Jaci Panicker

Registered Counsellor


A place to pause, reconnect, and make sense of your experiences.

Welcome, I'm Jaci.

Perhaps you've spent so much of your life adapting to the people around you that you've lost touch with your own needs, emotions, or sense of self. Or maybe you're navigating a significant life transition and looking for a space to slow down, reflect, and find your footing again.

Many of the people I work with have spent years looking after everyone else, quietly adapting, or putting their own needs aside. Therapy offers an opportunity to reconnect with yourself, understand the patterns that brought you here, and begin living in a way that feels more authentic and sustainable.

My hope is to offer you a calm, welcoming space where you can simply be yourself.

My hope is to offer you a calm, welcoming space where you can simply be yourself. Our work will gently support you to build greater self-awareness, connect with your present-moment experience, and better understand the relationship between your thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations.

My approach is integrative, drawing on a range of evidence-based therapies to support your unique needs, always with the intention that every part of your inner world feels seen, understood, and welcomed.

Together, we'll develop a deeper understanding of your embodied experience, ensuring no part of you remains unseen.

“Therapy isn't a space to become someone different. It's about reconnecting with the person you've always been. Self-understanding creates space for self-compassion, and that's often where meaningful change begins.” ~ Jaci

My approach is to help you feel comfortable, understood, and free to be yourself.

By being deeply present and genuinely curious, I create a space where you can move at your own pace. Together, we'll build a trusting therapeutic relationship, allowing us to explore your experiences with openness, curiosity, and care.

As your understanding grows, we'll begin to recognise patterns, uncover new perspectives, and create space for meaningful and lasting change.

I'm naturally curious and calm, creating the space and presence needed to explore your inner world.

I believe meaningful therapy begins with feeling genuinely heard. My role isn't to rush you towards answers, but to walk alongside you as we explore your thoughts, emotions, and patterns with compassion and curiosity.

Along the way, we'll deepen your self-understanding and discover new ways of responding to life's challenges. Together, we'll make sense of your experiences with warmth, curiosity, and gentle guidance.

Sometimes the greatest act of self-care is giving yourself permission to pause. Understanding yourself with greater kindness and clarity is where meaningful change begins.

    • Highly Sensitive People (HSPs)

    • Mindfulness and somatic inquiry

    • Parts work (IFS-informed)

    • Family of origin issues

    • Adult children of emotionally immature parents

    • Emotional neglect

    • Affected others

    • Life re-evaluation and finding direction

    • Attachment anxiety and avoidant attachment

    • Codependency

    • Hyper-independence

    • Anxiety and depression

    • Stress and burnout

    • Relationship challenges

    • Parenthood, co-parenting, and blended families

    • Managing in-law relationships

    • Separation and divorce

    • Migration to Australia

    • Nervous system education and regulation

    • Neurodiversity

    • Overthinking

    • Emotional regulation

    • People-pleasing

    • Inner child healing

Many of the women I work with have spent much of their lives caring for others, adapting to changing circumstances, or quietly holding everything together.

Highly sensitive women often process the world deeply, experience emotions intensely, and spend years trying to hide these qualities in order to fit in. You were likely the responsible one, the peacekeeper, the one everyone else relied on, and the one who read the room so everyone else didn't have to.

Therapy offers an opportunity to slow down, recognise your needs, and navigate life's transitions with greater clarity, self-compassion and intention for yourself.

You may be navigating periods of change, including:

  • Life transitions

  • Divorce or separation

  • Grief and loss

  • Stress and burnout

  • Identity and role changes.

  • Menopause

  • Changing family dynamics

If you’ve found yourself in a place where you now see that so much of your life was spent adapting to everyone else, our sessions will be a sanctuary for you to come home to your own needs.

Supporting you Through...

  • Navigating stress as a Highly Sensitive Person

    For many people, stress stems from the pressure to conform to societal norms, hide emotions, and mask their true selves. This can be especially true if you identify as a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP). As an HSP, you may process information deeply, experience emotions intensely, and become more easily overwhelmed by sensory input.

