Your Life Might Look Pretty Good From The Outside, But Right Now It Feels Anything But Good…
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Welcome to Jacqueline Stone & Associates
As Counsellors with a focus on Stress and Anxiety, we can help.
Through counselling, we can work together to overcome the negative thoughts and feelings, panic attacks, or whatever is getting in the way of feeling good.
Perhaps you have a good career and friends, potentially a really positive future. Many aspects of your life are just as you would wish. A lot of people probably think you’ve got it all together and in many ways you do.
Yet despite how good your life might look to others, sometimes it feels like you’re playing a role.
Something feels like it’s missing or just not right.
Maybe you have a sense of being disconnected or you feel on edge.You may not even be sure what is going on but you know you are not entirely happy.
You might be experiencing some of the following symptoms of stress, depression or anxiety:- panic or anxiety attacks
- angry outbursts
- feeling stuck, confused or worried
- being teary or over sensitive
- feeling empty or hollow
- difficulty sleeping
- feeling overwhelmed or out of control
- lack of motivation or depressed moods
- feeling uneasy or anxious a lot of the time
- struggling with your sense of direction or purpose
- relationship or career difficulties
Possibly you’ve been carrying on regardless of how you feel—you keep the smile on your face socially and continue to be productive at work. Like many people who are struggling with stress and anxiety, however, you may begin to recognise signs of less than healthy ‘coping’ strategies:- using party drugs or drinking more without really meaning to
- withdrawing from social situations
- working and/or training even longer and harder
- shopping or spending more
- procrastinating over a decision or course of action
- clinging to a bad relationship or allowing a good one to spiral out of control
As counsellors, we can help you to get a handle on your life, to feel yourself again or better.
With our assistance as therapists, you can regain a sense of wellbeing. In stark contrast to feeling hostage to anxiety and depressed moods, you can:- Feel calm, positive and secure, even in situations that triggered anxiety in the past.
- Be at ease and feel more yourself without having to put on an act.
- Have a greater sense of control over important aspects of your life – make good choices and take appropriate actions.
- Have a new or renewed sense of purpose. Feeling more confident and self-assured will enable you to trust or find your instincts and passions again.
- Feel more resilient, flexible, and spontaneous. Paradoxically, along with feeling more in control, it will also feel OK to ‘let go’ more. You will find yourself better able to cope with matters that are beyond your control.
- Find and feel happiness and joy in your life – work and leisure, relationships and family.
You deserve to feel happy and fulfilled. As counsellors we are committed to helping you get there.
We have extensive experience, training and qualifications in Counselling. With 30 years experience between us, we have successfully helped many people enhance their personal development and wellbeing.
Clients often comment that a key part of why they feel better is that we provide them with hope – that we seem calmly confident in their potential to triumph. Our confidence comes from having had the privilege of witnessing our clients turn their lives around.
About Jacqueline Stone
Counsellor & Therapist
Becoming a counsellor almost didn’t happen.
As a young person I generally rolled along in life doing what I thought was expected of me.
I wasn’t at all clear on what I wanted.
At University, I dabbled in economics and social sciences, including psychology. I intended to major in psychology but soon found that it wasn’t what I’d hoped it would be.
Thankfully I was invited into an honours stream in Educational Psychology. I was thrilled because it provided me with the opportunity I was looking for, to study people, development and learning.
And so my career began in Education.
After completing my undergraduate studies with majors in Education and Philosophy, I enrolled in a Master’s degree in Education and worked as a researcher in Vocational Education and Training. I was then employed in various learning and development roles within professional associations in finance, investment and accounting.
Eventually, I stumbled upon counselling.
Everything finally clicked. I knew I’d found the career I’d wanted – it allowed me to work with people in a personally engaging and authentic way. I continued to work in adult education while studying counselling.
Later, I undertook my own therapy – as part of my training to be a therapist myself. My therapy helped me overcome a lot of the stress, anxiety and grief that I had felt due to a family crisis that had previously turned my world upside down. It also allowed me to experience firsthand the incredible value of therapy for which I am extremely grateful.
It further fueled my passion for becoming a therapist – I wanted to help others achieve the great results that I experienced.
Pursuing and achieving my goal to become a professional counsellor was a personal triumph.
I completed the Graduate Diploma in Counselling at the Australian College of Applied Psychology and worked as a counsellor for a community counselling service and a health service. I gained clinical membership with CAPA (Counsellors and Psychotherapists Association of NSW) and became registered with PACFA (Psychotherapists and Counsellors Federation of Australia). I also combined my counselling and adult education professions and ran quit smoking groups/workshops and taught counselling methods to undergraduate and postgraduate students.
In 2003 I was thrilled to set up my private practice.
Both challenging and rewarding – at the risk of it sounding like a cliche, – I feel privileged to do the work I do. It’s also a very exciting time to be in therapy, given the breakthroughs in neuroscience and psychotherapy research over the past decade. We now know so much more about how the brain works and how to facilitate change.
My bedside table is piled high with psychology books and articles and I keep up to date with current trends and research by attending seminars and workshops regularly.
While in my professional life I strive to help others respond to their stress and live the best life available to them, I do the same within my own life.
My priorities of health, fitness, family, and friends are supported by my practice of Mindfulness, lyengar Yoga, and jogging.
I love living close to Sydney’s beautiful beaches and spend a lot of time by the water. I also try to get out of the city regularly in a bid for a better balance.
If you think you might benefit from counselling with me, contact me to find out more or to arrange an appointment.
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Counselling, Psychotherapy
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