Healing from Trauma Counselling 

Healing after Trauma is a very personal, deep and sometimes long journey. Each of us have our own story and sometimes we need a space, a safe and warm space, so that we can process our story, understand it and step forward into a new world. It is not always a journey we can take on our own and you may have been wondering how Counselling with me to support healing after Trauma may work. 

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I have a lived experience of trauma, I have my own personal counsellor, and have done lots of healing throughout my life. I also have an extensive work history of counselling those who have experienced Trauma. I deeply believe in healing and creating a thriving life. 

 

I have worked in not for profit organisations as a Family Violence and group Facilitator, where I worked with children from the age of 5, as well as men and women who had experienced a violent person. I have also worked for a Suicide Bereavement organisation where I worked with those who were bereaved by suicide. Within these roles and during my time working in schools, and in my Private Practice I have done both short term and long term therapy with those who have experienced; Childhood trauma, Sexual Abuse, Grief and Loss, Medical Trauma, Natural Disasters, Refugees, Childhood Neglect, Religious Abuse, Physical, Emotional, Financial, Spiritual, Verbal abuse and Coercive Control. 

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Therapy for healing after trauma is a little different to General Counselling,  there is a lot of effort put into not allowing you to be re-traumatised. I am often met with surprise when I explain to people I don't need to gather a long and detailed history to do the healing work. In fact, I work with people who have not disclosed their trauma to me as they decided they wanted to work in a forward facing direction. Others who want to make sense of and process their history choose to start there, which of course is fine, each person gets to choose how they want to work. There is also the option to do a combination of each direction. 

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I often weave psycho-education (Grief models, nervous system, neuroscience, somatic, systems etc) into our sessions along with Compassion, Self-Compassion, Self Care, Storytelling, Identity work, Safety planning and Risk assessments (to help you engage safely in life again), Person Centred, Client Led, Companion Counselling. I am influenced by Poly Vagal Therapy, Emotion based therapy, Somatic Therapy - Yoga and Meditation, Acceptance, Narrative therapy, Existential Therapy. We can work with journalling, art, the felt sense, meditation, yoga and much more.  Most importantly I work at your pace, You need to feel safe and in control to heal. 

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I offer both Phone and Zoom Counselling Australia wide, and Face to Face Walk and Talk in the CBD of Melbourne. For those around the country who want to Walk and Talk we can arrange to do our sessions by phone and you can walk somewhere you feel safe close to your home.  I am often sitting in Melbourne talking to someone walking along a beach in Far North QLD or the Mornington Peninsular. I encourage you to hold your sessions in Nature - after all my whole business is named Conversations in Nature - So that may be your balcony or garden, a local park or beach, as long as you feel safe and you are not driving a car, we can discuss your options. ​​​​​​

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