MAAT Holistic Health

About us:

In ancient Egyptian mythology, Ma'at is the goddess who personifies the concepts of balance, harmony, truth, order, wisdom and integrity. Egyptians believed that without Ma'at life would be chaotic.

At Ma’at Holistic Health these principles are considered to be essential elements for achieving and sustaining personal awareness, responsibility, growth and authenticity. Clients are challenged, guided and supported in their pursuit of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health and well-being.

A wide range of therapeutic services is offered for individuals, groups and corporations:

• Counselling
  
• Flower Essences
  
• Meditation
  
• Reiki
  
• Therapeutic Dreamwork:
  
• Workshops
  

Ma'at Holistic Health's consulting room is also available for rent, for allied health practitioners, and for workshops.

Now practising at Ma'at Holistic Health:

Jane Jeffers

Graduate Diploma Social Science (Human Services - Counselling)

Diploma Holistic Counselling Practice

Graduate Diploma Inter-Ethnic Studies and Education

Diploma Teaching (Primary)

Professional Member Counsellors’ and Psychotherapists’ Association Victoria (CAPAV),

Associate Member of PACFA.

Jane Jeffers is a professional counsellor who offers a holistic approach to well-being, health and wholeness. All levels of human experience - the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual - are valued.
Jane’s training and experience as a Meditation, Reiki, White Light and Flower Essence Practitioner complement her counselling practice.

Jane consults with individuals; facilitates workshops for groups; custom designs services and programs for corporate clients.

Within a non-judgmental and respectful environment each consultation aims to enhance wisdom and self-understanding, to facilitate personal empowerment and resilience, and to act as a catalyst towards authenticity and wholeness.
Jane is particularly experienced in working with people who are addressing the issue of finding and maintaining balance in their lives. Her person-centered practice includes therapeutic techniques such as focusing, dreamwork, mandala drawing, personal myth writing and healing rituals.
Jane’s counselling support is invaluable for personal or work related problems, such as stress management, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, loss and grief, life transitions and caring for the carer.

For appointment/enquiries, call Jane on 0401 857 886.

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COUNSELLING & PSYCHOTHERAPY

PACFA, the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia defines counselling and psychotherapy as...

"professional activities that utilize an interpersonal relationship to enable people to develop understanding about themselves and to make changes in their lives. Professional counsellors and psychotherapists work within a clearly contracted, principled relationship that enables individuals to obtain assistance in exploring and resolving issues of an interpersonal, intrapsychic or personal nature.

Although counselling and psychotherapy overlap considerably there are also some differences. The work with clients may be of considerable depth in both modalities: however, the focus of counselling is more likely to be on specific problems or changes in life adjustment. Psychotherapy is more concerned with the restructuring of the personality or self.

PACFA adopted these definitions at their March 2010 Council Meeting.

For appointment/ enquiries about counselling and psychotherapy call Jane on 0401 857 886.


FLOWER ESSENCES

Flower Essences have been used for the purpose of healing over many centuries. A number of cultures, including the Australian Aborigines, the Egyptians and the Amazonian Indians, used flowering plants to treat emotional states and imbalances.

Dr. Edward Bach, a successful U.K. physician, is renowned for being the modern pioneer of flower remedies. He developed his world-renowned Bach Flower Remedies as a healing mode in the 1930’s. More recently other essences, including the Australian Bush Flower Essences, have become available. Today the healing qualities of flower essences are recognized and used worldwide.

The essences stimulate an enhanced awareness and ability to transform limiting attitudes, emotions, and behaviour into more creative and health-affirming ways of living. They challenge us to make a commitment to self-awareness, self-responsibiliy and self-work.

Flower Essences are powerful healers as they help bring a person into emotional, mental and spiritual harmony.

Flower Essences are prepared from diluted infusions of flowers in water. They are taken orally a few drops at a time, several times a day. They are a simple and safe method of treatment, and can be harmoniously integrated with many allied practices.

