Outgrow your challenges
Experience grounded, compassionate existential counselling centred on strengths, empowerment, and solutions.
At times we need support to help us make sense of our challenges, to make choices, take risks, heal, grow and change.
I counsel based on the well-established principle that before we can change, we need acceptance. My counselling is grounded on two key approaches - safety, and growth, and delivered through an existential framework.
Safety comes from acceptance and understanding. It's the basis for confidence. It's in my nature to relate intuitively and without judgement.
Growth is key to change. Sometimes, life grinds us down. We can flee, or we can learn to cope, but the only way we master life is when we outgrow our challenges. Our focus on your strengths and goals will move you forward.
As well as general counselling for life's many challenges, I have particular energy for affective issues, such as anxiety, loneliness, shame, or low self-esteem, life conflicts and tensions, including value conflicts, relationships, and work tensions and existential issues, such as questions of meaning, and coping mechanisms.
Why counselling with me?
Connect
Ten people might say the exact same words of encouragement or support, but how you experience those words will be unique to each relationship.
Even the most well-intentioned words of encouragement can feel invalidating or triggering if the connection is poor, and even the most confrontational statement can feel supportive if there is safe rapport.
Your priority, in choosing a counsellor, should therefore be the quality of the connection.
I provide private and confidential counselling online or in-person in Higgins, Canberra.
Sessions are $110 for a 60-minute session, invoiced after each session and payable by bank transfer. I'm available evenings or weekends, by appointment (contact details are below).
