Holistic Services - Counsellors & Art Therapists

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COUNSELLING

Bridget Pannell – Inspiring Authenticity Phone: 0423 040 718 Email: Click to send email Web: www.bridgetpannell.com Bridget has a background in people management and development, teaches at Phoenix and La Trobe University and works as a counsellor in private practice, inspiring people to lead authentic lives. She is currently completing her Phd at La Trobe University.

Catherine has qualifications in Transpersonal Counselling, Humanistic Astrology and Mythology and body centred therapies. She is  the director of Personal Harmony - seeing clients in her private practice for over 15 years.  Catherine also facilitates numerous workshops and lectures for women and couples on sensuality and feminine energy work. Catherine practices from The Phoenix Institute in the following three areas:

Transpersonal Counselling:
- dreams
- myth and ritual
- individualisation / self-actualisation
- sand play 

Transpersonal Counselling (Astrology):
- natal charts
- transits/progressions
- relationship charts
- solar returns 

Sensual Harmony Therapy (women or couples):
- communication skills
- Taoist techniques
- Tantra positions 
- intimacy / authentic relating

BE THE CHANGE THAT YOU ARE
• Overcome negative thinking
• Manage difficult emotions with integrity
• Connect with a greater sense of meaning
• Have loving relationships with family and partner
• Turn work into play
• Improve confidence in body and self
• Let go of old fears and pain and enjoy life
• Set strong personal boundaries
• Improve decision making
• Successfully navigate through non-ordinary experiences
• Develop spiritual practices to create connection, peace and understanding

Ben is a counsellor who works holistically with clients to assist them to move beyond their limitations and into their potential. This is done utilising processes that engage mind, body and spirit to expand awareness and creativity. This creates more possibilities to integrate a sense of self that is authentic to the best of who we truly are. Ben also runs Buddhist meditation and Taoist Chigong workshops in Armadale. He takes joy in sharing the process with people of all ages on their journey to create a life of freedom, love, self acceptance and fulfilment. Please visit website for more info. **Fees vary according to your means**.

Memberships: Australian Counselling Association. Australian and New Zealand Art Therapy Association, Australian Creative Arts Therapy Association. Vice Chairperson for the Art2Healing Project

Business Hours: Appointments available Monday to Friday (Saturday appointments available).

Creative arts counselling - integrating and restoring balance

As the demands of life increase, so too does our own stress levels. Even the pace of life seems to speed up as the years roll by and often times we find ourselves overwhelmed and unable to provide ourselves with the space to address our own needs. Creative Arts counselling can help you by providing you with the necessary skills to address life circumstances and facilitate change.

'Creative arts counselling' is a combination of multi modal, arts based interventions coupled with voice, movement, and psychodrama. These processes are engaged to promote authentic expression, develop insight and increase overall wellbeing.

I specialise and have an interest in: drug/alcohol addiction, psychosis, depression, anxiety, trauma, sleep disorder, resistance, abuse, relationship breakdown, life transitions, evoking passion, discovering and restoring personal meaning.

Please feel free to contact me by email or phone to enquire further about my services or make an appointment.

Paul is a Transpersonal Counsellor whose practice is centred around supporting and developing authentic connection. He has been a meditation teacher for four years and in that time has also facilitated monthly men's groups. He holds regular meditation evenings, is a guest speaker at different community groups, and is also passionately involved in educating children about the issues around bullying, and its effects. Please visit the website for more information.

***Discounts apply for Phoenix Institute students***

Raquel is a Counselling Psychologist and Hypnosis Practitioner with several years of experience working with individuals, couples and families. Raquel assists her clients across a range of issues including relationships, parenting, life changes and transitions, crises, spirituality issues, and emotional and mental health issues including depression, anxiety, stress, grief and loss, trauma and more.

Offering a holistic approach to counselling, Raquel takes seriously the notion that individuals are comprised of mind, body and soul, recognising and addressing your innate inclination to develop psychologically and spritually. Within her counselling approach, Raquel can assist you from a humanistic-psychological and transpersonal framework. This may include, for example, interpersonal therapy, psychoeducation,emotion-focused work, mindfulness practice, dream work, relaxation practice or hypnosis. Raquel's approach aims to enhance your inherent qualities, such as personal compentence, choice, self-healing potential and creativity; and to increase your capacity to become more aware, free, responsible, and life-affirming.

