- Align with the future version of yourself who fully embodies your potential.
- Build supportive, sustainable habits that nurture your creativity, well-being, and balance, empowering you to take steady steps toward your dreams.
- Define clear, achievable goals that move you forward with purpose and intention
Move beyond just surviving in your work
Inner Compass: A Practical Roadmap for Thriving.
Reignite your purpose, reclaim your wellbeing, and create a practice and life that feel like home.
A restorative group coaching program for clinicians, therapists and heart-led service providers ready to reconnect with themselves, their values, and a sustainable way forward as a human in this work.
You’ve always loved your work, but lately you’ve been wondering how much longer you can keep going in this job, worried about burnout, or even questioning your future in this field after devoting so many years to a career that just doesn’t feel good anymore.
You’re not alone in this – therapists, clinicians and service providers everywhere are feeling the strain.
The good news?
It doesn’t have to be like this.
There are clear, actionable steps you can take to rediscover hope, reignite your passion, and build a sustainable, fulfilling approach to your work.
You can wake up without that feeling of dread, to re-find the meaning in your work and still have energy for the people you love.
Inside this self paced course and community of Inner Compass,
You’ll find a way to come home to yourself, to feel resourced, supported and re-aligned with purpose.
What you’ll gain inside Inner Compass
Clarity
Not just around what’s wrong—but what you actually need to feel grounded, steady, and well.
Mindset Shifts
Gently unhook from perfectionism, overgiving, and internalised pressure so you can make aligned, sustainable choices.
More Time for What Matters
Learn to set boundaries that stick, so work stops spilling into every corner of your evenings and relationships.
Real Empowerment
Reconnect with your own inner compass—the part of you that knows what’s right, even when systems try to drown it out.
Tangible Change
Whether it’s better sleep, more presence, or breathing room in your day, you’ll start creating a life that actually supports you.
Fewer Compromises
Let go of the belief that your care for others has to come at your own expense.
Consistent, Practical Tools
Create rhythms and rituals that help you navigate stressful environments with more ease and presence.
A Sustainable Career You Can Feel Proud Of
One that aligns with your values, nourishes your energy, and leaves you with a true sense of meaning.
How we support you to find your Inner Compass
2. Current influences and impacts at work
- Who, what and where you are right now?
- How is work impacting you?
- Who are your internal helpers and foes?
- Develop practical steps to begin to understand and shift any internal barriers
3. Building a kind base: empathy, compassion and boundaries
- Understand the the neuroscience of empathy and compassion
- Build a practice of self-compassion specific to your own needs
- Create your own somatic resources and explore how fierce self-compassion can support you to understand and create the boundaries you need
4. Understanding stress: polyvagal theory, the stress response cycle
- Access an overview of the neuroscience of stress
- Explore the three key states of YOUR nervous system
- Develop an understanding of knowing where you are within this hierarchy
- Build awareness of the feelings and sensations in each state
- Find ways to get back to a state of equilibrium through practical, actionable solutions to managing stress
5. Body mapping, somatics and creative supports
- Identify the impacts of stress on you (body, thoughts, feelings and behaviours)
- Create your own body map to understand what is happening and which tools may be most helpful for you
- Begin to develop an action plan of creative, practical, on-the-go supports for yourself
- Understand of the vicarious impacts of helping work, through the lens of the ‘Joy-Pain Spectrum’
- Access a summary of the latest research: what are the protective factors and what are the risks?
- Develop insight into the importance of connecting with the positives (‘joy’) in the work, as well as the challenges (‘pain’)
- Explore opportunities to develop awareness of these impacts
7. Self leadership and creating compassionate workplace cultures
- Explore the concept of self leadership to create culture change
- Understand the misnomer of self care, and the necessity of collective care in a sustainable career
- Create active hope and positive change
- Develop actionable steps to becoming a compassionate leader, whether you're in a large system or working for yourself in private practice
- Explore and deepen into components of the program
- Review and integrate material from the program
- Create your action plan based on the learning and experiential components of the program
- Celebrate achievements and build a framework for ongoing application and growth
Welcome!
I'm so pleased to have you here.
I'm Minky van der Walt (she/her): a registered clinician with the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA), and the Australian Music Therapy Association.
