Return to Wellness - Practical and professional assistance with helping you cope with relationship difficulties, change, illness, loss and conflict.
SERVICES
Need help through a difficult time?
You have within you a personal 'set point of equilibrium', which ensures you stay emotionally healthy through the general push-pull of living. Disharmony occurs when that equilibrium is tipped off balance, through experiences of loss: - relationship, health, job, identity, through the death of a loved one, or in some way 'death' of oneself in the natural struggle to live authentically and fully.
Do you feel confused or stuck about a current concern, or feel the support of a counsellor may help you deal with a current difficult life experience?
Counselling can help you gain insight into a current concern and explore options and choices. In my many years of experience, I have learnt that if a person is given a safe, non-judgemental place to talk about their experience, the body system can feel relieved of internal pressure to 'keep it all together'. Counselling can offer you new and different strategies to manage the demands of your work, family and relationships.
Psychotherapy is often discussed in terms of depth and development of the personality and seeks to address how problems arise. Within you, you have the blueprint of your true nature and psychotherapy is a shared exploration into the meaning and understanding of your experience of problems and conflicts. Psychotherapy enables the unconscious and sub-text of your life to come into view. This work together is often longer term. The resolution of long standing difficulties and symptoms and the security of the therapist-client relationship cultivates emotional maturation and your personal authority. Psychotherapy can hold a light to what is often unseen.
Family Therapy
When you or another family member experiences change, illness, separation or death, every family member's role and emotional behaviour is affected as part of this larger interconnected system we call 'family' .The 'family system' can often reorganise itself in a resilient response to change, although some crises create a destabilising fracture that can seem difficult to heal.
Your family deserves every support to keep connected or find new ways of communicating in difficult times and I can help you to work and talk together to find the solutions that best serves your family right now.
WHAT IS INVOLVED IN A COUNSELLING SESSION
We will spend time talking so I can understand what has brought you to counselling, why this point in time and what you want to achieve from seeing me. We will spend time clarifying the concern. Sometimes by talking about your experience, relief and clarity can appear quite naturally. Depending on your concern and your goals, we may only spend a few sessions problem solving or work more longer term seeking deeper insight into difficulties that may have been problematic over time. The experience is respectful and collaborative and the natural anxiety felt by going into counselling can ease within this supportive therapist-client relationship.
ABOUT CATHERINE
I have 17 years of experience in the study and practice of counselling and psychotherapy in healthcare. As an artist and a clinical psychotherapist, I am passionate about our imaginary capacity to create the deep and lasting changes we seek, in our relationships, our work and ourselves. Concurrent with my private counselling practice I have worked, counselling in challenging mental health settings: forensic psychiatry and correctional institutions and have worked in women and family health in the public hospital sector in areas including reproductive loss and cancer wards. I bring compassion and sensitivity to each session we have, and offer a supportive and safe environment.
MAKE AN APPOINTMENT
Call now on 0413 772 575 for more information and/or to secure a booking.
WHAT COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY CAN ASSIST WITH-
Therapy with intelligence & compassion: a sacred psychology
The range of concerns assisted by therapy includes:
Depression
Anxiety
Relationship difficulties
Loss and grieving
Life transitions/changes
Stress
Trauma
Illness
Therapy can also assist to develop potential by focussing on such things as:
Self-esteem
Meaning and purpose
Life path
Personal development
Call now for an appointment - 0413 772 575
live well, love well, live fully
QUALIFICATION DETAILS
I have a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art and a Graduate Diploma in teaching. I've trained for three years in the study and practice of Soul-Centred Psychotherapy and have a Diploma of Transpersonal Art Therapy. Post -graduate studies have included Psychology and Statistics from Swinburne University. Over the past 10 years, I have also studied different energetic and spiritual healing modalities related to imagery, trance induction and hypnosis. I am currently completing Diploma studies in Family Therapy.
I am a professional member of the Association of Soul Centred Psychotherapists Inc., a constituent member of Psychotherapists and Counsellors Federation of Australia (PACFA).
Service Categories
Art Therapists, Counselling, EFT, Hypnotherapist, Psychotherapy, Womens Health
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