Heal and Transform Your Life with Mindful Counselling
What is Counselling?
Counselling is a collaborative talk therapy with a trained, professional counsellor to address personal or psychological challenges, to improve well-being, promote personal growth and achieve goals. We all face issues and challenges in our lives and sometimes we can't move on. Our individual counselling service is solution focussed and provides a supportive and non-judgmental environment where you can explore your thoughts and feelings, gain insights into your behaviour, and develop strategies for positive change.
Counselling is all about you.
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What's Counselling Like?
Counselling is a ‘talk therapy’ that's totally focussed on you.
A counsellor is trained to work with your unique circumstances and provides unbiased and judgement-free support.
Counselling can provide:
· Validation and support for what you are feeling and experiencing
· A safe place to express your thoughts, feelings, fears and inner conflicts
· A break from life pressures so you can think, explore, plan and create
· A safe place to feel understood and to understand your thoughts, feelings, experiences and actions
· A way to separate your feelings, emotions and experiences from your intrinsic self
· Strategies to break free from the past and achieve the solutions and the life you long for.
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What to Expect in a Session
We always start with a few minutes of comfortable chat to help you to relax and move from your day into the counselling space.
Our sessions will move from that comfortable conversation to what’s been happening since we last met, what strategies worked, what’s changed, and how you are feeling generally.
You may want to dive in deep straight away or take it slowly.
What topics we discuss is always up to you: the focus is always on your priorities.
You will leave with new insights and strategies to help you overcome challenges and achieve your goals.
Your initial session will be a bit longer as we go through the housekeeping things: our agreement, terms and conditions and what you want out of counselling.
Your initial session with run for 1 hour and 15 minutes, all other sessions will run for 45 minutes.
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Our Approach to Counselling
We use evidence-based techniques and the most effective strategy from several approaches to best suit your unique situation and goals.
We provide a solution focussed approach and may include strategies and concepts from:
· Solutions Focussed Brief Therapy (SFBT)
· Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)
· Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Whatever strategy we use, we will:
· Meet you where you are, without judgement or expectations
· Respect your decisions and collaborate with you to find the best choice
· Provide support through talk therapy with strategies, education and tools
· Be genuinely interested in you, your unique story and experiences,
· Support you to achieve your hopes, dreams and desires
· Provide a safe space for you to explore life with openness, honesty, respect, support and accountability
Our Counsellor is trained and a member of the Australian Counselling Association.
Counselling for Specific Life Challenges
Anxiety Counselling
Our anxiety counselling services are designed to help you overcome fear, stress, and anxiety and live comfortably with uncertainty, overcoming the debilitation that anxiety brings. You can explore your fears and triggers in a supportive and non-judgmental environment which will allow you to explore your thoughts and feelings, gain insights into your behaviour, and develop strategies to manage your mild anxiety.
Depression Counselling
Our depression counselling services can help you overcome feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and despair. Counselling can provide support for mild depression by exploring your thoughts, emotions and behaviours and developing strategies for change, relief and to manage your depression.
Trauma Counselling
Traumatic events happen and leave us with effects we don't want to experience. We use evidence-based techniques to help you heal from the psychological and behavioural impact of trauma. We provide a safe and supportive environment where you can explore your experiences and develop strategies to move forward into the life you want.
Stress Counselling
Stress can be debilitating; overwork and difficult circumstances can deplete our resources and leave us exhausted and unable to cope with day to day life. Counselling will provide support for you to identify your strengths and resources, develop strategies to overcome obstacles and rebalance the demands on you and your time and reduce the stress so you can thrive.
Grief Counselling
Losing someone you love is one of life's hardest times. Grief counselling will help you cope with the loss of a loved one. You can explore your loss and feelings and how that's affecting your daily life. You will gain insight into your behaviour, and develop strategies to manage your grief, to adapt to your loss and move forward.
Loss Counselling
Loss of jobs, homes and other things precious to us can cause us to grieve. Counselling around loss will help to process the feelings and emotions around your loss, you can explore your loss and feelings and how that's affecting your daily life. You will gain insight into your behaviour, and develop strategies to manage your grief, to adapt to your loss and move forward in a supportive and caring therapeutic relationship.
Self-Esteem Counselling
Our self-esteem contributes to a healthy sense of self-worth and confidence. Counselling can help you build a stronger more positive self-esteem, providing guidance and support to help you identify negative self-talk, develop self-compassion, and improve your relationships with your self and others.
Personal Growth Counselling
We have times when we know we need to grow to improve the quality of our lives. When you need help to achieve your full potential and live a more fulfilling life. counselling will provide guidance and support to help you identify your strengths and weaknesses, set goals, and develop strategies to achieve them.
Positive Psychology Counselling
Life can be challenging and difficult, work stress, family problems, global situations can all bring us down. Counselling can help you develop a more positive outlook on life by using evidence-based techniques to help you cultivate gratitude, resilience, and optimism, and improve your overall well-being.
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Book a complementary call to experience what working with us will be like. You can book by texting, calling or online:
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Where and How
We are in Cairns and offer face to face counselling sessions in our private counselling studio in Manunda.
We offer online sessions via Zoom for clients in the rest of Australia.
You can book online or call or text.
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Who
Your counsellor is Sam (Shirley) Charlton, she has been in allied health for 40 plus years and has followed her passion for helping people by re-training as a counsellor.
Sam brings personal experience of depression, anxiety, post-natal depression and bi-polar disorder to her work.
She is a daughter, wife and mother to 2 adult children and brings to the role of counsellor a wide and varied life experience.
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Australian Counselling Association Member
Sam is a member of the Australian Counselling Association (member number 26600). She works within the Code of Ethics and is committed to undertaking professional development and supervision.
Sam completed her Diploma of Counselling with the Australian Institue of Professional Counsellors.
She also holds many other qualifications:
Diploma of Strategic Coaching (Institute of Applied Psychology)
Certificate in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (Institute of Applied Psychology)
Diploma in Counselling (Australian Institute of Professional Counsellors)
Diploma in Sustainability (TAFE QLD)
Diploma in Management (TAFE QLD)
Diploma in Optical Dispensing (Guild of Dispensing Opticians)
Diploma in Business (Dymond Institute)
Advanced Diploma in Marketing (Dymond Institute)
Diploma Training Design and Development (TAFE QLD)
Diploma in Vocational Education and Training (TAFE QLD)