Mindfully Speaking
Mobile 0414 427 951
Compassion and respect for my clients perhaps best summarises my approach. My role as counsellor is to facilitate a gentle exploration of a person's life and the challenges they face - from their sense of self to their relationships with others - significant others, friends, and colleagues. I draw on my own sense of self, my education, training, and work experience, as well as my own lived experience to provide an authentic and balanced approach.
Individual sessions are normally 50-55 minutes, but longer sessions can be negotiated.
Teleconferencing via Zoom during Covid-19 crisis.
Medicare rebates available with a GP referral.
CBT, EMDR, Emotional Freedom Techniques, Experiential, Hypnotherapy, Marriage and Family, Meditation, Mindfulness, Narrative Therapy, Schema Therapy
A combination of talking therapies and experiential therapies, depending on the client and his or her needs and experience. Approaches may include cognitive techniques, mindfulness exercises, EMDR, tapping, hypnosis, schema therapy, imagery and behavioural exercises, and humour where appropriate.
As a clinical social worker, I work under a code of ethics, and according to professional standards.
I also seek feedback from my clients, and am open and reflective.
I am a clinical social worker with extensive experience working in hospitals and community agencies.
I have undertaken extensive post-graduate training in couple and relationship counselling, trauma, and sexual abuse. Experienced particularly in: pregnancy counselling, stillbirth and parental bereavement, chronic illness and the impact on families of physical or mental illness, couple work, relationship issues, and gay and lesbian issues.
Tuesday to Friday by appointment
Parking in nearby streets is easily available: Byrne Avenue (2-hr), Broadway, Scott and Ruskin streets (unrestricted).
Individual sessions : $160
Hardship concessions can be negotiated
Medicare rebates available with GP referral.
Cash, cheque, EFTPOS, major credit cards
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Deborah SchouRelationship Therapist, Social Worker AMHSW |
Offering teleconferencing sessions via Zoom, including EMDR for trauma, during the Covid-19 crisis. Now, more than ever, we all need to care for each other....