 In my native Chile, I am a registered psychologist and can bring all of the benefits of psychology to my practice. In Melbourne, I am a counsellor in Australia, as well as a Reiki master. I speak English and Spanish and practice in Elwood.
Are you feeling stuck, anxious, sad, or fearful? Through a holistic and integrative approach to counselling, we can find the root cause of your issues. We’ll create a supportive and sacred space to inspire healing and transformation.
Reiki is a Japanese spiritual practice that supports healing on a physical, mental, and emotional level. Reiki healing is energy healing, assisting you in correcting the imbalances of mind, body, and spirit.
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Being in therapy with Manuela has been a wonderful journey. She is a great therapist who helps to heal and reconnect, providing on her sessions support and guidance. Thank you Manuela.
Manuela helped me a lot from the first session. She has always listened to me attentively and gives me exercises to apply in my life. She finds the way to teach me what I have to pay attention to and I feel so blessed to have made the decision to go to therapy with her. Thank you so much!
She helped me to find some issues that I didn’t know, her personality and professionalism made me feel free and comfortable to explain myself. Since that day I am following her pieces of advice, I strongly recommend to take therapy with her.
It didn’t take long for me to feel comfortable and open myself up to Manuela. For someone that had never considered this type of service, I was very surprised with the results. I can honestly say it put things into perspective and transformed the way I approach different scenarios.
I came to Manuela at one of the final stages of a long lasting process. Her help was crucial during this closing and it made me able to start building myself up again. She is 100% human, empathic, professional and fully compromised with what she does.
In a very complicated period of my life, where it was almost impossible to see a light at the end of the road, I met Manuela, who is an exceptional psychologist, good professional, attentive and understanding. Without a doubt, I would not have been in better hands. A pleasure to have been your patient of which I will always be very grateful. I recommend it to everyone!
Get in touch today to schedule your first consultation for counselling and Reiki, or to learn more about joining one of our women’s circles in Elwood, Melbourne.IT services provider, Empired (ASX: EPD), has acquired Western Australian IT consulting services provider, Conducive, for about 8 million.
Under the terms of the transaction, the purchase price will be satisfied through the issue of 5 million fully paid ordinary Empired shares plus three cash payments.
The first cash payment will be about $3.2 million due on contract completion, expected by the end of August, followed by two other milestone payments of about $1.7 million and about $1.9 million will be due July 31, 2013 and July 31, 2014 respectively.
The acquisition will be earnings accretive and is forecast to deliver approximately $9.5 million in revenue in FY13.
Empired will manage the Coreworx project information and cost control system for the Ichthys project for the next five years.
“The acquisition is a game changer for Empired’s applications business. It significantly expands our capability and our addressable market for multi-year managed services contracts that we can now contest,” Empired managing director, Russell Baskerville, said.
Empired also aims to be able to provide a broader range of services to many of its existing clients, particularly specialist services to the energy and natural resources sector.
“I have personally met with a number of Conducive’s major clients who are delighted with the service they receive and welcome Conducive being supported by a larger organisation,” he said.
According to Conducive managing director, Branden Dekenah, the transaction will offer great value for all its key stakeholders.  Tips are supposed to be NEW things, that you didn’t already know, that can help you.
Perfect example from last summer: We listened to an audiobook about tips for twins, and one of the tips was, I shit you not, “shop online.” Effing DUH.
So please know that it pains me to use the word “tips”. I don’t throw that around lightly. But these are little things that I’ve learned or figured out over the past three months–that I didn’t read in the books or on the blogs–that have been helpful, and may be helpful tips for you too!
At the changing table, when you know there’s a dirty diaper, take several wipes out of the container BEFORE opening the diaper. That way you don’t have to frantically tug with one hand if something leaks or someone squirts you.
Also, unfold the new diaper down under the old one. Unfasten, lift, remove, fasten. Makes for a much quicker change!
For pete’s sake, never leave the baby undiapered to throw out the wet/dirty diaper! Clean and re-diaper first! Otherwise you’re just asking for a mess. Yes, it’s gross to have the icky one right there, but it’s already contained. 
Use dry erase markers to write directly on bottles. It wipes right off. IKEA sells a set of 4 for like two bucks.
Re-use the nicer wipe container (with the snap lid) with generic brand wipes.

If you are a non-short person like me, you may end up hunching at your changing table because it’s not tall enough. Get some bed risers–less than ten bucks–and your back will thank you.
Make any space an ‘activity mat’: Get a thin tube, dowel, pvc pipe (three bucks at Home Depot!), bamboo, whatever you’ve got. Slide on any hanging toys or rattles. Hang over a co-sleeper or playpen. This idea comes from a girl in my mama’s group–she hung a bamboo pole between two low couches, over a large squishy floor mat covered with a sheet. Instant, free baby entertainment!
 All kinds of things. We have a whiteboard up in our kitchen that includes things happening each day that week, grocery/errand lists, a fun countdown (we recently got up to 14 days without being peed on!), a copy of the pediatrician info, and a list of emergency contact info too (clearly we are bad parents because we only just thought of this one, oops). My already forgetful brain has gotten worse with the monotony of daily baby life, so it’s really helpful to have visual reminders and notes.
I’m a Hater.
No joke, one of the first things that I started worrying about after getting pregnant was names.
I hate most names.  Nevaeh!), or trendy (Brayden and all its rhymes; Jackson; Madison), or kriaytyve (Braidynne, Madissyn, Jaxson).
I occasionally visit the Babycenter.com message boards, and once spent a few hours trawling through the name boards. One mother proudly proclaimed her baby’s future name: Paityn.  And every once in a while, the original poster would pop in and say things like, It’s my baby, I’ll name her whatever I want to, you’re just jealous, I really like the name, etc etc etc. That post and even all the other ones, with their names that are So Precious and So Unique That All Sound the Same….I just can’t roll my eyes hard enough.
I told you I’m a hater.
The worst thing is that I’d bring this up to people who asked if we had names.  And every.single.time, they would proceed to begin rattling off names. Depending on how close I am to them, I would vary my responses from a headshake to a polite ‘no’ to an eyeroll to an emphatic ‘UGH’.
The other major problem is that I’ve taught about 500 kids. Which means that any name from that pool is going to conjure up memories–mostly bad ones, for boy names.
Plus one has to cross off names of former peers, colleagues/coworkers, family members, and babies/children of people you know well.
Thankfully Andy didn’t have any names he loved already–you can figure out that I sure didn’t. Neither of us have traditional names to choose from (his dad’s family had a tradition, but it’s a terrible name that has now ended its reign, thank goodness), neither of us has a culture that might be a good inspiration. Neither of us has any favorite author/artist/literary character that would make a good name. Neither of us is religious, so the traditional Bible names aren’t meaningful for us.
I made sure to bring a baby name book with us on our road trip this summer, because that would force us to find some time to work on the options. A part of me was truly worried that we would never find a name–let alone two!–that we liked enough. One day