Addiction Counselling in Ballarat Central, VIC
Chris Long Clinical Psychologist
Psychologist, PsyBA - Clin. Psych
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Online Only
I take pride in working with people to support them to achieve their goals and to lead a fulfilling life. I commit to individualised and evidence-based practice, which means holding you as the client at the centre of therapeutic work whilst providing psychotherapy supported by clinical research. I have experience working with across the lifespan, and use treatments including: CBT, DBT, Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT), and mindfulness-based approaches. These are treatments used for working on depression, anxiety, trauma, obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorders, ADHD, substance use, chronic pain and personality disorders.
I take pride in working with people to support them to achieve their goals and to lead a fulfilling life. I commit to individualised and evidence-based practice, which means holding you as the client at the centre of therapeutic work whilst providing psychotherapy supported by clinical research. I have experience working with across the lifespan, and use treatments including: CBT, DBT, Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT), and mindfulness-based approaches. These are treatments used for working on depression, anxiety, trauma, obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorders, ADHD, substance use, chronic pain and personality disorders.
I offer therapy Australia-wide that provides a safe space for you to uncover the root-cause of issues (trauma, anxiety, depression, relationship issues, addiction, grief & other recurring patterns, cycles & challenges), so that you can finally heal from the past & therefore transform your future.
Are you tired of only just surviving & ready to start thriving? Do you want to understand your inner experience - thoughts, beliefs, emotions, behaviours & why they are the way that they are? Are you ready to feel empowered in your life & relationships? Do you want to become more balanced, peaceful, secure & connected in all areas of life? Well, I love helping people with this! I offer a combination of both talk therapy & somatic therapy. I also offer a 12 session structured program that comes with in-between session work to really dig in & dive deep into your subconscious programming.
I offer therapy Australia-wide that provides a safe space for you to uncover the root-cause of issues (trauma, anxiety, depression, relationship issues, addiction, grief & other recurring patterns, cycles & challenges), so that you can finally heal from the past & therefore transform your future.
Are you tired of only just surviving & ready to start thriving? Do you want to understand your inner experience - thoughts, beliefs, emotions, behaviours & why they are the way that they are? Are you ready to feel empowered in your life & relationships? Do you want to become more balanced, peaceful, secure & connected in all areas of life? Well, I love helping people with this! I offer a combination of both talk therapy & somatic therapy. I also offer a 12 session structured program that comes with in-between session work to really dig in & dive deep into your subconscious programming.
Heart and Hope Counselling
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, AASW
Verified Verified
Ballarat Central, VIC 3350
I provide counselling, therapy and social work services in both the Newport and Footscray areas. I provide supportive, empathic and flexible responses to individual needs, taking the body, mind and soul into consideration. I have over twenty years of general counselling experience and have particular expertise in grief and loss, trauma, depression, anxiety, mental health issues and working with many other concerns. I am passionate about holding the hope and working from the heart as well as utilising diverse knowledge and skills. It is important to me that counselling is accessible and affordable to people who need it.
I provide counselling, therapy and social work services in both the Newport and Footscray areas. I provide supportive, empathic and flexible responses to individual needs, taking the body, mind and soul into consideration. I have over twenty years of general counselling experience and have particular expertise in grief and loss, trauma, depression, anxiety, mental health issues and working with many other concerns. I am passionate about holding the hope and working from the heart as well as utilising diverse knowledge and skills. It is important to me that counselling is accessible and affordable to people who need it.
Counselling and Supervision Services. Providing face to face, phone and online support Australia wide. Are you feeling stuck, trapped, lost, or alone? It can feel like you are lost in a forest not knowing which way to turn. We are here to help. Healing Mindz provides counselling and supervision to help you learn about and process the heavy weight you are carrying. It is time to unburden yourself, and get through the stuckness.
Counselling and Supervision Services. Providing face to face, phone and online support Australia wide. Are you feeling stuck, trapped, lost, or alone? It can feel like you are lost in a forest not knowing which way to turn. We are here to help. Healing Mindz provides counselling and supervision to help you learn about and process the heavy weight you are carrying. It is time to unburden yourself, and get through the stuckness.
I have 20 years experience with complex mental health issues across the age spectrum. I offer a kind, empathetic service to families and individuals using my skills as a family therapist and mental health clinician. I welcome individuals and families who represent marginalised communities, (neurodiverse, LGBTQIA, culturally diverse, and anyone who has ever been “othered”) and provide a service that is inclusive and affirming whilst utilising an anti racist and decolonized lens.
