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Graham Hocking - Professional Counselling & Kinesiology
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| Servicing Areas | Park Orchards, Victoria |
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| Mobile | 0419 572 023 |
Live your life with more energy, feel more confident and maintain a positive outlook.
You can be happy and healthy, and follow your dreams.
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it”
- Goethe
You can be happy and healthy, and follow your dreams.
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it”
- Goethe
Graham Hocking - Professional Counselling & Kinesiology
Are you feeling run down, overwhelmed, tired, depressed, stressed, anxious or simply just not feeling yourself?
If you have answered yes to this question, Kinesiology and Counselling will assist you to get back to a state of inner harmony.
By working together we can
Recover your sense of wellbeing and vitality by overcoming feeling stuck with physical or emotional pain. You will experience a sense of renewal, feelings of restoration and replenishment, new insights and connections to the deepest parts of yourself, and an enhanced sense of inner peace and contentment.
How I work with YOU
My commitment is to provide you with a supportive and caring environment where you will experience being heard without feeling judged. You will be fully supported and encouraged to explore your own issues, always with the focus on meeting your personal and individual needs. Each session is optimized by identifying, and validating your core beliefs and attitudes, the essential qualities that make you uniquely who you are.
Testimonials
“Words are really not enough for me to express my gratitude for finding you at a time in my life that has been extremely challenging! You are a genuine guide with heart and integrity; deeply insightful, highly compassionate, providing me with great clarity in direction, teaching me to gain a deeper understanding and compassion for myself that is continuing to lead me toward greater authenticity and empowerment. I am always impressed by the way you are so professional, committed and non-judgmental. You have really helped me to appreciate each step on my healing journey. The combination of counselling and kinesiology has provided me with methods of healing that are profound and lasting. I highly recommend your services to anyone who wants to truly move forward in their life.”
– Norma, Greensborough
“Thank-you Graham, you have provided me with the right tools, environment and support which enabled me to unlearn those long established negative patterns and responses, and replace them with ones that benefit me and the ones I love. All this was done in a very friendly, honest, down to earth and supportive manner. I will highly recommend your services to anyone who is serious about changing their lives for the better”
– David, Eltham
“In working with you Graham, I am impressed with the depth and thoroughness that arises from a unique blend of your compassionate understanding, combined with counselling and kinesiology skills. The way you work has enabled me to explore issues deeply, gently and with profound results that resonate with great meaning through my life”
– Moira, Ascot Vale
“Graham, in the past six months, you have helped me achieve major personal changes. I have found my own identity again which had been buried for a long time due to negative life events. The benefit has been a tremendous feeling of freedom – freedom to voice my opinion and say what’s important to me whilst still maintaining my self worth if others disagree. I have learnt to consider my own needs and not feel guilty – whilst I still have some work to do, I know that with your help, my life will get better and better”
– Wendy, Numurkah
“When I first came to see you Graham, it was for the embarrassing skin condition of rosacea, which negatively effected my self esteem. Deeper, underlying and difficult emotional issues came up that you gently and sensitively presented to me. Despite my inherent impatience to take aim and fire at the target, you knew that I would not really “hear” my own body’s messages until the time was right. Almost imperceptively, I have made great changes in my life – in areas that seemed untouchable, too hard. And this has been achieved without the need for tears, tissues and red eyes! Thank you Graham for respecting my gentle soul and for helping me to learn to do the same. With gratitude.”
– Diana, Ringwood North
Something About Me
I am a Government Accredited Holistic Kinesiologist, and I am also listed on the national register of the Australian Counselling Association.
I draw on more than 18 years of experience in personal development as a group facilitator with The Cairnmillar Institute through their long running course “Human Relations for Everyday Living”. I have formal professional training in complementary medicine and counselling.
I am committed to helping people from all walks of life work through a wide range of life’s challenges and emotional difficulties, which includes anxiety and stress, addictions, low self esteem, depression and relationship issues.
