ABOUT ME AND COUNSELLING:
I am a trained and experienced professional counsellor and psychotherapist with both the qualifications and ability to help both individuals and couples with a wide range of emotional, personal and relationship problems, particularly from a Christian perspective.
With many years of clinical practice, I can provide the help you need, and confidentiality is assured. I have a warm, empathic and caring personality, and combined with a highly professional and sensitive approach, I use a wide range of techniques, and have the ability to understand and help you through your time of crisis!
Counsellor - Chris White
Could you use compassionate help in any of the following areas?
Are you worried and feel you cannot handle life?
Do you pay enough attention to your feelings?
Are you comfortable in your own sexuality?
Gay and Lesbian Couples welcome
Are you honestly doing what you want to be doing in life?
Do other people's moods affect you?
Are you effective in dealing with frustration?
Do you always maintain a positive self image?
Have you experienced any crises in your life?
Do you suffer from Dissociative Identity Disorder?
Are you a Survivor of Child Sexual Abuse?
Do you suffer from anxiety or panic attacks?
As a Registered Member and Supervisor of The Australian Counselling Association and The Australian Institute of Professional Counsellors, which when associated with his previous experience and training, Chris is well placed to offer a specialised and first class service for individuals and couples.
He is also a Medibank Private Accredited Provider for Counselling Services - i.e. you can claim Rebates.
Benefits of relationship counselling for couples:
Communicate more effectively
Set ground rules for conflict resolution
Learn what makes relationships work, or fail
Understand each other better
Express your feelings to your partner
Feel safe in the relationship
Get more of your needs met
Make sense of why your partner does what s/he does
Improve your communication with your partner
Decide whether to stay or to leave
Process the grief of separation
Effective parenting after separation
People decide to come to counselling for many different reasons. Underlying all of these reasons is the motivation to change the way things are right now.
Counselling provides a safe, non judgemental space where you can talk about your feelings and your thoughts.
For some of you talking about how you feel may seem daunting and scary whereas some others may wonder how just talking about something can be of any help at all! Many of you may have tried talking to friends or family and feel that no one really understands your point of view or how you are feeling. Sometimes it may seem as though these conversations go round in circles and leave you feeling even more alone and worthless.
Counsellors are trained to identify and draw together the different threads in your understanding about your life and help you make better sense of what is going on and how you can effect change. They may ask questions about what’s happening in your life right now and in the past.
They may reflect back to things you have said and ask you to talk a little more about certain topics so you gain a better understanding of what you are thinking and how you are feeling too.
As you explore your feelings and examine your thoughts with someone who listens with empathy and support, you may find that some of your worries and concerns become easier to manage. You are more able to challenge negative thoughts, improve your day to day functioning and sense of wellbeing. Counselling helps you to develop new skills for living your life and new ways of addressing your problems.
Chris is a former experienced and fully qualified psychiatrist, psychotherapist and psychoanalyst who has now turned to counselling people suffering from a multitude of emotional issues, including not only personal ones but also marriage and relationship problems, yet he does not resort to drug treatment.
Many of us experience life as not being how we would like it to be and are looking for ways to change that experience. It is common for people to find it difficult to change, and this includes ways of looking at our situation or any number of behaviors that prevent us from living the best possible life that we can. If you would like some strategies to address the issues in life that bother you, or are holding you back then please contact him.
He brings with him a wealth of experience from his previous broad professional life and has successfully treated an extremely wide range of problems. He has extensive training and experience and offers a unique and specialised service to people with not only personal problems, but also family and marriage difficulties, grief and emotional hurdles such as anxiety, PTSD, phobias and interpersonal and relationship issues, including depression, anxiety, unhappy and unrewarding lifestyles and situations.
He is also an experienced Administrator of "The Prepare-Enrich Course"
CHRIS CAN ALSO HELP FOLK FACING SEPARATION/DIVORCE
If your relationship has reached the stage where you are either contemplating or facing Separation or Divorce, Chris can help you work through this difficult and painful process.