Eclectic Living Pty Ltd

How would it be for you to experience life with a strong sense of who you really are?

To feel self-acceptance and self-love, connection and fulfilling relationships with others, a sense of purpose in your life and the confidence of knowing that you can create the life you want, come from self-awareness and self-acceptance.
Health and vitality, a sense of aliveness and passion for life, joy and peace are natural feelings you can wake up with every day.


Life can be complex and confusing

If your life feels meaningless and unfulfilled at times, if you feel isolated and lonely, if you feel anxious, fearful and stressed, you need to understand that is not the natural order of things.

These challenging and confusing states are symptoms of losing connection with who you really are, of seeing only fault in yourself and failing to recognise your incredible inner spirit.

We present to the world a face we consider to be more acceptable to others. The sense of incongruence we feel creates fear of discovery, anxiety and stress.

The root of our problems stems from childhood and the way we handled the challenges life presented. The key to resolving those issues and to creating the life we want lies in healing the resulting wounds to our soul, in recognising and accepting who we really are.


Psychotherapy nurtures & heals

Psychotherapy – when it is true to its origins – is defined as “the art of nurturing and healing the soul”. Gerry O’Sullivan, a qualified and experienced Somatic Psychotherapist, can guide you to self-awareness, creating a safe and caring environment in which to examine and heal wounds that are manifesting themselves through crises or undesirable situations in your life today. Sensitive body work can help you to connect with and release trapped emotions.

Counselling can help you cope with existing crises and to resolve them. Often, though, the crisis is only a symptom of life long patterns and will recur if the cause is not healed


Create the life you want

The outcome of this process is self-awareness, self-acceptance and love, and a realisation of all the possibilities your life can hold. Self-acceptance and love allow you to connect with yourself and others, and to commit to live life as you really are.



Seniors: You Can Discover How to Live a Life of Purpose, Joy and Satisfaction

Are you dissatisfied with your life, wondering what's next and who you are, now that you're not working?
Do you feel lost as to your purpose for this next stage of life?
Can you keep on growing or do you worry decline is inevitable?

You may be struggling with the ageing process. Or perhaps you feel that our society does not offer a role for our ageing community. Often the ageing population is referred to as a problem but there is another vision of ageing where our longer living members can live a life of growth and contribution. I hold this vision and this is my passion.

If you are ready to reflect on your life, to open yourself up to examine your hopes and fears, to review your successes and disappointments, to experience regret and welcome forgiveness, I can help. I can assist you in uncovering your hidden passions.

I've worked with many people facing life transitions and challenges, whether relationship breakdown, new job, or grief and loss. If you're in your 50s, 60s or even 70s, or are moving into the third act of life and working out what they want this act to look like, I can support you to design a life of joy and abundance.

The Way of Wisdom: Finding Purpose in the Third Act of Life

The Way of Wisdom is a process designed to facilitate the journey of discovery of who we are, what we value, what we want to do with the rest of our life. It is carried on over eight weeks of one hour weekly sessions which, with the aid of a journal, go through a step-by-step reflection.

As a women now in my sixties I first did a similar process just after my 50th birthday and have repeated it on a regular basis. I use all of my life experience, as a somatic psychotherapist for the last 16 years and my previous corporate life, along with a 20 year history of personal development, to support my clients as they face the difficulties and opportunities of ageing. But I don’t have the answers, I just help you find your own answers. Now, most especially, the answers must come from the inside: who am I, what do I care about and what is right for me right now?

Carl Jung, the great philosopher and psychologist, wrote that “we may distinguish between a psychology of the morning of life and the psychology of its afternoon……” In the second half of life we yearn for wholeness. We yearn to remember the parts of ourselves that we have forgotten, to nourish those we have starved…to allow those parts of ourselves that have been neglected, ignored or otherwise suppressed to begin to emerge. It is now or never and this path towards wholeness is unique for each person.


Gerry O’Sullivan – who am I?

I am a qualified, experienced Psychotherapist, drawing on a wide range of disciplines, including Somatic Psychotherapy and life coaching. I have an ongoing commitment to enhance my therapeutic skills, and continue my personal development
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I also have a strong corporate management background, which gives me personal experience and understanding of the work pressure and resulting stress many of us are subjected to in the modern business world.

My purpose is to guide you to make changes, heal your life, create the future you want, and ultimately make your unique contribution to the world around you.

My clients say they find me warm, generous, wise, dedicated to their health and well-being and having deep integrity and I would like to support you in making the changes you desire.


Next Step

Call me on 0412 392 420 to make an appointment for a free consultation to discuss your issues and intentions and see if we can work together.

My standard fees are $120 for 1 hour session however I do provide a limited number of special need discounts.

I am located at Crows Nest close to public transport and ample free parking.


Contact Details

Suite 4, 2B Clarke Street, Crows Nest
Mobile 0412 392 420


Qualifications

Diploma Somatic Psychotherapy
Clinical Member Australian Somatic Psychotherapy Association
PACFA (Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia) Register No 020187



What is Somatic Psychotherapy?

Somatic Psychotherapy provides a safe non-judgmental space and relationship in which to explore and develop awareness of the self. Emphasis is on the uniqueness of the individual, inclusive of body, mind and spirit, and the inherent movement of the human body-mind towards health and growth. Somatic Psychotherapy, whilst inclusive of "talking therapies" can also be informed by bodily experience and somatic techniques including the recognition of non-verbal signals and with permission, appropriate therapeutic touch.

Practitioners are experienced in the observation of breath, posture, energetic patterns of expansion and contraction and unconscious movements of the body - all of which convey information about the clients' emotional state. By including these bodily experiences, greater awareness of both the conscious and unconscious patterns is gained.

Within the safe holding of the developing therapeutic relationship, clients are supported in increasing wellbeing by:

• exploring, recognizing and understanding established patterns of responses, both conscious and unconscious, stemming from early childhood and/or more recent experiences
• transformation of outdated, problematic patterns and integration of these changes
• developing a stronger sense of self which provides a firm foundation for freedom and choice and the responsibility for such choices
• establishing healthy satisfying relationships

It is within the therapeutic relationship, guided by the body's innate capacity to heal itself and facilitated by the awareness, presence, holding and experience of the therapist, that perception of life is transformed.
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Who would benefit from Somatic Psychotherapy?

A broad range of client issues are addressed: personal development, curiosity, meaninglessness, anxiety, relationship difficulties, emotional instability, grief and loss, recovery from trauma and/or abuse, despair, spiritual issues and overcoming addictions as well as uncomfortable physical symptoms which often have an underlying emotional or stress related cause.
(Above description from the Australian Somatic Integration Association website – with thanks)