Juliette Kirkwood

Juliette Kirkwood is a PACFA-credentialed clinician based in Australia with twenty years of practice working with adolescents and adults. She has a particular interest in supporting people experiencing psychiatric disorders, women’s mental health concerns including postnatal depression, substance misuse, and complex trauma such as childhood abuse. Her work emphasizes both the mind and the body and values compassionate therapeutic relationships as central to change.

Alongside traditional counselling approaches, Juliette draws on extensive training and experience in Dance Movement Therapy (DMT). She has developed and facilitated DMT programs within community organisations and women’s health retreats, and has worked in both inpatient and outpatient psychiatric hospital settings. This embodied focus helps when words alone do not capture a person’s experience, offering movement and bodily awareness as additional pathways for exploration.

Juliette spent five years lecturing in the Graduate Diploma of Dance Movement Therapy at Excelsia University College and at the IKON Institute of Australia, teaching Dance Movement and Embodied Arts. In clinical work she frequently supports people with complex trauma, informed by ongoing professional development in trauma-informed care and attention to nervous system regulation. She aims to work collaboratively, at a pace that feels respectful, and to provide a warm, steady, non-judgemental space for exploration and growth.