Support in four main areas

Get care and support for specific problems you are dealing with:

Online and phone Career counselling Grief counselling Depression Anxiety Therapy Counselling Services Sunshine Coast Gold Coast Brisbane Sydney Melbourne Adelaide Cairns Perth Australia

Relationship stress

Are you frustrated by repeated communication breakdowns? Do you feel emotionally disconnected? There may be boundary issues, or trust issues you’re struggling with. You may be feeling unloved, disrespected or profoundly disappointed in your day-to-day interactions. If you have pent up feelings and stress, these need attention.

Relationship counselling can help. It lets you build skills that allow you to be seen and heard and find common ground. I see individuals and couples around relationship stress. (Note that couples counselling sessions are in-person only).

It is common for clients to have needs that span these service areas.
Be assured that your counselling sessions are tailored to your needs.

Anxiety around work or personal situations

Is something worrying you about work? Situations that remain unresolved add a lot of stress onto our system, and we become anxious without even realizing it. Yet it affects our life: our mood, our motivation, our eating or drinking patterns, our sleeping or exercise, and our relationships with those we care about.

Counselling provides a safe space to explore the dynamics of what’s happened, and is happening, and how you can find a productive way forward.

Many other situations in life also bring stress and worry. For example, we may have self-defeating habits. We may be experiencing emotional strain from dealing with family pressures or conflict – ageing parents and how to care for them, estrangement, an unexpected diagnosis or ill health. Perhaps we are in a new stage of life, such as a new baby, relocation, divorce, retirement. We struggle with our fears, even when we see new opportunities too.

Counselling helps you to deal better with difficult situations and lessen their negative toll on our lives. However, it’s more than reducing a problem. Anxiety counselling helps us reinforce what we truly care about and act proactively.

Overwhelm and perfectionism

We can find ourselves struggling with a sense of inadequacy or not fitting in – the feeling persists even when we know, logically, that we are ok.

On the surface we have many things going for us, yet we second-guess ourselves, label ourselves and compare ourselves negatively to others. We can feel overwhelmed, striving to meet our high standards or being there for others. We may realise we are perfectionists or people pleasers, or we may just sense discomfort in our own skin.

Counselling helps us find a new healthy relationship with ourselves. We look at the thoughts we hold to be true and where these came from, as well as past needs that weren’t met and how we can be there for ourselves going forward.

Feeling stuck or cannot cope

It’s not uncommon for highly capable people, problem solvers, to hit a wall. We are stopped in our tracks because the way we’ve been going is over. Something huge and unexpected happens, or we experience burnout from an overload of small demands and problems. It can also be a sizeable inner shift: we realise in our core that our life has changed, and nothing is the same. We aren’t sure of what’s next.

Counselling helps us to step back and take stock, to get to know ourselves better, to listen to ourselves and what we are yearning for, and to use unrecognized resources to build a path forward.

It can also be a sizeable inner shift: we realise in our core that our life has changed, and nothing is the same. We aren’t sure of what’s next.

Counselling Australia-wide from Annerley, Brisbane

Find compassionate support for moving in the direction you want. Wherever you live.

Choose online or phone (in-person sessions available Annerley Brisbane)