About Equip & Our Services
Relationship
Counselling
in-person
- Tension & Conflict Resolution
- Pre-marriage Counselling
- Communication Strategies
- Intimacy & Sexual Issues
- Strengthening & Rebuilding Trust
- Relationship Workshops
Individual
Counselling
In-person & Online
- Depression & Anxiety
- Anger Management
- Grief & Loss
- Trauma
- Stress & Burnout
- Addiction
- Navigating Life Stages
Music
Therapy
in-Office & home visits
NDIS and Private
Employee
Assistance
in-person & online
- Workplace EAP
- Critical Incident Debriefing
- General Counselling
- Career concerns and Coaching
- Stress and Burnout
- Conflict Management
- Communication
Professional
Supervision
in-person & Online
Clinical
- Counsellors
- Student Counsellors
- Support Workers
- Professional Supervisors
- Educators
- Health Proffesionals
Pastoral
- Ministers
- Chaplains
- Missions
- Non-profit workers
Employee
Assistance (EAP)
Meet the Team
Equip Country includes the following contract therapists and administrative team. Therapists are available in person at their locations, or online via Telehealth. Equip also has access to a wide network of other qualified therapists should referral be preferred.
Kristy
Howarth
MCouns ∙ GDipCouns&IntPsycthpy
Chinchilla or online
- ACA Level 4 (Counsellor ∙ Supervisor)
- Individual Counselling
- Professional Supervisor (Clinical)
- Professional Supervisor (Pastoral)
- As a counsellor and supervisor in private practice in the Western Downs region, Kristy brings a variety of work and life experiences to her professional skill set including leadership coaching, church/pastoral work, multi- campus children’s ministry team leadership, youth ministry work, school based programs, mid-term missions experience (3 years in country), leading short term missions teams and developing programs for at risk children in cross-cultural environments. She currently also provides input at board level and leadership coaching to developing leaders in her local church.
She has lived experience in helping and ministry professions, whilst balancing relationship and parenting challenges, practical daily caring for family members with physical and mental health issues, living cross-culturally, living as a military family with deployment experience, grieving the loss of loved ones, managing ongoing stress, working through burnout, and finding strength, meaning and purpose in the work of ministry throughout these challenging life seasons. Kristy has 3 children and has been married for 26 years. She is privileged to provide counselling and professional supervision to pastors, pastor’s wives, chaplains, leaders, missionaries and community workers
Brooke
Goltz
GDipPsychSci ∙ GDipCouns&IntPsycthpy
Chinchilla, Toowoomba, or online
- ACA Level 2 (Counsellor)
- Individual Counselling
- Child/Adolescent Counselling
- As a counsellor and supervisor in private practice in the Western Downs region, Kristy brings a variety of work and life experiences to her professional skill set including leadership coaching, church/pastoral work, multi- campus children’s ministry team leadership, youth ministry work, school based programs, mid-term missions experience (3 years in country), leading short term missions teams and developing programs for at risk children in cross-cultural environments. She currently also provides input at board level and leadership coaching to developing leaders in her local church.
She has lived experience in helping and ministry professions, whilst balancing relationship and parenting challenges, practical daily caring for family members with physical and mental health issues, living cross-culturally, living as a military family with deployment experience, grieving the loss of loved ones, managing ongoing stress, working through burnout, and finding strength, meaning and purpose in the work of ministry throughout these challenging life seasons. Kristy has 3 children and has been married for 26 years. She is privileged to provide counselling and professional supervision to pastors, pastor’s wives, chaplains, leaders, missionaries and community workers
Sam
Grimes
MMuscThpy
Chinchilla or Towoomba
- Registered Music Therapist (RMT)
- Individual and group Music Therapy
- Office or In-Home Sessions
- As a counsellor and supervisor in private practice in the Western Downs region, Kristy brings a variety of work and life experiences to her professional skill set including leadership coaching, church/pastoral work, multi- campus children’s ministry team leadership, youth ministry work, school based programs, mid-term missions experience (3 years in country), leading short term missions teams and developing programs for at risk children in cross-cultural environments. She currently also provides input at board level and leadership coaching to developing leaders in her local church.
She has lived experience in helping and ministry professions, whilst balancing relationship and parenting challenges, practical daily caring for family members with physical and mental health issues, living cross-culturally, living as a military family with deployment experience, grieving the loss of loved ones, managing ongoing stress, working through burnout, and finding strength, meaning and purpose in the work of ministry throughout these challenging life seasons. Kristy has 3 children and has been married for 26 years. She is privileged to provide counselling and professional supervision to pastors, pastor’s wives, chaplains, leaders, missionaries and community workers
Brad
Morris
MCouns ∙ GDipCouns&IntPsycthpy
Toowoomba or online
- ACA Level 3 (Counsellor ∙ Supervisor)
- Individual Counselling
- Brad has 10 years of experience working with people of all backgrounds in the Toowoomba Region and online. In addition to relationship counselling, he works with people experiencing Grief, Anxiety, Depression, and those finding their way through challenging life situations.
