About Me

Hi, I’m Kayla

BA Behavioural Science (Psychology)
Diploma of Holistic Counselling

Meditation and Mindfulness Coach
Holistic Life Coach
MHFAiders
Somatic movement

I have always considered myself a deeply spiritual person. My connection to spirituality began early in life. I was a sensitive child with an innate knowing — a quiet ability to sense what was beneath the surface, long before I had the language to understand it.

At sixteen, I discovered tarot. What began as curiosity soon became a lifelong fascination with the esoteric, opening a door to a world of knowledge, intuition and spiritual understanding that I have continued to explore ever since. Through my experiences and understanding of spiritual modalities, I began to witness their depth and potency, and my curiosity gradually evolved into something more profound.

Yet, alongside this spiritual path, there was another story unfolding.

I have always been the high-achiever. Being at the top of the class felt less like an achievement and more like an expectation. I was constantly reaching for the next accolade, the next milestone, the next version of myself that might finally feel enough.

I believed the natural next step was to continue my academic journey. I studied a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Psychological Science, with the intention of becoming a lawyer. At the time, I understood law through the lens of advocacy, justice and service. I believed that to serve others was to dedicate myself to something greater than myself.

And so, my story of service continued.

I enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force, where I experienced the privilege and responsibility of contributing to something greater than myself. The discipline, camaraderie and purpose of military life deeply shaped me. I believed I was living in alignment with the values that mattered most to me: service, integrity and loyalty.

But my journey would eventually ask me to look beyond the roles I had built my identity around.

I have been a deployed Defence member.
I have been an injured Defence member.
And eventually, I became a deeply unhappy and unseen Defence member.

From the outside, my life looked successful. I had achieved the things I had once believed would make me feel fulfilled. Yet, internally, something was missing.

The more milestones I reached, the more clearly I began to see that achievement had never been a direct pathway to happiness. Beneath the accolades, the service, the striving and the relentless pursuit of becoming more, there was a quieter story asking to be heard.

I had spent years believing that my worth was something I had to earn.

I began to recognise the illusions I had been living within — the illusion that achievement would make me enough, the illusion that constantly giving was the same as being of service, and the illusion that abandoning myself for others was a form of love.

Hidden beneath the people-pleasing, the poor boundaries and the relentless drive to achieve was an inner child who had been waiting to be seen.

And somewhere along the way, I realised that the work I had been searching for was in front of me all along.

While continuing my studies in psychology, I found myself increasingly drawn into the spiritual and healing space. What I had once considered separate paths began to converge. Psychology gave me a language for the internal world; spirituality gave me a deeper understanding of it. My own healing taught me that transformation is not simply about understanding ourselves intellectually — it is about learning to truly meet ourselves.