Hey there,

Sun Flow counselling was created because I believe that you deserve a happy, peaceful, grounded life regardless of the challenges that may come your way.

The ethos is ‘client-centred,’ meaning it is all about what you would like to get out of your counselling sessions. So it feels a little weird talking about myself, but I understand if you are considering working with me, you might like to know a little more.

So here goes…..

My name is Rebecca King. Like many people, my personal journey includes some really tough parts of life, including overcoming 25+ years of chronic illness, raising neurodiverse children, starting and managing a small business, and working through past traumas.

Despite all this, I truly love my life. When I’m not counselling, I’m teaching or practising yoga, bushwalking, ocean swimming, reading, meditating, playing around with art materials, exploring Tassie or enjoying time with my favourite humans. I am still on the campaign to get another fur baby, but leave that one with me!! 🐶

Career-wise, I worked really hard as a Director in our own marketing business and on prestigious Tasmanian boards. I had the accolades, but my heart wasn’t always in it, and in my 40s, my body just gave up. I had pushed too hard for too long. At that ‘crisis’ time, I had at least 20+ debilitating migraine days a month, plus the ‘usual’ Lupus-related aches and fatigue I’d had for 25+ years. I was SO debilitated. I remember looking at my to-do list one day at work and not understanding a single thing on it; it was like my brain had shut down and had had enough. Rock bottom. So reluctantly, I stepped away from running our business and my whole corporate life to see if I could feel better again.

I had done talk therapy before, which had helped me considerably to understand myself, but there was always a level of healing I just couldn’t access, so I turned to the research…

I love scientific evidence, so whatever I did next had to have scientific backing. So, I spent months reading hundreds of scientific papers and psychology books. To my surprise, many mentioned that the mind-body connection, Polyvagal theory, parts work, nervous system regulation and embodiment were beneficial in healing burnout and past traumas and that a range of activities could help.

So I started, or ramped up, modalities like walking in nature, meditation, breathwork, yoga, mindfulness, gazing at the sky, lying on the grass, tapping, journaling, dancing around the house and splashing paint around. The old me would have laughed and said I was ‘turning into a hippie’, but the scientific research said these things had therapeutic benefits, and I was SO desperate I would have tried anything. So, even if it was just 10 minutes a day, I did some kind of heart-filling activity.

It took a while; there was no magic pill to just pop and be cured, but each day, I did something for myself, and slowly, slowly, slowly, I started to feel better. I started to feel calm and whole, and the pain and anxious thoughts began to subside slowly.

As I became better, my brain started to work again, and I started to train in the modalities that were helping me. I trained as a yoga teacher because I love the feeling of calmness and embodiment, but I wanted more…..

It became clear that I couldn’t return to my old life as a marketer. Old friends and colleagues stopped me in the street and asked why I looked so healthy. They wanted to know ‘how I did it’ and ‘could I help them?’. So I spent many, many hours over coffee or walking in the bush just holding space for people who were suffering, often women in their middle age with chronic conditions. People who just wanted to be heard for the first time. Everybody’s circumstances and bodies are different; there is no one-size-fits-all approach. I didn’t need to lecture these people about what worked for me; I just had to ‘hold space’ and watch as they started to answer their own questions about what was right for them. This got me thinking that maybe I could be a counsellor ……

In true Rebecca fashion, I turned to research to determine what kind of therapy would resonate, one that brought in a mind-body-spirit connection and allowed people the space to discover a way forward for themselves. That’s where I found ‘Transpersonal Therapy’, the more I looked into it, the more I liked it.

I discovered that Sarah Power, one of the pioneers of Yin Yoga, whom I greatly respect, studied a Master’s in Transpersonal Psychology. I wanted to do that! But unlike in the US, in Australia, the highest level of study you can undertake is an Advanced Diploma.

Still, I toyed with the idea of studying Psychology or Psychotherapy. I still might one day, but I initially wanted to get working sooner and also wanted experiential, practical studies rather than intensive theoretical and scientific studies, which may have caused my chronic migraines to return!

So, I decided to study Transpersonal Therapy, which I have adored. I feel so changed, centred, and grounded after the hundreds of hours of therapy I have received from fellow students, and I have loved being a student therapist to them, too. We have done hundreds and hundreds of hours of counselling practice with each other and learnt many ‘processes’ (activities) that we can take clients through in order to understand themselves more. This work really was the icing on the cake in terms of my healing journey.

So there you have it: my story and my rationale for studying this amazing therapy. I am an open book, so if you want to know more about my story, please ask.

However, when we are in a therapy session, it will be ALL ABOUT YOU and making meaning out of your life experiences.

I would love to get to know you. xx Beck

Check out my qualifications here.