I also have a special interest in men and the issues they face in today’s society, particularly around identity, relationships, emotional expression and belonging.
Since the Black Saturday bushfires, I have provided clinical kinesiology and counselling services at the Yarra Valley Practitioner Project in Yarra Glen, to those directly affected by the bushfires and their families. This work is current and ongoing.
I am passionate about working with individuals in helping them to recover and restore their intrinsic balance of physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.
Holistic Kinesiology
“There is nothing that heaven does not cover
and nothing which earth does not sustain” - Chuang Tzu 369-286 B.C.
Holistic Kinesiology is a highly developed and dynamic form of Complementary Medicine that is based on the Eastern model of health and wellbeing, known as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), the energy healing of Indian Vedic Medicine, plus current knowledge from western science.
TCM is founded on the principle of the endowment to each of us of our original nature, acquired at birth. This endowment invites the balanced expression of our individual and unique purpose in life, encouraging the emergence of our authentic self.
However, life from birth has many challenges. Dysfunction and illness that exists in the present (expressed physically, psychologically and emotionally), is the result of coping mechanisms that form in early life, thus giving rise to the acquired self (ego), as elements of our original nature are suppressed.
When the expression of our original nature is blocked, imbalance and ill health results in many forms, ranging from mild conditions, to severe life-threatening illnesses e.g cancer.
Your session will include an overall energetic assessment. I will work with you to identify blockages and then rebalance your vital flow of energy, with the view to healing the underlying cause of blockages and disharmony, rather than the symptom(s).
Holistic Kinesiology works on many levels to restore the vital flow of energy, and your wellbeing:
Physically – where tension and stress is held and manifested through physiological dysfunction and disease.
Emotionally – by exploring and overcoming both your conscious and sub-conscious beliefs and attitudes that no longer serve you well.
Psychologically – through your enhanced awareness, to release negative thoughts and feelings that will open the way to look at your life from a new perspective, revealing new and positive possibilities for your future.
Holistic Kinesiology Healing Modalities
Acupressure Therapy
Traditional Chinese Medicine identifies 14 major meridians (or channels) where energy (chi) flows throughout your body. Along each meridian are located many individual acupoints (these are the same points used by acupuncturists). The unique property of each Acupressure Therapy is its ability, with stimulation, to restore our memory of original nature. Of the approx 670 acupoints, each point has the ability to evoke some aspect of our functioning that has been lost, which when stimulated, restores the smooth flow of chi and vital energy.
The appropriate acupoint(s) for you are identified and gently stimulated by touch, and/or with the use of colour, light, flower essences or with aromatherapy.
Effectively, this process utilizes the body’s own wisdom and intelligence, activating its profound, innate ability to heal itself.
Flower Essences
Entirely safe and gentle, flower essences have gained universal recognition and popularity for their effective use in holistic healing. Flower essences help you manage the emotional demands of everyday life, harmonizing negative feelings and belief patterns held in the subconscious mind. Each essence targets a specific emotion and provides ‘vibrational healing’ on a subtle level, transforming negative emotions into positive aspects and possibilities. Essences are a gentle way of accessing your intuition and activating your body’s natural ability to heal itself.
Often, more than one essence may be required, and will be selected from:
Aromatherapy
“The link between the sense of smell and our emotions is both deep and profound. No other sense has the ability to interface so directly with the primitive part of our mind that is the timeless seat of our moods and emotions.
Our sense of smell transports us back in time and space. On this magical journey we re-live long forgotten experiences and emotions. Today’s aroma finds yesterday’s aroma in our memory, bypassing the conscious mind and logic.
It is through these intimate connections with the primitive mind and by influencing the more subtle energies, that aromatherapy is able to have a very positive and beneficial effect on relieving stress and supporting emotional wellbeing”………
- from “The Blossoming Heart” by Robbi Zeck
Each session will usually incorporate the therapeutic use of one or more essential oils, appropriate and relevant to the core issues being addressed.
