Meet Our Team
The Miracles@Home staff draw upon their qualifications and certifications in health, counselling and well-being, as well as personal experience with dependencies, recovery and emotional wellness. We bring you crucial insight and personal and evidence-based knowledge of dependence.
Miracles@Home was founded by a dedicated team of professionals with extensive combined personal and professional experience in the fields of addiction, dependence, problem behaviors, counselling and rehabilitation.
During COVID-19 times, with lockdowns around the world, we have become concerned that existing residential recovery programs may not always be suitable for effective treatment for your dependency or addiction. We provide a program that will accommodate your work commitments, life conditions and other personal circumstances so you can easily make the vital first step to recovery.
Our team completely understand the need to provide appropriate counselling and treatment with special sensitivities and skills to help you and your family on the road to recovery.
Mark Heather, Co-Founder & Manager
Although I have Masters in Education, I have been a hotelier in South East Asia for the last 30 years and I have also been in recovery from addiction/alcoholism for the last 25 years.
I am delighted to have the opportunity to be part of the team that created Miracles@Home
“If you want to find a way out ask someone who has.”
Catherine O’Leary, Clinical Director, Counselor, Facilitator, Case Manager
I am a trained mental health and addiction professional, with over 35 years’ experience in health care and addiction recovery. I have successfully completed a Certificate of Nursing, Bachelor of Nursing, Master of Arts (Women’s Health), Graduate Diploma of Advanced Psychiatric Nursing, Certificate of Drug and Alcohol Nursing, Mental Health First Aid Instructor Certification and a Diploma of Counselling.
I now specialize in education and counselling in the field of dependency and addiction recovery.
I have a wealth of personal and professional experience with addiction, trauma, anxiety, depression, grief & loss and relationship difficulties.
I am committed to being part of the professional solution for people suffering from dependency or addiction and their loved ones.
“Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional”
Kirstin Gourlay, Program Facilitator, Counsellor, Recovery Coach
Kirstin is a certified Recovery Coach, Wellness Consultant, Yoga Therapist and Meditation Guide. Her specialties include food and drug addiction, depression and anxiety, trauma, and co-dependence. She has experienced the negative impact of addiction, and the power of recovery in her own life and the lives of many others.
Kirstin has been working in addiction recovery and holistic wellness for many years. She has a wealth of online and in-person experience of hosting women’s retreats and continues to voluntarily facilitate weekly online 12-Step workshops and recovery meetings for women all over the world.
Before joining the Miracles@Home team, Kirstin worked as a consultant with three of Asia’s premier Wellness Retreats, as well as being an independent Recovery Coach with Tommy Rosen and the world-wide Recovery 2.0 Community.
Kirstin is passionate about delivering a holistic approach to wellness, so people can recover physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. She believes that recovery is a process of change through which people improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and reach their full potential.
Kirstin’s style is warm, down-to-earth, direct, compassionate, knowledgeable and humorous. She does not waste your time.
“How free do you want to be?”
Bill O’ Leary , Co-Founder
Bill is an Australian Professional Mariner, Maritime Tourism Development Adviser and co-author of Southeast Asia’s Super Yacht Cruising Guide – “Southeast Asia Pilot”. He has three decades in planning, design, construction, project development, maintenance and operations of luxury resorts.
Bill is In recovery himself for over two decades and is dedicated to the recovery of suffering addicts and those they affect.
Kim Weller, Facilitator, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Practitioner & Clinical Hypnotherapist
Kim is a certified CBT therapist and Clinical Hypnotherapist who believes that everyone can live amazing lives of fulfillment and freedom from addiction and harmful habits. With over half a decade’s experience in counselling and helping others to recover from addiction issues and restoring their lives through a diversity of wellness modalities, Kim is dedicated to empowering others to live clean and sober lives of abundance, adventure, freedom and fun.
She has personally experienced the devastating impact of addiction through her own journey of recovery from alcoholism and drug addiction. This journey has included fellowship and service in 12-Step programs, Mindfulness & Wellness, Reiki and Guided Meditation certifications, studies with Harvard University in the Neuroscience of Addiction, and using CBT & Clinical Hypnotherapy to facilitate in helping others to find their own unique path and therapeutic tools to support them in staying happy and healthy in recovery.
Kim always seeks to combine understanding, empathy, compassion and non-judgementalism with holistic modes of therapy and wellness to guide others who desire to be free from the shackles of addiction to make positive, profound and enduring changes to their lives.
“One of the hardest things was learning that I was worth recovery.”
Demi Lovato
