Counselling at Tree of Life
Tree of Life Wellbeing and Counselling Counsellors are registered with the Australian Counselling Association. By utilising an ACA registered Counsellor you have peace of mind knowing they meet appropriate education and practice standards, and are accountable to a professional code of ethics and complaints procedure.
What is Counselling?
Counselling involves a safe and confidential collaboration between qualified practitioners and clients to promote mental health and wellbeing, enhance self-understanding, and resolve identified concerns.
Counselling provides individuals who would not typically benefit from standard treatment options provided by their general practitioner or psychologist, access to cost-effective complementary psychological interventions, which are responsive to the individual’s mental health needs.
Benefits of Professional Counselling
Prevents mental illness
Promotes health and wellbeing
Provides psychotherapeutic interventions for psychological difficulties
Supports people with life’s challenges
Counselling provides individuals access to a broader range of efficient and appropriate services that are safe and responsive to their presenting and emerging mental health needs.
(The text above is sourced from the Australian Counselling Association website).
Counsellors at Tree of Life use evidence-based and effective counselling approaches and interventions, such as Person-Centred Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Expressive Therapy, Mindfulness, Strengths-Based Therapy and Holistic Therapy. In a collaborative therapeutic relationship the client makes therapy goals with the counsellor and discusses a suitable way forward using counselling approaches.
Clients seek counselling for support with issues, such as anxiety, depression, stress, anger, grief and loss, increasing capacity, wellbeing, relationship issues, parenting stress, postnatal depression, suicidal thoughts, feelings of distress, self-harm, family breakdown, school refusal, spiritual/faith development and parenting issues. Clients explore behaviours, emotions, thoughts and underlying beliefs, while gaining strategies and skills for enhanced wellbeing and enlivenment.
