Jani and Don

🔹 Relationship Therapy That Works with a Couple Who Walk their Talk.

We learnt these skills and we didn’t even realise we needed them, but they have made such a difference!

Create a Closer, More Respectful Relationship.

Your couples sessions will utilise Gottman Therapy —one of the most trusted, research-based approaches to improving relationship health. We’ll work with you both to teach practical skills that improve the way you listen and are heard. We can show you how to have valuable discussions, and understand how to manage conflict with genuine respect and emotional integrity. With our ongoing support, you can strengthen trust, deepen your connection, and build a more emotionally intelligent partnership—whether you're just starting out or working to repair past hurts.

We will show you how you can build a stronger and happier relationship that lasts and grows.

We feel passionately about giving you the ability to make your relationship work.

Real Tools. Real Connection. Real Change.

🔹 Individual Counselling and Psychotherapy

Working with Jani allows you to claim a Medicare part rebate for certain services covered by a current Mental Health Care Plan for up to 10 sessions per year. She also is covereed by some health funds.

🌿 Trauma Therapy That Helps You Reclaim Your Life

If you've experienced trauma—whether a single incident, domestic violence, or complex trauma over time—we offer structured, evidence-based therapy to help you feel safe again, regain control, and gently process what’s happened. You’ll be supported to make sense of your experiences and begin the work of healing, at your own pace, with guidance you can trust.

🧠 Mental Health Support That’s Grounded and Effective

When you’re struggling with anxiety, low mood, stress, or overwhelm, we use targeted, research-based approaches to help you stabilise, understand your symptoms, and develop strategies that actually work. Our work is collaborative and focused on helping you feel better and function more confidently in everyday life.

Jani has worked in mental health services for many years.

🏳️‍🌈 Affirming Support for LGBTIQA+ Clients

We offer a safe, respectful space for you to explore identity, relationships, family, and workplace dynamics—whether you’re out, coming out, questioning, or navigating life as a gender-diverse or queer person. We understand how layered these experiences can be and bring both lived and clinical insight to support you with care and clarity.

Jani has presented at an International Conference on the topic of working with transgender clients.

🔍 Explore Your Identity and Inner World with Guidance You Can Trust

If you’re at a point in life where you want to understand yourself more deeply—your patterns, values, or direction—we’ll help you gain insight, grow your emotional awareness, and strengthen your sense of self. Our work can support personal growth, self-acceptance, and meaningful change.

Jani offers EMDR and other forms of counselling and psychotherapy including somatic modalities.

🔄 Navigate Life’s Turning Points with Clarity and Strength

Major life changes—whether wanted or unexpected—can stir up uncertainty, grief, or confusion. We offer experienced support as you navigate transitions like separation, loss, health changes, ageing, career shifts or relocation, so you can move forward with more clarity and emotional steadiness.

🧭 Examine Workplace Challenges and Restore Balance

Jani is an approved Workcover Provider

Workplace stress, bullying, burnout, and conflict can seriously impact your wellbeing. We help you make sense of what’s happening, build stronger boundaries, improve resilience, and work out your next steps—whether you're staying or moving on.

🔹 Professional Supervision for Allied Health and Mental Health Clinicians

🎯 Supervision That Builds Confidence, Insight, and Professional Growth

Jani is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker offering a grounded, collaborative space for clinicians to reflect on their work, strengthen their skills, and grow professionally. Supervision with Jani is informed by trauma, systems, and feminist frameworks, and supports you to navigate complex cases, explore ethical dilemmas, and build clinical confidence. Together, you'll deepen your self-awareness, work through transference and countertransference, and maintain healthy boundaries. Supervision also offers practical support to prevent burnout, enhance resilience, and develop your direction in private practice or your broader career. You'll be supported to work with clarity, integrity, and renewed purpose.

She has worked in Social Work roles for almost 30 years. Her private practice has been successful for 11 years.

🔹Holistic Natural Medicine to Restore Health, Vitality, and Balance

Don Wyatt offers individual natural medicine appointments. He will also combine skills with Jani for a holistic approach to mental wellness, sleep problems and other types of imbalance.

