Welcome to Shining Together Counselling
A safe, trauma-focused space to heal, grow, and shine together.
Structured counselling for adults affected by Complex PTSD, developmental trauma, relational trauma, and family violence.
I support clients to understand trauma patterns, regulate the nervous system, work safely with parts, process body-held trauma, and rebuild self-trust, boundaries, identity, and resilience.
Based in Brisbane and available online.
About Me
I’m Shine Xiao, a bilingual ACA Level 3 Registered Counsellor (MACA) with nearly two decades of counselling experience across China and Australia.
I hold a Master of Mental Health Practice and a Master of Counselling in Australia, as well as a Master’s degree in Psychology from China.
My professional training focuses on complex trauma, IFS, somatic therapy, Gestalt therapy, DBT and narrative therapy.
My Services
Individual trauma counselling for adults, typically weekly and 60 minutes per session.
The work focuses on three main areas: complex and developmental trauma, relational and family trauma, and nervous-system, parts, and identity repair.
Sessions are available online via Zoom or WeChat video, with face-to-face sessions available in North Lakes.
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This service supports adults experiencing Complex PTSD shaped by childhood trauma, developmental trauma, abuse, neglect, or chronic stress.
Sessions combine nervous-system regulation, somatic awareness, parts work, and structured trauma processing to help you stabilise, rebuild emotional safety, and restore self-trust.
Trauma recovery is paced carefully. Most clients work weekly over 3–12 months, depending on complexity, stability, and goals.
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This service supports adults affected by domestic and family violence, coercive control, emotional abuse, manipulation, intimate relationship trauma, or repeated patterns of fear, guilt, people-pleasing, over-responsibility, self-doubt, and boundary difficulties.
Counselling helps you recognise the impact of unsafe or controlling relationships, restore your sense of reality, strengthen boundaries, and rebuild trust in your own feelings, needs, and choices, with attention to emotional safety, practical boundaries, and your current life situation.
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This service supports adults who feel overwhelmed, frozen, shut down, disconnected, or caught between different inner parts.
Counselling helps you work safely with hyperarousal, collapse, dissociation, body-held trauma, inner conflict, and protective patterns.
The focus is to restore regulation, strengthen internal cooperation, rebuild boundaries and self-trust, and support a more stable sense of identity.