About Natalie Harman
PACFA-registered Clinical Counsellor and psychotherapist, Accredited Clinical Supervisor and Performance Coach, Natalie Harman has extensive experience and an unrivalled understanding of hospital workplace culture.
Unrivalled Cultural Awareness of Hospital Workplaces
Natalie Harman delivers tailored programs which include individual counselling and coaching to equip doctors with the tools needed to move beyond just surviving to thriving.
Services have been established from Founder Natalie Harman’s 15 years of skilful expertise and experience within the corporate world, the UK’s NHS and a further eight years with NSW Health.
Natalie Harman is highly skilled with a deep knowledge of today’s complex hospital working environments. She intimately understands the specific workplace demands, stressors and environments that critical care doctors operate in.
Specific challenges for doctors include shift work, work-life integration, direct and vicarious exposure to trauma, chronic stress, moral injury and career and exam anxiety.
Workplace conflict and hierarchical cultures only compound feelings of challenge. They also impact levels of professional satisfaction and personal and family lives.
Natalie Harman delivers services onsite to hospital departments and works with doctors in their workplace at their convenience. Natalie also offers private counselling and performance and leadership coaching to doctors via TeleHealth.
Wellbeing, leadership, exam and work-life integration coaching and counselling supports mentally healthy, high performing doctors. Unrivalled understanding. Trusted expertise.
Trauma-Informed Clinical Practice
Natalie Harman’s trauma-informed clinical approach and deep understanding of hospital environments enables her to integrate several therapeutic techniques tailored to meet the individual needs of the client and department.
These include but are not limited to EMDR, CBT, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, mindfulness-based somatic therapies, Compassion-Focused therapy, critical incident stress debriefing, and solution-focused performance coaching.
Natalie has a proven track record working with Emergency Departments, Intensive Care, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Neonatal ICU, Anaesthetics and Radiology units at many busy Sydney teaching hospitals along with others hospitals in NSW and medical retrieval services.
She is adept at building a psychologically safe space that engenders trust and proactively addresses both individual wellbeing and workplace culture.
“Doctors don’t need to explain to me the complex aspects affecting their wellbeing. I understand it. My work helps them to move beyond coping with challenges to thriving in their personal and professional lives.”
- Natalie Harman
Nadia McIntosh
Nadia McIntosh is a PACFA-registered Counsellor with experience supporting people through personal, professional and workplace challenges. She brings a warm, focused and collaborative approach to counselling. She works with clients to understand what is getting in the way, identify what they want to change, and develop practical strategies to help them move forward.
Her approach is strengths-based and solution-focused, drawing on evidence-informed therapies including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Solution-Focused Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Motivational Interviewing. She tailors her work to the individual, with a strong emphasis on clear goals, practical strategies and meaningful progress.
Nadia particularly enjoys working with people who want to make positive changes in their lives, whether they are navigating stress, confidence, relationships, workplace challenges, periods of transition or simply feeling stuck.
She believes good counselling should be both compassionate and purposeful — creating the space to understand what is happening while also helping clients build the insight, skills and confidence to create sustainable change.