• Medicare rebate available • Private Health Fund rebate available • Concession rate available

Terry is a professionally registered psychological counsellor and a grounded psychotherapist with over ten years of experience with individuals and couples. His style of counselling draws upon mainstream theory and methods of counselling combined with extensive training and experience in Transpersonal and psycho-spiritual modalities. He is an initiated shaman in the tradition of the Spirit of the Earth Medicine Society and offers his services compassionately and authentically.
He has a profound interest in the journey of the soul and the growth potential of illness and the symptoms of “problems with living”. He assists his clients with common symptoms such anxiety, depression, relationships, addictions, trauma, sexuality, identity to more complex issues psychosis, spiritual emergence, terminal illness, soul loss, possession and crisis.
The following techniques are integrated into my practice;

Transpersonal Art Therapy;
* Hypnosis and guided imagery
* Mindfulness (Buddhist and non -religious)
* Altered states of consciousness and expressive arts
* Shamanic ritual and symbol work
* Dreaming and personal mythology
* Jungian archetypal and shamanic totems

Focused Psychological strategies;
* Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
* Relaxation techniques
* Psycho education
* Interpersonal therapy

* Medicare Rebates and Private Health Fund billings may apply.
* For a limited time a Free 30-Minute Introductory session

Craig is an empathetic and intuitive counsellor. He considers a meaningful, accepting and honest relationship with his clients to be a primary element of his work. He seeks to truly meet you as you are so that he can better support you in your life. The space he offers is safe and sacred, and can also be dynamic and challenging when appropriate.

As a Transpersonal Counsellor, Craig incorporates meditation, movement, artwork, imagination, emotional expression and other tools into the process. This helps move beyond thinking and talking so you can access and integrate other sources of healing, wisdom and power within you.

Relationship counselling focuses not only on healing problems in relationship, but also supporting it to be a fully flourishing and deeply meaningful part of your lives.

Craig is co-founder of Hearth, a holistic healing centre in Warrandyte. He is also co-creator of Solis, a project which focuses on men’s work and particularly the creation of deep and effective men’s circles.

The first session is cost and obligation free.

Wendy believes that it is not enough to keep your physical body healthy: we also have an emotional body, an intellectual body and a spiritual body and all must be attended to, balanced and nurtured. She believes healing happens in the here and now and through compassion and mindfulness you will discover the keys to lasting healing of the soul.

Throughout her life Wendy has worked with an enormous variety of people, from all walks of life, both here and overseas. She studied and completed the Holistic Counselling Practice diploma at Phoenix Institute in 2005/2006 and has grown her own successful private practice. Wendy is a qualified and experienced teacher and has a passion for working with adults, children and adolescents. She uses a range of creative techniques, including Sandplay that offer a way for soul to find expression beyond just words. Wendy has travelled to Switzerland and studied with Martin Kalff, son of the founder of Sandplay Dora Kalff, and is currently working towards ISST accreditation. Wendy has travelled extensively and it continues to be a source of great joy for her and fuels her celebration of life.

Big Sky Counselling can help you
• Learn more authentic ways of relating to yourself and others
• Gain clarity and the courage to make changes
• Find greater depth and meaning in your life
• Find resolutions to immediate specific issues
• Integrate grief and trauma
• Create opportunities to undertake broader self exploration
• Increase your creative potential

Sean is a counsellor who works holistically with clients to facilitate deep and lasting change. Sean’s practice is theoretically grounded in over a decade of study and exploration in the fields of philosophy and psychology. Working from an authentic place of connection he utilises multiple modalities including dream work, sand-tray therapy and focusing, to help clients gain clarity and initiate a journey of integration and healing. Please visit website for details.

Psychotherapy is the gentle process of realizing our true nature and potential through a confidential relationship with a therapist. From this safe place, exploring whatever difficulties we might face does not seem so frightening. Carolyn works with the psyche’s natural and creative processes, and our innate ability to heal and grow.

ART THERAPY

Sian offers both private counselling and group workshops. All services are infomred by a holistic perspective, which explores and validates all dimensions of the human experience. Clients have the opportunity to experience a range of Arts Therapy processes including drawing, painting, sculpture, meditation, relaxation, dream work and movement.

I believe we all have a natural and inherent healing ability and hold our own answers. I aim to create an atmosphere of safety and warmth in which to empower clients to access this part of themselves via creativity to understand and move through difficulties.

Over the past 10yrs years I have worked extensively with groups and individuals. My background as an Art Therapist includes work with women, children and adolescents recovering from Family Violence, trauma and/or abuse issues. I also work with those struggling with Depression, Grief and Life Transitions.

Alongside counselling skills some of the modalities used are Sandplay, Clay Field, Guided Drawing, Body Mapping, Drawing and Relaxation methods.

I am available for organisations and workplaces for Staff Professional Development, de-briefing and Team building Programs.

Given that I also have a love for the power of ritual, I am a registered Marriage Celebrant with the aim of helping couples create an authentic, sacred and meaningful Marriage ritual.

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