Brad has many years experience in church, non-profit and government sectors, and brings broad lived experience as a husband of over 20 years and a father of four children.
Karl
Pumpa
GDipCouns&IntPsycthpy
Chinchilla, Dalby, or Online
- ACA Level 1 (Counsellor)
- Individual Counselling
- Adolescent Counselling
- Relationship Counselling
- As a counsellor and supervisor in private practice in the Western Downs region, Kristy brings a variety of work and life experiences to her professional skill set including leadership coaching, church/pastoral work, multi- campus children’s ministry team leadership, youth ministry work, school based programs, mid-term missions experience (3 years in country), leading short term missions teams and developing programs for at risk children in cross-cultural environments. She currently also provides input at board level and leadership coaching to developing leaders in her local church.
She has lived experience in helping and ministry professions, whilst balancing relationship and parenting challenges, practical daily caring for family members with physical and mental health issues, living cross-culturally, living as a military family with deployment experience, grieving the loss of loved ones, managing ongoing stress, working through burnout, and finding strength, meaning and purpose in the work of ministry throughout these challenging life seasons. Kristy has 3 children and has been married for 26 years. She is privileged to provide counselling and professional supervision to pastors, pastor’s wives, chaplains, leaders, missionaries and community workers
Tanya
Hordern
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- Accounts/Bookkeeper
- As a counsellor and supervisor in private practice in the Western Downs region, Kristy brings a variety of work and life experiences to her professional skill set including leadership coaching, church/pastoral work, multi- campus children’s ministry team leadership, youth ministry work, school based programs, mid-term missions experience (3 years in country), leading short term missions teams and developing programs for at risk children in cross-cultural environments. She currently also provides input at board level and leadership coaching to developing leaders in her local church.
She has lived experience in helping and ministry professions, whilst balancing relationship and parenting challenges, practical daily caring for family members with physical and mental health issues, living cross-culturally, living as a military family with deployment experience, grieving the loss of loved ones, managing ongoing stress, working through burnout, and finding strength, meaning and purpose in the work of ministry throughout these challenging life seasons. Kristy has 3 children and has been married for 26 years. She is privileged to provide counselling and professional supervision to pastors, pastor’s wives, chaplains, leaders, missionaries and community workers
Cecilia
Anderson
MCouns ∙ MGuid&Couns ∙ GDipPsych
Chinchilla, Toowoomba, or online
- ACA Level 4 (Counsellor ∙ Supervisor)
- Individual Counselling
- Professional Supervisor (Clinical)
Professional Supervisor (Pastoral)
- Alongside her professional qualifications Janet has decades of experience working with women both individually and as a group leader. She is married, has raised five children, moved 14 times including both interstate and overseas and supported her husband through six military deployments. She is well acquainted with the stressors of grief and loss and trauma, of cultural transitions and of parenting.
She understands the exhaustion of burnout and of losing “who you are” while trying to be who others need you to be.
Janet is passionate about supporting people to discover their uniqueness and be all that they were created to be.
Colleen
Holt
DipCouns ∙ BACouns (current)
Chinchilla or online
- ACA Level 1 (Counsellor)
- Individual Counselling
- Child/Adolescent Counselling
- As a counsellor and supervisor in private practice in the Western Downs region, Kristy brings a variety of work and life experiences to her professional skill set including leadership coaching, church/pastoral work, multi- campus children’s ministry team leadership, youth ministry work, school based programs, mid-term missions experience (3 years in country), leading short term missions teams and developing programs for at risk children in cross-cultural environments. She currently also provides input at board level and leadership coaching to developing leaders in her local church.
She has lived experience in helping and ministry professions, whilst balancing relationship and parenting challenges, practical daily caring for family members with physical and mental health issues, living cross-culturally, living as a military family with deployment experience, grieving the loss of loved ones, managing ongoing stress, working through burnout, and finding strength, meaning and purpose in the work of ministry throughout these challenging life seasons. Kristy has 3 children and has been married for 26 years. She is privileged to provide counselling and professional supervision to pastors, pastor’s wives, chaplains, leaders, missionaries and community workers
William
McDonald
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- Office Administrator
- As a counsellor and supervisor in private practice in the Western Downs region, Kristy brings a variety of work and life experiences to her professional skill set including leadership coaching, church/pastoral work, multi- campus children’s ministry team leadership, youth ministry work, school based programs, mid-term missions experience (3 years in country), leading short term missions teams and developing programs for at risk children in cross-cultural environments. She currently also provides input at board level and leadership coaching to developing leaders in her local church.
She has lived experience in helping and ministry professions, whilst balancing relationship and parenting challenges, practical daily caring for family members with physical and mental health issues, living cross-culturally, living as a military family with deployment experience, grieving the loss of loved ones, managing ongoing stress, working through burnout, and finding strength, meaning and purpose in the work of ministry throughout these challenging life seasons. Kristy has 3 children and has been married for 26 years. She is privileged to provide counselling and professional supervision to pastors, pastor’s wives, chaplains, leaders, missionaries and community workers
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