People come to counselling for many different reasons.

Seeking the help of a counsellor often feels like a big step. Most people want to reduce distress, create a better understanding of their lives and make changes to more fully engage in a life that has meaning and value for them.

Counselling is confidential and provides a safe place to begin to make change. It’s an opportunity to talk about difficulties but also to develop insight and understanding, to connect to your own strengths and learn new skills and ways of being.

Bernadette can help with:

• Trauma

• Sexual abuse, & family violence

• Stress & anxiety

• Depression

• Difficult life transitions

• Relationship issues

• Insomnia

• Workplace bullying

• Workplace difficulties

• Copying with significant life changes

• Grief

• Low self esteem & recurring self defeating patterns

• Major illness

• Feeling distressed by a complex problem that is difficult to resolve

Bernadette’s approach

Bernadette will listen but will also be proactive in working collaboratively on client goals. She believes that developing a warm, respectful, accepting relationship, with a focus on strengths and positive change, is the key to counselling being successful.

Bernadette is committed to a client-centered approach.  Everybody is different, so Bernadette will adapt her approach to suit the person and their goals. She draws on a range of theories and approaches to do this.  She enjoys helping people heal, learn new skills and create change.

To make an appointment

Counselling is by appointment only.

Counselling appointments are available in business hours Wednesdays to Fridays.

Please telephone to make an appointment.

Bernadette does not provide a crisis response service. If you need urgent assistance, contact a service that can respond quickly such as:

• Lifeline  13 11 14

• Suicide call back service 1300  659 467

• Your local major hospital (ask for psychiatric triage)