Counselling information and the therapies used and benefits
WHAT IS COUNSELLING?
WHAT CAN I EXPECT FROM MY FIRST SESSION?
WHAT CAN I EXPECT FROM MY FIRST SESSION?
WHAT IS COUNSELLING?
Counselling is a process where we talk about the issues or challenges that are presenting in our life. You can book in for a free 15 minute conversation and I can see whether how I can help you.
Online telehealth sessions bring you therapy to your home. It is run like a face to face session with a secure online video platform. Here are some reasons why online counselling can benefit you:
- You don’t have to leave your home or travel anywhere
- Make appointments when it suits you, around your kids, work etc.
- It's safe, private and you can turn up with a cup of tea and in your comfortable clothes.
- You will have someone who will listen and support you
- You will be empowered with strengths based techniques
- You get to heal and resolve your issues
- You get to achieve your goals
- Australia wide sessions from the convenience of your home
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WHAT CAN I EXPECT FROM MY FIRST SESSION?
WHAT CAN I EXPECT FROM MY FIRST SESSION?
WHAT CAN I EXPECT FROM MY FIRST SESSION?
WHAT CAN I EXPECT FROM MY FIRST SESSION?
I like to find out what is happening in your world, why you have come to counselling and what you would like to achieve through counselling. We then make a plan together to achieve these goals and monitor your progress along the way.
I will set tasks and we will explore techniques that will benefit you. I will then give you tasks and techniques to practice and complete each week so by the end of the sessions you have these techniques to continue and practice in your life.
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HOW DO I MAKE CONTACT WITH YOU?
WHAT CAN I EXPECT FROM MY FIRST SESSION?
HOW DO I MAKE CONTACT WITH YOU?
HOW DO I CONTACT YOU ?
Easy. Just leave your details below and I will call you within 24 hours. No pressure let's have a chat to see how can help you. Or call me and leave a message. I will get back to you as soon as I can.
You can choose counselling via different options:
Telehealth Online video counselling
Phone counselling
Face to face
Café counselling
Walk & Talk Therapy
IS THERE A CANCELLATION POLICY?
IS THERE A CANCELLATION POLICY?
HOW DO I MAKE CONTACT WITH YOU?
IS THERE A CANCELATION POLICY?
If you cancel 0-24 hours the full fee is payable If you cancel 24-48 hours a 50% fee is payable
PRIVACY & CONFIDENTIALITY
Everything we discuss is private and confidential. Our records are stored in a private secure location.
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SERVICES
IS THERE A CANCELLATION POLICY?
SERVICES
Counselling & Life Coaching services Growth Mindset Coach available NOW for Individuals, Relationship, Groups
I specialise in stress/anxiety management, depression support and coping skills
- Grief and loss support
- General Counselling
- Life Coaching
- Personal growth
- Self-belief
- Employee Assistance Program
- Setting Boundaries
- Setting & achieving your goals
- Mindset Coaching
- Resilient Training
- Guidance and helping make decsions for study or career
- Reprogramming your negative thoughts to positive thoughts CBT Therapy
- Marriage counselling for an amicable separation
- Telehealth, Phone counselling
- Online video counselling via google meet
- Face to face
- Café Counselling
- Walk & Talk therapy at the Broadwater, Labrador
- NDIS home/site visits
- Group coaching
- Keynote presentations
Counselling services for NDIS SELF AND PLAN MANAGED CLIENTS
- Telehealth Online video sessions
- Phone sessions
Keynote speaking available: I talk about:
- How to thrive in times of Crisis
- How to build a Resilient Mindset
- Resilience Techniques to help achieve your goals
- Diversity & Inclusion
- How to Overcome Crisis and Thrive
- Wellbeing
- Mindset
PAYMENTS
IS THERE A CANCELLATION POLICY?
SERVICES
Affordable fees to help you access services. Payment is paid at the end of each session, for a one-hour session. Bulk 6 sessions can be paid at the end of first session (discounted)
regarding Medicare rebate, you will find that you could be paying a lot more for a psychologist even though you get the Medicare rebate, after paying the out-of-pocket expense for a psychologist.
Discounts for seiors and concession card holders
The counsellor's fee is many times cheaper or the same as a psychologist minus the out-of-pocket expenses. Out of pocket expenses for psychologists can range from $87 to $205 per session. Also, you don't need a mental health care plan or see a GP. You can just book in.
Counsellors are future solution focused and work on resolving your issues with strengths-based techniques. not focusing on your past but looking at the present, how we can resolve your issues moving forward.
If you are NDIS self or plan managed. the same applies
If you want to enquire more about this, send me an email below and I will call you within 24 hours. If you prefer to ring, call me and I will get to you as soon as I can.
