49a Railway Street, Merewether New South Wales 2291, Australia
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What is involved in Relationship Counselling?
Counselling Services
Couples Counselling
Having healthy relationships is a skill you can learn. Some people learn how to manage relationships early in life and some people learn much later. No matter when you learn, improving your relationship will change the quality of your life.
By having the tools to know what to do when things get difficult in relationships can provide enormous relief for people who are drowning in resentment and psychological pain.
My role is to give you these tools to help you re-establish what you both need to improve your current relationship. Your role is to implement the tools and keep practicing how to have these deeper, difficult conversations until you strengthen your relationship with what you have learnt. Eventually these learnt skills become automatic and integrated into your new way of thinking and relationship competency.
Trauma
I work with a lot individuals who have experienced trauma. I use an IFS model (internal family systems) to alleviate people of their past and often prolonged pain. This modality focuses on the different parts and resources we have within us and shows that although our past trauma has negatively impacted our life, it's not a life sentence. We can recover from our pain and put the trauma 'into the history books' and live a life without shame, pain or regret.
We use the modality to understand those parts of us that can eclipse our happiness, we see how we can understand our triggers that can become extreme and dominate our thoughts. Childhood Trauma, Single event trauma, Sexual Abuse, Physical violence and Relationship Trauma are just some of the examples of what we see and work with. To re-stablize and put these thoughts and their impact behind us we need to process the trauma through the help of a Trauma Informed and experience therapist.
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Registered Pacfa therapist
Always choose a therapist that is registered with an Australian Association to ensure your they have the relevant training and qualifications to help you through your issues.
Also FULLY VACCINATED.
My prices list
Please note that I find 1.5 hours is the ideal time required for the first few sessions to help us gain some perspective and progress from a Therapeutic perspective.
- Couples Counselling for one and half hours is $240.00
- Couples Counselling for one hour is $180.00
- Couples Counselling for two hours is $280.00 (recommended for first session)
- Individual Counselling for one hour $150
- Individual Counselling for one and half hours $180
Online Couples and Individuals are charged the same fee as face to face clients
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What can go wrong in romantic relationships
Couples and individuals often leave it so long to get help and find themselves deeply resentful and hurt after years of neglect. This constant psychological stress is very damaging to our mental and physical health. Within all romantic relationships we have expectations and it can be devastating when things go wrong. Resentment will start to outweigh the kindness, the care and support we had at the beginning.
Couples are in a dance of connection and disconnection. During long periods of disconnection it may be hard to find our way back to re-connect. As a couples therapist it is my role to help each partner come back to a place they feel safe enough to re-connect. We get into a negative cycle of interaction and together we need to develop a new approach of interaction. It is important to realise however that relationship competency requires both people in the relationship to be motivated to change.
What happens when you arrive?
You will fill out a consent form to ensure we have all the information needed to proceed. Often this is emailed to you beforehand to save time. To save time in the session you can download the form and send it prior to your session.
Testimonials
" Thank you for all your help last year. We are in a much better space at the moment and better than we have been for a very long time." Anonymous
"Thanks Diana, definitely got a lot out of our first session." Anne and partner.
"Thanks Diana for sharing this amazing information, so clever the way you sum things up" Susie and Husband
"We just can't get this level of service in the regional areas, we have to come to Newcastle to see you because it's not available elsewhere" Mr and Mrs S