I have 20 years experience with complex mental health issues across the age spectrum. I offer a kind, empathetic service to families and individuals using my skills as a family therapist and mental health clinician. I welcome individuals and families who represent marginalised communities, (neurodiverse, LGBTQIA, culturally diverse, and anyone who has ever been “othered”) and provide a service that is inclusive and affirming whilst utilising an anti racist and decolonized lens.
Boundless Minds Therapy
Psychologist, PsyBA General
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Ballarat Central, VIC 3350
Hi, I'm Jordan and I am a registered Psychologist located in Ballarat, Victoria. I work with people over the age of 16 in enhancing the quality of their life, from boosting their confidence, building healthier relationships to finding more meaning and purpose in their lives. Supporting people to achieve their mental health goals by empowering them to overcome personal challenges and build resilience is something I'm passionate about.
Hi, I'm Jordan and I am a registered Psychologist located in Ballarat, Victoria. I work with people over the age of 16 in enhancing the quality of their life, from boosting their confidence, building healthier relationships to finding more meaning and purpose in their lives. Supporting people to achieve their mental health goals by empowering them to overcome personal challenges and build resilience is something I'm passionate about.
KIT Psychology
Psychologist, MPsych, PsyBA - Clin. Psych
Verified Verified
Ballarat Central, VIC 3350
Hello, my name is Kelly. I am a clinical psychologist offering therapeutic, evidence-based interventions to young people and adults struggling with their mental health and wellbeing within my practice at KIT Psychology. I have a special interest in neurodiversity (including ADHD and Autism) and enjoy using creative therapies as an adjunct to traditional talk-therapies and EMDR therapy.
Hello, my name is Kelly. I am a clinical psychologist offering therapeutic, evidence-based interventions to young people and adults struggling with their mental health and wellbeing within my practice at KIT Psychology. I have a special interest in neurodiversity (including ADHD and Autism) and enjoy using creative therapies as an adjunct to traditional talk-therapies and EMDR therapy.
Hello I'm Michelle. I am an ACA registered counsellor and ICF registered life coach. In my practice, I work alongside young people & adults to support them in navigating life’s challenges, achieving desired improvements in their mental health, wellbeing, relationships and life circumstances. I have a gentle, compassionate nature and provide a comfortable, discreet space where my clients feel safe and supported to share, grow and connect with inner wisdom. My approach is intuitive, flexible and strengths-based, often solution-focussed and always person centred around an individual’s unique interests, values and hopes for the future.
Hello I'm Michelle. I am an ACA registered counsellor and ICF registered life coach. In my practice, I work alongside young people & adults to support them in navigating life’s challenges, achieving desired improvements in their mental health, wellbeing, relationships and life circumstances. I have a gentle, compassionate nature and provide a comfortable, discreet space where my clients feel safe and supported to share, grow and connect with inner wisdom. My approach is intuitive, flexible and strengths-based, often solution-focussed and always person centred around an individual’s unique interests, values and hopes for the future.
Hi I'm Mark, a counsellor who works with people dealing with anxiety, depression, relationship stress and traumas. Together we can begin to look for the gems in your character that can be the beginning of your recovery. Enhanced self-esteem and better relationships, ultimately leads to better life outcomes.
Hi I'm Mark, a counsellor who works with people dealing with anxiety, depression, relationship stress and traumas. Together we can begin to look for the gems in your character that can be the beginning of your recovery. Enhanced self-esteem and better relationships, ultimately leads to better life outcomes.
Book a FREE 10 minute discovery call. Consulting Rooms in Ballarat and Stawell. Focusing on the needs of individuals in smaller communities and country towns, where there is generally fewer resources available for those who need support. Using a person-centered approach, I work with client on relationships, conflict resolution, trauma, behaviour, adolescents, mental health disorders, mindfulness and Cultural Counselling. I am very much community-minded. Welcome NDIS self-managed clients. Every situation is different, while I have a base rate, please contact me to ask how I can assist you if financial difficulty is an issue.
Book a FREE 10 minute discovery call. Consulting Rooms in Ballarat and Stawell. Focusing on the needs of individuals in smaller communities and country towns, where there is generally fewer resources available for those who need support. Using a person-centered approach, I work with client on relationships, conflict resolution, trauma, behaviour, adolescents, mental health disorders, mindfulness and Cultural Counselling. I am very much community-minded. Welcome NDIS self-managed clients. Every situation is different, while I have a base rate, please contact me to ask how I can assist you if financial difficulty is an issue.
