Clinical depth and cultural understanding in trauma therapy
About Shine


Shine Xiao, MACA
ACA Level 3 Registered Counsellor · 20 years of counselling experience
I specialise in Complex PTSD (CPTSD), childhood, developmental and relational trauma.
I also work with how family roles, intergenerational expectations and migration experiences can shape trauma responses, boundaries and relationships.
Education
- Master of Counselling (Australia)
- Master of Mental Health Practice (Australia)
- Master of Developmental and Educational Psychology (China)
My approach
I identify recurring automatic responses, trigger–response chains and what keeps them active, establishing a clear clinical focus.
Each session builds on the last. I draw on somatic and nervous-system-informed trauma work, parts-based approaches and DBT-informed skills, adapting interventions to the active pattern and current capacity. We track changes in regulation, boundaries, self-trust and agency.
Bilingual and culturally responsive
Therapy is available in Mandarin and English. I consider how culture, migration, family systems and intergenerational expectations shape trauma responses, identity, boundaries and relationships.
Selected professional training
- Janina Fisher — Complex Trauma Training
- Complex Trauma Certification Training (CCTP/CCTP-II)
- Somatic Therapy for Complex Trauma Certification Training
- Frank Anderson — IFS Trauma Training
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy Certification Training (DBT)
- EMDR Basic Training — Level 1 completed (2026)
- Three-Year Gestalt Therapy Training
- Queensland Domestic and Family Violence Training
Private health insurance
If you have Extras cover with any of the following private health insurers, you may be eligible for a Counselling rebate:
- Bupa
- Medibank
- ahm
- HCF
- Police Health Fund
- Emergency Services Health
- Phoenix Health
- St Lukes Health
- GMHBA
- see-u by HBF (telehealth only)
- Teachers Union Health
- AIA
- Doctors Health Fund
- Westfund
Let’s connect
Online across Australia or in person in North Lakes, Brisbane.
For your initial enquiry, a brief overview is enough. You do not need to describe traumatic experiences in detail.
Prefer email? shiningtogetherc@gmail.com