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No referral necessary from your GP just book in
SESSIONS
COGNITIVE BEHAVIOUR THERAPY
COGNITIVE BEHAVIOUR THERAPY
Counsellors also try to resolve the issues within shorter time frames as we work from a strengths-based perspective. You may find that you are okay with six - 12 sessions and may just need a booster after that, if any issues arise. Or you may want to book in for six sessions and then we review and see how you're going and where you're at, whether you want to book in for further sessions. Depending on your issues and what you are going through and presenting, at the time, everyone has different needs and things going on, it's always based on you and what support you need.
The outcome is always for you to be empowered to be able to continue to use the techniques you learn and continue to do this on your own and reach self-determination and achieve your goals.
COGNITIVE BEHAVIOUR THERAPY
COGNITIVE BEHAVIOUR THERAPY
COGNITIVE BEHAVIOUR THERAPY
Cognitive behaviour therapy is an effective therapy for helping change a persons behaviour. It traces back its roots to Pavlovs experiments with dogs.
Behaviour therapy
By observing behaviour you can become aware of your beliefs and learned thought patterms, habits and reactions.
Then replacing them with new thought patterns, reactions, habits and betiefs resulting in changing to better ways of reactions, actions and habits and ultimately your outcomes and your future.
. iI helps you change unhealthy thought patterns and habits to more positive better feeling ones and create better coping strategies.
Its an effective therapy to treat:
- Beliefs, self confidence
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Stress management
- Eating disorders, Body image
- Alcohol, drug problems
- Mental illness
- Grief and loss
- Marital / relationship problems
- Conflict
- Phobias
- Trauma
- OCD
- Coping strategies and more
Its based on core principles
that involves efforts to change thinking patterns
Research shows that CBT can lead to significant changes in your life, your outlook, perspective, happiness levels and mental, emotional and physical health
Individual, Relationship and Group sessions
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SOLUTION FOCUSED THERAPY
COGNITIVE BEHAVIOUR THERAPY
SOLUTION FOCUSED THERAPY
Solution focused brief therapy focuses on what a client wants to achieve through therapy, rather than on their troubles or mental health issues in the past. It focuses on the issues that are presenting now and works with the client to find strategies and techniques to overcome difficulties, a crisis or on personal development goals.
It focuses on the clients strengths as they are designed to empower the client to achieve their goals and reach self actualisation.
The counsellor will help the client design SMART goals and map out a plan to achieve them. The counsellor encourages the client to build their strengths rather than dwell on their past, problems or limitations.
We can’t change the past, but you can create a new future starting from today Sometimes you need someone to believe in you or awaken your potential that lies within
Counselling services for NDIS SELF AND PLAN MANAGED CLIENTS
- Telehealth Online video sessions
- Phone sessions
- Walk and talk therapy
- Home/site visits up to 20 km
Keynote speaking available:
I talk about:
- How to thrive in times of Crisis
- How to build a Resilient Mindset
- Techniques to help achieve your goals
- Diversity & Inclusion
- How to Overcome Crisis and Thrive
- Health and Wellbeing
- Mindset
- Mental and Physical Health
NARRATIVE THERAPY
HUMASTIC APPROACH /MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING
SOLUTION FOCUSED THERAPY
Narrative therapy is a form of pscyhotherapy that aims to help externalise a client's problems, so the clients view it as something that's impacting their life. Not who they are as a person. To make space betwen the problem or ssue and the person. To allow the client to see how a challenge is serviing them not harming them.. By re-authoring our life stories focusing on positive interpretation and emotions.
Narrative therapists help the client understand how their problems have been constructed and supported. Enabling then to re-author an alternative narrative story that is aligned with their ideal or preferred identtity or goal (who they wish to become or what they want to attain).
Its effective therapy to use for depression in conjunction with cbt therapy and other modalities
Counselling & Life Coaching services available for Individuals, Relationship, Groups
- Telehealth Online video sessions
- Phone sessions, walk and talk therapy at Broadwater, Labrador
HUMASTIC APPROACH /MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING
HUMASTIC APPROACH /MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING
HUMASTIC APPROACH /MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING
Humanistic approach shares the vision of pscyhology that places human capacity for creativity, choice and growth. Influenced by eastern European traditions and philosophies and European religions such as Buddhism.
The Humanistic approach is the person centred approach.
A person striving to find meaning and fulfilment in the world and in life.
It consists of awareness, of oneself and their capabilites, their role with others and that there are choices and with choices there are reponsibilites and ownership of those choices.
Humans are aware that they are intentional and there is intention, aim at achieving goals and many of the times are aware they are the cause of future events.
The Humanistic approach focuses on personal growth and development.
Every indifiviual has a free will, and can make choices and decisions beased on their experiences, environments and beliefs and goals.
Our choices create our future, Thre is no single reality. Our choices determine our future and outcomes.
This awarness helps the clients grow, reach their potential and move twoards self actualisation.
