Female client (47) of family with husband (50) and two daughters (17&21)
(0401) 300 635
Meet Our Team
We have an amazing and versatile team. Learn more about our counsellors by clicking below or simply scroll down to view them all.
Tracey-Leigh Davey
Founder | Lead Counsellor
With 30 years of hands-on experience, Tracey-Leigh is the founder and visionary behind More Than Mediocre. Known for her ability to unlock deep, lasting change quickly, she specialises in multiple and complex issues including trauma-informed practices, deep inner healing, relationship repair, and personal breakthrough. She has trained many counsellors over the years — but now focuses exclusively on healing and transformational work with individuals and couples, bringing her unmatched skill and insight directly into the room where it is needed the most.
Tracey-Leigh is known for providing high impact counselling and supporting clients to create lasting change. Her down to earth and experienced style puts people at ease immediately, instilling trust and allowing them to quickly and fully engage in the counselling process to facilitate healing, create greater awareness, find peace and achieve positive measurable life change from the onset. It is this reputation that grew her practice into the pillar of excellence that it is today.
Tracey-Leigh brings a wisdom acquired not only from her professional training and practice but also from her own life experiences as a woman, wife, mother, ex-wife, step-mum and business manager. She has a real gift with people and is lucky enough to have found a perfect niche to utilise it.
Tracey-Leigh is also a creator of trauma and personal growth resources and over the years has run events and programs to provide maximum impact for clients. Her greatest desire is to reach larger numbers of people and share her knowledge and truth with others in order to create permanent, life changing results. Her counselling team are all personally supported by her to develop their skills and intuition. She also stays on top of new findings and techniques and provides regular training and resources to enrich her team. Tracey-Leigh is passionate about sharing her wisdom and providing you, the client, with only the most gifted and experienced counsellors, so that any client of MTM can have complete confidence in the long-term tested ability, wisdom and experience that Tracey-Leigh's counsellors are able to provide.
With more than 18 years in private practice and 12 years prior experience in the industry, Tracey-Leigh has worked up close and personal with literally 100's and 100's of people who have shared with her their deepest struggles and innermost thoughts and feelings. Through this, and her own life experiences, she has gained a wealth of knowledge and insight and can draw out and identify issues quickly. She is innovative, instinctive and solution orientated and her authentic approach delivers outstanding outcomes and break-through moments, and quickly - a practice that is contagious within her staff team, as they learn and develop their craft with her at the helm.
Tracey-Leigh is passionate about truly making a difference. She not only inspires - she empowers and equips people to live a life they love, a life that is definitely - More Than Mediocre. To learn more about Tracey-Leigh's journey - Read her Personal Story HERE.
Prianka Mehzabin
Senior Counsellor & Relationship Coach
Prianka has been a trusted pillar of the team since 2012, bringing 13+ years counselling experience within our practice and 8 years additional social work experience prior to joining us. Her strengths lie in relationship coaching and trauma-informed work, with a reputation for helping clients break through entrenched patterns quickly. She brings a calm, grounded presence to clients navigating trauma, identity, and relational patterns. Prianka excels in couples & family work, known for her ability to gently dismantle old dynamics and build connection in their place, she is kind and caring and her genuine and supportive nature helps clients to immediately relax in her company. She listens and relates to her clients with such empathy and warmth, and that combined with her intuition and effective techniques, allows her to achieve amazing outcomes with clients.
With great instincts and a real gift with people, Prianka is not only a highly qualified and experienced counsellor, she has the natural ability to engage with clients and couples and create a lasting bond with them. She is extremely popular with clients.
With her background in Social Work, Prianka got her early experience on the ground in a wide range of issues including the men's behaviour change program and the foster care system, working with diverse groups of people and cultures.
Prianka works well with men, women, couples and families and supports clients through whatever issues they may be facing, from conflict & relationship struggles, grief and loss, separation, blended families, anger, confusion, loss of direction, adolescent & behavioural problems, parenting, stress, anxiety and depression.
As a daughter, sister, student, wife and mother of 3, Prianka has experienced her own life struggles. These have resulted in a deep understanding of people, emotions and pain that has expanded her empathy, wisdom and trust in her clients to overcome pain and find the light on the other side of their darkest moments. She uses this to help others explore and express what they are feeling, identify needs, heal from past hurts and connect with others.
Karleigh Phillips
Senior Relationship & Life Coach
Karleigh has worked with Tracey-Leigh since 2013, gaining solid ground by first assisting and co-leading events and courses, managing client bookings and running support groups. By 2017 she was competently guiding one-on-one clients, couples and families through life and relationship transformation. With a deeply intuitive style and a rich toolkit of coaching strategies along with her trauma-informed training, she empowers individuals and couples to get unstuck and move forward and is able to stimulate powerful mindset shifts. Karleigh is relational, warm, and laser-focused on what creates meaningful results and she absolutely shines when working with individuals and couples on relationship behaviours, communication skills, understanding personal boundaries and identifying emotional blocks.
Karleigh is intuitive, naturally empathetic, quick to identify issues and has a unique gift for supporting clients to expand their realm of possibility and to see what is truly possible for their lives. She uses a host of tools to support and help clients learn skills, make distinctions, gain faith and confidence in themselves and others, and find the courage to implement the steps needed to make their vision a reality. She holds wisdom and experience that is well beyond her years.
A mum to 4 beautiful children, Karleigh balances her family life with her work and other commitments and fully understands the challenges faced by young families - as parents and as a couple.
With over 12 years in the industry and 8 years experience working extensively with couples and families, she is able to support a deeper connection and improve communication and understanding between them and she has the strength and instincts to challenge clients to go deeper and also to support them through intense moments of pain and heartbreak into relief and reconciliation.
As Tracey-Leigh's daughter, Karleigh has grown up with the influence of her mother's teaching, insight and guidance throughout her life and has been involved in outreach activities and the counselling industry from a young age, but don't think that means she has not experienced her own personal challenges in life, such as learning to deal with her estranged and anger-challenged father; from a very young age, and to adjust to new members in the family, just to name a few. Karleigh has now worked and trained alongside Tracey-Leigh for over 12 years, growing her understanding of life, people & relationships and developing her own unique gifts. In fact, Karleigh has lived practically her whole 30 years of life "in training" for this role.