Centre Self Collective - EMDR Intensives
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, AMHSW
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Ballarat Central, VIC 3350
Hi, I’m Tamera, an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker and Accredited EMDR therapist, and co-founder of Centre Self Collective, with locations in Brunswick, Melbourne, and Daylesford. If you’re here, you may be dealing with anxiety, relationship issues, self-esteem challenges, mood difficulties, or trauma. You’re not alone, and the right support is available. With over 12 years of experience, my practice is deeply rooted in social work practice and clinical excellence. I’m committed to providing evidence-based care that brings meaningful, lasting change.
Hi, I’m Tamera, an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker and Accredited EMDR therapist, and co-founder of Centre Self Collective, with locations in Brunswick, Melbourne, and Daylesford. If you’re here, you may be dealing with anxiety, relationship issues, self-esteem challenges, mood difficulties, or trauma. You’re not alone, and the right support is available. With over 12 years of experience, my practice is deeply rooted in social work practice and clinical excellence. I’m committed to providing evidence-based care that brings meaningful, lasting change.
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Mind Mosaics Psychology
Psychologist, MSc, PsyBA General
Verified Verified
Ballarat Central, VIC 3350
Mind Mosaics works with varied client presentations from general anxiety, depression to complex trauma providing them a safe and a non-judgmental space. Harpreet at Mind Mosaics offers counselling services to various age groups from teenage to elders and holds a research background in lifespan wellbeing. She practices a client centred Feedback Informed Treatment. Often clients respond well to treatment if they are psycho- educated, have goals clarity and holds a shared responsibility in the treatment.
Mind Mosaics works with varied client presentations from general anxiety, depression to complex trauma providing them a safe and a non-judgmental space. Harpreet at Mind Mosaics offers counselling services to various age groups from teenage to elders and holds a research background in lifespan wellbeing. She practices a client centred Feedback Informed Treatment. Often clients respond well to treatment if they are psycho- educated, have goals clarity and holds a shared responsibility in the treatment.
Steph Biggs Psychology is a telehealth-only private practice offering support for people wishing to more completely understand their unique strengths and challenges. My aim is to help you explore and heal from the things getting in the way of living a fulfilled, meaningful and contented life. I am an AHPRA-registered psychologist with nearly two decades of clinical experience across the public and private mental health, alcohol and other drug, and emergency services sectors.
Steph Biggs Psychology is a telehealth-only private practice offering support for people wishing to more completely understand their unique strengths and challenges. My aim is to help you explore and heal from the things getting in the way of living a fulfilled, meaningful and contented life. I am an AHPRA-registered psychologist with nearly two decades of clinical experience across the public and private mental health, alcohol and other drug, and emergency services sectors.
Siobhan is a caring and compassionate psychologist/EMDR practitioner who works with clients experiencing Trauma, PTSD, Grief and Loss. Appointments available from 6 Jan 2025 online or in person. Medicare rebates available. Registered with TAC and Workcover.
Siobhan is a caring and compassionate psychologist/EMDR practitioner who works with clients experiencing Trauma, PTSD, Grief and Loss. Appointments available from 6 Jan 2025 online or in person. Medicare rebates available. Registered with TAC and Workcover.
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Anthony Varenica Psychotherapy
Counsellor, PACFA
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Golden Point, VIC 3350
My therapy room is a safe and confidential space where you can explore whatever is important to you. This may include trauma and its impact, addiction, mental health challenges, grief and loss, life stresses and relationship difficulties. I am a trauma-informed psychotherapist and I will work holistically with your thoughts, emotions, beliefs, perceptions and bodily sensations, to bring understanding to your present challenges. I view therapy as more than just talk; it’s more like a dynamic process that will help you integrate past experiences, current difficulties and future goals in a way that makes sense to you.
My therapy room is a safe and confidential space where you can explore whatever is important to you. This may include trauma and its impact, addiction, mental health challenges, grief and loss, life stresses and relationship difficulties. I am a trauma-informed psychotherapist and I will work holistically with your thoughts, emotions, beliefs, perceptions and bodily sensations, to bring understanding to your present challenges. I view therapy as more than just talk; it’s more like a dynamic process that will help you integrate past experiences, current difficulties and future goals in a way that makes sense to you.
Louise is a PACFA registered psychotherapist and holistic counsellor. Using targeted interventions, including somatic experiencing and brainspotting, I guide you through life's transitions, fostering self-discovery and growth. I support both lifelong questing and short term crisis. You may be facing uncertainty, anxiety, depression, addiction or an identity crisis. We will work on strategies to manage emotions and adapt to changing circumstances. I create a safe haven to foster self-compassion, self-understanding as you learn to self-regulate, build resilience and communicate your needs as you gain momentum back in your life.
