Dagmar Marek

About Dagmar Marek

Clinical Member of AAFT, 
Australian Association of Family Therapy
M.A.C.A (Level 4)
ACA College of Family Therapy
ACA College of Alcohol & Other Drugs

Dagmar’s qualifications and achievements include the Diploma of Counselling & Communication, Masters of Social Science (Family Therapy) Swinburne University & Williams Road Family Therapy Centre, Accreditation as Clinical Drug Assessor (Department of Health), Certificate IV in Alcohol & Other Drug Work, Mental Health First Aid, and Membership of Golden Key International Honour Society 
(for academic excellence).

Dagmar has worked for 10 years in the community sector, working with adolescents 
and adults from all different cultural and 
social economic backgrounds. Dagmar has worked extensively with substance and alcohol misuse and addictions, provided crisis intervention, case management, mental health and longer term therapeutic counselling 
and therapy. She currently works in private practice and facilitates group and individual therapy in a hospital setting.

Services

Dagmar provides support, counselling and therapy 
for Individuals, Couples and Families who experience:

• Mental Health Issues and Mental Illness


• Addictions and Substance Abuse 
(including prescription medications)


• Trauma


• Domestic Violence


• Grief and Loss


• Families


• Relationships


• Parenting


• Life Transitions


• Personal Development 
(including self-esteem, values, and beliefs)

Individual Therapy

Individual therapy (sometimes called “psychotherapy” or “counseling”) is a process through which clients work one-on-one with a trained therapist — in a safe, caring, and confidential environment — to explore their feelings, beliefs, or behaviors, work through challenging or influential memories, identify aspects of their lives that they would like to change, better understand themselves and others, set personal goals, and work toward desired change.

Couples Therapy

Relationship counseling is the process of counseling the parties of a human relationship in an effort to recognize, and to better manage or reconcile, troublesome differences and repeating patterns of stress upon the relationship. The relationship involved may be between members of a family or a couple (see also family therapy), employees or employers in a workplace, or between a professional and a client.

Family Therapy

Family therapy is a branch of psychotherapy that works with families and couples in intimate relationships to nurture change and development. It tends to view change in terms of the systems of interaction between family members. It emphasizes family relationships as an important factor in psychological health.

Group Therapy

Group therapy provides psychotherapy treatment in a format where there is typically one therapist and six to twelve participants with related problems. Sometimes a therapist may recommend group therapy over individual psychotherapy for a variety of reasons. It may be that the group format is better suited for the person or the concern they are dealing with, or that the specific type of treatment has a group therapy component (such as dialectical behavior therapy).

Contact us today for more information.