Compassionate Healing for Mind, Body & Spirit

Restoring deep connections in being truly you

About Sheridan Scholastica Consulting & Therapy

Sheridan's practice is a warm, welcoming space where the body unwinds, the nervous system softens, and deeper layers of healing can rise naturally. Her passion lies in seeing people deeply, children, adults, families, and supporting them in expressing what is true for them.

Through a gentle, nuturing and holistic approach, Sheridan combines personalized guidance and healing sessions to help you feel calmer, clearer, and more you.

Whether you’re navigating being different, change, PTSD, anxiety, autoimmune illness, burnout, life transitions or seeking deeper awareness, time with Sheridan is an invitation into gentleness, curiosity, and profound self-awareness.

Group classes, events and online learning also available.

Listen Up Ebook

Emerging research on children who live with a parent with an Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) shows that these children don’t talk about their lives and the daily challenges they experience.
Furthermore, children are not asked about their experience by adults who know them, and those who have been asked limit what they disclose because they feel no one understands.
This self-censuring has implications for what can be found about children's experience of a parent with an ABI and leads one to question the validity of what has been discovered so far.
Applying the findings of her research, and research from a variety of other marginalised and silenced childhoods, along with her own lived experience, Sheridan posits a complex, in-depth and compassionate exploration of how the control of knowledge creates behaviour that overlooks other types of information, preventing other ways of living from becoming known and normal.
Combining real-life stories with rigorous academic research, Sheridan weaves a genuine account of why children don't talk, because, good intentions aside, it is simply not enough to rely on what we (think we) know to support a child. One must proactively create the conditions for a child to talk.
Listen Up provides valuable insights and a practical method for how to identify a silenced child and how to talk to them so that they can speak. Vital reading for anyone with children or working with children, particularly those who feel different.

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Healing Massage

I use therapeutic massage techniques to deeply relax and restore your body. These are slow movements that connect into the deep layers of your body. Unwinding myofascial bands and stimulating your vagus nerve. A holistic therapeutic hug for overworked nervous systems and tired, stressed or painful bodies. I like to close the session with a head, face and scalp massage. Lifting heavy energy up and out of your jaw, temples, forehead and scalp and opening your crown, connecting to source. My clients love this massage. The depth and gentleness. They consistently report feeling lighter as they float out of the room. I offer filtered water after each session and a light snack if you need a little guidance settling back into your body. Because you have changed. Your journey continues if it has not yet begun ✨✨✨

Remote healing

I work with the physical and subtle bodies and Earth energy. The energy of Gaia. To move old, invasive, unhelpful energy out so that you can heal your body and be who you truly are. No two sessions are the same as I respond to you and what is required on the day, and in the moment. It is deeply relaxing, and you will feel lighter afterwards, as though the heavy bag you've been carrying for hours, days, eons, has suddenly disappeared. Available online or in-person.

Making Grief Lighter

Grief and loss are a part of all our lives. But what if the sensations grief creates in our bodies could be less burdensome? What if your body could be nurtured and supported through the process of grief? What if the heaviness of loss could feel less overwhelming? In this service I use soothing massage techniques and energetic body processes that alleviate the physical symptoms of grief, nurture and calm the body, so that your body can function better during this time of sadness. There is no need for talking. Come as you are. You will feel lighter and less overwhelmed afterwards, and your body will be more able to do the doing.

Energetic Facelift

All the glory without the cost and recovery time. This technique pulls the body's energy up by touching points on the decolletage, neck and face. It is a gentle soothing touch applied to your face and neck that works with your body’s cells to restore, enliven and rejuvenate. It feels very relaxing and comforting, and you'll walk out feeling lighter, brighter and looking younger. You may experience changes in the following: The light and luminosity of the face Elasticity of the skin Clarity of the eyes Glow in the hair Lifting of breasts and buttocks Improved energy Increased relaxation The Energetic Facelift works on two levels, the physical and the way we think about ourselves, by changing our cells and our unhelpful points of view. It helps to delete the judgments we project at our faces and bodies daily in the mirror, so that our body has the space to regenerate itself.

Meet
Sheridan Scholastica

Sheridan Scholastica holds a master's degree in social science and is the author of Listen Up, an exploration of children and childhoods that are different and silenced. As a lived experience insider researcher and mother of three boys, Sheridan's interests lay in seeing people deeply and honouring difference in all its forms. Also a trauma informed therapist and consultant, with particularly fascination in how childhood trauma impacts individuals and their lifelong journey in discovering one's true self.

For 27 years, Sheridan has devoted herself to the healing arts. Living and training in Australia, China, Japan and Slovenia. A passionate Collaborative Problem Solving advocate in working with children to resolve their problems, and a trauma informed therapist combining her lived experience and research with Compassionate Inquiry.

Sheridan is the creator of the Willingness to Understand method of listening to children who are different.

"I have travelled the world learning from the masters of my work, and now I feel ready to share all that I have learned."

Parent & Child Massage Class
Emma
Excellent help helping me to understand how to work with my child through massage. Very relaxed and intimate with little pressure.