Counselling Services
Tired of feeling disappointed/let down, a feeling of not being heard or understood in relationships?
We have our cars and equipment serviced when it is not performing at its optimum, what about our mental and emotional servicing? We need a skilled professional to assist to gain knowledge, insight and influence change.
Making Positive Life Changes & Choices requires support, understanding and professional skill coaching. Often our struggles have unconscious drivers and triggers, which are difficult for us to see alone.
- Relationship Counselling for Individuals, Couples & Families.
- Relationships; Empowerment Counselling; Grief & Loss;
- Stress Management; Self Esteem Issues; Workplace Stress; Life Skills Coahing;
- Life Transitions/Changes; Carer Counselling & Psychotherapy
- Plus Professional Supervision for Other Practicing Professionals.
Counselling helps gain the confidence to grow within, a stronger sense of self develops - an important relationship begins, a true journey of knowing, trusting and connecting with self.'
- Having relationship difficulties with your partner, friends, work colleagues?
- Experience difficulty in expressing your needs?
- Struggling with life's choices?
- Do you feel 'stuck' or dissatisfied within relationships and/or at work?
- Do you drink to forget how you are feeling?
- Want someone to ‘talk’ things through with?
- Are you going through a difficult time?
- Experiencing stress or anxiety issue?
Are you caring for someone and finding it difficult to focus on your own needs? You may be eligible for financial assistance via the Australian Government initiative -
The National Carer Counselling - 'Talking It Over' Program Jacqui is an accredited approved counsellor with this program
If you relate to any of the above experiences, you want 'change', say good bye to the past and embrace new positive relationships with self & others call Jacqui for professional assistance.
For assistance with moving forward in your life,
contact Jacqui - Mob: 0419 369 018
About Jacqui Dobie
I love to connect with natural beauty, it is all around us and within us. I am passionate about my work, supporting people to grow. Wisdom, truth and peace is found within, we just need the tools to connect. I have eleven years experience in health delivery and enhancing lifestyles for people of all ages. I have developed a successful private practice for the past five years in Sydney, NSW and the Macedon Ranges as a counsellor in applied psychology.
I have recently relocated to Macedon Ranges in Victoria and return three days a fortnight to Sydney. I assist you to discover yourself as an 'individual'. Understanding ourselves - 'who' we are, and 'how' we function with 'self' & others', assists us to express what is really happening in our relationships, improves self esteem and helps identify the needs we often seek others to fulfill. I am a skilled and empathic listener working with applied psychology, emotional focused therapy and the Jungian based Sand Tray assisting individuals to enhance and improve life.
I have fifteen years experience across Primary health - community and residential care specialising in 'lifestyle enhancement' and improve quality service delivery and people management & leadership.
Clients tell me I facilitate a genuine experience of ‘being heard’ and ‘felt understood’ whilst facilitating ‘telling their story’ within a safe environment.
Qualifications:
Master of Counselling. Registered Member (Clinical) CAPA. ACA.PACFA Cert Supervision; Graduate Diploma Counselling; Cert/s Emotional Focused Therapy Individuals & Couples; Family Therapy SFI. Carer Counselling; Cert. Supervision, Graduate Diploma Aged Services Mngmt. Certificate Quality Improvement Review Mngmt.
Achievements:
Successful private practice and the design, development, implementation and management of the NSW National Carer Counselling Program – the ‘Talking It Over’ Program – providing professional accredited counselling service delivery to people ‘who are in a caring role’. # Call 1800 242 636 to access this service in each State and Territory.
The facilitation of a 'Community Base & Residential Care Lifestyle Enhancement Program'. 'An Optimum Quality of Lifestyle across funding sources whilst supporting important continued community links and friendships, positive transitions, continuums across care delivery, positive ageing & National HACC Conference Innovation
Counselling & Consultancy Services
Why go to Counselling? - “Tough challenges and fragile moments are experienced by everyone and at times, we feel 'stuck'. We may find in these times, the thoughts, feelings and behaviours previously adequate, no longer work. Leaving a deep sense of fear and isolation.”
“Counselling Connections creates trust and encourages growth!”
