Services
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Children
I have extensive experience in the promotion of wellbeing in education and offer empathic assistance to children facing a variety of challenges.
Children
I have extensive experience in the promotion of wellbeing in education and offer empathic assistance to children facing a variety of challenges.
Adolescents
Adolescence is a period of life that can be fraught: pressures from school and parents, new levels of intimacy in peer relationships, body…and experiences of anxiety and hopelessness about the world and one’s future in it. I help adolescents discover themselves anew, reassert and re-establish themselves in relationships, and work towards creativity and agency as they move towards adulthood.
I currently support adolescents in the following areas:
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Anxiety and Depression
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Peer Relationships
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Family Relationships
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Academic Stress
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Emotion Regulation
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Transition and Change
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School avoidance
Adults
It can be helpful to make a distinction between counselling and psychotherapy for my own practice, to help potential clients understand the ways in which I work. Counselling is generally confined to a limited number of goals and is reliant on the use of specific strategies to achieve a desired outcome in a relatively short amount of time. Psychotherapy, on the other hand, works towards the resolution of long standing issues and habitual patterns of behaviour, engendering change at a deeper structural level. Helping clients to express what they need from therapy, and then tracking this over a number of sessions, means that working with me can be both strategy-based and focused on one or two particular outcomes, or may be more open-ended and working towards a new way of being in the world. Regardless, I frequently check-in with clients to ascertain their feedback about what is working or not working, and what they are looking for as our work continues. The setting of goals is not confined to the beginning of working together, but instead is part of an ongoing process.
I work with adults who are experiencing challenges around:
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Anxiety and Depression
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Decision-making
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Relational difficulties
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Emotion regulation
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Grief and loss
Neurodiversity
I once had the lived experience of neurodiversity described to me as being akin to living behind a glass barrier while trying to relate to others. Though experiences of neurodiversity can encompass a range of challenges, I find this experience of a barrier between self and other, or self and world, is often the beginning point where new experiences of relating can be discovered. Psychotherapy holds the potential to creatively transform the barrier into a new and enlivened experience of being-in-the-world. My approach to working with neurodiverse clients is strengths-based.
I see self-managed and plan-managed clients, and I can support parents who are navigating the school and NDIS systems.
Educators
I have had an extensive career in education, which includes teaching and leading wellbeing in primary schools, and teaching both undergraduate and master’s students at university. TBC…