Our team
Jennie Fitzhardinge, MCouns
Jennie is the owner and principal therapist at Navigator and her specialty is working with people who struggle with intense emotions and their aftermath.
She helps her clients to navigate life's difficult challenges and choices. She draws on her experience and training as a family and mental health counsellor and prior experience in the media, corporate and government sectors to give her clients a whole-of-life approach to navigate their unique challenges.
Jennie’s therapeutic tool box includes psychodynamic and family systems therapies, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, ACT and other mindfulness-based therapies. These therapies give people the skills they need to manage their emotions and their relationships.
Jennie has a Masters in Counselling from Murdoch University and experience in the not-for-profit and academic sectors. She is a Level 4 member of the Australian Counselling Association. She is on the NEABPD Australia steering committee and regularly runs the free Family Connections program for family and friends of someone with Borderline Personality Disorder.
Krupa Ramachandra, MPsy (India), MCouns (Australia)
Krupa is working with Navigator on our DBT courses as a facilitator and individual therapist.
She is passionate about working with people who are caring for family members who are debilitated by chronic conditions such as mental illness, chronic diseases, terminal illness or substance abuse.
Her approach to counselling is strength-focused, evidence-based, trauma-informed and carer inclusive. Krupa takes a person-centred approach to therapy while drawing on the tools of Acceptance & Mindfulness-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Motivational Interviewing and Dialectic Behaviour Therapy to help clients resolve their challenges.
Krupa also volunteers for NEABPD Australia as a clinician to run the free, 12-week Family Connections program for carers.
Krupa qualified as a psychologist in India and has a Masters in Counselling from Murdoch University. She is a member of the Australian Counselling Association.
Pepper
Pepper is Jennie’s co-therapist. She is particularly good at working with young people with anxiety and emotional distress. If you are not a dog person, then she will not attend. Pepper does not charge for her services, she does it for the love of humanity and pats. Lots of pats.