Dr Shannon Morton
Psychiatrist & Psychotherapist
Mental Kintsugi Practitioner
About the Clinic
The Clinic of the Cracked Cup is a place for people who care deeply and feel deeply too. If you’re a helper, a healer, a carer, or someone who’s been quietly holding too much for too long, this space was made with you in mind.
The therapy I offer is not one-size-fits-all. It’s intensive, trauma-informed, and completely tailored to you. Some people come carrying burnout or grief. Others feel stuck, overwhelmed, or quietly falling apart behind a professional mask. Whatever has brought you here, the work we do together will be grounded in curiosity, compassion, and deep respect for your story.
Sessions are delivered via telehealth to make it easier to access support when life is already full. You can log in from a quiet corner of your home, a parked car between shifts, or wherever you feel safe to slow down and speak honestly. No waiting rooms. No travel. Just meaningful therapy, on your terms.
Wabi-sabi for Wounded Healers
Help for the Helpers
Care for the Carers
Take the time and space to repair and refill your cup.
A safe space for you to come home to yourself.
Services
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Deep, trauma-informed, patient-centred therapy for professionals, carers, and community workers who need more than surface-level support. Sessions are tailored to your life, your story, and your inner world. No quick fixes. Just honest work that makes room for transformation. Medication management also provided as needed.
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Specialised support for people experiencing burnout, moral injury, or compassion fatigue. Therapy includes space to process exhaustion, re-align with your values, explore what is missing, and rebuild a more sustainable life.
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Confidential, non-judgemental supervision for psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists, GPs, educators, and other healthcare professionals. A psychologically safe space to reflect, re-orient, and protect your own well-being while navigating complex work.
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Neuro-affirming support for adults navigating the invisible load of masking, sensory overwhelm, executive function challenges, and perfectionism. Work with your brain, not against it.
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Support for those who carry trauma, whether personal or vicarious. Includes nervous system regulation, emotional processing, boundary repair, and reconnecting with a sense of internal safety.
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A private, moderated space for current and former clients and retreat attendees to share the emotional highs, lows, and hilarious in-betweens of being a cracked cup in a cracked system. Come for the catharsis, stay for the company.
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Creative, immersive, and psychologically restorative retreats for people who are completely over it. Hosted in beautiful natural settings, with a mix of group therapy, reflection, movement, play, and carefully curated, trauma-transcending voodoo magic, without the woo-woo. Workshops are also offered online and in-person throughout the year.
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All sessions are delivered via secure video to fit around the chaos of real life. No travel, no waiting rooms, just meaningful therapy from wherever you feel most at ease.
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Burnout and compassion fatigue
Moral injury and ethical distress
Workplace trauma and systemic harm
Trauma and attachment wounds
Grief, loss, and life transitions
Neurodivergence (ADHD, autism, giftedness)
Anxiety, stress, depression, and chronic overwhelm
Identity confusion and role exhaustion
Relationship difficulties and boundary ruptures
Rejection sensitivity and emotional dysregulation
Perfectionism and over-responsibility
Existential crisis and loss of meaning
“You are no good to anyone else if you don’t prioritise your own mental health, dreams, and well-being.
Your needs are important for care-giving to be sustainable.”
Dr Shannon Morton
Philosophy
Welcome to the Clinic of the Cracked Cup. This isn't a place for polished surfaces or perfectly composed professionals. It’s a refuge for the weary-hearted. A resting place for the over-functioning. A quiet rebellion against the grind culture that chews up kind people and spits them out.
You might be a doctor, nurse, therapist, teacher, carer, or parent who has poured from your cup until there’s barely a drop left. Maybe you’re burnt out, broken down, or wondering when exactly you stopped feeling like yourself. You might be carrying moral injury. That deep ache that builds when you’re stuck in systems that make it hard to practice with integrity, creativity, or kindness. Systems that reward compliance over care, and productivity over people.
This space was created for those kinds of wounds.
There’s no pressure to be fine. No gold stars for soldiering on. Just room to breathe, grieve, and slowly come back to life. I work from the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi, which finds beauty in the worn, the imperfect, and the incomplete. The kind of beauty that comes from living a real life, not pretending to have one.
My therapeutic approach draws on something I call mental kintsugi. The art of repairing emotional cracks with compassion and meaning instead of shame or silence. Healing doesn’t mean hiding what hurt you. It means making peace with the shape it left behind.
There’s also a parable I love, about a cracked clay pot. A water-bearer carried two pots down a long path each day. One was perfect. The other had a crack and leaked water along the way. The cracked pot felt ashamed, until the water-bearer pointed out the trail of wildflowers blooming along its side of the path. The pot had been watering them all along.
You might feel like a cracked pot. I think that makes you magic.
This is a space for resting. For being messy. For remembering that your own wellbeing matters too. If you are over it, undone, or just holding it together with caffeine and dark humour, you are welcome here.
Bring your whole self. Cracks and all.
Bio
Dr Shannon Morton is a Psychiatrist with over 20 years of experience working in mental health. She has worked in diverse settings, from acute hospital wards and prisons, to schools and long-stay treatment centres, and has sat with people in some of their most challenging and transformative moments.
She has undertaken additional training in Schema Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Interpersonal Therapy (IPT), Family Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Sandplay Therapy, Bibliotherapy, and Art Therapy. In recent years, her work has been shaped by her interest in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Compassion-focused Therapy, and Existential Therapy, approaches that support clients to live with greater meaning, flexibility, and self-compassion, even in uncertainty.
Shannon has supervised and lectured psychiatry registrars, psychologists, GPs, and educators in psychotherapy and systemic reform, and presents regularly at national conferences. She co-founded a lived experience, neuro-affirming workplace, and is currently collaborating with Cubcare and The Kooky Clinic to create a new GP-led model of care for ADHD and other neurodevelopmental conditions, supported by bespoke technology. She previously founded The Healing Circle, a recovery-focused group for young people, which was recognised as a finalist in the Queensland Mental Health Awards.
Known for her creativity, warmth, quirky personality, and irreverent dark humour, Shannon creates spaces where people can put down their armour, explore their inner world, and slowly piece themselves back together in a way that feels true.
She is a mother of two spirited teenagers, a python called Penelope, and an avant garde Italian Greyhound called Noodle. In her spare time, she is also a novelist, an artist of all trades and master of few, the unapologetic owner of many doom piles, and a devoted nature and animal lover. She dabbles as an amateur foodie, a gardener, and a self-confessed culture vulture who finds joy in everything from live theatre to street art. This notorious "good trouble" maker, change agent, rabble-rouser, walking plot-twist, sacred rodeo clown, and systems disruptor, is always up for championing the underdog and speaking up for the voiceless, with whatever energy is left in her cracked cup at the end of the day.
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