Sensitive support nurturing, empowering your wellbeing. Services include individual and relationship counselling, yoga and meditation, personal and professional development programs. Support for life's journey, exploring the heart of meaningful living and being who you are inspired to be.
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CONTACT INFORMATION
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| Contact Name |
Judith Grieve |
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Suite 1a Masonic Centre
57 Wood St
Mackay
Queensland 4740
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| Phone | 0401036 662 a/h 4942 4171 | | Mobile | 0401 036 662 |
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SERVICES
I enter your world respectful of who and how you are, attentive to your strengths and difficulties, compassionate, supportive, empowering your wellbeing. With diverse training and experience over 20 years in education, counselling & health care, a commitment to mindful practice, I offer the following services. Please continue to scroll down to view information on each service information and other details.
- Counselling & Therapy: Individual & Relationship Matters
- Personal Development Groups & Workshops
- Yoga Classes: Mindfulness in Motion
- Mindfulness, A path to emotional resilience
- Creative Arts Therapy & Workshops
- Professional Mentoring
- Gift vouchers. Health fund rebates & fees
- Background & Qualifications
Counselling & Therapy
A confidential, compassionate environment where you will be heard.
Sensitive support for the matter you bring to focus on be this personal or workplace ... emotional stress, grief and loss, anxiety and depression ... relationship matters ... pain and illness ... facing challenges ... dealing with trauma ... managing crisis and change.
Together, you may wish to focus on ... enhancing emotional resilience ... deepening self awareness, acceptance and confidence ... identifying inner resources ... clarifying values, meaning and direction ... improving communication and other life skills...
I recommend initial sessions to be 1.5 hrs, thereafter 1hr. Some matters may require only one session, other matters more. I am committed to empowering you with self understanding and practical skills to attend to your life.
I offer a sliding scale of fees based on income. The standard session fee is $90/hr with 1.5hrs $130.
Please discuss with me what you can comfortably afford. For health fund rebates see bottom of page. Workplace matters are tax deductible.
''In support of being who you are inspired to be."
Relationship Matters
Support to foster resilient relationships, love that lasts.
Rich relationships are precious ... offering friendship, intimacies, understanding, acceptance, appreciation and encouragement. Yet they require close care and attention.
Would you like to experience a meaningful relationship?
I offer a mindfulness based approach and sensitive support to assist you through change or challenges whilst coaching you to create a resilient relationship whether single, partnered, in a same sex relationship or married. I am an advocate for good relationships and provide a female and male friendly environment.
Every individual and relationship is unique so I listen to what is important to you. The time you devote to your relationship and the process we attend can be valuable, deepening your awareness, understanding, your skills and confidence to create a rich and rewarding relationship.
As an individual and/or couple, you may want to attend to dating, getting to know & exploring compatibility. You may be at a stage where clarifying values & expectations is important to ending disagreements, dealing with differences & resolving conflict constructively. You may be needing help identifying & ending unhelpful relationship dynamics which limit emotional & physical intimacy or rebuilding trust & affection after a rift or managing difficulties with others. You may welcome support navigating change with resilience ... birth, illness, loss of work, separation, grief, moving, retirement.
There is support to journey from romance ebbing to rekindling intimacy, from drifting apart to deepening connection, from heartache to healing hurts, from tension to compassion. You are welcome to call to discuss how I may be of support to you and your relationship.
I offer a sliding scale of fees based on income. The standard session fee for couples is $100/hr with 1.5hrs $150. You are welcome to discuss with me what you can comfortably afford. (For health fund rebates see further below.)
''In support of keeping love & intimacy vital & alive."
Personal Development Group: Mindfulness, A Path to Emotional Resilience
Mindfulness, a promise of peace, breath by breath
Our emotional resilience as human beings can be sorely challenged depending on the nature and number of stressors we are dealing with at any time. If you find it difficult to navigate life's challenges you may benefit from furthering your inner life skills to cultivate emotional resilience.
