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About Marie
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Marie Anderson
counsellor || psychotherapist || educator || life / business coach
Marie Anderson offers a unique range of services for adults and young people alike:- Counselling - where you may have a problem that needs only one or two sessions to sort out
- Psychotherapy - where your problems may need a more intensive approach
- Life / business coaching - where you may feel blocked in achieving your goals
- Workshops - Marie can design specific workshops for special interest groups. She has successfully conducted workshops on stress management, communication, conflict resolution, parenting and relationships.
Counselling/ Psychotherapy
As a fully qualified Psychotherapist and Counsellor, Marie can support you in overcoming the blockages that keep you stuck in certain detrimental states.
Such states may come in the form of:- Stress
Are you finding it difficult to focus or sleep? Do negative thoughts obsess you? Do you feel overwhelmed or pressured? Do you want to feel empowered again and to find solutions to life's challenges without feeling so helpless and burdened? There are many ways to achieve this. One of the most effective and simple solutions is that found in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). Through awareness of the breath you are brought into the present moment, putting the brakes on your accelerating feelings which then allows you to think clearly and creatively to solve your problems. Another is Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), which involves tapping on acupressure points, and is also a very effective way to counteract the emotionality of a memory or state. You can then access that part of your brain which has evolved to help you calmly steer your way through the challenges that life offers.
- Anxiety
Are you always failing in your ideals of yourself, feeling not good enough or having overwhelming fears about the future? Anxiety can be a most debilitating state, but you can manage it through many different ways. Techniques such as EFT and MBSR (see above) are very helpful. Becoming aware of the feelings that spiral you into catastrophic thoughts and pessimism is most important in reversing these attitudes. Deeper trauma in your past may also be preventing you from being in the present. Dealing with this through such gentle therapies as Sandplay extends your awareness into the internal dynamics at play in your life and allows you to transform your inner world.
- Depression
Depression has many aspects to it and many causes. Some depressive states relate to negative thoughts about the past. Research shows that Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is one of the most effective ways of raising your awareness about how your thoughts can deteriorate into these very negative states and shows how you can intervene to deal with them.
- Addictions
Do you use substance abuse as a way of coping with your emotions, stress or anxiety? This brings only temporary relief and does not deal with the real causes, thus creating an unhealthy dependency. Using a multi-faceted approach to handle addictions you can learn more effective ways of integrating your emotions and restore your choice over compulsion.
- Grief or loss
Coping with grief and loss is part of the human condition, but sometimes you can be overwhelmed and unable to integrate these emotions into your life even after many years. Writing about the person you've lost can be very potent in healing that relationship, as can Sandplay and active imagination processes.
- Relationships
Many relationship difficulties may stem from unresolved issues in your family of origin. You may project onto your partner those qualities you dislike in yourself, or the perceptions and expectations of relationships may be very different from each other. Couples therapy or individual therapy can clarify misunderstandings and the confusion surrounding your most intimate relationships, enabling you to find the best solutions for everyone concerned.
Each person is a unique being and the strategies used in therapy are designed to fit his/her needs. What suits one personality type may not suit another, so a multi-modal, integral approach offers more comprehensive support. Most importantly, by being listened to intensively in a safe, confidential space you are enabled to explore your own healing process at your own pace.
The brain has an amazing capacity to heal itself. It is a matter of becoming aware of your resources to tap into those capacities. The following therapies represent some of those many ways:- Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
- Contemporary psychodynamics
- Archetypal therapy
- Narrative therapy
- Cognitive therapy
- Sandplay
- Active imagination
- Mindfulness strategies
As a clinical member of the Counsellors and Psychotherapists Association (NSW), Marie Anderson is bound by a Code of Ethics, as well as continuing professional development and frequent supervision, thus ensuring that you have strict confidentiality and integrity of service.
Coaching
As a fully qualified coach, Marie can facilitate your progress to achieve your goals.
This can be an exciting journey - the way of the hero where the call to a new calling may bring up all sorts of challenges, fears, denials as well as sabotage. Having a coach to help you through this process is a wonderful way to re-negotiate your future.
In coaching the emphasis is on empowering clients to determine and achieve their goals.
Coaching, because it can also be so conveniently transacted via the telephone, also saves you time and money.
