Rizna (she/they) is a queer Integrative Psychotherapist & Youth Worker. Their therapeutic approach is gentle, collaborative, rooted in cultural humility, grounded in a steady slowness that rests in curiousity, which aims to respect each person’s lived experience and ancestral history.

It’s important to Rizna that they work from a non-pathological lens. Informed by decolonising, abolitionist, and trauma-informed perspectives, they recognise that emotional and psychological distress is shaped by inter-generational trauma, colonisation, systemic inequality, and pressures of post-modern society.

Rizna has previously worked with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Youth within residential care in Djugun-Yawuru country and community-based mental health settings across the Kulin Nations.

Their work centres both the individual self, as well as the soul that belongs to a wider ecological weaving story that we are a part of in this human experience that we call life.

Rizna is a student of Sufism and the Tibetan Buddhist practice of Dzogchen. They consider themselves as a soul-activist and grief tender. These traditions and practices deepen their commitment to presence, compassion, justice, truth, and advocacy for protecting the Earth.