Our Team

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 has been in recovery himself for over two decades and created Miracles Asia to provide a dedicated space that's free of judgement for addicts and those they effect to be able to get the support they need, and transition into a healthy and happy life.

Paula has worked in the addiction treatment and behavioural health field for over 20 years in a variety of roles, focusing on client facing therapeutic work as well as programme
development as her career progressed.

She was Programme Director of The Cabin in Thailand, creating the first gender-responsive trauma informed addiction treatment program in S. E. Asia. On returning to the UK, Paula
joined Abbeycare as Head of Therapeutic Services for 2 years before launching her own clinical consultancy and coaching business.

Paula holds a Masters degree in Psychology of Mental Health and Wellbeing and is currently completing a Post Graduate Diploma in Coaching Psychology. She has a BSc degree in
Psychology, a diploma in Women’s Studies and several qualifications in teaching and training within the Lifelong Learning Sector. 

She holds certifications in Clinical Supervision,
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, and is a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional. Her experiences working in the field drew her to further study in more specialised therapeutic
approaches in trauma treatment (EMDR, Advanced Training for Trauma Treatment and Complex PTSD and Neuroscience of Attachment).

Kirstin is an Addiction Recovery Coach, Wellness Consultant, Life Coach, Yoga Therapist and Healing Touch Practitioner. She has experienced the negative impact of addiction, and the power of recovery in her own life and the lives of many others.

What she has learned over the years is that there is no one size fits all. We are dynamic human beings and we require a multitude of modalities to move from the disease of addiction to a path of sustainable recovery.

Kirstin is passionate about supporting people to recover physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Her mission is to empower people to bring increased balance, vitality and freedom into their lives. Her style is warm, down-to-earth, direct, knowledgeable and humorous.

With over 40 years of experience as a sober coach, Danny brings a wealth of knowledge from the Alcoholics Anonymous program literature and its way of life to Miracles Asia. He has worked through the big book and the 12 and 12 for several years helping thousands of people through their addiction treatment and teaching them how to approach a new successful life without drug use and alcohol addiction.

Danny comes from a musical family and he was featured on 60 Minutes news network in the USA, interviewed by Bob Simon, when he was the musical director of The Portman Ritz Carlton in Shanghai.

Danny has been around the music industry since the 1960’s and he is an accomplished singer, songwriter and entertainer. He also opened the very first Beijing jazz club in 1999 call The Big Easy as well as playing along side a vast number of famous artists from all around the world.

Amanda is qualifying as a professional counsellor through the Master of Counselling (MoC) from Monash University, where she studied mental health, advanced counselling skills and techniques, along with various therapeutic modalities used in psychotherapy. 

She works as an Adjunct Therapist at Miracles Asia where she specialises in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Amanda uses ACT in conjunction with Person Centred Therapy (PCT) and Compassionate Mind Training (CMT).

Amanda holds a Bachelor of Arts Honours in Fine Art, BA (Hons), from Oxford Brookes University, and enjoys incorporating art as therapy to compliment her therapeutic practice. 

She incorporates the art of self-compassion as a powerful healing tool, and teaches valuable day to day therapeutic skills required to successfully treat an array of disorders, including addiction, post traumatic stress, anxiety and depression.