Miranda Milburn is a Counsellor, Teacher, and Behaviour Analyst, and Founder of The Finding Freedom Project.

She has over 25 years working in a variety of settings, predominantly schools. Miranda teaches from a behaviour analytic perspective and has a special interest in working with students with additional needs.

Miranda also incorporates behaviour analysis into her counselling practice. Through the intentional use of core behavioural principles, Miranda supports clients to establish the psychological flexibility needed to develop helpful behaviours that compete with unhelpful behaviours.

The Finding Freedom Project was birthed from Miranda's own experience of family violence. Her hope is that other women will not just survive, but thrive, after experiencing family violence.

"At 26 years old, I left an abusive partner, with our then two-and-a-half year old son, with the support of a Centrelink social worker and Legal Aid lawyer. Almost 18 months later, I had set up our new home, my son had started 4-year old Kinder, and I was enrolled in a Graduate Diploma in Counselling. Life had settled
into a safe 'new normal'. This was when I felt the overwhelming exhaustion of everything my young son and I had been through – the abuse, the trauma of my
ex taking off with our son, the court battle to bring him home, the ongoing
attempts to control me as I co-parented with my ex, and then setting up a new home, beginning study (me), and starting kinder (my son).

We needed a holiday. Thankfully, I was fortunate to be able to scrape together funds for my son and I to have a five day holiday in the Grampians. It was such
a healing time for us – the dust had settled, we knew we would be returning to our stable new life, and we could just enjoy the fresh air, wildlife, walking trails, and everything the area had to offer. It is this experience that I want to share
with other women and children who have experienced the trauma of family
violence, and the upheaval escaping those situations brings.

I want to offer women in the recovery phase a way to celebrate their new beginning with their children, an opportunity to earn income, and an invitation to share their story. To show them that good things are in their future, the past has been left behind, and now it's time to thrive."