What we can talk about

Individual & Relationship Counselling Information

It’s aim is for our sessions together to be a non-judgemental and compassionate space where you can explore and reflect on your experiences, relationships, thoughts and feelings.

In your individual counselling sessions we can explore…

Your self-identity, meaning and purpose including:

  • Cultural, gender, sexual and other diverse identity and experiences
  • Identifying your patterns, behaviours, beliefs and values
  • Understanding family of origin legacies
  • Uncovering what is important and meaningful to you outside of systemic influences and social norms
  • Developing your self-growth, self-worth and self-esteem
  • Your life direction and making the right decisions for you
  • Designing a work, life and rest rhythm that meets your needs across all areas of life
  • Breaking up with hustle culture and toxic beliefs / values that capitalism, neoliberalism and corporate culture, and mainstream media brain washed us into
  • Setting boundaries and learning how to rest and resist burnout from paid and unpaid work including carer responsibilities and activism
  • Complex trauma / C-PTSD including: sexual assault, intimate partner violence, abuse, coercion and control; and childhood abuse, neglect or psychological harm.

Yourself in relationship with others including:

  • Processing grief and loss when relationships end
  • Exploring your attachment style, needs and boundaries in relationships
  • Working through anger or use of violence in relationships
  • Exploring your relationship with parents, siblings and other family members as an adult
  • Dating and relationship coaching including managing anxiety or stress about past relationships, current relationships, or potential relationships
  • Other relationship coaching including: family relationships, friendships and professional relationships
 

Relationship counselling for families and people in relationships of all kinds to work on…

  • Navigating parenting conflicts together
  • Understanding embedded patterns and dynamics in your relationship
  • Navigating conflict and disagreements with respect
  • Deciding to separate or stay together
  • Navigating separation with compassion
  • Adult child and carer-parent relationships 
  • Adult sibling relationships
  • Navigating family distress, conflict and separation
  • Friendship conflicts and relationships
  • Navigating polyamorous, non-monogamous and/or multipartnered polycules
  • Workplace conflicts
 Some examples of people and concerns I’ve worked with before: 
  • Relationship counselling between adult children and their parents about interracial adoption, transphobia, and/or childhood trauma
  • A person of colour experiencing racism and/or sexism in the workplace 
  • A polycule navigating the conflicting needs due to their diversity of experiences and backgrounds
  • Adult child of immigrant parents navigating their family relationships and boundaries 
  • A heterosexual cisgender white man who wants to be less conflict avoidant and be more introspective 
  • A couple where one or more people has a disability, chronic illness or mental health issue that they’re struggling to define boundaries around carer and partner
  • A go-getter that is learning to reject hustle-culture and toxic productivity, redefine what defines their worth as a person and tolerate/enjoy slowing down
  • One of more people in a relationship has past trauma/s that makes communication and conflict tricky
  • An adult trying to find meaning, fulfilment and/or sense of direction in their life
  • There’s no crisis but someone that just want a monthly check-in  to discuss anything that came up in the last month and seeing how they can do things better in the future
  • First generation immigrant that is struggling to adapt to Australia due to loss of support network and cultural differences (and racism)
  • A queer kinship group engaging in a transformative justice process for one of their found family members as someone who’s caused sexual harm in the community
  • Adult child/ren going to family therapy with their parents to talk about favouritism among siblings and/or process childhood hurts
  • Adult family members learning to be honest about their feelings and sit with each other’s the feelings for the first time to truly understand each other for the first time
  • Sex worker/s who want relationship counselling with a therapist who doesn’t see their job as a problem
  • A single mum who has had child protection involvement or been criminalised and had felt judged by previous service providers 
  • Queer Aboriginal individuals who have felt disconnected from their culture and community due to domestic violence and intergenerational trauma 
  • One person out of a couple has come out as transgender and the they’re not sure what that means for the relationsihp

Booking an appointment:

To enquire or book a session, please fill in the contact form. 

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