Based on three core conditions necessary for clients to change:
- Empathy
- Unconditionall positive regard
- Genuineness
This theory of person centred approach is based on the client and counsellor relationship will help them make progress and respond with constructive changes.
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MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING
Is a counselling apporach developed by pscychologists William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick. It involves a directive, client - centred counselling approach which aim to help change a clients behaviour by helping them explore and resolve ambivalnce.
Based on beliefs that clients have resistence to change, mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about doing something about change or about someone..
Its a positive optimistic approach targeting esolving this ambivalence by eliciting and reinforcing the talk for change.
PERSON CENTRED THERAPY
HUMASTIC APPROACH /MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING
HUMASTIC APPROACH /MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING
Carl Rogers was an American Pscyholost and the founder of the Humanistc Psychology Apporach.
He draws on 3 beliefs:
- Humanism: We all have potential for growth and development.
- Existentialism: We all possess free will and make choises based on our indvidividual experiences and our personal beliefs.
- Phenomology: There is not one single reality, rather our realiy is constructed through our own individual experiences and beliefs.
the counsellordoes not set the goals or choices, or direction of therapy rather the client is the driving force and the focus on what happening in their present and what they want to achieve.
The relationship between the client and the therapist is vital and a catlyst to help empower the client to make constructive changes
Counselling services to treat a range of issues and personal growth work. Also for NDIS SELF AND PLAN MANAGED CLIENTS
- Telehealth Online video sessions
- Phone sessions
Keynote speaking available: I talk about:
- How to thrive in times of Crisis
- How to build a Resilient Mindset
- Resilience Techniques to help achieve your goals
- Diversity & Inclusion
- How to Overcome Crisis and Thrive
- Wellbeing
- Mindset
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MORE INFORMATION ON TECHNIQUES AVAILABLE AND THE BENEFITS
ACCEPTANCE & COMMITMENT THERAPY
ACCEPTANCE & COMMITMENT THERAPY
ACCEPTANCE & COMMITMENT THERAPY
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) therapy is a mindfulness behavioural therapy. Its aim is to accept what is, what's happenened and the pain that goes with it. To be able to create a meanfingul and rich life, It uses an eclectic mix mindfulness skills and exercise to help you accept and move forward with your life.
The concepts are pscyhological flexibility of mental health and behaviour effectiveness.
When peoples responses to difficulties or challenging events their internal experiences reduce their contact with the present moment preventing them from behaving in ways to live in meaningful life directions.
ACT is proven technique thats effective to treat a range of clinical conditions:
- depression, chronic pain, stress and anxiety management
- grief and loss,
- crisis, accident or cancers
- PTSD, drug, alchohol issues
- schrizophrenia, PTSD, trauma,
- OCD and more
It takes into consideration your core values and whilst we experience difficulties, and all sorts of unwanted private experiences, thoughts, feelings urges and memories. It teaches effective ways to handle all of these.
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MINDFULNESS
ACCEPTANCE & COMMITMENT THERAPY
ACCEPTANCE & COMMITMENT THERAPY
The practice of bringing one’s attention into the present moment without judgement or evaluation and without attachment. It is developed with practice with a range of exercises that teach you relaxation and techniques and how you can manage unhealthy or painful thoughts. Its also used in combination with other therapies.
Its an effective therapy to help you learn how to self soothe naturally and can help a range of issues:
- Depression, stress and anxiety management
- Trauma, body image, OCD
- Going through a crisis
- Anorexia, substance or alcohol abuse
- Conflict
- Relationship problems
- Grief and loss and more
SERVICES
ACCEPTANCE & COMMITMENT THERAPY
SERVICES
Counselling & Life Coaching services Growth Mindset Coach available NOW for Individuals, Relationship, Groups
I specialise in stress/anxiety management, depression support and coping skills
- Grief and loss support
- General Counselling
- Life Coaching
- Personal growth
- Self-belief
- Employee Assistance Program
- Setting Boundaries
- Setting & achieving your goals
- Mindset Coaching
- Resilient Training
- Guidance and helping make decsions for study or career
- Reprogramming your negative thoughts to positive thoughts CBT Therapy
- Marriage counselling for an amicable separation
- Telehealth, Phone counselling
- Online video counselling via google meet
- Face to face
- Café Counselling
- Walk & Talk therapy at the Broadwater, Labrador
- NDIS home/site visits
- Group coaching
- Keynote presentations
Counselling services for NDIS SELF AND PLAN MANAGED CLIENTS
- Telehealth Online video sessions
- Phone sessions
Keynote speaking available: I talk about:
- How to thrive in times of Crisis
- How to build a Resilient Mindset
- Resilience Techniques to help achieve your goals
- Diversity & Inclusion
- How to Overcome Crisis and Thrive
- Wellbeing
- Mindset
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