Balancing Chakra Energies
VEDIC medicine founded in ancient India identified seven major energy centres (Chakras) that affect your wellbeing. These form part of your naturally inherited energetic make up that governs form and consciousness. The chakras are the key to your physical health, emotional stability, and mental clarity. The energy of each chakra is expressed through the nerve plexuses, and specific endocrine glands that secrete hormones into the blood vessels, controlling a broad range of vital functions of your body.
Each chakra is intimately linked energetically to a specific colour, sound, light and sensory experience. Clearing each chakra to bring the flow of this subtle energy into balance will optimize your feelings of wellbeing and consciousness.
Counselling
“What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning
The end is where we start from” - T.S.Eliot
Often, life can have a way of reminding us that age old patterns and habits no longer work for us, or serve us well. There are times when the circumstances in our life seem to be unmanageable, and at these times there can appear to be no easy answer at hand.
For some, particularly men, coming to counselling becomes a difficult decision to make. Men are often raised to be strong, and self-reliant. Typically, men are expected within our culture to act rather than to feel . As a result, they fear being seen as weak or needy, so often avoid seeking counselling. It therefore takes courage to take that first step away from what is familiar into the unknown. The benefits however can be enormous.
With my own experience of many years working with men’s issues, both in groups and one on one, you will discover that we speak the same language, and that you can feel at ease.
My aim is for you to have a Positive Counselling Experience.
By using a client-centered approach, and drawing on a range of classical practice methods, I will fully support you in working through and overcoming any issue at your own pace.
I am committed to inspiring you to discover and experience a satisfying and rewarding life, fulfilling personal relationships, along with optimal health and wellbeing.
You will find renewed hope! You will learn how to release old patterns and cycles of negative thoughts, feelings and behavior, which will lead you to experience a renewed, positive and powerful sense of Self . You will learn how to become the major source of ongoing support and encouragement for yourself, and your life will begin to change in positive ways.
Affirmations and Visualisations
Your emotions have a profound effect on your healing. They come from your desires and attachments to how you expect your life to be fulfilled. If you are unhappy about a situation, you may experience aggression, anxiety or grief. Suppressing feelings locks them into the subconscious, which in turn directly bring about physical changes in your body.
Without releasing negative emotions and replacing them with positive ones, you will continue to live with physical symptoms that are often manifested as muscular pain, headaches, migraine and nausea often accompanied by sleeplessness, low mood, anxiety and even depression.
What YOU can expect:
The following conditions/issues are responsive to the healing energy of Kinesiology & Professional Counselling :
How many sessions will YOU need?
Generally, if you have been living with a long-standing problem, then it will take some time for changes to occur, however, immediate changes are not uncommon. If a problem is fairly recent, positive changes can occur almost straight away.
Essentially, the key focus of each session is to gain a complete understanding of the underlying cause(s) of an issue, before you can properly integrate the necessary healing strategies that will return you to good health and wellbeing.
Health Insurance rebates
Graham is a registered provider with several major health funds. Most health funds provide rebates for a range of complementary medicines under EXTRAS cover, including Kinesiology and/or Counselling.
If you have answered yes to this question, Kinesiology and Counselling will assist you to get back to a state of inner harmony.
By working together we can
Recover your sense of wellbeing and vitality by overcoming feeling stuck with physical or emotional pain. You will experience a sense of renewal, feelings of restoration and replenishment, new insights and connections to the deepest parts of yourself, and an enhanced sense of inner peace and contentment.
How I work with YOU
My commitment is to provide you with a supportive and caring environment where you will experience being heard without feeling judged. You will be fully supported and encouraged to explore your own issues, always with the focus on meeting your personal and individual needs. Each session is optimized by identifying, and validating your core beliefs and attitudes, the essential qualities that make you uniquely who you are.