When you're dealing with physical illness, emotional strain, ongoing imbalance and immune disorders it can be hard to feel like yourself. Don offers personalised naturopathic care that blends deep clinical expertise with a genuinely holistic approach—helping you feel stronger, clearer, and more in control of your health.

With a solid foundation in biomedical science and advanced knowledge of gut health, SIBO, psychoneuroimmunology, and the impacts of chronic stress, Don works with you to uncover the deeper patterns affecting your digestion, sleep, energy, immunity, mood, and mental clarity. Through careful assessment and tailored treatment planning, he supports you to restore balance, build resilience, and create meaningful, long-term improvements to your overall health.

Clients everywhere express the value of Don’s depth of knowledge and the way he explains complex health issues with clarity, care, and confidence—making your path to better health feel practical, informed, and achievable.

Jani Forest-Wyatt (she/her) – AMHSW (Accredited Mental Health Social Worker) Medicare Provider

Counsellor

Psychotherapist

Relationship Therapy - Gottman Level 3

Professional Supervisor,

Trainer and Consultant
Jani is a highly experienced and respected mental health clinician, with almost 30 years of professional practice supporting individuals and couples through a wide range of their life experiences and psychological challenges. She is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker (AMHSW), providing evidence-based counselling and psychotherapy with a warm, insightful, and collaborative style that clients consistently describe as both reassuring and transformative.

Jani founded and Brilliance Counselling and Consultancy in 2014 offering tailored support across issues such as trauma, anxiety, depression, identity development, grief and loss, relationship difficulties, workplace issues and major life transitions.

As an experienced counsellor she is passionate about working with members of minority communities, LGBTIQA+ , those navigating their own complex personal growth, people considering culture, family and/or the influences of belief or spirituality.

Her therapeutic toolkit includes many modalities including EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing), EFT (Emotion-Focused Therapy), CBT based therapies, Mindfulness-based interventions, Narrative Therapy, and Systemic approaches. Her theoretical lens is deeply grounded in compassion and trauma-informed care, relational work, feminist principles, and psychoanalytic understanding—always centring the client as the expert of their own story.

Jani has been involved in speaking, writing and training and is available for consultancy.

Jani also provides professional supervision to other social workers, therapists and mental health professionals, supporting their development with the same compassion, clarity, and clinical rigour that she brings to her client work. She is registered to provide services under Medicare (with part rebates), Workcover, and select private health insurers.

Alongside her clinical expertise, Jani brings life experience, curiosity, and a lifelong commitment to learning. As a parent, grandparent, adventurer, and therapist, she understands that healing is not a linear process—but with the right support, change is not only possible, it’s sustainable.

Don Wyatt (he/him) – (PhD BSc Nat Med)

Naturopath, SIBO Practitioner,

Relationship Therapist - Gottman Level 2

Trainer and Consultant
Don brings a broad and multidisciplinary background to his work as a couples therapist and holistic health practitioner. With over two decades of experience across education, clinical health, and leadership, he offers clients a grounded, integrative approach that bridges emotional wellbeing with physical vitality.

Originally trained and accredited in Naturopathy, Don has worked as a university lecturer, primary health care executive, clinician, and contributor to research and writing in the natural health field. His work spans nutritional medicine, psychoneuroimmunology, and therapeutic approaches to gut health, including specialised care as a trained SIBO (Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth) Practitioner.

Don, like Jani, has also trained in the Gottman Method of Couples Therapy and works alongside Jani offering couples a unique therapeutic experience—two skilled practitioners working together to support two partners.

Don’s ability to integrate emotional support with physical wellbeing offers clients a distinctive, whole-person experience of care.

Clients describe Don as steady, insightful, and deeply present. His life experience as a father, grandfather, and partner enriches his clinical work and grounds his approach in empathy and authenticity. He is passionate about helping people rediscover connection—within themselves, their bodies, and their relationships.

Their combined work focuses on emotional intelligence, psychoneuroimmunology, attunement, relational communication, and strengthening connection, all delivered with calm, respect, clarity and a sense of humour.

If you’re looking for people who will walk beside you with honesty, warmth and provable skill — we’d be honoured to work with you.

Powerhouse combination:

Together, we offer an integrated approach to mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing. We also welcome and respect each client’s spiritual or cultural framework. We will work with you at any stage of your growth journey. We are committed to helping you to be at your best.