Our Therapeutic Values

Not everyone fits the same therapeutic approach, and so we offer evidence-based psychological therapies in outdoor settings. We aim for our services to be authentic, compassionate, connected and flexible; providing a balance of support and challenge, with honesty and tact. These values allow us to skilfully know when to take your lead, and when to provide some direction, along your journey of self-development.

We also believe that mental health issues are symptoms that tell us something about our environment. We’d rather change the conditions of a wilting plant, rather than diagnose it with “wilting-plant-syndrome”. We are opposed to the over-medicalisation of human suffering, and acknowledge the interconnected social and political reasons for people’s suffering. We aim to help individuals to not just “cope”, but to actively change the conditions that have fuelled their distress. We also have a strong streak of environmentalism, and recognise the need to be better citizens of planet earth, whose wellbeing is also suffering. We encourage reciprocity with our natural environments, caring for the places that support us.

We took our name from the concept of liminality (from the Latin word limen, meaning a threshold). When we are in a liminal place, we stand at the threshold from one place to the next. Liminal places are important and powerful to us humans, but not easy.

Sometimes it helps to have a guide. Before, as you prepare; helping you figure out what internal and external resources to pack, and what you’d like to leave behind. During, to walk along side you on your adventure. And after, to help you integrate the insights from your journey into a values-driven life. Ultimately this is what therapy is.

As a business, we are in a liminal place too; walking the boundary between the current mental health care system and alternative healing modalities. We aim to balance our rigorous evidence-based practice roots, with a more flexible practice that honours people as the experts in their own life, and offers to do therapy differently.

  • Lara is a friendly, compassionate and direct therapist, with a genuine interest in helping her clients to chose their own path, learn new skills, and let go of beliefs and behaviour patterns that no longer serve them. She enjoys working from an Acceptance And Commitment Therapy (ACT) or Schema Therapy framework. She loves seeing her clients gain more psychological flexibility, and watching them begin to live a life driven by their values, rather than old habits. She’s also intimately familiar with how difficult that journey can be- she is figuring it out for herself too!

    Lara has worked with all age groups, across both the public and private sector for the better part of a decade. Before starting Liminal Place in 2021, she worked at Royal Perth Hospital, in the Multidisciplinary Pain Management Centre. There, she gained a keen sense of how important it is for people to move, and how interrelated the mind and body are, especially when it comes to trauma. To this end, she became increasingly drawn to pursuing her longstanding pipe-dream: doing therapy in a more active and embodied way, outside, in nature.

  • Doctor of Clinical Psychology - University of Western Australia

    Bachelor of Science (Psychology) with First Class Honours - University of Western Australia

    Remote First Aid Certificate

  • Registered Clinical Psychologist - AHPRA

    Board Approved Clinical Psychology Supervisor - AHPRA

    Australian Psychological Society - Member

    Australian Association for Bush Adventure Therapy - Member and WA Representative