The beginning of counselling is usually prompted by some emotional disturbance that you don’t understand how to handle.  This disturbance might be from the realisation that a long-term situation has to change; because a sudden traumatic experience like the death of loved one has happened; or maybe because you recognise patterns in your life that aren’t so pleasant. 

Geoff and Kellene have a broad range of expertise in those areas that people seek counselling for.  We hold qualifications and professional memberships in Psychology (Geoff) and Psychotherapy and Social Work (Kellene).  We have assisted many other practitioners to enter these professions through our teaching and supervision in these fields.

We have assisted so many people move forward or ease their concerns about such things as:

• Relationships – enhancing or repairing family, romantic, friendship and workplace issues that are essential to our sense of wellbeing.
• Family – exploring the family as a system that has many parts, linkages and beliefs that can be both useful in our lives, but also destructive or resistant to change if not attended to.
• Loss & grief – finding resolution and peace after the loss of a loved one or some other important object in your life is helped through ideas of journeying through grief; healing your wounded heart; personal spiritual memorials.
• Depression – helping understand the causes and various levels of depressed mood and how to find appropriate motivation and belief to change these to a more positive state of mind.
• Trauma – appreciating that trauma of all types can lead to deep emotional disturbance if appropriate steps aren’t followed to alleviate distress and re-establish beliefs of safety.
• Drugs and alcohol – exploring reasons why we might want to calm a disturbing mood or isolate ourselves from functional life through mood altering substances as well as finding ways to contain the temptation to use them.
• Anger management – rage and uproar are actually what we usually see as ’anger’, and we work to a more appropriate state of ‘doing your anger well’ to find solutions to original problems.  That is, that rage and uproar are usually an expression of something deeper being triggered, and we have a choice in how we react to this.
• Domestic violence – all violence is intolerable, and we require that such behaviour will change in couples and families we work with.  Our work helps all parties in family violence situations to participate in finding reasons for this happening; ways to eliminate it; and remaining safe while this is established. 
• Conflict management – communicating in conflict is a particular art in solving problems.  Skills can be developed to achieve greater appreciation of all the factors involved in a conflict, and how a solution might be arrived at.
• Men’s and women’s issues – not simply a Venus and Mars thing, and exploring all the beauty, power and synergy that is possible when people truly understand themselves as autonomous men and women who are part of a community.

   

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