Felicity Gendun is an experienced psychologist, psychotherapist and relationship counsellor who works with individuals and couples in a respectful, safe and supportive environment. Felicity is registered with the Psychology Board of Australia and is an Associate Member of the Australian Psychological Society. She is eligible to provide Medicare rebates with a GP Mental Health Plan and referral, as well as Health Fund Rebates where applicable.
SERVICES
I am dedicated to collaboratively working with you to help find the resources within, that may help resolve conflicts and create satisfying and healthy relationships with yourself and others. Due to your circumstance it may be difficult to access those resources alone and you may need the help of a caring and committed therapist.
Working with compassion and promoting awareness, together we explore your inner processes, observe your thoughts, feelings and body sensations. We begin to see the ways you get stuck in fixed patterns about yourself that get in the way of you leading a satisfying and healthy life. I help you to investigate and uncover how these patterns are still active and affecting your life and assist you to find new and more creative ways to resolve the problem or crisis you are facing and lead a more meaningful and fulfilling life.
How counselling can help you :
clarify your experiences and issues
deal with underlying emotions and causes
discover how you hold yourself back
learn more authentic ways of relating to yourself and others
Increase spontaneity and creativity
reclaim parts of yourself that have been hidden or disowned
assist you to move your life into a direction more meaningful and satisfying to you
find greater depth and meaning in your life
I can help you with:
Marriage and Relationship difficulties
Intimacy Issues
Family and Parenting Issues
Self Esteem Issues
Anxiety and Panic
Managing Stress
Depression
Grief and bereavement
Substance Misuse/Addictions
Post traumatic Stress Disorder
Childhood Trauma
Chronic Illness
Disabilities
Relationship counselling:
You bring your own unique ideas, values, opinions and personal history into your relationships and they may not always match your partner's. Differences can cause distress creating undue, tension, sadness, worry, fear and other problems. How do you come to appreciate the differences in others, be yourself and also be with others at the same time? I work with couples helping you deal with difference to create happier more satisfying relationships.
As a wife and mother of 3 children Felicity appreciates the challenges of developing and maintaining satisfying and fulfilling relationships with ourselves and those we care about.
More about Felicity
Therapeutic Approach
My therapeutic approach focuses on developing awareness, enhancing well-being and increasing self support. I spent six years in the East studying Buddhist psychology and meditation and my work is informed by my appreciation of the value of meditation and mindfulness practice. I am a psychologist and gestalt therapist trained in relationship counselling. I run a private practice on Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
The Benefits of Mindfulness
Practising mindfulness can assist you to:
be fully present, moment by moment
experience calmness and peacefulness
develop self-acceptance and self-compassion
increase self-awareness
learn the difference between you and your thoughts
learn to live life directly and contactfully rather than through your thoughts
become less upset by and reactive to unpleasant experiences
experience unpleasant thoughts and feelings safely
become more connected to yourself, others, and the world around you
learn that everything changes; that thoughts and feelings come and go like weather
.
What is Gestalt Therapy?
Gestalt therapy is a growth-oriented, contextual and relational approach to living and working with people. The Gestalt approach embraces a person's whole life experience - physical, psychological, intellectual, emotional, interpersonal and spiritual. Each of these interconnected aspects of living is considered inseparable from a person's environment, history and culture.
From a gestalt perspective a well-lived life is grounded in a person's awareness of how they live their life and conduct their relationships, in the present, within their life space. From this perspective, the Gestalt approach seeks to promote awareness, support creative choice, encourage responsibility and facilitate connectedness in a person's efforts to realise a meaningful and fulfilling life.
Professional Membership
Assoc. MAPS Reg. PSY0001630019
Clinical Member GANZ (Gestalt Australia and New Zealand)
For confidential enquires or to make an appointment call Felicity on her mobile 0438 1847237.
QUALIFICATION DETAILS
Graduate Diploma Psychology (UOW)
Graduate Diploma Counselling and Psychotherapy (Jansen Newman Institute)
Advanced Diploma in Gestalt Therapy (GPTS)
Certificate IV Assessment and Workplace Training
Accredited Counsellor for Community Care Northern Beaches (Inc)
HICAPS ON THE SPOT CLAIMING for Health Funds and Medicare Rebates
Counselling, Psychotherapy
|
|
|
