Counselling & Psychotherapy

My intent is to meet you with compassion where you are in a person centred and strength based approach. I have trained across diverse method and have a broad trauma-informed toolbox. I meet you where you are in a journey of change. I collaborate with you, perhaps to begin in listening and hearing your voice.

Please find available here a range of offerings, each of which can be tailored to your need. Sessions run for 60 minutes and cost $130 unless otherwise specified. In terms of process, we begin with solidifying a strong and stable relationship in counselling and move into psychotherapy for those wishing to dive deeper into and work collaboratively together upon the root causes of patterns repeating.

This is an open, safe, confidential and non-judgemental space tailored to meet your individual needs. Framed by person-centred therapy, this service can help you process trauma, abuse, grief and loss and the consequences of addiction for example and will provide clarity to make meaning of your unique journey of life. We work together to (re)build self-esteem, worth, autonomy and connectedness as well as regulation and resilience. Personal development work, reflection and integrative healing towards holism in this service can be followed by the Holistic Health & Wellbeing Coaching service. The goal in this service is to create a safe trauma sensitive container for you to heal by integrating your being and an integrative mix of technique is used for this purpose.

Safety and stability are prioritised in these sessions, and we take time to slowly and gently develop a therapeutic relationship where trust is built in authentic, empathetic and compassionate connection. Over time we work to unpack and process traumatic experience so as to heal, and we work towards the redevelopment of a personal narrative for you to embody and to move forward with hope. I have a broad evidence based toolkit and it may be that techniques from somatic therapy and mindfulness are of interest to you. The sessions, as with all other services, are individualised to your need. Post-traumatic growth can be a focus when you are ready for this.

The intent here is to help you process grief and loss, anger and other emotions including overwhelm that you may be experiencing in the face of planetary crises such as climate change, and to move through for example anxiety and depression or other mental health conditions. We can establish therapy goals specific to you but the essential aim in this service is to enable acceptance and to facilitate the recovery of your agency. We also work to build your discernment to understand wise action. This counselling can help you stabilise and calm and strengthen your resilience and overall mental health.

This counselling works to create compassionate common ground within a relational context. We explore individual and relational blockage to health, wellbeing and growth. A range of technique can be utilised here drawing upon diverse method which help you to understand yourself and your attachment and relational patterns. Interpersonal skill development is prioritised in these sessions as is the development of emotional intelligence. For couples I meet with you as individuals if required and together across process, we clarify challenge and obstacle and work together to build understanding or illumination across difference, resolve conflict and grow compassion. We discern necessary steps forward for healthy individual growth to be best enabled with respect a priority. If appropriate we also initiate steps forward for a deeper expression of intimacy and depth of connection within the container of the relationship.

Each session is tailored and focused to help you navigate career change, challenge and choice. Resume review and development is inclusive if required. The counselling style here is more targeted with a focus on developing career goals, identifying challenge and the tools required to meet this and building your understanding about the practical action that is required to be sustained to meet your goals. We work together to understand any blockage external or internal that to your desired path. Coaching is blended into this service particularly for those navigating change or those in a business development process. Positive and empowering encouragement is provided here, as well as space for rational reflection. Leadership counselling and coaching including in best-practice communication skills, for example how to listen and how to express empathy, can also be a focus.