Jatinder Kaur
Jatinder Kaur is a Credentialed Mental Health Nurse with more than 20 years of experience supporting people through mental and emotional challenges, offering counselling, DBT, Schema Therapy and mindfulness. At Raahat she holds Group Mindful Meditation.
Book via Right By Your SideWho is Jatinder Kaur?
Jatinder Kaur is a Credentialed Mental Health Nurse with more than 20 years of experience supporting people through mental and emotional challenges. But qualifications and experience are only part of what makes a therapeutic relationship work. For Jatinder, it begins with creating a space where you can speak openly, be yourself and feel genuinely heard — without judgement.
Her professional background spans senior mental health roles, nursing, clinical education and counselling within the Australian health system. She is registered with AHPRA and is a member of the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses.
A different kind of conversation
Sometimes we already know that something isn’t working. We may understand the problem intellectually. We may even know what we should do differently. And yet the same emotions, behaviours or relationship patterns continue to appear.
Jatinder believes meaningful change begins by looking beneath the surface. Rather than only asking “how do we make this feeling go away?”, the work can also explore “what is this feeling trying to tell us?” Through conversation, reflection and practical therapeutic approaches, she helps clients develop a deeper understanding of themselves and the patterns influencing their lives. From that understanding, different choices become possible.
How she works
Jatinder draws on several therapeutic approaches, choosing what suits the person in front of her rather than applying a single method to everyone. The approach can evolve as you do.
- Counselling — a confidential conversation with structure to it: space to describe what is happening, and help making sense of it. Often where the work begins.
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) — an evidence-based approach built around emotional regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness and mindfulness. Skills that are learned, practised and then applied to real situations.
- Schema Therapy — a compassionate, evidence-based way of recognising long-standing patterns, beliefs and behaviours: where they come from, how they still operate, and how they can gradually change.
- Mindfulness & meditation — practical techniques for steadying attention and settling the nervous system, taught in a way you can actually use outside the session.
Body. Mind. Soul.
Our thoughts affect our emotions. Our emotions affect our bodies. Our relationships influence how we feel. Stress can affect everything. Working with only one part of that picture tends to leave the rest untouched — so Jatinder’s work considers the whole person: the physical experience of stress, the thinking and emotional patterns underneath it, and the sense of presence and connection that mindfulness can restore.
It isn’t about becoming a different person. It’s about understanding yourself more deeply and having the tools to live with greater clarity and resilience.
What you can expect
A first session isn’t an examination. You don’t need to prepare the perfect explanation of what’s happening, and you don’t need to know whether you need counselling, DBT, Schema Therapy or something else before reaching out. You can simply arrive and start wherever feels right. Jatinder will listen, ask questions, and help you begin making sense of what you’re experiencing. Together you can work out what kind of support fits.
Group Mindful Meditation at Raahat
At Raahat, Jatinder holds a guided Group Mindful Meditation — a gentle shared practice for slowing down, becoming present and creating a little more space within. Practising alongside others can make meditation easier to begin and easier to sustain, and the session suits both experienced meditators and complete beginners. There is nothing to perform and no requirement to speak or share.
45 minutes · $30 per person.
Enquiries and bookings
All appointments with Jatinder are booked directly through her own practice. Medicare rebates and NDIS support may be available for eligible sessions — her site sets out the current details.
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