We work at the relational layer of organisations.
Because culture isn’t shaped by policies.
It’s shaped in the space between people.
Most workplace challenges are not technical. They are relational.
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They show up as:
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conversations that exhaust leaders
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patterns that repeat despite training
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power that is either overused, avoided, or misunderstood
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cultures that try to address psychological safety and yet staff still report feeling unsafe.
Our work focuses on the dynamics that happen between people — not just policy, performance, or individual behaviour.
What we do
We don’t just deliver workshops.
We facilitate relational recalibration for organisations navigating complex human relationships. Where relationships are the cornerstone of the work.
Through the lens of Relational Intelligence, we help teams and leaders move beyond surface-level interventions to shift how they relate to:
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power and authority
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safety and threat
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honesty, conflict, and repair
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themselves and one another
Our work is:
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Psychologically informed, drawing from clinical expertise and neuroscience
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Culturally intelligent, addressing the real-world nuances of diversity, safety, and leadership
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Human-centred, focused on what people feel, not just what they’re told
Whether an organisation is navigating communication under pressure, cumulative stress and vicarious load, breakdowns in trust, or systemic dynamics such as harassment, conflict or misuse of authority — the underlying challenge is almost always relational.
These are not simply capability gaps or systemic failures. They are patterns that live between people, and keep repeating until the relational conditions shift.
Our role is to help you build spaces where people can think critically, speak honestly, and lead with integrity.
We provide consultancy and training where leaders and teams can examine how relationships play out in real time — not just in theory.
About the director
Anisa Varasteh
Director, Relate Training Institute
Anisa Varasteh is an organisational consultant, psychotherapist, and Director of Relate Training Institute.
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She is also an accredited clinical sexologist, global speaker and author, known for her expertise in power, trust and human connection.
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Across both domains of her work, Anisa studies the same fundamental question:
What happens between people in high-pressure situations, when power, emotion, and vulnerability are present?
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Her unique background allows her to bring a radical new perspective to leadership and performance, equipping leaders to recognise how nervous systems, authority, and unspoken dynamics shape behaviour in powerful, often hidden ways.
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Anisa’s perspective is informed by decades spent at the leading edge of human connection — observing how people negotiate boundaries, power dynamics, and repair when the stakes are high. This enables her to illuminate the dynamics behind burnout, conflict, stalled change, and fractures in trust with unusual precision.
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Through this cross-disciplinary lens, leaders learn:
how regulation creates safety,
how presence communicates authority,
and why rupture — handled well — becomes the foundation of trust.
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Anisa has delivered training and consultancy across Australia and overseas to government departments, legal institutions, universities, and clinical teams.
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What distinguishes her work is not only what she teaches, but how she holds the room.
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She is known for creating conditions where people can remain steady in the face of difference, speak with clarity, tolerate complexity, and move toward accountability without collapse or aggression.
"People often ask me what a clinical sexologist is doing working with organisations and leadership teams.
The short answer is: I’m studying the same dynamics.
Early in my clinical work, I began to notice that the capacities couples needed in order to build strong, fulfilling relationships were identical to those required in leadership.
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Self-awareness.
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Attunement.
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The ability to regulate under pressure.
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Working consciously with power.
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And knowing how to repair when things go wrong.
I realised these weren’t “private life skills.” They were human skills.
Wherever people are coordinating, making decisions, or holding responsibility for one another, the same relational forces are at play.
In any environment — from intimate partnerships to executive teams — it is the relational field between people that determines what becomes possible: trust or fear, creativity or compliance, engagement or withdrawal.
What creates strong relationships is also what creates strong leadership.
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The ability to read dynamics as they unfold.
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To work ethically with authority.
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To stay steady when emotion rises.
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To set boundaries clearly.
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And to move toward repair after rupture rather than simply avoid it.
My work with organisations now draws directly from what I have learned in clinical practice.
I translate the intelligence of close human relating into practical ways leaders can build cultures of accountability, psychological health, and trust — without losing clarity or authority."
