Transpersonal Counselling for Individuals and Couples
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Welcome to Growing Awareness Counselling
The reasons people come to counselling are as many and varied as human beings. You may find yourself challenged by a life situation, relationship or inner experience which is causing you distress or difficulty. You might right now be facing a time where you want or need to do something about it. Taking steps to meet this challenge can be part of transforming it from a problem to be solved into an opportunity to create a richer, deeper and more meaningful life for yourself.
It means a great deal to share what you truly think and feel with another person and have them accept and support you. It can be difficult to find relationships where we can speak honestly and openly about what is happening inside us. The right counselling relationship is one where this becomes possible. From a foundation of trust and openness, deep and lasting change can happen. It is important to find a counsellor who can meet you in this way.
It can also be helpful at times to move beyond thinking and talking about what is happening for you. Growing Awareness Counselling has the strengths of traditional counselling whilst also making use of broader and more holistic approaches. Transpersonal Counselling offers tools, techniques and perspectives from both modern psychology and traditional spiritual practices. Your emotional, energetic, physical and spiritual aspects can all be important elements of what is occuring for you. Integrating these parts of your experience into the process can help you to access and express hidden emotions, discover inner strengths and resources and find greater clarity, peace and wholeness.
Relationship and Marriage Counselling
Our intimate relationships are fundamental to our wellbeing. They are an environment in which we unfold throughout our lives, and which stimulate and support our growth as human beings.
There is hope for relationships and marriages even when they have reached points of great difficulty and separation. It is possible to not only return to the way the relationship used to be, but have it become deeper, stronger, more loving and meaningful than it has ever been. As individuals we are offered the potential of personal growth and healing which goes beyond the relationship to all other aspects of who we are in the world. The troubles and trials the couple has been through can emerge as positive events which have stimulated growth as individuals and as a relationship.
You will be supported to rediscover or create anew the meaning and purpose in your relationship or marriage. Over time you will open up, refresh and enliven your connection to each other and dissolve the barriers to intimacy with care and respect. As a couple you will become more aware of the ways in which your communication is not being effective. As you both take responsibility for your part in this, the communication styles will change to include more care, honesty, vulnerability and intimacy.
This relationship counselling process uses Transpersonal tools as well as those of Emotion-Focused-Therapy. It offers the benefits of a traditional marriage counselling approach but also has tools, techniques and perspectives which are much broader and have greater potential for deep lasting change. You will be supported to explore and become more aware of aspects of yourself beyond thinking and talking. You will have an opportunity to get in touch with and express deep emotions. You may discover new tools, sources of wisdom, or aspects of yourself which have been undeveloped. Meditation, imagination, expression, movement may all enter the process. The kinds of tools and practices which are employed are tailored to your needs and what feels comfortable or meaningful for both of you.
Benefits
Potential outcomes of the counselling process can include but are not limited to:
- Greater self-acceptance
- Increased vitality
- Release of negative and self-defeating life patterns
- Development of deeper, richer relationships
- Successful navigation of times of crisis and difficulty
- Resolution of inner conflict
- Increased capacity to make life decisions
- The discovery and creation of meaning and purpose in your life
- Greater self-knowledge
- Connection to your own spirituality
- Navigation and integration of unusual or disturbing psychic experiences
- Integration of peak experiences
- Healing of trauma
- A greater sense of peace and calmness
- More happiness
About Craig
Craig studied Transpersonal Counselling at the Phoenix Institute of Australia. He is a qualified member of the Australian Counselling Association.
Before beginning his practice as a private counsellor, Craig has had a broad range of experiences within the human services. He has worked in the mental health field with clients who were undergoing a broad range of difficult experiences including depression, anxiety, paranoia and suicidality. He has been employed within the drug & alcohol sector working with people who have significant substance addictions. Craig has also worked with youth at risk and is a qualified in Youth Worker.
Craig has a deep interest in men’s work. He has participated in men’s circles for a number of years and has also facilitated groups.
He travelled for some time in Southeast Asia and India and his experiences with the cultures and spiritual traditions of those places continue to support him as a counsellor and a human being. He continues to have an abiding interest in the meeting places of the psychological and the spiritual.
Craig has a loving relationship with his partner Anna with whom he has three young children.
Testimonials
“Craig’s sessions are nurturing and strong. He has an amazing intuitive ability to help you get to the heart of whatever it is you are seeking help with. His sessions are flexible and holistic, providing you with a range of ways to get back to that which you seek. After every session I have come away feeling as though I have (re)discovered something about myself, or (re)connected to parts of myself that had been missing. Craig is a compassionate and talented healer, and I would recommend his abilities to those seeking counselling.”
“Craig gave my husband and I the tools to resolve our disputes in a manner that is loving and respectful. His approach is so gentle and kind - you feel instantly at ease in his presence. His ability to tap into the ‘emotion’ in the room is amazing and he can identify layers of feelings simply by being present and feeling what is happening in the room. After a few short months of talking to Craig, my marriage is happier, more loving and more joyful than it has been in years. Thank you Craig for your knowledge and support. “
“The process of healing and unfolding the self is beautiful and frightening. My experiences over the last year involving serious illness and trauma around the birth of my son have seemed overwhelming and beyond the capacity of my mind to integrate into my past and current life. I have often felt like I was staring into the depths of a vast, unfathomable chasm into which, at any time, I may fall and be lost. Beginning the journey of counselling with Craig has provided an anchor and a compass with which I can attempt to navigate the sea inside and around me. I have reconnected with my heart, with my potential to live and continue to live in the face of fear; with my ability to create beauty and to offer love to the world. Craig has created a space of trust, openness and compassion and it is in the centre of this space that all that is within me, the darkness and the light, is given a voice.”
“I believe Craig’s greatest asset as a counsellor is his ability to meet you right where you’re at, in every single session. Even if i came feeling like i didn’t have anything to say, he met me right there, giving me the space and time, yet offering (rather than imposing) structure and opportunities to work from that.”
“I get a lot out of my counselling sessions with Craig. His style is very supportive and empathetic. This really assists me to discover more about myself to solve my life challenges. I am finding great results in my particular journey as a man.”
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Counselling, Life Coaching, Meditation, Mens Health, Psychotherapy, Spiritual Healing
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