Individual Counselling
Why get therapy?
You may seek counselling or therapy for many and varied reasons at one or many points throughout your life. It's worth mentioning that you don't need to have a diagnosis of a disorder or condition to see a Counsellor, it's enough that there's something not great impacting your psychological state that you want to resolve and in general improve your quality of life.
I provide counselling for individuals going through on-going instances or one-off experiences of:
Trauma Counselling
Such as complex trauma, domestic violence, sexual violence or assault, emotional trauma, coercive control and abuse. Including trauma caused affects such as anxiety, depression, PTSD, flashbacks and disassociation
Relationship Therapy
Relationship counselling for individuals going through family breakup, estrangement, separation, alienation, communication issues and dispute.
This can include family or relationship behaviour and interaction issues.
Mental Health
Anxiety, stress and depression, which can accompany situations like post event reactions, work pressures, life changes, and responses to health issues.
Mental health impacts take many forms and you do not need a diagnosis or textbook symptoms to seek help.
Neurodiverse Support
As a fellow neurodiverse person with ADHD I know first-hand the difficulty of the different emotions (such as shame, depression, anxiety), barriers and connotations that come with being neurodiverse. My counselling approach is neurodiverse friendly and considerate.
Rehabilitation Counselling
I am an approved Rehabilitation Counsellor provider for WorkCover Qld. I can provide adjustment to injury counselling during your injury or incident recovery. Click here for more information on this service.
Here are some of the therapeutic approaches I may use when providing counselling for individuals:
Systems-Based
Through systems-based therapy I explore the patterns occurring in your life. I help you become more self-aware of these automatic behaviours and then explore the disparity between your current state of processing or management and your desired state.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ACT is about accepting that our emotions and feelings are often natural responses to situations. The therapeutic approach aims to have you observe and interrogate your responses through mindfulness and being present. ACT focuses on building psychological flexibility through committing to change through behaviours that align to our core values or principles that we want to live by.
Narrative Therapy
Narrative therapy is storey based. Its about exploring your scenario and situation in the context of your story, family story or community story. This is a creative approach where we figure out your metaphor and journey via a creative approach.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
This approach is about looking at the link between your thoughts and actions. I look at key themes in how your brain is interpreting situations and reflecting in your actions then analyse the 'how' and 'why' this is occurring.