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Caroline Cumming

CAROLINE CUMMING - COUNSELLING, COACHING, AND HYPNOSIS

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CAROLINE CUMMING - COUNSELLING, COACHING, AND HYPNOSIS. Empowering you to successfully navigate your inner and outer-world challenges in 2021 – for greater happinesås, hope, clarity, empowerment, resiliency, connection and contribution. CALL TODAY FOR YOUR FREE 15 MIN ZOOM OR PHONE CONSULT to see how I may be able to help you. I really look forward to connecting!

CAROLINE CUMMING - COUNSELLING, COACHING, AND HYPNOSIS

Servicing area

Woy Woy, Umina, Ettalong Beach, Gosford, Erina,

Focus areas

Depression Relationship issues COVID related anxiety, stress, trauma & bereavement Grief Loneliness Life purpose


5 REASONS TO COME AND WORK WITH ME

TO HELP YOU HEAL AND SOLVE YOUR PROBLEMS

  • We get to work as a team. You, as the expert of you and the choices you’d like to make; and me, as your expert in the change process - a professional counsellor, hypnotherapist, trauma-informed practitioner, coach, intuitive, and storyteller, with over 20 years clinical experience. This means in our sessions you'll immediately feel more at ease, motivated for your change, able to participate, and to be in control of the focus and direction of our work.
  • My commitment to you when you sit with me, is that you’ll always feel the safety and connection of being empathically heard, unconditionally accepted, compassionately understood, and respected. The warm and therapeutic atmosphere that I'm well known for creating with all my clients, supports your nervous system, increases your ability to heal, and, to achieve your outcomes (with even better results).
  • We’ll spend our time either being focused on solution-creating for you; and/or helping you heal, through deep witnessing processes. This means your investment in time and money and effort is always well-placed. Our agenda is always in doing what you need to make sound decisions, feel better, and be more fully participating and contributing in your life again.
  • We’ll mutually agree to tailor our work in the styles that are a best fit for you - from evidence-based psychotherapeutic pathways; mindfulness, body-based, nervous system awareness practices; intuitive, metaphysical, spiritual approaches; and/or incorporating creativity. Free from a limited or rigid approach, this means you can heal or make your changes in the ways that are most useful, relevant, self-affirming, and confidence-building for you.
  • I love to laugh. You’ll find me a down-to-earth, open-hearted person, ever curious about really "living" this journey of being human. Working with me gifts you the gold of not only my professional skills and expertise, but also the years of wisdom and the depth and variety of life experiences that have grown and evolved me.

ISSUES I HELP YOU WITH: 

Trauma (big “T” and little “t” traumas); traumatic stress

Resilience, courage, changing direction in life

Grief; the many kinds of losses & sorrows in life

Depression, hopelessness, loneliness, and anxiety

Stress - reactivity, overwhelm, poor sleep, disoriented, shutdown

Self-esteem, boundary-setting, self-confidence, heart-centred power

Authenticity, transparency, communicating from truth

Relationship issues – self, loved ones, work, community, and natural world

Self-sabotage; coping mechanisms causing other problems

Passion, meaningful contribution, hope in action

Intuition - your compass for choice, truth, and orientation in changing times



TESTIMONIALS



Crossroads in career

I was at a powerful juncture in my life. I knew it was powerful, but really didn’t ‘know’ which way to turn. After a successful 15 years in a fundraising career, during which I had married the love of my life, had two children, a short break in my career to have them, set up a small business in tandem, had a heart breaking separation and subsequent divorce….I then lost my job 2 days before I got the mortgage that finalized the separation. I was 53. With a lot of dreams unlived, a very real sense that the clock was ticking, no real financial reserves, and a job market that wasn’t exactly buoyant. I embarked on a 6 week program with Caroline, for clarity around ‘what’s next’ in terms of career. Each week we met I felt my fears fall and my heart rise. Caroline is a master communicator and a joy to work with because of that. She deftly took me to the subtle realms of my consciousness, using skills and processes that bypass the interference of fear and the madness of the mind, to gently listen to the whispers of my heart.  Her skill was in then helping me tease and weave these insights and visions into a tangible structure that I can work with, dance with, play with, and realize.  I got really clear on my purpose, she helped move me from ‘career’ to ‘calling’, I got some clear visions, and very specific initiatives to express that calling and purpose.  I am deeply grateful for my time with her! Sarah Williams – Central Coast NSW


Relating with others, and learning how to be in my power

While I have a good life generally, I contacted Caroline to initially assist me with some personal growth. I still felt that my life could be better. Although I had had a traumatic childhood, I had considered this to be in the past. I was a strong person, had achieved and thought moving on was all that was necessary. There was no conscious recognition on how the past was impacting my life.  I continually buried myself in work and activities but never emotionally invested in others.  I was comfortable in loose social situations but avoided others on an intimate personal level.   I attracted people for what I could give – these were my friends.  My survival strategy was to keep people at a distance. As we worked with this, I began to heal my uneasy relationship with power and authority.  At times I could feel very powerful and sensed that others didn’t like that, and at other times I could often feel powerless and dominated by strong energy types who did not recognise or respect my role or presence. As Caroline and I journeyed, she helped me to see that all my life I have unconsciously trained my attention to always track for conflict in my life, to always be on the lookout for it in any and all situations. What I didn’t realise was how much this inadvertently set me up to attract even more of it! Caroline showed me that I needed to learn how to be in my personal power (to love myself) whilst remaining in my heart. In shifting some of my assumptions, and learning some simple techniques, I began to see how I could best lead from my feminine energy. This has helped me to recognise and stay out of unnecessary power struggles.  Also liberating, has been the insight that I don’t need to save people or be overly responsible to them. I used to do everything for others and people would depend on me all the time. It was often a source of stress.

