Services
Counselling
Special Areas: drug and alcohol dependence and abuse (bingeing), couples and relationships, men's issues, gambling, depression, anxiety, panic, post-traumatic stress, grief and loss, work, bullying and decision making. A full list appears below*
Methods: I combine cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), solution focus and motivational interviewing in helping you establish the changes you want to make in your life. I provide psycho-educational material about the issues you are dealing with and skills and strategies to help you overcome obstacles preventing you from achieving your goals. I am largely future focused and solution oriented but will work on past experiences and perceptions which continue to affect you.
Contract work (Corporate, EAP, training)
Supervision - Australian Counselling Association registered supervisor
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* Full list of counselling areas (alphabetical):
- Addictions, dependence, abuse - alcohol, substances, prescription drugs
- Ageing related adjustment issues
- Anger
- Anxiety & Panic - understanding and breaking the cycle of thought and physiological discomfort
- Assertiveness - instead of aggression
- Carer Support - counselling / debriefing and strategies for people caring for partners, family, friends
- Change - managing and adapting to changes in work, family, relationships
- Decision making
- Depression - changing habits of thought, behaviour and feeling which accompany depression
- Domestic Violence - physical, emotional, psychological, financial, sexual, controlling.
- Emotional issues
- Gambling - an addiction with its own problems.
- Guilt
- Grief & Loss - partners, roles, relationships, anticipatory grief.
- Life transitions
- Men's issues - aggression, relationships with women, role confusion, alcohol, drugs, & workaholics
- Motivation - getting started and keeping momentum
- Personal issues - whether it's 'big' or 'small', if it's a problem for you, call, obligation free
- P.T.S.D. ( Post-traumatic stress ) - managing and reducing symptoms that interfere with daily life
- Relationships - couples, same sex
- Sexual and physical abuse
- Sexuality
- Trauma
- Workplace issues - bullying, boundaries, work satisfaction/ frustration