Call me now! – YOU are WELCOME to call to just have a chat, or explore the issue or condition that you find difficult and would like to overcome. Feel free to call me on 0419 572023 without obligation – OR Send me an email at gjhocking@aapt.net.au with an outline of your concerns. |
Testimonials
“Words are really not enough for me to express my gratitude for finding you at a time in my life that has been extremely challenging! You are a genuine guide with heart and integrity; deeply insightful, highly compassionate, providing me with great clarity in direction, teaching me to gain a deeper understanding and compassion for myself that is continuing to lead me toward greater authenticity and empowerment. I am always impressed by the way you are so professional, committed and non-judgmental. You have really helped me to appreciate each step on my healing journey. The combination of counselling and kinesiology has provided me with methods of healing that are profound and lasting. I highly recommend your services to anyone who wants to truly move forward in their life.”
– Norma, Greensborough
“Thank-you Graham, you have provided me with the right tools, environment and support which enabled me to unlearn those long established negative patterns and responses, and replace them with ones that benefit me and the ones I love. All this was done in a very friendly, honest, down to earth and supportive manner. I will highly recommend your services to anyone who is serious about changing their lives for the better”
– David, Eltham
“In working with you Graham, I am impressed with the depth and thoroughness that arises from a unique blend of your compassionate understanding, combined with counselling and kinesiology skills. The way you work has enabled me to explore issues deeply, gently and with profound results that resonate with great meaning through my life”
– Moira, Ascot Vale
“Graham, in the past six months, you have helped me achieve major personal changes. I have found my own identity again which had been buried for a long time due to negative life events. The benefit has been a tremendous feeling of freedom – freedom to voice my opinion and say what’s important to me whilst still maintaining my self worth if others disagree. I have learnt to consider my own needs and not feel guilty – whilst I still have some work to do, I know that with your help, my life will get better and better”
– Wendy, Numurkah
“When I first came to see you Graham, it was for the embarrassing skin condition of rosacea, which negatively effected my self esteem. Deeper, underlying and difficult emotional issues came up that you gently and sensitively presented to me. Despite my inherent impatience to take aim and fire at the target, you knew that I would not really “hear” my own body’s messages until the time was right. Almost imperceptively, I have made great changes in my life – in areas that seemed untouchable, too hard. And this has been achieved without the need for tears, tissues and red eyes! Thank you Graham for respecting my gentle soul and for helping me to learn to do the same. With gratitude.”
– Diana, Ringwood North
Something About Me
I am a Government Accredited Holistic Kinesiologist, and I am also listed on the national register of the Australian Counselling Association.
I draw on more than 18 years of experience in personal development as a group facilitator with The Cairnmillar Institute through their long running course “Human Relations for Everyday Living”. I have formal professional training in complementary medicine and counselling.
I am committed to helping people from all walks of life work through a wide range of life’s challenges and emotional difficulties, which includes anxiety and stress, addictions, low self esteem, depression and relationship issues.
I also have a special interest in men and the issues they face in today’s society, particularly around identity, relationships, emotional expression and belonging.
Since the Black Saturday bushfires, I have provided clinical kinesiology and counselling services at the Yarra Valley Practitioner Project in Yarra Glen, to those directly affected by the bushfires and their families. This work is current and ongoing.
I am passionate about working with individuals in helping them to recover and restore their intrinsic balance of physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.
Holistic Kinesiology
“There is nothing that heaven does not cover
and nothing which earth does not sustain” - Chuang Tzu 369-286 B.C.
Holistic Kinesiology is a highly developed and dynamic form of Complementary Medicine that is based on the Eastern model of health and wellbeing, known as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), the energy healing of Indian Vedic Medicine, plus current knowledge from western science.
TCM is founded on the principle of the endowment to each of us of our original nature, acquired at birth. This endowment invites the balanced expression of our individual and unique purpose in life, encouraging the emergence of our authentic self.
However, life from birth has many challenges. Dysfunction and illness that exists in the present (expressed physically, psychologically and emotionally), is the result of coping mechanisms that form in early life, thus giving rise to the acquired self (ego), as elements of our original nature are suppressed.
