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Dr Katie Beckwith

Dr Katie Beckwith

Psychotherapist

Soulfire Holistic Counselling and Psychotherapy

Turner, ACT 2612

In Person + Online Therapy Australia-wide

0479 123 707

Philosophy & Vision

With grounding in Jungian philosophy, I work with the relationship within the self and the interplay between soul and ego, mind and heart. I work with individual clients, to address depression, anxiety, stress, grief and bereavement, trauma (including complex trauma), and existential crisis, as well as personal growth and self-evolution. My approach is gentle, compassionate, and client-centred, seeking to enhance self-awareness, in support of self-worthiness, empowerment and overall health and wellbeing.

Background

My previous professional life was dedicated to public health research and epidemiology, working in government, not-for-profit and higher education research institutes, and gaining a PhD. I have a long interest in mental health and an educational background in psychology. While studying psychology, I found that I desired a different type of practice and was drawn to a holistic approach encompassing metaphysical awareness. At Metavision Institute I found the approach that I'd been searching for. While I had vague intentions to become a therapist, I was inspired by my training that upon its completion, I immediately started working towards a career transition.

Services

  • Counselling, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis, Walk and Talk Therapy, Phone Consultations, Online Video Consultations
  • I am a holistic counsellor and psychotherapist, certified with PACFA as a Clinical Counsellor. I also practice as a grief counsellor specialising in suicide bereavement.

    See more at soulfiretherapy.com.au/services

    Quality Provision

    I attend frequent supervision to improve and assist in my own reflective practice. I continuously further my own learning through a variety of workshops, courses and individual study.

    Areas of Special Interest

  • Adolescent Issues - Anxiety & Panic Attacks - Burnout - Career Counselling - Childhood Issues - Chronic Fatigue - Climate Change - Creativity - Depression - Dreams - Emotional Overwhelm - Existential Issues - Grief and Loss - Guilt Feelings - High Sensitivity - Life Transitions - Loneliness - Psychosomatic - PTSD - Relationship Issues - Self Development - Self Harm - Sexual Abuse - Spirituality / Religion - Stress Management - Suicidal Feelings - Trauma Recovery - Women's Issues - Workplace Issues
  • Accreditations

    • Holistic Counselling and Psychotherapy PG Training - 2021 - Metavision Institute
    • Bachelor of Psychological Sciences - 2023 - University of Adelaide
    • PhD (dentistry / epidemiology) - 2016 - University of Adelaide
    • Bachelor of Health Sciences - 2004 - University of Adelaide

    Modalities

    Compassion-Focused Therapy - Dream Work - Existential - Holistic - Inner Child - Interpersonal - Jungian - Mindfulness - Person Centred - Process Oriented - Psychoanalytic - Psychodynamic - Soul Centred Psychotherapy - Transpersonal - Trauma-Informed

    Professional Associations

    • Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia

    Practice Locations

    Level 1, 101 Northbourne Avenue
    Turner ACT 2612


    Braddon ACT 2612

    0414 875 063

    Contact Katie

    Please contact me to make an appointment

      0479 123 707

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    A conversation with Katie Beckwith

    • I have been interested in mental health since I was in school, and as I studied psychology in university and experienced therapy as a client, I found I was always looking for something that went deeper. After a career in public health and epidemiology, my focus turned again to psychotherapy and I found my way into a holistic course that offered what I felt I had always been missing.
    • My holistic counselling and psychotherapy studies were founded on Jungian philosophy and process oriented psychology. My own personal beliefs align with these approaches and I add my own spiritual perspective and understanding developed through experience and personal study. I believe our organism is designed to heal and has innate wisdom to guide its own healing, but that 'things' can get in the way of that healing taking place. In the metaphysical aspects, as therapy attends to, that is often other metaphysical aspects of ourselves, though these can be reflected in our external world as well. Therapy under that philosophy becomes a process of seeking self understanding and acceptance, and can entail practical adjustments in our external lives to support internal work.

      Trauma informed practice is incredibly important for all health practitioners, but especially for any kind of psychotherapeutic practitioner. This is a strong underpinning in my approach to therapy.
    • I am most interested in the individual journey to understand the self, and to learn to connect to the self with compassion, kindness and love.
    • I employ a range of methods that I use in a responsive manner depending on the client and what they bring to session. The foundation of my therapeutic approach is working on the presence I embody as a practitioner, so that I can create a healing environment. The second foundation is establishing a healthy therapeutic relationship with my client. Among the approaches I might then employ are process oriented psychology, mental imagery and active imagination, somatic exercises, mindfulness exercises, compassion and deep democracy.
    • That will ultimately depend on what the client perceives as progress. Progress in terms of perceived wellbeing is not a linear process, so it can often feel like things are going forwards and backwards. Under a process oriented perspective, simply being alive is an ever evolving process of becoming. If we become more comfortable with the process of life, we are progressing, but perception of progress is individual and subjective.
    • Committing to therapy for myself was the best thing I have done, and none so much or so meaningfully as the therapy I undertook while training as a holistic counsellor and psychotherapist. It has given me a deeper understanding of myself and others, of the ways in which we are hindered and supported in our individual process of living, and what it actually means to 'heal'. In working on myself, I have developed a greater compassion. This was largely through one of the hardest things, which is to face those aspects of myself I denied or suppressed, otherwise known as shadow work (Jungian) and integrating them through awareness. This remains an ongoing process.
    • Being in a state of presence with my clients. It is a wonderful experience. Being able to put into practice, not just what I learned through my studies, but a lifetime of experience and personal work. The moments when a client perceives something in a new way, or says something out loud for the first time; that moment of meeting a new understanding of self is palpable.
    • I have bad everything days now and again. It is part of life and the human condition. Trying to never have a bad anything day is an exhausting exercise in futility. Those tend to be days I turn inwards and take space for myself, as they signal to me a need for rest and recharge.
    • We live in a highly traumatised world such that trauma and survival states have become normalised. Consequently there is a disconnect between our conscious selves and our deepest selves which leads to an array of dis-eases, distortion and imbalance. I am sure we could think of any aspect of our human world today and identify how this is manifested in that aspect. There is also great appetite and energy for beneficial change as well, and we must find a way to maintain hope that things can be better and to fuel that change. We can do this by working at the individual level, which has an influence in turn on the collectives.
    • Schitt's Creek. It's funny and full of soul.

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