This program supports and guides participants to learn fundamental clear steps in the practice of mindfulnes. Mindfulness is a purposeful quality of relaxed attention on your experience, moment to moment without judgement. This state of imparticial, open, deeply interested attentiveness to your experience as it is, in the moment ... enables you to let go focusing on the past, the future, desires and expectations and fosters focusing on 'what is' in the present. This does not mean we stop reflecting and learning from the past or stop planning for the future, rather it enables an increasingly rich "present moment" awareness of your life.
You will learn how to cultivate a deep attention, deepening awareness of how your mind is perceiving, thinking creating, generating feelings and responses to your day to day experience. Mindful of our experience in this way, with practice, we are increasingly able to remain calm and less identified with perceptions, opinions, expectations, likes and dislikes and less reactive. We are also able to choose to be less identified with unhelpful patterns of thinking, emotion and we are freer to respond to ourselves, to life, with greater wisdom and compassion.
Regular practice helps us to wake up from automatic and habitual ways of thinking, reactivity as well as unconscious fears. It is an effective way to get in touch with your wisdom and vitality for life and become present to the richness of each moment you are alive.
This program offers you inner life skills for going within, deepening self awareness, attending thoughts carefully, cultivating consciusness, tending emotions, uncovering insight, exploring values, finding meaning, tending choices and change, strengthening your skills and confidence for living.
Past participants have reported as their practice develops and strengthens it helps them "manage pain and stress, develop personal insight, be less reactive, enjoy greater choice, approach their life with increasing joy and satisfaction."
2012 MINDFULNESS PROGRAMS:
An 8 session program
- 12.30-2.30pm Tuesdays OR
- 6-8pm Tuesdays
WHEN: Starting Tuesday 17th April, 16th July & 16th October.
FEE: $250 (includes notes)
"Empowerment through mindfulness, insight and education."
2012 Yoga Program: Mindfulness in Motion
Guiding you breath by breath, to stretch and strengthen, rest, relax and revitalise. Classes are designed so you can practice responsive to your need, gently or strongly. Enjoy the result, ease tension, tone, sculpt, foster grace and balance, posture and poise. Over time the practice strengthens awareness, confidence, endurance and resilience. Sessions incorporate a personal and/or partner practice.
Weekly Sessions:
YOGA SESSIONS:
- Monday evening: 5.45pm
- Monday evening: 7.30pm
- Tuesday morning: 10.30am
- Thursday evening: 5.45pm
(All sessions suitable for beginner & experienced.)
LOCATION: Main Hall, Masonic Temple, 57 Wood St (cnr Wood St & 9th Ln)
SESSIONS: $175 (10); $110 month pass; $72 (4); casual $20. Concessions available.
TO BRING: Exercise / yoga mat, towel, water, comfortable clothes for ease.
WORKSHOPS: Private & workplace sessions.
2012 Yoga Workshops:
Enhancing cost effective, self care strategies. Each workshop provides you with a specifically designed series of yoga postures, a range of self care tools as well as related information for your personal reference.
All workshops $60. (Includes information.) Optional essential oil blends in some workshops $20.
BACK MATTERS: 2-4.30pm Saturday 18 February
A guide to back care to ease tension, foster strength, flexibility & ease.
Tools to tend lower back, mid & upper back tension.
Foster ease and freedom that comes with a strong, supple spine.
Additionally, acupressure & lifestyle tips to further tend your back.
MENSTRUAL MATTERS: 2-4.30pm Saturday 17 March,
Enjoy a positive model of mensus & learn valuable self care tips to increase ease.
Effective tools to tend discomfort and pain, mood & other symptoms.
Optional take home essential oil Mensus Matters blend.
PARTNER MATTERS: 2-4.30pm Saturday
A guide for couples, family & friends who want to do yoga together.
Exploring mindfully strength & balance, care & connection, patience
Plus some effective communication tips for successful relating.
MENOPAUSE MATTERS: 2-4.30pm Saturday
A guide to yoga, acupressure, nutritional & lifestyle tips to increase ease. Effective tools to tend those melting moments, mood & other symptoms.
