Our team
Dr Lucas Ford
Founder | Clinical Psychologist
Lucas Ford is an experienced clinical psychologist, having practiced in hospital and private practice settings for more than 15 years. He is also an accredited psychedelic assisted therapist, after completing courses at Mind Medicine Australia and the Psychedelic Research and Training Institute in Colorado, USA, with an interest in therapies creating an altered state of consciousness and psychedelic integration within a harm reduction framework in approved clinical settings.
He works with individuals from late adolescence through to older adulthood, offering both diagnostic assessments and therapy for a wide range of presentations, including:
• Anxiety disorders (GAD, social anxiety, panic disorder)
• Mood disorders (depression, bipolar affective disorder)
• PTSD and trauma-related conditions
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
• ADHD and autism spectrum disorder (diagnosis and support, including collaborative assessments with GPs)
• Personality disorders and complex mental health
• Substance use and addiction
• Disordered eating (e.g., binge eating, bulimia)
• Interpersonal difficulties/grief and loss
Lucas sees patients via a range of referral pathways (Medicare, WorkCover, DVA, Queensland Police Service - Self-Refer, and NDIS), offering a collaborative, compassionate, and individualised approach to care, drawing on evidence-based modalities such as:
• Cognitive behavioural therapies, like ACT, CBT, DBT
• Metacognitive therapy
• EMDR
• Mindfulness and compassion-based therapies
• Interpersonal Therapy
• Altered states therapies, including hybrid, integrative approaches guided by inner healing intelligence (the belief that each person has the inherent capacity to heal when provided with the right conditions)
• Harm minimisation and integration therapy
While traditional therapeutic approaches are effective for most, there are some individuals who experience a sense of being stuck, despite their best efforts and the efforts of their therapists. This has led to a particular interest in treating persistent depression and post-traumatic conditions (such as PTSD and other conditions along the trauma continuum).
Lucas is a member of the Australian Clinical Psychology Association and available for supervision as a STAP approved psychologist supervisor. He has previously published research in the areas of mindfulness, self-compassion, and return to work after injury. He is committed to his own self and professional development and strives to live in line with his values, including freedom, shared humanity, and collective elevation. He enjoys keeping up to date with new, novel, and developing treatment options, with the aim of achieving the best possible outcomes for the people he works alongside.
Sara de Clercq
Co-founder Breathwork Byron
& Founder Sara de Clercq
Sara de Clercq is a Meta NLP & Integral Leadership Practitioner, FBR Breathwork Practitioner & Integral Semantics Facilitator supporting groups and individuals to restore nervous system harmony, emotional balancing, and embodied presence.
Sara works with individuals and couples across adulthood, offering both structured inquiry and experiential somatic work in the form of FBR Breathwork for a wide range of presentations, including:
• Chronic stress and nervous system dysregulation
• Anxiety, overwhelm, and burnout masked by high functioning
• Trauma and early developmental imprinting
• Disconnection from body, emotions, or pleasure
• Shame, self-doubt, and identity fragmentation
• Relationship and intimacy challenges
• Leadership strain, visibility fears, and over-responsibility
• Life transitions, grief, and post-success flatness
Sara offers a collaborative, trauma-informed, and deeply attuned approach, drawing on integrative modalities including:
• Facilitated Breath Repatterning (FBR)
• Somatic processing and nervous system regulation
• Neuro-Linguistic Programming (Master NLP Practitioner)
• Integral Developmental Coaching
• Pre-verbal and attachment-informed inquiry
• Relational and embodied leadership practices
At the core of Sara’s work is the understanding that many persistent patterns are formed beneath language, in the body, breath, and nervous system, and therefore cannot be resolved through cognition alone. Rather than fixing or optimising, her approach focuses on restoring internal safety, coherence, and return capacity, allowing clarity and change to arise organically.
While traditional therapeutic and coaching approaches are effective for many, Sara is particularly drawn to working with individuals who sense there is “more,” yet do not want to override themselves to get there.
Sara is committed to her own ongoing personal and professional development and lives in alignment with values of integrity, truth, beauty, and embodied presence. Her work is grounded, relational, and precise — offering spaces where people can come home to themselves in a true and embodied way.
My path has been one of remembering, returning to what is already here. Beneath the noise, the striving, and the conditioning, there is a quiet intelligence in the body that knows how to come home.
Through years of inquiry, breath, and somatic practice, I’ve learned that healing isn’t about becoming someone new, it’s the exact opposite, it’s about softening into who we already are. Before the adaptations. Before the performance. Before the layers that shape how we think, feel, and behave in ways that are not always true or aligned for us.
That question has guided everything since. Over the past seven years, I’ve worked with individuals and groups, exploring the profound intelligence of the body and nervous system, the bridge between our inner and outer worlds. Through this work, I’ve witnessed how the body can metabolise stress, integrate old stories, and reclaim the aliveness buried beneath layers of conditioning.