Counselling is a meeting between two people in which both agree to focus on the issues and concerns of the client.  With the warm support of a counsellor, clients often experience relief and an ability to reconsider troubling issues with more clarity and purpose.

Amongst our psychotherapy supervisors we have people with expertise in drama therapy, art psychotheraphy, trama work, neuropsychology and working with children. Our postgraduate trainees use a comprehensive range of counselling methods with the aim of finding a good fit between clients, counsellor and model of treatment. In recognition of the importance that relationships play in our lives, we offer couple. family and group counselling as well as individual counselling.

At Caladenia Counselling we work principally from a person-centred orientation. What is the person-centred approach to helping, to be found in the atmosphere and practices of our Centre? It means that we receive and want to connect with you as a person, to know how you see yourself, what matters to you, and how your world of relationship is for you. The approach is not about diagnosing and evaluating you. Our concern is to know your feelings and concerns, what things mean to you, what it is that that gets you down and with how you cope or want to cope better. We listen to you as deeply as we able to -we call it empathic listening. We want to recognise and know inside what is like for you -in ways you wish to tell us -how it is to be in your shoes and feeling as you do. It is not our way to sit in judgement, though we are open and honest in our response. Expressed simply, we wish to be skilled and respectful companions in enabling your own search and growth, or healing-if you are coming to us in wounded distress. Our counselling is a very human service responsive to your choice to engage us, and to leave again when you are ready.