You can contact me at [email protected] or 0430 622 909.
I see clients by Zoom or phone.
My fee for all services is $150 per session. Sessions are fifty minutes long. Payment is by bank deposit.
You are free to see me for a single session, for short-term counselling, or for longer-term work, at a frequency of your choosing. While I am happy to suggest a suitable frequency given your concerns, you will find me always very respectful and encouraging of your autonomy and preferences.
I maintain spots each week for a new client to see me soon. I work Mondays to Thursdays, 11AM - 9PM. If you would like to book a session and are contacting me by email or text, please mention some days and windows of time that work for you, and I will reply and offer a specific time within that. New clients fill out an online intake form which is emailed to them, and Zoom clients receive a link on the morning of the session.
Please note that there is no Medicare rebate, which can be offered by psychologists but not by counsellors. (It is worth noting that, alongside the Medicare rebate, people usually have to pay a "gap" fee to the psychologist, and this is out of their own pocket. That gap fee is often the same or more than the cost of a counselling session.)
If you are self-employed then it may be possible for you to claim counselling as a business expense. If you are employed it may be possible to seek some funding from your employer, especially if you are in a helping professional and are drawing on my help as a form of supervision. I cannot help you arrange this--you will need to speak to your accountant or employer to see if this is possible, and to arrange it--however I am happy to provide ABN invoices for such purposes.
Please note that unfortunately I cannot see clients within the USA or Canada, due to insurance limitations.
I see clients by Zoom or phone.
My fee for all services is $150 per session. Sessions are fifty minutes long. Payment is by bank deposit.
You are free to see me for a single session, for short-term counselling, or for longer-term work, at a frequency of your choosing. While I am happy to suggest a suitable frequency given your concerns, you will find me always very respectful and encouraging of your autonomy and preferences.
I maintain spots each week for a new client to see me soon. I work Mondays to Thursdays, 11AM - 9PM. If you would like to book a session and are contacting me by email or text, please mention some days and windows of time that work for you, and I will reply and offer a specific time within that. New clients fill out an online intake form which is emailed to them, and Zoom clients receive a link on the morning of the session.
Please note that there is no Medicare rebate, which can be offered by psychologists but not by counsellors. (It is worth noting that, alongside the Medicare rebate, people usually have to pay a "gap" fee to the psychologist, and this is out of their own pocket. That gap fee is often the same or more than the cost of a counselling session.)
If you are self-employed then it may be possible for you to claim counselling as a business expense. If you are employed it may be possible to seek some funding from your employer, especially if you are in a helping professional and are drawing on my help as a form of supervision. I cannot help you arrange this--you will need to speak to your accountant or employer to see if this is possible, and to arrange it--however I am happy to provide ABN invoices for such purposes.
Please note that unfortunately I cannot see clients within the USA or Canada, due to insurance limitations.
Please note: counselling is different to psychology
I am a philosophical counsellor, with degrees in philosophy and counselling. I am not a psychologist. People often confuse counselling and psychology, but they are different. Both work with "the psychological," but in very different ways. Psychology is typically clinical, whereas counselling is typically humanistic.
Psychologists are traind in a scientific, technocratic, and rather clinical (i.e. medicalised) approach, which includes services such as:
-clinical assessments
-clinical diagnoses (psychology draws many of its concepts from psychiatry)
-the application of technological and clinical treatments such as CBT
-management of clients with regard to well-being, risk, and inter-service needs
-the authoritative provision of reports and recommendations for third party use, for example with medical systems, government bodies, employers, and law courts.
Counselling is very different: there is no schema, rather there is life, with all its problems and possibilities. And there are your capacities and potential for responding and making things better. Counselling is the art of drawing forth your capacities and potential. It is skillful conversation which elicits clarity, motivation, direction, change, as well as healing and personal growth. The counsellor is an insightful and skillful facilitator, while your desire and effort is the engine of change, and your preference and way of being direct the counselling.
