Put Out Into the Deep
Discover Life Beyond Survival
Altum Integrated
Faith-integrated therapy and consulting for people and institutions ready to heal, grow, and lead with purpose
If you’ve struggled to find support that respects your faith, values your dignity, and understands life’s complexity - you’re not alone. At Altum Integrated, we meet you there.
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Psychotherapy
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Consulting
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Training
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Facilitation
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Mentoring
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Coaching
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Counselling • Psychotherapy • Consulting • Training • Facilitation • Mentoring • Coaching •
Altum Services
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Altum Therapy offers compassionate, insight-oriented counselling for adults seeking to navigate life’s challenges with greater clarity, healing, and hope. Grounded in Catholic anthropology and the dignity of the human person, our therapeutic approach integrates evidence-based models—including Internal Family Systems (IFS), Interpersonal Process Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy.
We specialise in supporting individuals facing anxiety, trauma, shame, grief, relationship difficulties, vocational uncertainty, and emotional overwhelm. We also have particular expertise in working with individuals struggling with addictions, including pornography addiction, substance misuse, and compulsive behaviours—helping clients understand the underlying emotional, psychological, and relational drivers of their patterns while building capacity for self-leadership, integration, and healing.
Many clients come to us during times of transition, burnout, or deep questioning—seeking not only symptom relief but meaning, integrity, and renewed wholeness.
Therapy at Altum is relational and attuned. Sessions are delivered via telehealth and are eligible for Medicare rebates under a Mental Health Care Plan. We also provide Critical Incident Response and Psychological First Aid services to workplaces and Church settings.
At Altum, you’ll find not just clinical care—but the presence of a trusted guide walking with you toward growth, self-understanding, and restored connection.
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Shawn now offers Altum Accompaniment - a distinctive psychotherapy service designed to support those seeking clarity, growth, and meaningful change.
Drawing on his extensive background in coaching, psychotherapy, and asynchronous mentorship models, Shawn helps individuals uncover new insight, deepen self-awareness, and make courageous, values-aligned choices.
This service is especially being offered to NDIS participants in the categories of Improved Daily Living (15_056_0128_3_3) and Assistance with Daily Life (01_741_0128_1_3), where therapeutic accompaniment supports emotional regulation, daily functioning, and improved mental health for participants with psychosocial disability or related needs.
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Altum Mentorship Supervision offers a unique model of reflective practice tailored for professionals working in mental health, education, pastoral care, and Church ministry. Rooted in years of deep learning and practice in professional Catholic accompaniment, this approach supports practitioners to grow in personal integration, professional confidence, and relational depth.
Shawn provides a relationally attuned and ethically grounded space for supervision that honours both the human dignity of those served and the personal vocation of the practitioner. Supervision is designed to help participants:
enhance clinical and pastoral competence with greater clarity and courage
deepen self-awareness through reflective dialogue and faith-informed insight
receive emotional and spiritual support in the face of complex challenges
explore ethical dilemmas and professional boundaries with integrity
remain aligned with best practice standards, governance expectations, and mission fidelity
Altum Mentorship Supervision is especially valuable for Catholic leaders, educators, school wellbeing staff, clergy, and lay ministers seeking formation that integrates faith, reason, and relational presence.
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Altum Training delivers high-quality professional development workshops designed to build mentally healthy workplaces, deepen team cohesion, and support personal and organisational flourishing.
Shawn is a Licensed Mental Health First Aid Instructor with Mental Health First Aid Australia and brings decades of facilitation experience across the education, pastoral, mental health, and community sectors. He offers a dynamic suite of training seminars on topics such as:
Mindfulness and Self-Regulation in High-Pressure Environments
Managing Stress and Building Psychological Resilience
Preventing and Responding to Compassion Fatigue and Burnout
Mastering Difficult Conversations and Interpersonal Dynamics
Trauma-Informed Practice in Pastoral and Educational Settings
In addition, Shawn is a skilled team-building facilitator with expertise in Patrick Lencioni’s Six Types of Working Genius framework. His Working Genius workshops help teams identify their natural gifts, improve collaboration, and overcome dysfunction by aligning roles and expectations with each team member’s unique contribution. These sessions are particularly impactful for faith based school leadership teams, clergy groups, and organisational staff seeking renewed purpose, efficiency, and trust.
