OUR WELLNESS COLLECTIVE

Who We Are & How We Help

We empower you with the tools you need to heal, grow and achieve lasting transformation. Your journey to wellness begins here.

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Our Vision

We're redefining mental health care.

At Our Wellness Collective, you'll find integrative, trauma-informed, and culturally sustaining therapy designed to support your unique journey. We actively bridge gaps in mainstream care by creating a space where diversity is truly represented, embracing every aspect of your identity — including your cultural, linguistic, racial, cognitive, neurological, and lived experiences.

Rooted in our mission to honour identity, embrace diversity, and support healing, growth, and community well-being, we provide care that meets you where you are — so you can truly heal, reclaim your story, and thrive.

    • Abuse Recovery

    • Acute stress disorder*

    • Addiction*

    • Adolescent Mental Health (9 years and above only)

    • ADHD

    • Adjusting to a new country and culture

    • Anger management

    • Anxiety

    • Autism Spectrum Conditions

    • Attachment disorders

    • Body image issues

    • Burnout

    • Carer support

    • Childhood trauma

    • Chronic illness and pain

    • Communication and assertiveness

    • Compassion fatigue

    • Complex trauma

    • Coparenting

    • Couples counselling

    • Depression

    • Drug and alcohol issues*

    • Emotional regulation difficulties

    • Eating Disorder*

    • Family counselling

    • Giftedness and Gifted specific trauma

    • Gifted specific challenges

    • Gender identity

    • Generalised anxiety

    • Grief and loss

    • Health anxiety

    • Identity integration challenges

    • Internet and gaming addiction*

    • Life changes and transitions

    • Low self-esteem

    • Neurodiversity Integration

    • Invisible/Medically unexplained (Psychosomatic) illness

    • Obsessions and compulsions

    • Panic attacks

    • Parenting

    • Pastoral Counselling and Supervision

    • People from immigrant, asylum seeker and refugee backgrounds

    • Perfectionism

    • Personal growth

    • Phobias and fears

    • Pornography problems/ addictions

    • Post-traumatic stress

    • Pre-Marital Counselling

    • Pre and postnatal mental health

    • Relationship difficulties

    • Sexuality and identity

    • Sleep problems

    • Social anxiety

    • Stress

    • Vicarious trauma

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Multilingual & Collaborative Support

We truly believe that speaking in your native language can make therapy feel more profound and impactful. That's why Our Wellness Collective proudly offers services in over 9 languages, including English, French, Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic, Cantonese, German, Kirundi, and Shona. We're always working to expand this list, aiming to break down barriers so you can access support in the language you feel most comfortable in.

We also believe in a collaborative approach to your well-being. Our team brings together experts from various accredited therapy professions in Australia, ensuring you receive comprehensive and multidisciplinary support that truly meets your needs.

How We Work

Our integrative approach thoughtfully combines proven, evidence-based therapies with whole-person healing practices. This ensures we address your well-being on every level – mind, body, and spirit – guiding you towards lasting transformation.

    • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

    • Attachment Theory

    • Behaviour Therapy

    • Client-Centred Therapy

    • Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)

    • Compassion-Based Approaches

    • Couples Counselling

    • Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Principles

    • Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT)

    • Exposure Therapy

    • Integrative Behaviour Therapy (IBT)

    • Motivational Interviewing (MI)

    • Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET)

    • Psychodynamic Principles

    • Solution-Focused Therapy

    • Systemic Therapy

  • These incorporate alternative, body-based, holistic dimensions to healing:

    • Analytic (Jungian Framework)

    • Internal Family Systems (IFS)

    • Mindfulness

    • Narrative Therapy

    • Strengths-Based Approaches

    • Trauma-Informed Approaches

    • Somatic Psychotherapy

    • Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy

    • Ecopsychotherapy

    • Multilingual Mindfulness Practices

    • Cultural-Specific Healing Methodologies

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Our Commitment: Therapy That Truly Sees You

At Our Wellness Collective, we offer compassionate, culturally aware mental health care that honours every part of who you are.

We specialise in supporting people navigating the intersections of identity, mental health, and social systems—like cultural disconnection, intergenerational trauma, and marginalisation. We embrace neurodiversity and value the unique ways you experience the world.

Our approach is person-centred, trauma-informed, and grounded in social justice. We’re here to walk alongside you—whether you’re seeking therapy, community, or a space to heal.

We're dedicated to empowering individuals, couples, and groups through connection and compassion, giving you the tools to build lasting change and rediscover your path to well-being.

Our Values

At Our Wellness Collective, we want to demonstrate our beliefs through what we do and how we do it. The following core values guide and inform our practice:

  • We offer an environment that is compassionate by offering each client, connection, kindness, consideration, empathy, respect and dignity. We believe in socially responsible environments and so we require the same principles from our clients and collaborators.

  • We provide a multidisciplinary team of therapists that share their expertise and perspectives and grow together. We collaborate with our clients to build their treatment journeys and we collaborate with organisations that align with our ethos.

  • We educate and equip our clients with tools and knowledge to become self directed, advocates of psychological safety for themselves and for their communities.

  • We ensure high-quality mental health support that is sustainable and cost effective. We do this through flexible service options for all budgets, in partnership with our clients.

  • We extend hospitality to our clients in recognising, celebrating and representing diversity in the broad sense and have a particular focus on cultural and linguistic diversity.

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OUR WELLNESS COLLECTIVE

Our Story: A Collective Vision For Truly Inclusive Healing

The very heart of Our Wellness Collective was forged from a powerful understanding: that effective mental health care must truly see and honour every individual. This insight, born from the global journey and diverse experiences of our founder, Vanessa Irakoze Bendikov, revealed the profound impact of cultural identity and intersecting histories on well-being.

This journey illuminated the significant gaps in mainstream services, where care often fell short for marginalised poeple and their communities. This understanding became the driving force for a new kind of practice.

We were founded as a safe, inclusive space where individuals can truly heal, grow, and find hope. Our strength lies in our diverse team of expert psychotherapists and counsellors, thoughtfully built to reflect Australia's vibrant multicultural tapestry.

Each practitioner brings unique perspectives and lived experiences, ensuring our personalised, integrative, trauma-informed, and culturally sustaining therapy genuinely meets you, honours your full story, and truly represents your diversity in every aspect of care. We are a collective committed to fostering authentic healing and breaking down barriers for everyone.

Begin your wellness journey, today.

Highly recommend OWC. Each person I’ve interacted with here has been warm, professional and supportive. I’ve been seeing Vanessa for a while and cannot recommend enough! She’s compassionate, insightful and understanding. Highly highly recommend services offered at OWC, they don’t disappoint.

— C. M.