When the expression of our original nature is blocked, imbalance and ill health results in many forms, ranging from mild conditions, to severe life-threatening illnesses e.g cancer.
Your session will include an overall energetic assessment. I will work with you to identify blockages and then rebalance your vital flow of energy, with the view to healing the underlying cause of blockages and disharmony, rather than the symptom(s).
Holistic Kinesiology works on many levels to restore the vital flow of energy, and your wellbeing:
Physically – where tension and stress is held and manifested through physiological dysfunction and disease.
Emotionally – by exploring and overcoming both your conscious and sub-conscious beliefs and attitudes that no longer serve you well.
Psychologically – through your enhanced awareness, to release negative thoughts and feelings that will open the way to look at your life from a new perspective, revealing new and positive possibilities for your future.
Holistic Kinesiology Healing Modalities
Acupressure Therapy
Traditional Chinese Medicine identifies 14 major meridians (or channels) where energy (chi) flows throughout your body. Along each meridian are located many individual acupoints (these are the same points used by acupuncturists). The unique property of each Acupressure Therapy is its ability, with stimulation, to restore our memory of original nature. Of the approx 670 acupoints, each point has the ability to evoke some aspect of our functioning that has been lost, which when stimulated, restores the smooth flow of chi and vital energy.
The appropriate acupoint(s) for you are identified and gently stimulated by touch, and/or with the use of colour, light, flower essences or with aromatherapy.
Effectively, this process utilizes the body’s own wisdom and intelligence, activating its profound, innate ability to heal itself.
Flower Essences
Entirely safe and gentle, flower essences have gained universal recognition and popularity for their effective use in holistic healing. Flower essences help you manage the emotional demands of everyday life, harmonizing negative feelings and belief patterns held in the subconscious mind. Each essence targets a specific emotion and provides ‘vibrational healing’ on a subtle level, transforming negative emotions into positive aspects and possibilities. Essences are a gentle way of accessing your intuition and activating your body’s natural ability to heal itself.
Often, more than one essence may be required, and will be selected from:
- Bach Flower Remedies
- Australian Bush Flower Essences
- American Desert Flower Essences
Aromatherapy
“The link between the sense of smell and our emotions is both deep and profound. No other sense has the ability to interface so directly with the primitive part of our mind that is the timeless seat of our moods and emotions.
Our sense of smell transports us back in time and space. On this magical journey we re-live long forgotten experiences and emotions. Today’s aroma finds yesterday’s aroma in our memory, bypassing the conscious mind and logic.
It is through these intimate connections with the primitive mind and by influencing the more subtle energies, that aromatherapy is able to have a very positive and beneficial effect on relieving stress and supporting emotional wellbeing”………
- from “The Blossoming Heart” by Robbi Zeck
Each session will usually incorporate the therapeutic use of one or more essential oils, appropriate and relevant to the core issues being addressed.
Balancing Chakra Energies
VEDIC medicine founded in ancient India identified seven major energy centres (Chakras) that affect your wellbeing. These form part of your naturally inherited energetic make up that governs form and consciousness. The chakras are the key to your physical health, emotional stability, and mental clarity. The energy of each chakra is expressed through the nerve plexuses, and specific endocrine glands that secrete hormones into the blood vessels, controlling a broad range of vital functions of your body.
Each chakra is intimately linked energetically to a specific colour, sound, light and sensory experience. Clearing each chakra to bring the flow of this subtle energy into balance will optimize your feelings of wellbeing and consciousness.
Counselling
“What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning
The end is where we start from” - T.S.Eliot
Often, life can have a way of reminding us that age old patterns and habits no longer work for us, or serve us well. There are times when the circumstances in our life seem to be unmanageable, and at these times there can appear to be no easy answer at hand.