    You may also find yourself people-pleasing or prioritising the needs of others over your own. Together, we can explore ways to help you embrace who you truly are and develop strategies that support your wellbeing.

    Learning to set healthy boundaries is an important part of protecting your emotional wellbeing as an HSP.

  • You were the responsible one, the peacekeeper, the one who read the room so everyone else didn't have to. Your feelings were dismissed, minimised, or simply never asked about. As an adult, you find yourself doubting your own instincts, over-explaining yourself, or feeling guilty for having needs at all. Therapy offers a space to finally make sense of what you experienced and understand how it may still be shaping you today.

  • Common themes you may bring to therapy include:

    • Navigating relationship dynamics with partners, children, and extended family.

    • Experiencing grief and loss following the death of parents, changes in friendships, or the transition into an empty nest.

    • Managing work-related stress and career changes.

    • Re-evaluating past decisions and coming to terms with regret or lost opportunities.

    • Coping with physical changes and their impact on health and identity.

    You may find it lonely to appear as though you're holding everything together while, on the inside, you feel disconnected.

    Therapy offers a space where you can be open and focus on what you want for yourself.

  • Common challenges expats may experience include:

    • Homesickness or feeling disconnected.

    • Relationship or family strain following relocation.

    • Feeling lonely, isolated, or misunderstood.

    • Grieving the loss of community, family, and familiarity.

    • Feeling guilty about leaving family behind.

    • Experiencing anxiety or low mood during the adjustment period.

    Counselling provides a space to reflect on your experiences, rebuild a sense of emotional stability and self, and integrate your past, present, and future in a meaningful way. Therapy can also provide practical strategies for reducing anxiety, stress, and overwhelm, navigating everyday challenges, and maintaining relationships across distance.

  • Maybe you've been running on empty for a while. Perhaps you're the person everyone else leans on. You might look like you're coping, but inside you feel exhausted, overwhelmed, stuck, or disconnected.

    An integration of talk-based and somatic (body-based) practices can help you understand your emotions and begin relating to yourself with greater compassion. Sessions move at your pace and offer space to explore your emotions, notice patterns, and make sense of what may be keeping you stuck.

Life can feel overwhelming at times. Whether you're navigating a specific challenge or simply wanting to understand yourself more deeply, therapy offers a space to pause, reflect, and make sense of your experiences.

I know that reaching out for therapy can feel daunting, especially if you've felt misunderstood or overlooked in the past. It can also be the beginning of meaningful change. Yet it's often the beginning of a different relationship with yourself- one built on greater understanding, self-compassion, and clarity.

I'm here to offer a warm, supportive space where we can explore your experiences together, at a pace that feels right for you.

Over time, my hope is that you'll leave therapy feeling more connected to yourself, more confident in your choices, and better equipped to navigate whatever life brings next.

Taking the first step…

As our work unfolds, you'll begin to recognise familiar patterns, discover new perspectives, and build the confidence to create meaningful change in your life.

When you've spent years adapting to everyone else's needs, it can become difficult to recognise your own. Therapy offers the space to reconnect with yourself, trust your own voice, and move forward with greater confidence.

Qualifications & Experience

Qualifications:

  • Masters in Counselling 2022

Professional Registration:

  • Psychotherapist & Counsellors Federation Australia/Australian Counsellors Association

Professional Development:

  • Soma Talk Practitioner Training (2026)

  • Yoga for Embodiment and Healing (2025)

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (2025)

    DBT Tools (2025)

You don't have to keep being the one who holds everything together. Sometimes the bravest step is turning your attention towards yourself and discovering who you are beyond the roles you've carried for so long.

Make an enquiry to work with Jaci

Jaci sees clients from our Cottesloe office or online.

Jaci runs her own Private Practice and engages Gabriella de Mori & Co to provide supportive administrative and other business services.

“Our sessions will provide a space to reflect on your experiences and to integrate your past, present, and future in a meaningful way. From here, you’ll rebuild a sense of emotional calmness and sense of yourself.”