Testimonials
Kym’s ability to provide a safe place to explore your feelings was so empowering and supportive. I felt heard and she opened me up to explore new possibilities within myself. I highly recommend Kym and will continue to utilise her services for counselling and coaching.
Leonie O.
Kym is a wonderful listener. She is deeply caring and has exceptional skills applying her knowledge and understanding with the heartfelt intention to enrich life.
Deborah M.
Kym’s kind, sensible and insightful manner creates an immediate sense of safety and hopefulness in the sessions. By listening carefully with compassion, warmth and wisdom; Kym supports people move towards the outcomes they most want. Kym is highly recommended for counselling and coaching which is highly effective, readily accessible and extremely professional.
Cathy M.
Kym is a compassionate and caring person. She communicates with kindness and patience and I have always found her to be a great listener. I would highly recommend Kym to help you find the courage to choose the life you want to achieve to be happy.
Liz S.
Anto C.
Kym offers a great sense of understanding and empathy towards her clients with a solution focused approach to counselling. In my experience, I always enjoy a heartfelt, judgement free conversation that provides me with comfort and often a different perspective. Thanks Kym.
Brionhy R.
Kym is very professional and has an extremely kind, caring approach. I highly recommend her.
Julie R.
Kym has a calm, soothing presence, which gave me confidence in her immediately. She was totally focused on making sure she understood my concerns and needs. It was a very empowering experience to have someone ask questions that helped me not only redefine the outcome I wanted, but also identify the next steps towards achieving it. She manages to take the overwhelm out of situations and make change manageable. She continues to be a great support. Highly recommended!
Rachel F.
Kym Madden
Counsellor and Coach
Dr Kym Madden has counselled many students, including mature age, in almost 20 years at QUT. She lectured and researched how communication makes or breaks relationships of all kinds. As a lead researcher for Giving Australia, she also interviewed many about their lives, and how their saw giving back as part of their identity.
Realising that her lifelong interest in human fulfillment was only getting stronger, she moved into Counselling to work directly with people wanting to improve their life. Her Counselling is flavoured by Coaching principles.
Kym specialises in two of the most compassionate types of counselling – Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. It is the kind of counselling that Kym had herself wanted but had a hard time finding when she was facing issues of her own.
ACT and SFBT are geared to finding a way forward, despite tough times and seemingly insurmountable obstacles, towards what is most important and meaningful for you. This kind of counselling is empathic and caring and treats you as a whole person not a set of symptoms.
One thing Kym has learned is that finding this internal compass, orienting to the outcome you really want and your values, is a key part of gaining some control in life, and for making choices in a messy, challenging world.
“Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.” – Rumi
Counselling Australia-wide, from offices at Sunshine Coast and Brisbane
When something’s bothering you, Kym offers compassionate support for moving in the direction you want.