Understand. Heal. Move forward.
Face-to-face counselling for adults across the southern Gold Coast - covering Burleigh, Tugan, Currumbin, Elanora, Tweed and Coolangatta
Location:
Coolangatta Medical Centre
All welcome - no need to be a pasient of the practice
WAYS I CAN HELP
When you need support and direction now
My approach combines evidence-based, integrative methods, including CBT, ACT, solution-focused and attachment-based approaches, with trauma-informed and depth-oriented work. Focus may be on addressing immediate concerns, developing practical strategies or exploring underlying patterns that influence how you respond to yourself, others and life’s challenges.
IMMEDIATE EMOTIONAL DISTRESS
Sometimes life gets too much and can feel overwhelming - but it doesn't have to stay that way.
Brief intervention provides immediate support, helping you find emotional stability and a way forward.
ANXIETY AND STRESS
When your mind won’t switch off and emotions feel overwhelming, there’s often more going on internally. We help with what’s driving anxiety, recognising what keeps you stuck and develop practical ways to manage emotions to feel more in control.
TRAUMA INFORMED COUNSELLING
We help you understand how past experiences influence emotions, relationships and sense of self. Through this work, you can feel more confident in who you are, respond to challenges with greater ease and build healthier, more fulfilling relationships.
RELATIONSHIP COUNSELLING
Stop having the same argument with different words.
Together, we’ll uncover what’s really driving the conflict and why you both keep walking away feeling unheard, frustrated or emotionally disconnected from each other.
EMOTIONAL REACTIONS & PATTERNS
Sometimes our response feel bigger than the situation. We can help with identifying themes and how they impact emotions and sense of self. Through this work, you can build healthier relationships and feel more confident in who you are.
INTEGRATIVE DEPTH WORK COUNSELLING
We work to uncover underlying beliefs, past experiences and subconscious patterns that influence how we think, feel and behave. These often deeply automatic responses can keep us stuck in emotional and behavioural cycles.
My approach to counselling
What drives my work as a counsellor is a deep interest in understanding why we struggle with the things we do — and what it takes to change them.
Although, I specialise in working with anxiety, trauma, grief and relationship difficulties, I believe there is often much more to these struggles than what we see on the surface.
We can go through life doing what needs to be done, maintaining relationships and getting on with things, yet still find ourselves struggling in ways we can't quite explain.
Internally we doubt ourselves, even when we have every reason not to. We find ourselves repeating the same patterns in relationships or find that past experiences continue to shape how we feel, react and relate to others long after the circumstances have changed.
These are the questions that drive my work.
Our experiences shape us in ways we don't always recognise. Over time, we develop beliefs about ourselves, expectations of others and ways of responding to the world that can become so automatic they feel like part of who we are. Some of these patterns may once have served a purpose, but can eventually hold us back, undermine our relationships or leave us struggling with the same difficulties despite our best efforts to change.
This is where I believe counselling can make a real difference.
My approach goes beyond managing symptoms or focusing solely on what's happening in the present. I draw on depth-oriented and integrative counselling to explore the underlying emotional experiences, beliefs and subconscious patterns that may be driving behaviour.
For me, the real value of this work lies in what becomes possible when we begin to understand ourselves differently. Rather than continually fighting the same battles, we can start to recognise what is happening beneath our reactions and work towards change at a deeper level.
MEET YOUR COUNSELLOR
I'm down-to-earth, relatable and open.
I focus on insight and practical change.
I'll listen carefully.
I'll ask questions that uncover what's happening beneath the surface.
I'll explain things in plain English.
My goal isn't simply to help you cope.
We’ll challenge ideas that may be keeping you stuck.
Identify and recognise what may be difficult to see on your own.
Make sense of your reactions and understand where they come from.
Understanding yourself differently gives clarity - and with greater clarity, change becomes easier to sustain.
From clients
Stop asking,
"What's wrong with me?"
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