Qualifications

Graduate Diploma in Counselling

PACFA Registered Clinician

Relevant Insurance

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As a professional counsellor, I work in Private Practice as an Employee Assistance Counsellor (EAP), and as a long term therapist. EAP specialises in short term solution focused therapy. In these sessions I use mindfulness, ACT, CBT, and EFT alongside person centred approaches to therapy. I use trauma informed approaches that acknowledges the mind-body connection. In my longer term therapeutic sessions, I integrate somatic, body based, and emotion focused therapeutic approaches. We work with the 'felt sense' of the body, often referred to in somatic experiencing, and become curious to the internal feelings that are connected to the repetitive thoughts in the mind, and slowly begin to feel into them.  I will encourage you to encounter the somatic feelings and sensations through means of titration. In this process, you vacillate between present awareness, and going into internal sensation over time. 

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My counselling philosophy is rooted in the notion that we store our emotions in the body. It is my belief that our repetitive thoughts occur because of repressed trauma, and by addressing these traumas, we can live more from true presence.

 

Psychological approaches I use include,

- mindfulness based therapy

- psychodynamic therapy

- acceptance commitment therapy

- short term solution focused therapy (generally used in EAP)

- somatic therapy

- yogic practices

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As a practitioner, I understand the vital role of the therapeutic relationship in your healing journey. I offer a loving, non judgemental and emotionally safe presence to support you in feeling validated in your feelings, allowing you to be heard, seen and understood. This can be a deeply healing and profound experience in itself. 

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Exchange: $120/$100 concession for 1.5 hrs

Location: Online via SKYPE , or in person (Byron Area)

Availability: Contact to arrange a suitable time

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Email: stephie86@live.com.au

 

 

 

 

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