Optional take home essential oil Menopause Matters blend.
"A path uniting body, heart and mind in power and peace."
Walking the Labyrinth
Step by step, walking into wisdom.
An ancient walking meditation pathway found in many cultures. Ideal for those with difficulty sitting. The pathway gently twists & turns, somewhat like the path to our inner life. It engages our right brain, effectively fostering our intuition & inspiration for life. We can enter with a focus, reflect on a decision, a virtue or inspirational verse or meander & muse...
WHEN: 5-6pm Tuesdays (1st Tuesday of the month)
LOCATION: Rear Hall, Mackay Masonic Centre. Enter side door 9th Ln.
TO ATTEND: Simply SMS 0401 036 662 if you're coming.
SESSION: Offering.
"Step by step, breath by breath, calmness and clarity unfold."
Shiatsu Therapy
... caring for your wellbeing naturally, shiatsu therapy is a favoured Japanese traditional bodywork healing art based on Oriental medical theory using the power and sensitivity of touch to aid maintaining health and facilitate improvement in a wide range of conditions.
Treatments support you to be still, rest and receive, aid everyday ailments, practise self-care ways to heal, increase self-awareness and deepen peace.
Treatment may include individualised guidelines for wholefoods, specific exercises and lifestyle counselling. This enables you to participate actively in fostering prevention and hastening health improvement.
Fees: Initial sessions usually 1.5 hrs. 1 hr $80; 1/2 hr $50; 1.5 hrs $115
Prepaid weekly, fortnightly or monthly sessions attract a discount.
Treatment for joint & muscular aches and tension, back & neck pain, stress managment, headaches & insomnia, digestion & elimination, maintaining wellbeing, respiratory system, mensus & pregnancy.
"Nourishing body, heart and mind."
Creative Arts Program 2011
Some of the programs offered to enhance creative living:
Poetry of the Body …
This program supports participants to listen within, to creatively explore and deepen self knowing, embody experience through exploring the body's wisdom.
You will be guided and supported to take time to go within an inhabit your body, listen within, allowing the body to move you, creatively explore and deepen self knowing, open up to the body's wisdom, unravel body - heart - mind tension and uncover authentic personal expression.
Throughout this process participants are offered opportunities to move or dance via various prompts and themes which act as springboards in support of embodying experience, exploring meaning and direction. This movement approach is outside prescribed dance forms and returns us to the world of wisdom within the body.
Other Workshops: Dancing in the Flames and Moving into Freedom.
"Our movement is a metaphor for our life."
Professional Mentoring
An experiential approach in support of care workers in health,
education, community service and pastoral care contexts.
Fees: $100/hr.
"Attending to reflective practice."
Gift Vouchers
A wonderful gift! Consider giving a loved one either a heavenly relaxation or 4 yoga sessions. Information can be attended to by phone and vouchers sent at no extra charge. Vouchers are a high quality and sure to be appreciated.
Health Fund Rebates
Counselling:
Medibank Private
Grand United Insurance
Commonwealth Bank Employees
Yoga & Shiatsu: Various rebates available.
Fees
My aim is affordable, accessible fees for all. Fees are set on a sliding scale from fully waged to underwaged. Tax deductions apply to work related expenses. Concessions are available and negotiable on request.
Qualifications
- Masters in Experiential & Creative Arts Therapy (Counselling) (MIECAT, Melbourne)
- Post Grad Diploma in Experiential & Creative Arts Therapy (MIECAT)
- Neurolinguistic Programming / Neuro Semantics (Petersen Events)
- Diploma of Oriental Therapies (Shiatsu) (Nature Care College, Sydney)
- Diploma of Remedial Massage (Nature Care College)
- Yoga Teaching (Oki Yoga Dojo, Japan)
- diploma of Teaching (QIT, Brisbane)
- Cert IV in Workplace Assessment & Training (MADEC, Mackay)
QUALIFICATION DETAILS
Art Therapists, Counselling, Meditation, Psychotherapy, Shiatsu, Womens Health, Yoga
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