'Balance', 'Harmony', 'Wisdom' and 'Integrity' are essential elements for your well-being, health and happiness.
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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 our team of highly skilled and experienced practitioners believe that the principles of Ma’at - balance, harmony, wisdom and integrity - are essential elements for achieving and sustaining personal awareness, responsibility, growth and authenticity. We challenge, guide and support our clients in their pursuit of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health and well-being.
We offer a wide range of therapeutic services for individuals, groups and corporations:
- Counselling
- Flower Essences
- Gestalt Therapy
- Guided Imagery and Music
- Meditation
- Psychotherapy
- Reiki
- Therapeutic Dreamwork:
- Workshops
Our consulting room is also available for rent, for allied health practitioners, and for workshops.
Now practising at Ma'at Holistic Health:
Kay Kilham
Graduate Diploma Guided Imagery & Music
Advanced Diploma Gestalt Therapy
Graduate Diploma Arts (Social Welfare)
B.A. (psychology & sociology)
Certificate in Group Critical Incident and Stress Management Debriefing (CISMFA)
Full Member of Music & Imagery Association of Australia, and Gestalt Australia New Zealand, both PACFA Associations.
Kay is a psychotherapist in private practice. Kay has had 10 years experience in the mental health field, working both in psychiatric rehabilitation and also community development. Kay‘s psychotherapy training has been in Gestalt Therapy and the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music. She believes that through psychotherapy clients are enabled to expand their self-awareness and their understanding of how their life experiences influence their thoughts, beliefs and actions. Through this process, they are thus more ably equipped to make choices which create opportunities for greater emotional, psychological and physical well-being. Kay also co-facilitates groups such as "Goddess in Older Women", and "The Road less Travelled".
Kay has a Certificate in Group Debriefing from CISMFA (Critical Incident and Stress Management Federation of Australia) and is available to run debriefings for organizations and business who have experienced a critical incident in their workplace.
For appointment/ enquiries, call Kay on 0412 785 031. |
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.
Full Registration, Victorian Institute of Teaching.
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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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 and are bound by the code of ethics of the PACFA registered organizations that the he/she is a member of.
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.
Although both counsellors and psychotherapists work with a wide variety of clients, psychotherapists are more likely to work very intensively, with individuals who experience extensive disruption to their lives due to deep seated issues of the psyche. Counsellors are more likely to work in specific areas where specialized knowledge and methods are needed. " (See Practioner profiles for information on areas of interest of each practioners)
This is an extract from a PACFA working party paper which was adopted as a working party paper at the inaugural meeting of PACFA, Melbourne, 29th Nov. 1998.
For appointment/ enquiries about counselling, call Jane on 0401 857 886.
For appointment/ enquiries about psychotherapy, call Kay on 0412 785 031. |
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. |
"Gestalt 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.
The Gestalt approach is grounded in the ideas of phenomenology (awareness and subjectivity), field theory (context), dialogic existentialism (relationship), contact (process), holism (connectedness), present centredness (here and now) and creative adjustment (experiment). The Gestalt practitioner pursues a relationship with a client that is respectful and attuned to the immediacy of what emerges between them. The focus is on describing and understanding the unique experience of clients rather than interpreting and generalising about their experience.
The Gestalt Therapist encourages, supports and gently challenges their client to become aware of how they are in the world, enabling him/her to make a more informed choice about how s/he wishes to live their life in a different and more fulfilling manner." (GTA, 2006)
For appointment/ enquiries, call Kay on 0412 785 031. |
The Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) is a form of music psychotherapy in which music and imagery are used to bring about therapeutic change. It was developed as a therapeutic form by Dr Helen Bonny (USA) in the 1970’s and has been practised in Australia since 1985.
The idea of music as a healer is very old - Aesclipius of Ancient Greece used music to heal, Pythagoras encouraged his students to use music to rid themselves of fears, and, in the East, music as healer was highly developed in medical practise. The celebrated psychiatrist, Carl Jung, after his session with Margaret Tilley, a concert pianist and music therapist, stated that "from now on music should be an essential part of every analysis. This reaches the deep archetypal work with patients" (Bush, 1995).
GIM is a client-centrered psychotherapy. The client, after talking to the therapist for about 15 - 20 minutes, is first guided through a relaxation imagery exercise. The therapist then chooses music, usually of western classical origin, that is specifically related to the issue which is being dealt with. When listening to music in a relaxed state the ‘right brain’ aspects of one’s personality are more to the fore as in daydreaming or when one is intensely concentrating on an activity. This allows the brain to process the issue in a different manner to the more usual verbal and cognitive processing of therapy. Whilst listening to the music, the therapist engages the client in a description of their experience, the imagery of which may be symbolical, physical, psychological, or transpersonal. At the close of the music, the client is encouraged to explore the expression of their imagery through the use of mandala drawing and discussion with the therapist.
GIM has been known to be effective with:
Physical conditions, including their possible long term effects
Anxiety and stress, including post-traumatic stress
Depression and/or grief
Relationship issues
Working with emotional and spiritual distress
For further information visit the Music and Imagery Association of Australia website: www.musicandimagery.org.au
"It is as if the music acts upon our very soul - awakening the impulses of the truth of who we are. The music connects us back to its Source and ours as well. Through the music, it touches us and we are healed." - Sara Jane Stokes in Bush (1995).
For appointment/ enquiries, call Kay on 0412 785 031. |
The practice of meditation can reduce tension and promote relaxation; decrease the frequency and severity of stress-related diseases; aid the body in its recovery from physical/mental/emotional fatigue; increase energy; improve your ability to listen – to your body, to your Self, and to others; improve concentration and self-discipline; give a sense of improved well-being; and enhance personal and spiritual growth. In addition, meditation is non-toxic, non-fattening and has no artificial colouring, flavouring or other additives!
MEDITATION 2008: Are you interested in joining with others to learn and practice mindfulness meditation?
The goal of mindfulness is to be more aware, more in touch with our body, mind, emotions and the world around us, in the present moment.
"Wherever you are, be there totally" (Eckhart Tolle)
Many who practice in this way find that it deeply enhances their health and well-being. Classes are held on a weekly basis, as follows:
Tuesdays: 8.00pm - 9.00pm.
Wednesdays: 11.30am - 12.30pm.
Thursdays: 7.00am - 7.45am.
Fridays: 9.15 am - 10.15am.
Individual consultations are available on request.
For appointment/enquiries, contact Jane on 0401 857 886. |
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.
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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. |
Service Categories
Counselling, Flower Essences, Meditation, Psychotherapy, Reiki
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