As I worked with Caroline I started to feel more relaxed around people, and I let myself be more personable with them. I became more in my body and less in my head. I experimented with being more curious in life, and with people. Caroline is very adept in her understanding of people and their problems and was able to address the core of my problem with sensitivity and heart. She was able to understand and give me the voice to express verbally what previously was unspoken and I had only felt the consequences. Colleen Smith – Central Coast NSW


Healing my body and meeting my emotions

I must firstly say that the thought of talking to a professional about my feelings was the scariest part of all. I really did believe that if I just ignored all of my pain, and hurt and did a Scarlett O'Hara - "I’ll worry about that tomorrow!" - I would be OK. Then my body finally decided to speak up. I didn’t get seriously ill but I started to get a kind of reflux/stomach ulcer pain every day that would last for hours on end. My emotions were on overload at this time. That’s when deep down I knew I had to do something – for my own health and peace of mind. Caroline helped me to identify my strongest emotional dilemma, of not feeling good enough...how it was at the root of the decisions I was making in my life, and me proving myself all the time.... During these sessions with Caroline, I met this emotion head on, found new ways.....I’m a lot more satisfied now with who I am, and am really starting to live my life from a place of “I’m OK – I am enough”. It’s a very strange thing but it’s taken me 45 years to be able to say that. What’s even weirder is I have only had that pain once in the last 3 weeks. I’m now paying more attention to my SELF, listening to my emotions and my body. My body is starting to tell me things – it’s unreal. Caroline is so easy to talk to. I never felt embarrassed at crying my eyes out, or going quiet, or admitting my pain. That’s a big call for a sceptic like me. Also, Caroline’s knowledge in emotional layers is amazing. She cut through deeper and deeper till that base emotion turned up, all the while making it so easy for me to get to the bottom of it. It was such a relief for me to finally figure it out! I will be working with Caroline again, and I’ve recommended her to other friends too. Above all, I have learnt that it’s OK to talk, and get to know your emotions. And that living from an openhearted place is much more rewarding than living through a barricaded heart. Nic  – Central Coast, Australia


Freedom from a pattern of sabotage in my life

I worked with Caroline after a longstanding pattern of mine reared its head again. I wanted to explore what might be the cause. My responses and reactions to certain situations had been creating a very limited opportunity for me to remain open to receive what life has to offer. In one particular zoom call session we managed to explore and find a trauma root-cause for my self-limiting pattern. Caroline has an incredible ability to “create and hold a safe space” where thoughts and emotions can be explored without putting any judgments on them, and to assist in focusing on a new and more authentic way of relating to these situations. The result of this single session alone is nothing but remarkable.  After only two weeks, my way of relating to this particular situation has changed enormously and of course, this brings a harmonious and flowing and supportive response from life itself. I can highly recommend teaming up with Caroline, whether it is in person or online. She brings her supportive, encouraging, life-changing, and professional style with her to every session. Irén Söderberg – Sweden


Taking the power out of limiting and crippling thoughts

I hope all is great in your world Caroline. It's been about six months since working with you and I just thought I'd give you an update. At first I thought I’d understood what you were teaching me but the true depth took a little longer to really sink in and make sense. But eventually I fully got it and I want to say a really big THANK YOU!! Not only has my life changed dramatically for the better but so has my partner Deb’s. I told her all about the work you did with me. We both now view life very differently. We’re both so much happier and more positive now. Remember the first session we did when you wrote down all the things I was saying and then read them back to me? I cringe when I think about it now! Was that really me? I was pretty messed up wasn’t I!! So thank you very much for pointing out that it was my choice to feel that way or feel something much better. Life is getting better and better. As far as my kids and the court matter are concerned everything is on track and I feel confident about getting the best result for the higher good. Nathan – Central Coast, Australia


Facing feelings rather than eating them

Caroline, I can sit with my feelings now! I can recognise them and let them pass. I literally do now bring myself back from a fearful or worrying situation that goes on in head. It’s been a massive learning curve, and I feel much happier in my ability to connect with myself. I’ve also noticed I say NO a lot more to things that don’t serve a purpose in my life, or that don’t serve where I want to be. YES! I have less stress. I’ve stopped shoving food down my throat to push down my feelings. I’d rather face them now, than eat them. This for me has been HUGE. And I loved the sessions. I think they were structured perfectly. They made sense, and it wasn’t too much to deal with or take in, in one go. I felt comfortable and relaxed, and I think you are AWESOME. Would definitely recommend you to people, in fact I already have and told them what a lovely, warm person you are. Robyn – Central Coast, Australia

 

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