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. Please note that there is no Medicare rebate (which can be offered by psychologists, but not by counsellors). Payment is by bank deposit.
It may be possible for you to claim the counselling as a business expense, which many people do with counsellors or coaches, or to seek some funding from your employer, for similar reasons or because of a need for "supervision." I cannot help you to arrange that--you will need to speak to your accountant or employer--however I am happy to provide invoices for such purposes.
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 suggest a specific time. New clients fill out a brief intake form which is emailed to them, and Zoom clients receive a link on the morning of the booking.
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. Please note that there is no Medicare rebate (which can be offered by psychologists, but not by counsellors). Payment is by bank deposit.
It may be possible for you to claim the counselling as a business expense, which many people do with counsellors or coaches, or to seek some funding from your employer, for similar reasons or because of a need for "supervision." I cannot help you to arrange that--you will need to speak to your accountant or employer--however I am happy to provide invoices for such purposes.
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 suggest a specific time. New clients fill out a brief intake form which is emailed to them, and Zoom clients receive a link on the morning of the booking.
Please note that unfortunately I cannot see clients within the USA or Canada, due to insurance limitations.
Please note that I have qualifications in philosophy and counselling. Counselling, as a qualification and profession, is different to the qualification and profession known as psychology (and also psychiatry), which thinks and works according to a very different paradigm. The paradigm of counselling is focused on the therapeutic relationship and the cultivation of your insight and motivation, and it does this in the ways defined here. We call this the humanistic paradigm. By contrast, psychology is often based on the clinical or medical paradigm, which is about clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management, according to psychiatric categories. While both counselling and psychology may help with many of the same issues, such as depression or anxiety, they do so in very different ways. The relationship is like a Venn Diagram, with various shared concerns, while psychology and psychiatry also focus on more strictly clinical issues, such as Bipolar Disorder or ADHD, while counselling helps better with non-clinical challenges in living, and with personal growth, and with the sides of a person that are not their disorder. Again, psychology and psychiatry have authority within the technocratic, bureaucratic state, while counselling often stands outside "the system."
To reiterate, it is important to understand that as a counsellor I do not offer any clinical services, such as psychological assessments of mental health or risks, or diagnoses of psychiatrically-defined disorders, or clinically-approved and/or manualised therapeutic treatments, or monitoring and management of a client with respect to disorders or risks, or any provision of reports and authoritative letters for use in employment, medical, or legal contexts. This is not a doctor-patient relationship, and you are not "in my care." Rather, you are simply consulting with me due to my particular knowledge and skills. This consultation can be a one-off, or it can be ongoing. At all times, you are the judge of whether it is useful to continue, for the point is benefit you can feel or describe, whether at the level of the head, heart, or hands.
Am I a philosopher or a counsellor? I am both, though I am a philosopher above all, for philosopher deals with the core of who you are--a conscious centre of meaning and value and choice and action--while counselling and psychotherapy focus on only a part of you, the psychological and emotional structure with you. My role is to help you at that therapeutic level, but only as a part of the bigger picture, which is help at the level of a whole human being: the pursuit of wisdom and virtue, of truth and goodness, of courage and meaning, and happiness and flourishing.
To reiterate, it is important to understand that as a counsellor I do not offer any clinical services, such as psychological assessments of mental health or risks, or diagnoses of psychiatrically-defined disorders, or clinically-approved and/or manualised therapeutic treatments, or monitoring and management of a client with respect to disorders or risks, or any provision of reports and authoritative letters for use in employment, medical, or legal contexts. This is not a doctor-patient relationship, and you are not "in my care." Rather, you are simply consulting with me due to my particular knowledge and skills. This consultation can be a one-off, or it can be ongoing. At all times, you are the judge of whether it is useful to continue, for the point is benefit you can feel or describe, whether at the level of the head, heart, or hands.
Am I a philosopher or a counsellor? I am both, though I am a philosopher above all, for philosopher deals with the core of who you are--a conscious centre of meaning and value and choice and action--while counselling and psychotherapy focus on only a part of you, the psychological and emotional structure with you. My role is to help you at that therapeutic level, but only as a part of the bigger picture, which is help at the level of a whole human being: the pursuit of wisdom and virtue, of truth and goodness, of courage and meaning, and happiness and flourishing.