The term "counselling" refers to a specific type of talk therapy. It entails an individual, couple, or family engaging with a licensed professional counsellor to discuss the challenges and issues they are facing in their lives.

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According to the Australian Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation (PACFA), 

Psychotherapy and counselling are professions that utilize an interpersonal relationship to assist individuals in gaining self-awareness and fostering positive changes in their lives. These practices are based on a relationship between the counsellor and the client, which helps the latter gain a deeper self-understanding and thereby resolve their problems. A counsellor is a trained professional skilled in helping individuals overcome personal challenges.

Expert counsellors assist individuals in exploring and resolving intrapsychic, interpersonal, and personal issues within the framework of a well-defined and ethically sound collaboration.

Professionals in this field receive comprehensive training in various techniques and therapeutic interventions.

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Counselling Styles

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In my practice with clients, I utilize various strategies depending on the problem presented. However, I primarily use solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT). SFBT focuses on an individual's current and future circumstances and goals, rather than past experiences. This goal-directed therapy often does not delve into the symptoms or issues prompting the client to seek therapy.

SFBT is based on the belief that while people may have the capacity to improve their lives significantly, they often lack the necessary tools to manage symptoms and overcome challenges.

Person-centred therapy underscores the significance of a client's strengths and self-perceptions. This approach is centred on the client's thoughts and feelings and their influence on behaviour. Person-centered therapy is grounded in Carl Rogers' theory of "personhood," which suggests that people are fundamentally good and capable of using their experiences to achieve their fullest potential.

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Professional Development Courses

Year 2022- 2024

* Telephone Counselling

* Eating Disorder

* Family 

* Divorce

* Depression

* Mental health

* Stress

* Suicide

* Sexual Assault 

* Intimate partner violence

* Healing through Kink

* Systemic Sex Therapy with a Heterosexual Couple

* Developing, Implementing and Evaluating an

* Innovative Community-Based Suicide Prevention

* Service for Men in a Suicidal Crisis

* Working with People Who Hear Voices

* Standing Up To Racism

* The Future of Responsible Gambling

* Helping the Suicidal Person: Tips and Techniques

* Creativity & Suicide Prevention: A Healing Journey

* Youth Suicide Prevention and Social Media: The

#Chatsafe Project

* Men’s Anxiety, Why It Matters, and What Is Needed to

* Limit its Risk for Male Suicide

* Digital ‘Addictions’ to Digital Wellbeing:

* Understanding and Managing Our Use of Technology

* Post-traumatic growth After Suicide Loss Across the

Lifespan

* Counselling Clients with Disabilities: Introduction to

the Issues

* Preventing Suicide Among Trans and Gender Diverse

* Young People: A Discussion of Current Research

* Trauma and Addiction: Taking Motivational

* Interviewing to the Next Level

* Understanding and Preventing Compassion Fatigue

* Reducing Trauma and Structural Racism

* Suicide in Old Age

* Suicide Prevention with Students in Tertiary

Education

* Choice therapy and reality therapy session 2

* Indigenous Mental Health and Wellbeing

* Post-Traumatic Growth

* What is sex addiction?

* Educating Clients About Mental Health

* Borderline Personality Disorder

* Trauma-Informed Care: Mindfulness-Based Treatment for Post-Trauma Growth

* Counselling Trauma Affected Clients with Diverse

* The Trauma Effects of Disasters

* Is alcohol and drug treatment effective?

* When Suicidal Thoughts Persist: Treating chronic

* Understanding the Link between Trauma and Addiction

* Motivational Interviewing: The Basics

* Eating Disorders in Women of Colour

* The gift of understanding

* Dissociative Identity Disorder

* Social Media and Suicide Prevention

 

Year 2025

* Power Moves for therapist : Strenghtening Self Care

and Resiliency

* Unearthing Hidden Truths of Addiction

* Counselling Adolescent : The Basics

* Counselling Gender Diverse Clients

*  Treating Trauma and Addiction with the felt sense

* Child and Adolescent Suicide Risk Formulation

* Weathering Relationships: making up or moving on

*Superman complex: Increasing Authencity and

Emotional Intelligence in therapy

* Sex therapy : Core Skills for Clinicians

* Introduction to nature based therapy

* Support

Year 2026

* Domestic Abuse and Suicide

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