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About your Instructor

Andra is a trauma-informed professional with an extensive educational and work background in social work, psychology and child and youth counselling. In addition, she is a certified trauma-sensitive yoga teacher, a trained mindfulness facilitator and practices as a registered social worker and a full member of ANZASW. Andra is focused on creating safer spaces for clients that honour diversity and inclusiveness and foster individual and collective well-being, empowerment, connection and integration. She is a passionate, authentic and empathic social worker working from a strengths-based approach with efficient use of various therapeutic modalities. Her clinical training draws on attachment and complex trauma theory, somatic based therapies, narrative therapy, mindfulness-based approaches, brief-solution focused therapy and family systems therapy. Andra places a strong focus on individual agency and choice, invitational language, self-awareness and compassion. She brings over 15 years of diverse experience in various roles and settings in social services, child protection, community mental health, education, family violence and sexual harm.