Hadassah Lily
Hi, I am Hadassah Lily.
I am committed to co-creating connection and creative change, via simple and everyday acts of loving kindness. My mission is the continued practice of compassionate awareness and understanding of ourselves and others, so we can integrate our experiences and activate our full potential together.
My core gift is generating the greatest good for the greatest number. I give it by inspiring others to; listen to the unheard, touch feelings tenderly, smell incongruence, taste truth, see with fresh eyes, create clarity, and lead by example.


Values
Wholeheartedness: Balancing the self-love and boundaries that sustain living in community with an open heart.
Gentle guidance: Working in a relational and intuitive field of guidance, rather than being an expert in the field.
Ecstatic expression: Supporting freedom of expression and creative flow, without interference, interpretation, unsolicited advice, or cross talk.
Rupture & repair. Commitment to trial and error, self-honesty, accountability and relationship repair along the way.
Quality over quantity. Reliable, sustainable, mindful, and responsive practice.
Expertise
A life-long passion for relationship-based learning has provided Hadassah with a diverse skill set and lived experience. This includes performing arts, yoga, meditation, contemplation, education, pre-post-natal and birth doula support, counselling, trauma-informed healing, attachment theory, symbol work, somatic experiencing, and expressive therapies.
Hadassah has over 25 years of experience providing support and guidance for individuals, families and schools in:
- Self-awareness, acceptance and accountability.
- Individual autonomy, voice and empowerment.
- One’s natural and unique creative expression.
- Tools and practices to listen for the needs underneath feelings and behaviours.
- One’s ability to personally de-trigger and self-regulate.
- The ability to self-heal and self-integrate childhood and generational wounding behind emotional triggers and reactions.
- Developing innovative systems that encourage mutual respect, shared understanding and shared decision making.
- Democratic and inclusive education that works from a ‘power with’ rather than a coercive ‘power over’ model.
Many individuals, families and organisations have benefited from Hadassah’s experience, using a needs-based approach for emotional regulation and behavioural support. Hadassah continues to support people of all ages to respond to, and harness new opportunities to co-create sustainable change.
Hadassah is best known for her deep vulnerability, wholehearted courage, intuitive wisdom, consistent gentleness, unique perspective, passionate, adventurous and creative vision.
QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING:
Hadassah is committed to the on-going professional development and annual compliance to maintain membership and registration with the Australian Counselling Association and Victorian Institute of Teaching.
- Bachelor of Arts in Performance Studies, Victoria University Footscray.
- Graduate Diploma in Education, Latrobe University, Bundoora.
- Diploma of Counselling, Open Colleges.
- Certificates in Expressive Therapies, Sandplay, & Symbol work.
- Module 1 and 2 in Play Therapy.
- Doula Certification (Birth, pre and post-natal support)
- Yoga and Meditation Teacher training
- ACT for adolescents
- Kimochi Training
- NVC Training (non-violent communication)
- Gene Keys Guide

