and taught creative experiences for groups of people, bringing together art, connection and personal expression.

Alongside my private work, I am an experienced motivational speaker and have represented Beyond Blue as a Speaking Ambassador. I was also a winning artist in Beyond Blue’s first collaboration with Australia Post, with my artwork featured on a stamp as part of its mental health series. I feel passionate about encouraging play and artistic expression as a balance to survival-based focused living.

But qualifications and professional experience are only part of what I bring.

I’ve also experienced my own periods of questioning, change, uncertainty and reinvention. I know what it is to reach a point where an old way of living or seeing yourself no longer fits — and to have to listen inwardly to discover what comes next.

That is at the heart of ATTUNE.

I’m not here to fix you, rescue you or give you someone else’s answers. I’m here to help you hear yourself more clearly. Because sometimes the way forward isn’t about becoming someone new.

It’s about coming home to yourself.