Talking with a trusted friend or family member has much value. Talking with a counselor will give you confidentiality, objectivity, tools to help with cognitive processing and evidence based tools to help you make changes. It is very important to find a therapist that you resonate with.
People come into therapy for a variety of reasons an
Talking with a trusted friend or family member has much value. Talking with a counselor will give you confidentiality, objectivity, tools to help with cognitive processing and evidence based tools to help you make changes. It is very important to find a therapist that you resonate with.
People come into therapy for a variety of reasons and may need a single session or long term support. You may need to just hear your thoughts spoken out aloud, have have the therapist act as an objective sounding board who will affirm, validate emotional experiences and assist at times of change.
Our approach in counselling is broad and may include Compassionate Inquiry (trained with Gabor Mate), mindfulness, CBT, ACT and the use of metaphor and symbolic language.
We focus on the person not the problem and help people understand internal motives and drive to better understand themselves.
For children, teens and adults the Ballarat office, in schools or outreach.
With its roots in Jungian psychology "Sand Tray" gives us the place to create symbolic worlds and tell our story through metaphor.
By externalizing an internal issue we can give ourselves distance to see it from different perspectives. The outcome is new insight and awareness, a new relationship to the issue that is often resolved or better understood.
Addiction and Recovery. Mental Illness/ Health. Family Violence. Trauma. PTSD. Family and Carer Support. Disability Sector. Chronic Illness. Bereavement. Grief and Loss. Palliative & End of Life Care. Meditation/ Mindfulness. Relationship issues. Family Breakdown/estrangement. Working with Children and Adolescence. Veterans. Anxiety. Depr
Addiction and Recovery. Mental Illness/ Health. Family Violence. Trauma. PTSD. Family and Carer Support. Disability Sector. Chronic Illness. Bereavement. Grief and Loss. Palliative & End of Life Care. Meditation/ Mindfulness. Relationship issues. Family Breakdown/estrangement. Working with Children and Adolescence. Veterans. Anxiety. Depression. Critical Incident Counselling. Eating disorders. Post Natal Depression. Education settings.
Alzheimer Australia. Bass Coast Community Health. Ballarat Secondary College. Ballarat Health Network. City of Monash. CAFS, Ballarat. Centacare, Ballarat. Dept of Planning and Community Development. Damascus Secondary College. DHHS, Child Protection. Education First Youth Foyer Holmseglen, Glen Waverly. Family Resource Center, Wonthaggi.
Alzheimer Australia. Bass Coast Community Health. Ballarat Secondary College. Ballarat Health Network. City of Monash. CAFS, Ballarat. Centacare, Ballarat. Dept of Planning and Community Development. Damascus Secondary College. DHHS, Child Protection. Education First Youth Foyer Holmseglen, Glen Waverly. Family Resource Center, Wonthaggi. FRMP, Prahran Missions. Palliative Care Consortium. Latrobe Community Health; Carers Respite Carer Services. Mitchell Neighborhood House, Wonthaggi. Mental Illness Foundation, The Garage, Wonthaggi. NEEMI Mental Health Service. Phoenix Community College. Salvo Connect Western. Victims Assist Program. WRISC FV Services, Ballarat.