Altum Training sessions can be tailored to the unique context of your team or organisation and are grounded in evidence-based practices, emotional intelligence, and values of human dignity and community.
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Altum Restorative offers skilled facilitation and relational repair processes grounded in restorative justice principles, trauma-informed care, and deep human accompaniment. With extensive experience in mediation, restorative dialogue, and group conferencing, Shawn supports individuals, families, schools, and teams to address harm, navigate conflict, and restore trust.
Shawn brings decades of practice in the Catholic and community sectors, with a reputation for handling sensitive matters with discretion, empathy, and clarity. Whether addressing unresolved tensions, guiding post-conflict healing, or helping teams recover from relational breakdown, Altum Restorative provides structured, compassionate processes that promote:
safe and respectful communication
emotional literacy and accountability
repair of ruptured relationships
social skills and resilience development
reintegration into community or workplace life
Altum’s restorative services are particularly suited to schools, Church communities, organisational teams, and families navigating complex interpersonal challenges. Each process is tailored to the needs of those involved, creating space for truth-telling, mutual understanding, and hope-filled resolution.
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With extensive experience and a proven track record in leading and transforming organisations, programs, and teams, Altum Consulting provides targeted and high-impact consultancy services across the education, mental health, pastoral, and community sectors. Altum offers deep expertise in:
Organisational culture reviews
Clinical governance design and reform
Wellbeing and service delivery reviews
Strategic leadership support and facilitation
Shawn has led large-scale system reviews and transformation projects across Catholic Education, diocesan agencies, and national service providers. His consultancy methodology integrates strategic insight, rigorous qualitative and quantitative research, stakeholder engagement, and values-driven facilitation. Notable achievements include the redesign of Catholic Education’s school counselling systems, the successful reform of a national EAP’s Onsite Services business unit, and the delivery of diocesan-wide pastoral planning assemblies involving over 700 participants.
Altum Consulting is especially sought after for its capacity to guide faith-based organisations through complex change processes with clarity, integrity, and relational wisdom—ensuring outcomes are not only effective but mission-aligned.
“Shawn’s approach has literally changed my life… I’ve had many therapists, but this was different. It met me where I truly needed help.”
About Shawn
FOUNDER & MANAGING DIRECTOR
Shawn van der Linden brings 30 years of diverse experiences to Altum Integrated and his life and work have been anchored in a call to integrate faith, reason, and psychological care.
He holds a strong belief in the transformative power of the whole human experience and the role that the interpersonal process can play in promoting genuine human flourishing.
“Altum”, meaning both the deep and the heights evokes the call in Luke 5:4 - duc in altum - to put out into the deep, a summons to trust, transformation, and the fullness of our created dignity.
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Shawn’s path began not in academia but on Australian construction sites—hands-on, grounded in real life. That same practicality shaped his early years discerning religious life with the Missionaries of God’s Love, immersed in spiritual formation, community, and deep prayer.
This foundational integration—of lived experience and theological reflection—has guided his mission ever since:
To bring healing where it’s most needed, by uniting psychology, spirituality, and human formation.Shawn holds qualifications in theology, social work, family therapy, and management, and is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker. Additionally, he is a trained Mediator and Restorative Practices Facilitator. He has served across diverse settings—from frontline crisis work to high-level executive leadership—always with a steady focus on the whole person.
His leadership has included:
National Manager, Converge International (corporate psychology)
Executive Director Pastoral Services, Archdiocese of Canberra-Goulburn
CEO, Conflict Resolution Service (restorative practice and mediation)
Head of School Counselling and Mental Health, Catholic Education Archdiocese Canberra-Goulburn
Director of International Programs & Master Mentor, CatholicPsych Institute (New York).
Across these roles, Shawn has led teams, shaped systems, and walked closely with people in pain.
His work reflects decades of lived integration—clinical, pastoral, and strategic.
Altum Integrated is the fruit of that journey and brings together everything Shawn has lived, learned and led.
It’s a space where Catholic anthropology meets contemporary psychology.
Where institutions don’t have to choose between mission and mental health.
Where individuals can be seen, heard, and healed—without compromising their faith or dignity.
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