Jacque
Jacque is the practice's lead counsellor for young people, supporting children, teens and families across Gympie and the Sunshine Coast.
Currently taking new referrals for children and adolescents.
Book with Jacque
Tell our intake team you'd like to work with Jacque. If their books are full, we'll match you with a colleague who covers the same area and funding type. No waitlist gymnastics.
About Jacque
Jacque is the clinician families often meet first when they walk into the Gympie clinic with a worried 10-year-old or a teenager who has stopped going to school. Her work focuses on children, adolescents and the parents around them, and she has a particular knack for translating big, scary feelings into language a young person can actually use.
She holds a Diploma of Counselling and is currently studying Social Work, which has expanded her view of how individual sessions sit alongside family systems, schools and community supports. In practice, that means a session with Jacque might involve a child, a parent, a referral letter to a GP and a quick email to a teacher, all in service of one young person feeling more steady at home and at school.
Alongside her clinical caseload, Jacque is Constellation's Clinical Operations Coordinator. She mentors the QLD counsellors and allied health assistants, helps shape outreach into local schools and community groups, and is one of the senior voices the team leans on when a case gets complex. That dual role keeps her close to the clinical floor and connected to the wider service.
Jacque sees clients in the Gympie clinic and via mobile visits across the Sunshine Coast region, with telehealth available for families in the Gympie catchment who can't easily get into clinic. She is comfortable in school environments and is often the clinician schools call when a young person is escalating in the classroom.
Common reasons families come to Jacque include anxiety, school refusal, big feelings around change or loss, friendship difficulties, behaviour at home, and the long, slow work of recovery after a tough year. She is trauma-informed in her approach and works closely with parents so the support carries into everyday life, not just the 50 minutes in the room.
Jacque works in a warm, trauma-informed and developmentally attuned way. She brings parents and carers into the work where it helps, and steps back to give young people their own private space when that's what the moment calls for.
Services Jacque delivers
Working with Jacque
Does Jacque take NDIS clients?
Yes. Jacque works with self-managed and plan-managed NDIS participants. Counselling sits under 'Improved Daily Living' for most plans, but check with your support coordinator if you're unsure.
Can parents attend sessions?
Often, yes. Especially with younger children, Jacque will usually do part of the session with the child and part with the parent, so what's happening in the room can keep going at home.
Book with Jacque
Whether you're a parent looking for support, an adult navigating NDIS, an aged-care family, or a support coordinator with a referral, we'll meet you where you are.
