Meet our HQ Team
Experience Spinal Energetics at the source
Our Richmond headquarters isn't just a clinic—it's where Spinal Energetics was created and where its evolution continues. In this bright, welcoming space, you can experience the modality in its purest form through private sessions, professional trainings, or by joining our community events.
Discover the profound transformation that only Spinal Energetics provides, delivered at the very source of this revolutionary approach..
Meet our HQ Practitioners
Pat Chirico
Master Practitioner & Teaching Team Level One & Level Two
Pat brings a grounded, trauma-informed approach to his work as a Master Practitioner and teaching team member.
Integrating Spinal Energetics, breathwork, and meditation, he supports clients in reconnecting with their body’s innate wisdom and capacity for change.
Known for his calm presence and integrity, Pat works with people navigating stress, overwhelm, and disconnection, creating a space where emotional release, nervous system regulation, and authentic self-awareness can naturally unfold.
Mish Bourke
Master Practitioner & Teaching Team Level One & Level Two
Mish believes healing is most powerful when it is trauma-informed, heart-led, and embodied. Blending Spinal Energetics with Reiki, breathwork, meditation, mindfulness, and women’s circles, she supports people navigating burnout, trauma, addiction, and disconnection.
Her work gently combines nervous system regulation, energetic release, and intuitive care to help clients reconnect with self-love, emotional freedom, and deeper intimacy with themselves. Mish is here to help people fall in love with their lives again.
Master Practitioner & Teaching Team Level One & Level Two
Jesse Akkerman
Jesse supports others in reconnecting with their body and breath through a grounded, nervous system-aware approach.
Blending Spinal Energetics with Himalayan breathwork and yoga-based somatics, he helps clients move through stress, emotional stagnation, and life transitions.
His sessions foster clarity, presence, and inner alignment, supporting people in reconnecting to their innate power, purpose, and the wisdom of the body in everyday life.
Tim Pollock
Senior Practitioner Level One &
Level Two
Tim bridges exercise science and energetic healing, bringing both academic knowledge and intuitive awareness to his work as a Spinal Energetics practitioner.
With a Bachelor of Exercise Science from ACU Melbourne, he combines anatomy, physiology, and holistic healing to support clients navigating chronic pain, trauma, anxiety, athletic performance, or disconnection from the body.
Tim’s compassionate approach creates a safe space for nervous system regulation, energetic balance.
Tanya Elise
Senior Practitioner Level One &
Level Two
Tanya supports clients in reconnecting with their strength, purpose, and innate ability to heal through a compassionate, trauma-informed approach.
She blends intuitive awareness with deep nervous system sensitivity in her sessions to support emotional release, life transitions, and inner alignment.
Tanya creates a safe space for exploration and transformation, while also providing practical integration tools that help clients embody lasting change.
Kristina Misha
Senior Practitioner Level One & Level Two
Kristina empowers clients to step into their true power, live authentically, and move beyond trauma into their highest selves.
Rooted in deep transformational work, she supports those recovering from narcissistic or emotionally abusive relationships, especially people-pleasers reclaiming their voice and self-worth.
Through Spinal Energetics, Alpha Alignment, and Somatic Alignment, she helps clear emotional imprints, regulate the nervous system, and restore flow.
Kirsty Saunders
Senior Practitioner Level One & Level Two
Kirsty brings over 15 years of public health experience including a degree in Health Promotion, across Australia and the UK, alongside training in yoga, Reiki, and somatic healing.
Blending Spinal Energetics with nervous system awareness, breathwork, meditation, and aromatherapy, she supports people navigating stress, grief, trauma, and life transitions.
Kirsty creates a nurturing space for deep self-enquiry, helping clients to gently reconnect with their body, restore a sense of safety, and return to clarity, ease, and wholeness.
Hilda Stroll
Senior Practitioner Level One &
Level Two
Hilda supports people in reconnecting with their wholeness through deep, lasting, trauma-informed work that integrates mind, body, and spirit.
Blending Spinal Energetics, Reiki, and psychotherapy, she draws on psychological principles, attachment theory, and nervous system awareness.
Her sessions combine energetic healing with talk therapy to move clients from overwhelm and dysregulation into clarity, embodiment, and self-trust..