The use of Flower Essences has been a powerful adjunct to Jane Jeffers’ professional work over more than fifteen years. For appointment/enquiries, contact Jane on 0401 857 886.


MEDITATION

MINDFULNESS MEDITATION:
Mindfulness involves paying attention, on purpose, non-judgmentally, to what is happening in others, inside you and to your environment, within each moment of this precious life.
"Wherever you are, be there totally." Ekhart Tolle
Practicing mindfulness can help you reduce stress and anxiety, improve concentration and academic performance, effectively manage emotions and behaviour, develop greater empathy for others and the world, and be more optimistic and happy.

Jane Jefffers facilitates group mindfulness meditation sessions:
Tuesdays: 8.00pm - 9.00pm.
Wednesdays: 11.30am - 12.30pm.
Fridays: 9.15 am - 10.15am.

Individual consultations are available on request.


CD: "Practising the Art of Mindfulness Meditation"
Jane has created this CD to introduce you to the concept of mindfulness and to enhance your mindfulness meditation practice.
Tracks on the CD include an "Introduction, then three exercises: "Stilling the Body", "Attending to the Breath" and "Listening to Sounds of the Australian Bush". Each exercise can be used on its own or can be combined into one session.
Cost of the CD is $15.00, plus $3.00 postage.

For appointment/enquiries, contact Jane on 0401 857 886.




MINDFULNESS MEDITATION FOR CHILDREN

Mindfulness meditation can help children
• connect to their inner strengths and qualities
• relax
• deal with their fears, anxieties and pressures
• develop their creativity
• expand their self-awareness and self-confidence
• bring their attention to the present moment
• be better prepared for all that life is

Jane Jeffers is seeking expressions of interest for a workshop, for children and their parent/grandparent/significant adult, based on Goldie Hawn's book: "10 Mindful Minutes - Giving our children - and ourselves - the social and emotional skills to reduce stress and anxiety for healthier, happier lives", Piatkus, UK, 2011.
Representing the culmination of years of research and programs developed by the Hawn Foundation, this book promotes the development of mindfulness - mindful breathing, sensing, listening, seeing, smelling, tasting, movement - to show parents and children how to reach their potential and live a fuller, richer life.

Enquiries: Jane on 0401 857 886




REIKI

Reiki (Pronounced Ray-key) is an ancient holistic healing method developed in Tibet some thousands of years ago. It was re-discovered in the mid-nineteenth century by the Japanese scholar, Dr Mikao Usui.
Rei means ‘universal’, while ki is the name for the vital life force that flows through all living beings. The reiki practitioner is a conduit through which this energy flows. The practice of reiki, which one can either do on oneself or receive in treatment from a reiki practitioner, involves placing the hands in particular positions on the body to cover the major energy centres. There are four basic positions on the head, four on the front of the body and four on the back.

The person being treated remains clothed, and the treatment takes about one hour. The post treatment experience is one in which the body feels balanced, vital, relaxed and integrated. As reiki is a holistic method of healing, the calming and restorative effects work on the emotional, mental and spiritual levels as well.

Reiki boosts the body’s natural healing abilities, thus improving and maintaining health and well-being.

Jane Jeffers is a qualified Reiki 2 practitioner and has been providing reiki healings for the past fifteen years. For appointment/ enquiries, call Jane on 0401 857 886.
Gift vouchers are available on request.


THERAPEUTIC DREAMWORK

Dreams express the unconscious. The unconscious has a particular capacity to create images and to use those images as symbols. It is these symbols that form our dreams, creating a language by which the unconscious communicates its contents to the conscious mind.

The purpose of dreamwork is to bring out hidden potentials and to integrate them into waking life.
Therapeutic Dreamwork enhances self awareness and increases choices for living and acting in the world.

Tasks include: reflecting on dream symbols; having a dialogue with a dream figure; bringing an unfinished dream to resolution; using body work/artwork to concretize a dream image.
Dreamwork can be used with individuals, with partners, and in groups.

For appointment/enquiries, contact Jane on 0401 857 886