Within PACFA, I am a clinical member (#26483), an Accredited Mental Health Practitioner and a PACFA Accredited Supervisor.
As a trauma therapist, I have expertise in chronic stress and post-traumatic mental health.
In addition to 25 years of clinical experience across a range of medical, education and community settings, I offer supports based in trauma-specific practice (including Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, and Internal Family Systems Therapy approaches), music, creative arts and somatic processes, as well more traditional talk-focused approaches.
I am passionate about supporting health professionals to thrive in their work through a process of clarity, connection, compassion, creativity and community.
I want to help you to get out of your head and into your body, to get your mojo back and to find a pathway back to feeling like you again.
Minky has a wonderful way of putting complex theory into easy-to-understand language.
What's involved in participating in a pilot program?
As a pilot program, participants will have the opportunity to:
- Provide ongoing feedback that shapes the final program
- Become one of the first to access what I hope will be a transformative offering
Each participant will be instrumental in ensuring this program is the best it can be in easing some of the strain that health professionals are currently facing.
What will you walk away with?
- Clarify the specific impacts of your work on you to identify supports, resources and obstacles.
- Create a personalised body map and identify actionable supports to use in daily life.
- Develop creative, somatic on-the-go strategies to manage stress in real-time.
- Build a toolkit for self-compassion and self-kindness to foster resilience.
- Learn to set and maintain boundaries through the lens of fierce self-compassion.
- Develop your own actionable roadmap to navigate stress and return to balance effectively.
- Learn how to promote active hope and drive positive changes in organisational culture.
Participants will leave the program with:
- a deeper understanding of themselves,
- practical tools to manage stress and vicarious impacts of helping work,
- and a clear roadmap to foster resilience, self-leadership, and balance in their careers and personal lives.
Pricing & Payment
Full Program Value: $997 AUD
Payment Plan: 3 x $350 AUD (available for full price only)
Pilot Price: $497 AUD
🕒 Pilot pricing ends April 25 — last chance to join at this special early rate.
Risk-Free Guarantee
We know this is a big step. That’s why we offer a 14-day money-back guarantee. If you engage with the content and find it’s not the right fit, we’ll refund your payment.
Minky’s approach is creative, compassionate and insightful. Her work is informed by a deep and broad knowledge and many years of experience.
Frequently Asked Questions
“What if I fall behind?”
You won’t. Everything is recorded and designed to fit into real, full lives. No pressure to keep up—this is your pace, your path.
“What if I can’t make the live calls?”
You can access the live sessions through a recording that is available within 24 - 48 hours of the session. Questions can be pre-submitted so your questions can still be answered.
“Is this right for me?”
If you're a therapist, clinician or caring professional who feels stretched, disconnected, or close to burnout—this is for you.
“Who is this not for?”
If you're seeking acute clinical care, crisis support, or prefer a highly structured/diagnostic approach, this might not be the right fit.
“Is this only for health professionals?”
The program is designed for therapists and clinicians, but anyone in a care-centered role will find value here.
“How do music, art, and somatic tools help?”
These practices regulate the nervous system and reconnect you to your body. They create sustainable, felt change—no “woo” required.
“How is this different from therapy or supervision?”
Inner Compass isn’t therapy or clinical supervision. It’s a place to learn, practise what you already know, and find a different way forward.
“How is this different from other PD?”
Inner Compass moves you out of your head and into your body. It is an experiential course, that takes your needs into account and integrates neuroscience with creative arts, social justice and the body. It offers practical strategies and experiences to maximise learning and integration of the material.
"Can I claim this program as part of my ongoing professional development?”
Yes. PD certificates with program hours are distributed at the end of the program.
You don’t have to keep pushing through.
Right now, you might be holding it all together on the outside… but inside, you’re tired. Disconnected. Unsure how much longer you can keep doing things this way.
Inner Compass was created for this moment. To meet you exactly where you are. To help you shift from constantly coping… to truly creating a practice and life that support you.
You don’t have to leave the work you love. But you do need a way to stay that doesn’t cost you yourself.
Let this be that way.
Let us know you're keen and book a no pressure call with Minky
Join the Program and Start Building Your Future
Other Upcoming Events
Sunday Sound Immersion for Therapists, Clinicians & Service Providers
Workshops & Professional Learning
7.30 - 8.30pm AEST
11 May 2025
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