What does counselling offer you?
“Psychotherapy and Counselling are professional activities that utilise an interpersonal relationship to enable people to develop self-understanding and to make changes in their lives.”
- Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia
Rather than diagnose and treat mental illness, counselling is about assisting people with normal difficulties of life and mild to moderate mental health problems and is best placed to assist people with developing and improving their well-being.

In other words, the process of counselling is to share a journey of discovering new ways of thinking which will help alleviate distress caused by the difficulties of life.

Why Seek Counselling?


Sometimes people seek counselling in an hour of desperate need. Sometimes it is simply an opportunity to process thoughts and debrief in a confidential, non-judgmental environment. 

Sometimes we have exhausted all our mental and relational resources on trying to overcome a certain issue and we accept that we are in need of a helping hand.  

Sometimes the issues we are dealing with are too private to share with those around us and so we can find an outlet in a professional counselling environment.

Whatever the case, wherever you are in your journey, strength can be gained from understanding that everything in life flows through seasons. 

Change is inevitable, and everyone faces challenges throughout their lives.  We have the choice to either hide from it or move through it intentionally. 

Counselling offers you the opportunity to receive guidance from a fresh perspective and move into the next season of your life with some extra life skills to make sure it is more effective and meaningful than the last.

"Change is inevitable.
Growth is optional.”

- JOHN C. MAXWELL

Counselling Works
A huge amount of research has proven that people who receive therapy overcome distressing thoughts and circumstances at a better rate than those who don't.
"There is unequivocal evidence that, on average, psychological therapies have a positive effect on people’s mental health and wellbeing.  Almost eight out of ten individuals who participate in counselling or psychotherapy improve to a greater extent than the average person who does not participate in therapy." *
Counselling has even in many instances been found to have better long term improvements over medication treatments:
"While there are some studies which suggest that drugs produce a faster initial response, once therapy comes to an end, the evidence suggests that many psychological therapies have a more enduring effect."
* Cooper M. (2008). Essential Research Findings in Counselling and Psychotherapy, The Facts are Friendly