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What is Counselling?

Counselling is the process of supporting a person to move in the direction they want. Counselling can offer a place to explore challenges from fresh perspectives and facilitate positive change. People seek counselling for all sorts of issues, including relationship and parenting concerns, depression, anxiety, stress, disordered eating and body image issues and abuse. Counselling can be optimistic and hopeful without minimising the very real difficulties and challenges that people face.

My work is informed by narrative ideas.
Narrative therapy seeks to be a respectful, non-blaming approach to counselling and community work, which centres people as the experts in their own lives. It views problems as separate from people and assumes people have many skills, competencies, beliefs, values, commitments and abilities that will assist them to reduce the influence of problems in their lives.
Alice Morgan from http://dulwichcentre.com.au/what-is-narrative-therapy/

My counselling work also includes some specialist work with eating issues. For more information on this aspect of my work please click here.
What should I expect?
  • Confidential, respectful conversations
  • A collaborative, negotiated style of working and invitations to give feedback
  • An opportunity to talk about the things that are important to you
  • Increased ability over time to manage stressful situations and difficulties
  • Growing sense of what is possible
  • A focus on your skills, strengths, resources and insight

Contact me to request an appointment or if you’d like more information.
Counselling fees:
  • Fee:  1 hr / $120    
  • I work a mix of online / face to face appointments – with Thursdays generally being my ‘in person’ day and Fridays online. 
  • I offer a number of lower cost counselling appointments through the Auckland Women's Centre for more information see http://awc.org.nz/what-we-do/counselling/
  • Please give at least 24hrs notice to cancel or reschedule
Links:
If you need immediate support the Mental Health Foundation have resources listed on their site.