Counselling Services

Step 1: Referral Form

By providing details in the referral form, we can establish a file for you in preparation for our service. Any supporting documents from your GP or Psychologist will assist us in understanding your needs.

Face to Face, Phone Consult, Zoom

Our Process

Step 2: Meet and Greet

This session is important for us to get to know each other. We need to build a level of trust to begin building our therapeutic alliance. We need to demonstrate that we have your best interests at heart.

We will discuss your mental health condition with you, i.e. depression, anxiety, Grief and Loss. We will look to establish a treatment plan to meet your goals and objectives to ensure we are giving you the support you need.

Step 3: Onboarding

1.        Send an email with the intake form attached. Access to an Online document for easy completion and signing (we can talk you through this to make life easier)

2.        Send an email with the confidentiality agreement attached. (Signature required)

3.        Send the finalisation of our service agreement. Signature required. Must be copied to ‘you’ ‘NDIS’ or ‘Plan Manager.

Step 4: Support Begins

We will listen to you very closely and without judgment. We use a predominately person-centred approach with absolute positive regard.

“Person-centred therapy operates on the humanistic belief that the client is inherently driven toward and has the capacity for growth and self-actualization; it relies on this force for therapeutic change.[3] The role of the counsellor is to provide a nonjudgmental environment conducive to honest self-exploration”.

Person-led Approach

NSW Health suggests that a person-led approach:

  • Supports the person, at the ‘centre of the service’, to be involved in making decisions about their life

  • Considers each person’s life experience, age, gender, culture, heritage, language, beliefs and identity

  • Requires flexible services and support to suit the person’s wishes and priorities.

  • is strengths-based, where people are acknowledged as the experts in their lives with a focus on what they can do first and any help they need second

  • includes the person’s support networks as partners.

A person-led approach should support and enable a person to build and keep control over their life.