Louise is a PACFA registered psychotherapist and holistic counsellor. Using targeted interventions, including somatic experiencing and brainspotting, I guide you through life's transitions, fostering self-discovery and growth. I support both lifelong questing and short term crisis. You may be facing uncertainty, anxiety, depression, addiction or an identity crisis. We will work on strategies to manage emotions and adapt to changing circumstances. I create a safe haven to foster self-compassion, self-understanding as you learn to self-regulate, build resilience and communicate your needs as you gain momentum back in your life.
Are you experiencing difficulties within yourself or in your relationships? How do you get through life? Do you feel things need to change? I maintain clients' mental health by helping them better understand themselves and the situations they are in so they can find peace, balance and positivity.
Are you experiencing difficulties within yourself or in your relationships? How do you get through life? Do you feel things need to change? I maintain clients' mental health by helping them better understand themselves and the situations they are in so they can find peace, balance and positivity.
Rebecca Lister
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, AMHSW
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Daylesford, VIC 3460
Rebecca has worked as a Social Worker for over 35 years and offers individual counselling, and supervision. Rebecca works from a relationship based approach to counselling and develops warm, trusting and open therapeutic relationships driven by curiosity, self-compassion, affirmation and genuine care for clients. From her many years of experience Rebecca understands that counselling and support also involves, at times, sitting with discomfort. Her skills enable her to do this in a wide range of settings without fear or judgement.
Rebecca has worked as a Social Worker for over 35 years and offers individual counselling, and supervision. Rebecca works from a relationship based approach to counselling and develops warm, trusting and open therapeutic relationships driven by curiosity, self-compassion, affirmation and genuine care for clients. From her many years of experience Rebecca understands that counselling and support also involves, at times, sitting with discomfort. Her skills enable her to do this in a wide range of settings without fear or judgement.
Woven is a safe and compassionate space where clients feel they are a person beyond their symptoms. Christine works holistically to address root causes of your challenges by weaving together her grounding in psychological science and counselling with other modalities, thereby expanding treatment options & allowing them to be tailored to the individual.
Woven is a safe and compassionate space where clients feel they are a person beyond their symptoms. Christine works holistically to address root causes of your challenges by weaving together her grounding in psychological science and counselling with other modalities, thereby expanding treatment options & allowing them to be tailored to the individual.
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Addiction Counsellors
What is the best therapy for addiction?
Addiction treatment will be tailored to the individual. People seeking help for addiction—whether with a psychotherapist, in an outpatient clinic, or in a residential program—should expect to engage in multiple types of treatments, sometimes including medication. For anyone recovering from addiction, avoiding situations in which one has typically used a substance is essential, as is the support of close connections. Since substance use disorders tend to co-occur with underlying mental health conditions such as anxiety or depression, those must also be addressed as part of any recovery plan.
How long does therapy for addiction take?
There is no set timeline for recovery from addiction. Patients and their families should expect the work to last several months, if not longer. Residential treatment programs may be based on a stay of 30, 60, or 90 days, with continuing work after release, but only about 1 percent of people are treated in such facilities. Ceasing use is just the first step; therapy to help maintain abstinence and effect behavior change must follow. The process of recovery, neuroscience has shown, involves brain cells recovering the capacity to respond to natural sources of reward and restore control over the impulse to use. Another definition of recovery is restoring voluntary control over one’s substance use and retaking all of one’s previous responsibilities.
How effective is drug addiction treatment?
Substance use disorders are treatable and remission is achievable for many who seek recovery; by some estimates, more than three-quarters of people who become addicted to alcohol or drugs recover. But that success rarely occurs quickly or on a set timeline; relapse is not only common, but many therapists and clinicians view it as a normal part of the process—not always a sign that a person has returned to addiction, but a signal that their treatment should be adjusted to help them regain control. Overall, research suggests, five years after the end of substance use, one’s risk of relapse is no greater than that of others who had not faced addiction. Other experts believe that complete abstinence is not the only measure of recovery, and that, through effective treatment, many people can learn to control their use.
How can you get addiction treatment for someone?
The most important factor in recovery from addiction is widely understood to be an individual’s commitment to change. For that reason,“interventions” in which friends and family gather to urge or force someone to begin immediate treatment often backfire; even when such efforts do lead someone to begin treatment, they may be less likely to stay than those who are self-driven. Still, family members can play an important role in supporting an individual who seeks help and can take part in family therapy as one element of a loved one’s treatment.