Psychology is the application of a technology, counselling is the practice of an art. I am over-simplifying for the sake of general practical advice. There are also counsellors with a more technocratic or clinical mindset, and psychologists with a more humanistic mindset. Nonetheless, as a general matter, people who seek a wisdom-oriented or deeper therapy are too often frustrated after seeing a psychologist. Conversely, people who need the clinical services listed above are likely to be disappointed if they see a counsellor (especially insofar as they need those services for use with third parties). It is important to understand that I offer none of those clinical services. If you come to me for counselling, I offer conversation and nothing else, aimed at eliciting insight and change.
Whether to see a counsellor or a psychologist?
1) If you are struggling with the natural challenges of living such as grief, relationship problems, issues of purpose or direction, or if you have positive goals you want to work on, then you are typically better off seeing a counsellor like myself.
2) If you are suffering from a distinctly psychiatric disorder, such as Bipolar Disorder or ADHD, then you should seek a clinical professional--a psychologist or psychiatrist.
3) If you are suffering a problem like depression or anxiety, which some people see as a natural challenge in living, and others see as a psychiatric disorder, then your choice will depend on that way of seeing.
4) Some people see both a clinical professional and a counsellor, to deal with an issue from both angles, or because they have a disorder but they are also more than that disorder and they want to do broader work on themselves and their life.
People who find that therapy itself--reflective conversation on their experience--can trigger them into a state in which they are a danger to themselves or others, should not see me. Rather they should see a therapist who specialises in their type of disorder. Such danger requires therapy which is reductively and calculatively psychological, which is not what I offer.
I am a philosophical counsellor, with degrees in philosophy and counselling. I am not a psychologist. People often confuse counselling and psychology, but they are different. Both work with "the psychological," but in very different ways. Psychology is typically clinical, whereas counselling is typically humanistic.
Psychologists are traind in a scientific, technocratic, and rather clinical (i.e. medicalised) approach, which includes services such as:
-clinical assessments
-clinical diagnoses (psychology draws many of its concepts from psychiatry)
-the application of technological and clinical treatments such as CBT
-management of clients with regard to well-being, risk, and inter-service needs
-the authoritative provision of reports and recommendations for third party use, for example with medical systems, government bodies, employers, and law courts.
Counselling is very different: there is no schema, rather there is life, with all its problems and possibilities. And there are your capacities and potential for responding and making things better. Counselling is the art of drawing forth your capacities and potential. It is skillful conversation which elicits clarity, motivation, direction, change, as well as healing and personal growth. The counsellor is an insightful and skillful facilitator, while your desire and effort is the engine of change, and your preference and way of being direct the counselling.
Psychology is the application of a technology, counselling is the practice of an art. I am over-simplifying for the sake of general practical advice. There are also counsellors with a more technocratic or clinical mindset, and psychologists with a more humanistic mindset. Nonetheless, as a general matter, people who seek a wisdom-oriented or deeper therapy are too often frustrated after seeing a psychologist. Conversely, people who need the clinical services listed above are likely to be disappointed if they see a counsellor (especially insofar as they need those services for use with third parties). It is important to understand that I offer none of those clinical services. If you come to me for counselling, I offer conversation and nothing else, aimed at eliciting insight and change.
Whether to see a counsellor or a psychologist?
1) If you are struggling with the natural challenges of living such as grief, relationship problems, issues of purpose or direction, or if you have positive goals you want to work on, then you are typically better off seeing a counsellor like myself.
2) If you are suffering from a distinctly psychiatric disorder, such as Bipolar Disorder or ADHD, then you should seek a clinical professional--a psychologist or psychiatrist.
3) If you are suffering a problem like depression or anxiety, which some people see as a natural challenge in living, and others see as a psychiatric disorder, then your choice will depend on that way of seeing.
4) Some people see both a clinical professional and a counsellor, to deal with an issue from both angles, or because they have a disorder but they are also more than that disorder and they want to do broader work on themselves and their life.
People who find that therapy itself--reflective conversation on their experience--can trigger them into a state in which they are a danger to themselves or others, should not see me. Rather they should see a therapist who specialises in their type of disorder. Such danger requires therapy which is reductively and calculatively psychological, which is not what I offer.