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
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Heidi Marie: Master Practitioner & Learning & Development Manager
Heidi Marie is the Learning & Development Manager at Spinal Energetics, leading the evolution of practitioner training and global education within the modality.
A Level Two Spinal Energetics practitioner, she has spent more than 1000 hours working closely alongside Founder, Dr. Sarah Jane, contributing to the refinement of technique, teaching methodology, and the student learning experience.
With a strong foundation in complementary therapies; including kinesiology, breathwork, mind body medicine and ongoing studies in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Heidi brings a grounded, multidimensional understanding of the body and energy systems into her sessions.
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Pat Chirico: Master Practitioner & Teaching Team
Pat brings a rare combination of depth, presence, and integrity to his work as a Master Practitioner and core member of the teaching team.
With extensive training in trauma-informed and somatic practices, Pat guides clients into authentic self-awareness and release, helping them reconnect with their body's innate wisdom. His sessions integrate Spinal Energetics, breathwork, and meditation to support lasting transformation, not just temporary relief.
Pat works with both men and women who are navigating stress, emotional overwhelm, or disconnection from themselves. His clients often describe feeling more alive, grounded, and aligned after working with him.
What distinguishes Pat's approach is his commitment to facilitating rather than fixing. He creates the conditions for people to unlock their own energetic and emotional potential, trusting the intelligence of their nervous system to guide the healing process.
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Mish Bourke: Master Practitioner & Teaching Team
Mish believes healing is most powerful when it's trauma-informed, heart-led, and embodied. Her mission is to help people reconnect with their wholeness through safety, intimacy, and emotional freedom, anchoring them back into a life that feels fulfilling, joyful, and grounded in self-love.
Mish offers Spinal Energetics alongside Reiki, Seichim, breathwork, women's circles, health coaching, mindfulness, and meditation. Her approach gently weaves energetic release, nervous system regulation, and deep intuitive care to support lasting transformation.
She works with sensitive souls, seekers, and those navigating burnout, trauma, addiction, or disconnection, people who long for deeper intimacy with themselves, healthier boundaries and lives that truly feel like their own.
Clients often walk away with a renewed sense of aliveness, self-trust, and calm. Empowered to make space for joy, connection, and a more loving relationship with their mind, body, and spirit.
Mish is here to help people fall in love with their lives again.
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Jesse Akkerman: Master Practitioner
Jesse supports others in reconnecting with the innate intelligence of their body and breath. His work is grounded in presence, integrity, and deep nervous system awareness.
He specializes in blending Spinal Energetics with Himalayan breathwork and yoga-based somatics to support deeper embodiment and emotional release. Jesse works with individuals navigating stress, emotional stagnation, or major life transitions—those ready to move beyond the mind and into the wisdom of the body.
Through this integrative approach, clients often experience a sense of clarity, lightness, and inner alignment. Jesse's sessions create lasting impact by reconnecting people to their power, purpose, and presence in everyday life.
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Tim Pollock: Senior Practitioner
Tim bridges the worlds of exercise science and energetic healing, bringing both academic rigour and intuitive awareness to his work as a Spinal Energetics practitioner.
With a Bachelor of Exercise Science from ACU Melbourne, Tim's deep understanding of human anatomy and physiology forms the foundation of his holistic approach. He seamlessly integrates scientific principles with the transformative potential of Spinal Energetics to help clients unlock their body's innate healing capabilities.
Tim works with people addressing chronic pain, trauma, anxiety, athletic performance, or those simply seeking to reconnect with their body's natural rhythms. His sessions harmonize energetic imbalances, alleviate physical discomfort, and cultivate profound wellbeing.
With compassion and intuition, Tim creates a safe, nurturing space where clients can access their own healing intelligence—meeting them exactly where they are and supporting them every step of the way.
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Kirsty Saunders: Senior Practitioner
Kirsty values community, authenticity, compassion, and connection. Her intention is to hold nurturing and sacred space that honours each person's innate ability to heal, guiding them back into harmony within all aspects of self—mental, emotional, physical, and energetic.
She weaves Spinal Energetics with Reiki, meditation, intuitive healing, breathwork, and aromatherapy to support deep self-enquiry and energetic integration. Kirsty specialises in timeline healing, accessing stored experiences across the lifespan to help clients reconnect with the wisdom held in their bodies.
Kirsty works with individuals who feel fragmented, lost, or disconnected, often due to grief, trauma, stress, or life transitions. Her approach gently restores safety in the body, trust in the self, and a felt sense of grounded presence.
Clients leave sessions feeling more at ease, anchored, and whole—supported in re-establishing clarity, balance, and inner harmony. Through heart energy and sacred intention, Kirsty co-creates a pathway home to each person's truest self.
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Tanya Elise: Senior Practitioner
Tanya walks alongside clients as they rediscover their strength, purpose, and innate ability to heal. She values authenticity, presence, and honoring the nervous system—meeting each person exactly where they are with compassion and respect.
Tanya offers Spinal Energetics sessions tailored to each individual's unique needs and capacity, whether they're seeking gentle support or a deeper, more activated release. Her work is grounded in intuitive awareness, nervous system sensitivity, and trauma-informed care. Each session is an invitation to reconnect with the body, explore the inner world, and process whatever is ready to move.
She works with those navigating emotional blocks, life transitions, anxiety, or simply seeking a deeper sense of alignment and wholeness. Tanya's ideal clients are open-hearted individuals ready to step into their healing journey with curiosity and courage.
Beyond the session itself, Tanya offers integration tools like mindset prompts, self-care practices, and nervous system support to help clients maintain and embody the shifts they create together. Clients often leave feeling more grounded, empowered, and reconnected to a sense of purpose and possibility.
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Kristina Misha: Senior Practitioner
Kristina's mission is to empower others to step into their true power, live authentically, and rise beyond trauma to become their highest selves. Her approach is rooted in empathy, spiritual depth, and a fierce commitment to transformation and self-worth.
Kristina specializes in supporting individuals navigating or recovering from narcissistic relationships—whether romantic, familial, or workplace. She works closely with people-pleasers and those yearning to reclaim their voice, worth, and power.
Through her unique integration of Spinal Energetics, Alpha Alignment, and Somatic Alignment, Kristina helps clients clear deep energetic and emotional imprints, regulate their nervous systems, and create powerful shifts in their internal and external realities. These modalities work synergistically to address body-held trauma, enhance energy flow, and support integration across body, mind, and spirit.
She works with individuals healing from emotionally abusive relationships, those struggling with self-worth or emotional overwhelm, and people ready to drop guilt, stop people-pleasing, and live authentically.
Kristina's clients experience real breakthroughs—moving from emotional chaos to inner calm, from burnout to aligned clarity, and from chronic physical symptoms to sustainable wellbeing and self-love.
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Hilda Stroll: Senior Practitioner
Hilda's mission is to help people reconnect with their wholeness. This isn't quick-fix work—it's deep, lasting change. She values safety, compassion, and authenticity, and believes true healing happens when the mind, body, and spirit are addressed together.
Hilda offers a trauma-informed, integrative approach that blends Spinal Energetics, Reiki, and psychotherapy. Her work is grounded in psychological principles, attachment theory, and nervous system awareness.
Sessions often weave together energetic work and talk therapy, helping clients move from mental overwhelm and emotional dysregulation into deeper embodiment, clarity, and self-trust. By creating a safe space, Hilda guides people into a more empowered relationship with their inner world.
She works with clients who struggle with overthinking, anxiety, and feeling stuck—those ready for the deeper work of transformation. Clients often leave feeling lighter, grounded, and more at ease in themselves.