This is where both begin.
Whether you're a team navigating complexity, a practitioner deepening your practice, or an individual seeking support — this work is designed to be genuinely useful. Grounded in neuroscience, trauma-informed principles, and years of experience across organisations and clinical settings, each offering is built around one central belief: that understanding people better changes everything.
Supporting people well is a skill. Doing it sustainably is a practice.
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Sonia designs each workshop to fit your organisation's specific setting, culture, and needs. This strengths-based, experiential training draws on Neuroscience, Polyvagal Theory, the Neurosequential Model, and the Three-Stage Recovery Model to help professionals understand how stress, adversity, and trauma shape behaviour, communication, and decision-making — and how to respond in ways that are biologically respectful. Participants explore regulation, relational safety, and reflective awareness as practical foundations for their work. Along with a set of tools and techniques, people leave with a broader framework for understanding behaviour and a more sustainable approach to supporting people through complexity. Suitable for community services, housing and support teams, health services, security teams, and other workplaces where people support people.
Trauma-informed training
One or two days · organisations and frontline teams
Sonia is Our Go To Person
Sonia is our go to person when we need something bespoke and highly responsive to a specific need. Sonia’s ability to listen deeply and craft a meaningful and practical application is exceptional. She is respected and appreciated in our community.
Penny Goodall
Program Manager, The Salvation Army Communities for Children, Logan.
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These interactive workshops are designed to strengthen team connection, communication, and workplace culture in a way that goes beyond a standard training day. Using experiential activities and expressive arts approaches, sessions create space for genuine reflection, insight, and collaboration — the kind that tends to shift how teams relate to each other long after the day is done. Grounded in trauma-informed principles, the work supports both individual wellbeing and collective professional growth. Suitable for community service organisations, corporate teams, and small businesses seeking a meaningful team experience that is warm, purposeful, and practically grounded. Sessions can be tailored to your team's size, context, and goals.
Team development workshop
Half or full day · organisations and small businesses
Incredibly valuable for our team
The Moloney Consulting training has been incredibly valuable for our team at Common Ground Queensland. It has helped build staff confidence and provided practical tools that they are now using in their day-to-day work with clients experiencing complex challenges. We have seen a real positive impact in how staff engage with and support our tenants, strengthening the quality of support we are able to provide
Deep Dassanayake,
Chief Operations Officer, Common Ground Queensland
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This practical introductory workshop is designed for practitioners who want to expand their therapeutic or support work through creative and experiential methods. Grounded in trauma-informed practice, it explores how expressive arts approaches can be integrated meaningfully into assessment, trauma processing, group work, and closing with clients — across therapy, casework, educational settings, and more. Participants engage with the theory behind creative approaches, experience them firsthand, and leave with practical guidance for introducing these methods into their existing work. No prior arts background is required. The day balances experiential learning with clinical grounding, making it accessible for a wide range of practitioners who work with people navigating trauma and adversity.
Creative arts approaches for trauma
One day · practitioners expanding their practice
We consistently receive positive feedback and endorsement of Sonia's work from participants.
Sonia's adaptability and flexibility ensure that those in the room are included, heard and valued as participants in their own teaching and learning. I have also observed on several occasions her invitation to others to contribute their own expertise and experiences, especially in relation to culture and cultural practices for the benefit of the entire group. We consistently receive positive feedback and endorsement of Sonia's s work from participants. Her authenticity and warmth as a facilitator and educator, and her clear expertise make her such a pleasure to work with.
Elise, Collective Change Facilitator, The Salvation Army Communities for Children Logan
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Individual therapy for adults seeking support with stress, trauma, and emotional wellbeing. Sessions draw on nervous system regulation, somatic practices, and trauma-informed therapeutic approaches to help you build practical skills for managing difficult emotions, understanding your own patterns, and creating greater stability in your daily life. The work is collaborative and paced to you — there is no pressure to move faster than feels safe. Over time, many people find they develop a deeper sense of self-understanding and a more grounded relationship with their own responses. Sessions are held online, making it accessible wherever you are. An initial conversation is available to explore whether working together feels like a good fit.
One-to-one online therapy
Ongoing · adults seeking support
