Counselling, Yoga Therapy, Clinical Supervision, Training/Workshops
Email: alys@mayakoshahealing.com​
Address: 42 Underwood Road, NSW, 2140.
Availability: Face to face or online services (pending assessment).
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​This business is located on Wangal land. I wish to pay my respects to the Wangal elders past, present and emerging and acknowledge I am borrowing this space from the traditional custodians.​​
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About Us
RECOVERY FOR THE WHOLE SELF
MayaKosha Healing is a unique Sydney-based trauma-specific and trauma-informed counselling, recovery and well-being service. Alys provides tailored care to individuals and families who have experienced any form of hardship- mental health difficulties, traumatic event, abuse, violence or neglect, or other criminal acts. Clients are provided with a variety of options when it comes to managing their overall journey towards wellness with MayaKosha Healing.
MEET ALYS
BScience (Psychology); PGDip & Master Social Health & Counselling; Master Social Work (Qualifying); Accredited Mental Health Social Worker (AMHSW); Hatha Vinyasa Yoga teacher levels 1 & 2 (300 hours); Yoga Therapy (650 hours)
Alys is a counselling social worker (AMHSW) and yoga therapist who provides adolescent, adult and family counselling, specialising in trauma-specific care and embodied recovery.
With over a decade of experience working in the industry, her career has involved frontline and managerial roles across hospitals, NGOs and private practices. Her therapeutic lens orients towards promoting best practice and advocacy with a strong focus on client-centred wellbeing. In the counselling and yoga space, Alys' passion is to assist people to move away from stress, depletion or trauma-activation so they may tap into their own inner resources, leaving them feel more centred and empowered. The combined experiences provide Alys with a multi-layered perspective of client healing and practitioner support from acute crisis through to longer term therapeutic support.
Alys currently runs MayaKosha Healing, facilitates Immrama: Holistic Trauma Healing Centre- collective private therapy space, is a Clan MacLennan Committee Board Member, and is a casual academic teacher for Master of Counselling Students at Edith Cowen University (Western Australia). ​ She has written a number of therapeutic group programs for children and young people with two of the programs commended in the Mental Health Awards 2020. Alys has been a finalist for the Griffith Alumni Awards 2022 and a finalist for the Australian Ladies in Business Initiative Awards 2023 and Inner West Citizen of the Year 2024.
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Alys is registered with NSW Victims Services, the Australian Association of Social Work and Yoga Australia.
ABOUT THIS PRACTICE
How We Got Here
MayaKosha Healing was founded in May 2020 in Sydney, Australia, by Alys McLennan; trauma-specific counsellor, social worker and yoga therapist. This service was set up originally for self care as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic to support those in the community and therapeutic industry around increasing distress, disconnection and reduced wellbeing. MayaKosha Healing now provides holistic counselling using embodied recovery tools and trauma-specific therapies to support healing in people of all ages, critically reflective practices, Urban retreats, trauma informed yoga classes and training workshops. This combined approach allows individuals, families and workers to tap into their natural resilience factors to increase healing, well-being, balance and harmony.
MayaKosha Healing offers a variety of approaches to achieve and maintain optimal mind-body balance. Whether you are a professional, a team, a family or an individual seeking support, MayaKosha Healing provides trauma therapy, yoga therapy, clinical supervision, group programs in a friendly environment to assist you along your well-being journey.
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The Governing bodies associated with this business are Australian Association of Social Work and Yoga Australia. Alys is also a current registered counsellor with NSW Victims Services.
NAME AND LOGO
The healing component of each element
Maya and Koshas are terms based in ancient Sanskrit. Maya in this context stipulates that we are "made of" and Kosha in this context refers to the five sheaths of the self; physical body, mind, breathe/ energy, inner wisdom and true self (bliss, love, harmony). As my company strives to provide holistic healing across all of these sheaths to increase experiences of the true self, MayaKosha Healing seemed a synonymous name.
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The logo includes Autumn leaves which in the Chinese 5-element theory, is understood to be a transitional period. In Autumn we must reflect upon what we wish to hold onto as it continues to serve us and what we must shed like autumn leaves falling in order to move forward in a way that is helpful to our journey.
In Aura soma, the orange and berry colours refer to a reawakening of the wisdom that already sits within us, so that we can journey forward with more love, compassion and insight.