- Is a confidential process
- Provides professional skills to listen enabling you to reflect
- Provides a supportive environment in a safe space for client and therapist to work together in an genuine, open and honest relationship
- Offers an opportunity to 'Talk It Over' within a trusting relationship
- Assists in finding new direction
- Provides an opportunity to explore, share your feelings, reflect, and discover
Psychotherapy
How does psychotherapy work?- Focuses on change at a deeper level
- Provides a safe vessel to work through painful and unresolved issues that may have roots deep in your personal and family history
- Heals past wounds and will free you, assisting you to live more fully in the present – ‘here and now’
- Therapy can bring a profound sense of renewal and help you to discover who YOU really are.
Sand Tray Therapy
Background: Dora Kalff, Jungian therapist, developed sandplay therapy in Switzerland in the 1950s and '60s based on her studies at the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich, in Tibetan Buddhism, and with Margaret Lowenfeld, in England.
‘Sand Tray’ is a tool to assist individuals with change. Sand tray gives us the opportunity to uncover fears and patterns set deep within. It presents us with a picture of our internal world and allows us the opportunity to make changes.
Sand tray is creative and facilitates play for individuals of all ages. It creates possibilities, by means of figures and the arrangement of the sand, to set up a world corresponding to our inner state. Through play a link is established between our internal and external worlds.
Supervision
SUPERVISION Provides ethical & professional guidance, professional development, standards of care and support within professional, legal & ethical guidelines in accordance to the professional association standards of delivery. I liken Supervision as a 'three dimensional' process which is a monitor of quality client care, whilst supporting & assist the growth and professional development of the counsellor / supervisee. Clinical supervision, professionally and ethically assist the process and care to the client, counsellor client by providing a trust safe environment to discuss what is happening within the counselling relationship/s.
Relationship Counselling for Individuals, Couples & Families
I am an Accredited Approved Provider of the National Carer Counselling Program, an Australian Government Initiative. Delivering Carer Counselling for individuals who are providing care for a loved one who is aged, has a disability, is chronically ill or dying from a life threatening disease'. You may be eligible for financial support to recieve counselling. If this sounds like your situation, call Carers Victoria on 1800 242 636 *free call, ask about Carer Counselling Support... you can request to be referred to Jacqueline for counselling.
Mode of practice is with Emotional Focused Therapy for individuals, couples & families. I utilise- Sand tray Therapy, a tool to assist moving deep issues which are difficult to express.
The Way I Work: Emotionally Focused Therapy for:
Individuals
Couples
Awareness of emotion is central to healthy functioning. Emotional Focused Therapy brings the unconscious to a conscious.
Working with our emotions deepens our understanding and awareness of our personal power. Through the understanding of the present, the relationship between therapist and the individual can develop a deeper understanding of the past and its impact on the present.
We all have an inherent tendency to grow and develop and generally have healthy needs and desires. Problems occur when these needs and desires are constricted, disowned or denied. Emotions move us and inform us, and when they are integrated with reason, they make us wiser than we are when we use our intellects alone.
The ability to be aware of feelings, regulate anxiety, and self - soothe are the crucial skills of life.
Working with emotions can facilitate:- Self belief
- Self confidence
- Improved Self esteem and self worth
- Provide validation and empowerment
'Counselling - a personal and rewarding journey of connecting the head and heart'
We are our ‘Tree of Life’ by which we live:
Likening ‘The tree’ of our life, we have many unknown parts, twists and turns, knots and crevices that mark our experiences.
Branches, shelter us- beliefs and values,
Leaves, we loose as we process and grieve
Fresh re-growth occurs as we accept, adjust & re-invest,
Roots, our origins – where we come from,
Trunk, our core / generational heritage. Foundational origins that contributed to our beliefs, values and principles by which we live. To know where we come from/ what shapes us – begins the journey of ‘who we really are’….
As we begin to therapeutically work – we come to know, accept new awareness, wisdom and understanding. Our relationships with ‘self’ and others improve and growth occurs naturally.
“Healing begins with making contact, talking freely,
a genuine feeling of being heard & understood.”
For assistance with moving forward in your life,
contact Jacqui - Mob: 0419 369 018
QUALIFICATION DETAILS- Master of Counselling
- Grad Dip Counselling in Applied Psychology
- Certificate/s Emotional Focused Therapy for Individuals, Couples & Families
- Certificate in Supervision
- Certificate in Sand Tray / Play Therapy
- Grad Dip in Aged Services Management.
- Certificate in Accredition Quality Service Delivery Community Services.
Counselling,
Life Coaching,
Psychotherapy 
