Counselling in Boronia, VIC

Melbourne Sandplay and Expressive Therapies provides a safe space for you to explore your inner psyche and find peace and healing through deep therapeutic engagement. Sandplay is the ideal mode to heal from trauma and find your own inner resources. Guided drawing also helps you engage your body “knowing” to guide you towards healing. I would be honoured to share your healing journey with you.

For any individual attending counselling, it can be quite a vulnerable and challenging experience. My aim is to ensure that you feel comfortable and safe from the beginning and to demonstrate that in sessions there is no judgement nor negativity, but rather a collaborative approach towards the goals you want. This may include improving mood, self-esteem, motivation, coping styles or gaining understanding and awareness of your own mental health. Counselling for me is about unconditional support to ensure we are actively discussing aspects of your life that may be impacting you, with therapy tailored specifically to you.

If you're struggling with shame, anxiety, or existential concerns related to your religious background (whether you have left your religious community or are still happily a part of it), I'm here to help you move forward. Religion plays a huge role shaping our understanding of ourselves, our values, and the world around us. It can be a daunting but incredibly rewarding journey to open these ideas up for examination. My goal is to provide you with a safe, supportive space to explore, deconstruct, and create new understandings that feel true to who you are.

I find purpose in helping people with: anxiety, depression, men's ill-health, self-esteem, overwhelm and intense emotions, and various life adjustments. I have availability to take on new clients right now.

Steps to Soar helps children to adults identify qualities to cope with life challenges, gain insight to visualise what they want, and foster belief in their capacity to attain it. Committed to promoting self-understanding, self-belief and well-being in a friendly, inclusive environment using integrative, evidence-based practices and strategies. Clients are assisted to explore factors impacting them/their relationships, how they might move towards helpful habits, learn skills and ways of coping to improve their quality of life. Family collaboration underpins support for child and adolescent development.

I work via Zoom to help women who have experienced abuse, grief and loss to release the trauma they hold in their minds and bodies so they can live their best lives. I work in a gentle and safe way at your own pace so that you take back your power and self-trust. I use both talk therapy (CBT) and Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). Trauma is not in the event itself but how a person experiences that event. What may appear a minor incident to one person can trigger a major emotional response for another. People can recover from trauma when their physical, cognitive and emotional selves become integrated again.

Autism Counselling is a group of 6 experienced therapists who deliver specifically tailored sessions to suit children, teens, adults , couples and families affected by Autism Spectrum Disorder. We are dedicated to helping individuals and families manage the specific challenges of ASD.

Phil Burns is a highly skilled and regarded counsellor with many years of experience in the field. Phil is committed to allowing clients the space and time to discover who they really are and what makes them unique. By assisting them to see their attributes and define their personal values, they are able to view life through a new lens and overcome the challenges they face. By allowing clients to define what works and doesn’t work for them, they are then able to decide the next step in their journey

Hello! I am Paulina. As an integrative counsellor, I am passionate about helping individuals overcome a variety of psychological and emotional issues. My background in humanities and psychology, as well as my experience of living in multiple countries, has given me a unique perspective on the importance of addressing not only the mind but also the body and lifestyle habits in the healing process. My goal is to create a safe and non-judgmental space where clients can explore their feelings, thoughts, and behaviours, and work towards achieving a greater sense of self-awareness and well-being.

With over 20 years’ experience in the people helping field, including workplace critical incident; employee assistance program (EAP); 12-step recovery; peer education and support; and group facilitation. Tim is a caring and empathetic counsellor who journeys with people as they learn about themselves. Tim understands the many challenges life can bring and has significant lived experience over a range of issues including physiological trauma; depression; men’s issues; relationships; miscarriage and infant loss; sexuality; and childhood sexual abuse. Tim works with clients to help them identify and move toward their preferred life.

Feeling out of sorts? Relationships not working? People not understanding? Feeling alone? Wanting to change life, change relationships, change patterns of behaviour? I can assist you in clarifying your thought patterns and develop new strategies to enjoy positive and emotional wellbeing in your daily life including your relationship with others. Managing issues relating to Child abuse? Family violence? Sexual assault? Experiencing Post Traumatic Stress disorder that leaves you feeling confused, dissociated, angry, highly anxious or fearful? Together we can work through these issues and regain a sense of emotional wellbeing

At Ultimate Success and Wellbeing Psychology, I deliver a range of services for children, adolescents, adults, couples, families and groups. These include anxiety, depression, psychiatric disorders, adjustment disorders, grief and loss, trauma, interpersonal conflicts, mediation, domestic violence Issues, critical incident stress management debriefing and anger and behaviour management. I have been registered as a psychologist for over 15 years and have held a variety of roles including managing a counselling and youth team as well as several mental health teams.

I like to focus my clinical work on helping my clients work out what’s preventing them from getting on with what they want to achieve in life, and supporting them as they overcome those obstacles. Whether they're dealing with a clinical diagnosis like depression or anxiety, unhealthy relationship patterns or severe situational stresses. I strongly believe that whatever a client wants to work on, a trusting and collaborative therapeutic relationship is the most important factor in working towards positive change in any area of life and that's what I aim to provide.

I am dedicated to providing clients with a trauma-informed and person centred approach to clients experiencing mental health concerns such as anxiety, depression, post traumatic and complex trauma. I believe that "change can be hard at first, seems messy in the middle, but gorgeous in the end". I see my role is to listen, to provide a non-judgemental space, to provide empathy and build a strong therapeutic relationship to assist clients to overcome life's challenges. I work with clients collaboratively and therapeutically to establish personalised goals and develop strategies to assist in overcoming obstacles.

I am Professional Counsellor and Narcissistic Trauma Informed Coach. I have been Counselling in private practice in the Knoxfield Vic area for over 20 years. I am a Counselling Supervisor with the Australian Counselling Association (ACA). I specialise in guiding those that have been on the receiving end of Narcissistic abuse (because it is abuse), to help them create steps to live their authentic life. The Trauma from Narcissistic abuse lives in our body - from when we were first abused or traumatised.

Camila is the Principal Clinical Psychologist at The Healing Mind Hub and the Senior Clinical Psychologist at Aspect Clinic. Camila is a member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS) and is also a Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician. Camila is interested in working with women and the LGBTQIA+ community aiming to provide her clients with a safe and inclusive environment. Camila is also experienced in working with clients aged 15 years and above who are experiencing life stressors, self-esteem difficulties, anxiety, depression, adjustment difficulties, social/emotional difficulties, and grief and loss.

Dr Rashika Gomez is a Clinical Psychologist and has been working in private practice since 2010. She is experienced in working across a diversity of patient demographics and needs. She has previously worked at the University of Melbourne, the Royal Children’s Hospital, the Monash Medical Centre, and Foundation House.