For some, particularly men, coming to counselling becomes a difficult decision to make. Men are often raised to be strong, and self-reliant. Typically, men are expected within our culture to act rather than to feel . As a result, they fear being seen as weak or needy, so often avoid seeking counselling. It therefore takes courage to take that first step away from what is familiar into the unknown. The benefits however can be enormous.
With my own experience of many years working with men’s issues, both in groups and one on one, you will discover that we speak the same language, and that you can feel at ease.
My aim is for you to have a Positive Counselling Experience.
By using a client-centered approach, and drawing on a range of classical practice methods, I will fully support you in working through and overcoming any issue at your own pace.
I am committed to inspiring you to discover and experience a satisfying and rewarding life, fulfilling personal relationships, along with optimal health and wellbeing.
You will find renewed hope! You will learn how to release old patterns and cycles of negative thoughts, feelings and behavior, which will lead you to experience a renewed, positive and powerful sense of Self . You will learn how to become the major source of ongoing support and encouragement for yourself, and your life will begin to change in positive ways.
Affirmations and Visualisations
Your emotions have a profound effect on your healing. They come from your desires and attachments to how you expect your life to be fulfilled. If you are unhappy about a situation, you may experience aggression, anxiety or grief. Suppressing feelings locks them into the subconscious, which in turn directly bring about physical changes in your body.
Without releasing negative emotions and replacing them with positive ones, you will continue to live with physical symptoms that are often manifested as muscular pain, headaches, migraine and nausea often accompanied by sleeplessness, low mood, anxiety and even depression.
- Affirmations are powerful, positive, yet simple statements that you practice saying to yourself regularly. They are tailored to target and support the most important issue(s) that otherwise may bring you down through negative thinking. They create positive thinking, which in turn creates positive feelings towards yourself and others.
- Visualisations are created in a deep state of relaxation. In this calm and relaxed state, the subconscious mind is open to the suggestion of whatever it is that you desire……
By using the power of imagination, old outmoded belief systems can be gently released, replacing them with new, positive beliefs.
What YOU can expect:
The following conditions/issues are responsive to the healing energy of Kinesiology & Professional Counselling :
- Low self worth and self confidence
- Relationship issues
- Men’s Health
- Depression
- Anxiety & Stress
- Addictions (eg.smoking, gambling etc)
- Phobias, fears and inhibitions
- Physical, emotional and mental pain
- Immune system disorders
- Sleeping problems
- Digestive problems
- Hormonal imbalances
- Self sabotage
- Psycho/spiritual issues
- Grief and loss
- Anger
- Fatigue
- Identity issues
- Women’s health
- Endocrine stress
How many sessions will YOU need?
Generally, if you have been living with a long-standing problem, then it will take some time for changes to occur, however, immediate changes are not uncommon. If a problem is fairly recent, positive changes can occur almost straight away.
Essentially, the key focus of each session is to gain a complete understanding of the underlying cause(s) of an issue, before you can properly integrate the necessary healing strategies that will return you to good health and wellbeing.
ACT NOW! Call me now! – YOU are WELCOME to call to just have a chat, or explore the issue or condition that you find difficult and would like to overcome. Feel free to call me on 0419 572023 without obligation – OR Send me an email at gjhocking@aapt.net.au with an outline of your concerns. |
Health Insurance rebates
Graham is a registered provider with several major health funds. Most health funds provide rebates for a range of complementary medicines under EXTRAS cover, including Kinesiology and/or Counselling.
| Clinic Location In Melbourne’s East at:
Enquiries and Bookings Call Graham direct on mobile phone: 0419 572023 Email: gjhocking@aapt.net.au Qualification Details Graham has a Diploma of Health Sciences (Holistic Kinesiology) and a Diploma of Transpersonal Counselling, and has been a group facilitator for many years with the Cairnmillar Institute through their ongoing course 'Human Relations for Everyday Living'.
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Service Categories
Acupressure, Aromatherapy, Bio Feedback, Colour Therapy, Counselling, Flower Essences, Kinesiology, Mens Health, Psychotherapy, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Womens Health