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