About
Making Life Less Complicated…
Shifting our perspective and reprioritising is essential for reducing stress, enhancing clarity, and promoting well-being. When we strip away unnecessary complexities, we can focus on what truly matters—our relationships, personal growth, and goals. By working on self, we create mental space for creativity, better decision-making, and emotional balance. It allows us to live more intentionally, fostering a sense of peace and contentment while freeing ourselves from the overwhelm that often comes with modern life. This is our mission at Self Discovery Lab … to make life less complicated.
Backed By Experience
Our diverse group of facilitators brings a wealth of expertise across various modalities, combining counselling, naturopathy, nutrition, yoga, pilates, and a range of other holistic practices.
Each of our qualified and experienced professionals is carefully selected for each retreat, ensuring they align perfectly with the retreat’s theme and objectives. Whether you’re seeking deep emotional healing, physical rejuvenation, or spiritual growth, our dedicated team is here to guide you on your journey, providing personalised support and nurturing your well-being every step of the way.
This is our promise to you.
Despina Kamper
Despina has over 20 years clinical experience in naturopathy and nutritional medicine. With a research focus on the treatment of stress and anxiety disorder, she has helped patients implement positive lifestyle habits using a holistic approach in a variety of somatic, nutritional and naturopathic practices. She has obtained post graduate qualifications in nutrition, counselling and education and she currently lectures at Western Sydney University and Torrens University in the Health Science faculty.
Despina has combined her passions for health, mental health and education, and has developed the award winning ‘Self Discovery Lab’ to support individuals in dealing with the emotional challenges of today. She has also partnered with AnxietyAwareness.com to apply their evidenced based workshops and residential retreats for those looking for further direction and meaning in their life.
Despina speaks fluent Greek, however, the retreat and workshops are all conducted in English.
Nathalie Fenwick
Having taught yoga for nearly a decade, Nathalie’s classes are individually themed and address real life issues such a perfectionism, adaptability, and balance, through yogic philosophy. Nathalie has taught in gyms, yoga studios, schools and offices both internationally and locally and found that no matter who we are or where we are, we all struggle to varying degrees with the modern-day pressures of being human. Nathalie therefore attempts to weave yogic philosophy throughout her sequences inviting her students to draw comparisons between the physical stress they experience on the mat and the emotional stresses of everyday life. In this way, as we learn skills to manage the physical stress, such as breath work and visualisation, so too are we learning skills to manage our emotional stresses, skills that can be taken off the mat and into our everyday lives.
In addition to qualifying as a yoga teacher Nathalie also has a bachelor degree in Philosophy and Gender Studies, and a diploma in Theatre which she uses to influence her classes, resulting in a well-rounded and grounded perspective and classes that may appeal to a wide variety of people
Sue Stevens
A naturopath and nutritionist since 1989, Sue has focused on women’s health for over 30 years with an established clinic in Neutral Bay, Sydney. Her counselling qualification also assists her in looking for sustainable health care by incorporating physical and emotional solutions.
Sue has been teaching at Torrens University for the past 12 years and been invited to present at industry conferences to practitioners. She has also supported her community with local workshops at community centres.
Sue has collaborated with other naturopaths and released her online menopausal program ‘Thrive through Menopause’ to support women in addressing underlying drivers and finding equilibrium.
Sheri Peters
Sheri is a trained psychotherapist, coach and mentor who has worked at the forefront of body/mind approaches to wellbeing for the past 30 years. Sheri has studied and promoted somatic approaches to psychotherapy with teachers such as Daniel Weber and Robyn Speyer. She has integrated the latest neurophysiology and attachment theories to offer a client-centred, solution focused range of services to her clients.
Sheri now spends most of her time in her UK practice and supporting her local community.
Celeste Rochele
Celeste has over 10 years of experience in marketing, focusing heavily on visual storytelling through both Videography and Photography.
Having followed her lens through a wide variety of industries, Celeste has found a true passion in the health and wellness space. Now, she fuses her two passions together to work alongside our team to bring the Self Discovery Brand to life across our various digital platforms.