Some of the tools on offer with which to explore this journey are:- Personality type indicator (MBTI)
- Learning preferences
- Career pathways discovery
- Archetypal profiling
- Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) processes
Marie was trained and accredited by the Life Coaching Academy and adheres to their Code of Ethics to ensure client confidentiality and trust.
Coaching Testimonials
“Marie’s coaching took me to a new level of thought and forward moving action in a way no-one had ever encouraged me to “think” or “be” before. Without hesitation I invite you to consider Marie as a catalyst for your own personal change.”
(J. Canton, Hamilton N.Z.)
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"When I started seeing Marie I had been through nearly two years of hell, both personally and professionally. The result of this stressful time resulted in 3 months off work, a complete lack of self esteem, and an inability to return to work.
Throughout my 4 months with Marie, I was able to see things from a different perspective and started to feel a release from the inner thoughts that had been holding me back since losing my father at 10 years of age and being blamed for his death by his mother. Marie not only helped me to do this, she also explained why the brain/psyche/belief systems work the way they work.
It has given me such freedom to be able to logically think about how I react to different situations. I have now not only reached a much greater level of self esteem, I'm off to Singapore to a fantastic job where I negotiated a higher salary than originally offered AND a sign on bonus.
All of this would not have been possible without Marie's help, and I am eternally grateful to her."
(S.W. Ashbury NSW)
The Marie Anderson Workshops
The following are examples of the types of workshops that Marie Anderson
conducts which can be tailor-made to suit an organisation or group needs
Stress Management & Effective Communication
Parenting Children Who Thrive
Couples Workshop
MBTI Workshops
Marie also gives workshops to organisations interested in applying the insights which the Myers Briggs Type Indicator can bring to employees benefiting more cohesive team work, productivity as well as staff and customer interactions.
For more information, call 02 9787 1791
The following testimonials are from workshops conducted at Airlie Beach in Queensland in 2008
"I found the Marie Anderson Workshop particularly helpful because it provided a practical, scientific explanation for the negative thoughts and reactions we all harbour. This deeper understanding gave me a new appreciation for my mind, despite being the self-saboteur it often is. I felt empowered by the teachings in the workshop even though I have always considered myself extremely in touch with my emotions. Thousands of years of Eastern philosophy combined with cutting edge Western Psychology provided personal insights that were shocking in their simplicity and were usually unattainable from everyday introspection.”
(M.D., Cannonvale)
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"Marie Anderson’s workshops are a warm, awakening experience providing invaluable insights into examining yourself and modern culture and offering tools to allow self improvement."
(P.A., Airlie Beach)
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“I was so impressed with the workshop. It exceeded any expectations I had. I am extremely grateful that I was able to attend and I feel many seeds have been planted which are already helping me in my work and relationships. I have been able to implement many of the concepts and practices I learnt at the workshop into my daily life and I am seeing several positive changes. I now feel I am achieving a much more fulfilled and balanced life. I would highly recommend any of Marie Anderson’s workshops and I look forward to being able to attend many more in the future to further my understanding and personal development.“
(J.R., Bowen)
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“Fabulous, inspiring, informative, interactive, look forward to your next workshop.”
(S.R., Airlie Beach)
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About Marie
Marie Anderson is an educator / coach / counsellor / psychotherapist.
Her broad background and qualifications have provided her with the life experience and knowledge particularly suited for one-to-one counselling or psychotherapy for both adults and young people. Her qualifications include:
Graduate Diploma in Psychology (University of New England) Currently pursuing post graduate studies in psychology
Counsellor/Psychotherapist: Graduate Diploma in Counselling & Psychotherapy (Jansen Newman Institute)
Counsellors and Psychotherapists Association of Australia
(CAPA) Membership
- Life Coach: Life Coaching Academy Accreditation Course
- High School Teacher: M.A. (Lit.), Dip. Ed., Teaching Certificate
- Adult Educator: Graduate Diploma in TESOL
- Corporate Trainer: Workplace Trainer & Assessor Category 2, Cert. IV
Marie Anderson has had over thirty years experience as a teacher/educator, facilitator/coach and psychotherapist/counsellor.
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QUALIFICATION DETAILS
Counselling, EFT, Life Coaching, NLP, Psychotherapy
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