Psychotherapy

Coaching is future focused and generally about setting goals, understanding strengths and working with strategies for achieving your personal or professional desires in real and measurable terms. After all, achieving something you intentionally set your sights on feels fabulous.

Psychotherapy, on the other hand, works in real and present time, to explore and understand what challenges are emerging within and around you, to raise awareness around what behavioural or thought patterns may be blocking your progress, and what past experiences may need to be resolved internally to create space for new and vital life force to flow through you.

Most people benefit from a unique blend of both.

The number of sessions required is specific to each individual. While on the rare occasion a client will book one session and feel complete, to gain true clarity and a proper understanding of your Self experience, it is likely to take some time. The journey, however, is a deeply personal and rewarding one… because it’s all about you!

In general, we recommend a course of six sessions after your initial appointment, booked in for weekly or fortnightly visits in advance. After that, we invite you to actively participate in determining whether you need ongoing sessions in order to satisfy needs around your goal achievement and/or soothing personal distress. Most people will require between 4 and 12 sessions, but more or less can sometimes be necessary.

Once you feel you have achieved your goal or tackled the issue that inspired you to book, a monthly maintenance plan is helpful for many people.

Psychotherapy & Coaching will help with most life challenges. The experience is designed to raise awareness and promote increased life choices, in particular when one is stuck. Psychotherapy is often used to treat mental health conditions, but is just as useful for those who want to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, or simply explore their existing growth edge for a richer experience of life.

Your first session is an opportunity for you to share yourself, or the thing that has been challenging you, without any risk of rejection or judgement, in a private and confidential space. That in itself can be of enormous therapeutic value for people as judgement, either real or imagined, is one of the biggest issues facing people today. Your initial visit is an opportunity for you and your therapist to get to know each other, get a handle on your issue and a sense of how best to proceed.

Some private health insurers do offer rebates for this Psychotherapy & Coaching, but you will need to check in with your individual insurance (or workers compensation) provider to find out. There is no Medicare rebate offered by the Australian Government, yet.