Counselling & Psychotherapy Sydney CBD

Psychotherapy for personal development

Individual counselling and therapy can benefit anyone at any stage of life. Often people seek out counselling when they are going through difficult moments in life, and want greater support and opportunity to talk through the challenges they are facing.

Psychotherapy can help you process and heal previous traumas, identify where you may be stuck in old habits or patterns and remove obstacles such as limiting beliefs which may be holding you back

Having a confidential and supportive space to explore options and talk about personal issues can be invaluable at these difficult moments.

How Therapy Can Help

Therapy can help in working through a decision, in accessing support and compassion when coping with painful emotions and experiences, or in processing previous traumatic events. .

It may also be that you don’t know what the issue is - you just have a sense that life could be better. Find support to access the changes, decisions and choices that are right for you.

Common presenting concerns include anxiety, depression, past trauma including childhood trauma, grief and loss, general discontent, relational issues, parenting concerns, stress management, substance misuse, spiritual development.

Psychotherapy Approach

My counselling approach is positive, supportive and guided by you. It is important to talk through your initial reason for coming and hopes for change after our sessions. These reasons and hopes are often very individual and personal, and the outcome from the initial meetings can be varied.

My approach is one of empathy and challenge – first and foremost I want you to feel safe and understood. I also want to help you grow and expand and look to new possibilities, new options, new ways of being.  

Therapy is collaborative and unfolds at your pace, in your time. 

I believe in the importance of empowering you to determine your best course of action, blended with the most up to date knowledge and research for you to consider and reflect on. I work holistically and attend to the mind-body-spirit parts of your life. My approach includes a variety of techniques - cognitive, behavioural, experiential, mindfulness, memory processing and work with the body.

Positive Psychology - Being the Best You

Not able to move forward with your plans and goals in life in the way you want or expect?

Therapy can help you work out the obstacles and personal schemas or habits which might be holding you back.

Grow the best parts of yourself, find the voice and person that is uniquely you.

Positive psychology focuses on wellbeing and satisfaction and how to create a meaningful, satisfying life.   

The focus is on how to cultivate the best in your life, to focus and give attention to what matters most to you, and where to put your energy and resources to achieve the outcomes you want.   It is about what makes you thrive.

Focus on strategies to enhance your wellbeing

• Create more satisfying and rewarding relationships in your life

• Identify and know your character strengths and use these for greater individual wellbeing, more relationship satisfaction, growing resilience and ways to better deal with stress and challenges in life.

• Identifying important values and living in accordance with these

• Incorporating behaviours into everyday life that enhance

Positive psychology research identifies 24 character strengths that make up our personality – such as courage, leadership, honesty, and kindness.  We all have the 24 strengths in our personalities, although each person has their own unique mix of strength of the character qualities. Identify your character strengths here