What is Psychotherapy?

Individuals  Couples  Families
Face to Face & Online Sessions available

Psychotherapy is a professional, safe space for people to talk about their own struggles and invest in their emotional and psychological wellbeing. Everybody experiences hardship at various times in their life. Often people will try to solve their own difficulties by themselves or with family & friends. If these efforts have not worked, then people usually seek out a Professional Therapist for a period of time. Talking with a Professional Therapist is very different to talking with people in your own life. Sessions are non judgemental, confidential and a safe place to talk over a range of issues. Building trust and value in a therapeutic relationship with all clients.

People may book a few sessions to talk over some personal difficulties in their life and apply some strategies they may not have thought of before. Often people do Counselling & Therapy for a block of time ranging from 3 months to 12 months. These blocks offer more time to address the issues, hardships & heartaches presented. These blocks also allow the necessary integration and resourcing a person can apply into their life. Counselling and Psychotherapy offers people a confidential, safe place where they can he heard, understood, resourced and apply a wide range of strategies to areas such as their personal life, relationships, family, social & work life.

Couples Counselling provides sessions to attend to communication & relationship break down, conflicts and crises in a relationship/marriage. Sessions provide couples with a non judgmental place to talk and understand each other better. De-escalation & damage control strategies can be applied. The role of the therapist is to assist the couple to move forward in a constructive way and find better understanding about their relationship. 

Family Therapy provides sessions for one or both of the parents to attend to the concerns for their child/children. A range of strategies can be applied for the parents to implement into their family life. This can include effective ways to engage and communicate with your child. Parents know their children better than anyone else. Therefore, it can often be more effective for the parents to address their concerns in sessions and then apply the insights and resources from sessions within the family home. 

No GP referrals required

Fifteen years of Clinical experience.

Why Book a Session?

People may book a session for reasons such as:

Relationship / Marriage Conflicts:
Communication issues, relationship breakdown, conflicts & arguments, blended family dynamics, affairs, working out whether a couple wants to stay together or wants resourcing with separation/divorce

Trauma:
Range of traumatic experiences from past or present, complex trauma, PTSD

Loneliness:
Isolation, despair, depression, loss of meaning in life

Anxiety:
Worries, life pressures, panic attacks, distraught feelings
Parenting:
Concerns for your child, communication issues, social media influences, isolation & dis-engagement, self-harm, rebellious, risk taking, not sure whether your child should have a mental health assessment or not (what are the options), resourcing parents to better understand & engage with their child/children through Pre School, Primary School, High School, University & these different phases of your child’s life

Grief:
Past or present. Loss of a loved one

Work Issues:
Conflicts, communication issues, harassment, colleagues, management

Services

Short term Counselling & medium to long term Clinical Psychotherapy for Individuals

Couples Counselling

Family Counselling

Support & Discussion Groups



Professional ~ Confidential
No GP referrals required



I have used a butterfly image as part of my logo. This image symbolises change and growth. I was inspired to use this image from a butterfly that resides in the Blue Mountains, the Swallowtail butterfly (Graphium macleayanum). This butterfly with brilliant green and purple colouring can be seen during the summer months.

 

“Our main task is to fulfill our deep innate potential, much as the acorn contains the potential to become the oak, the caterpillar to become the butterfly”

Carl Jung

Address: Level 1, 98-108 Bathurst Road, Katoomba NSW 2780
Blue Mountains Therapies 2020