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Individual counselling can assist people to clarify life goals. Men often attend therapy as they are not living the life they hoped or planned for. For many men the ideas they have about how to be in the world aren’t working. They may worry about or have already done something they are not proud of, let themselves or others down. Counselling is an opportunity to rediscover, perhaps recreate a more meaningful relationship between a personal ethics that promotes what men are striving to achieve for themselves and in their relationships.
Men often attend therapy to discuss:
feelings of disillusion or lack of fulfilment as men, partners, and dads
having let down and/or hurt people they care about
experiences of childhood traumas
relationship breakdown and/or separation
depression and anxiety
unwanted effects of substance use
parenting and co-parenting
reports and appraisals for family and criminal court
sex and/or pornography addictions
To book a session please click here
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15-minute phone call
60 minutes booked session in clinic or telehealth
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15-minute introductory call no charge
60 minute booked session $180 inclusive of GST
90 minute session $265 inclusive of GST
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Many couples strive to have truly meaningful and enriched lives together. Presenting at therapy is often because hopes are not being fulfilled. Relationship counselling can be about reconnecting, recreating, reviewing and occasionally just to try to work out where to from here. Talking through hopes and intentions for each other and the relationship can assist couples to clarify goals and intentions. In relationship counselling people work on ethics that are more relational, that always looks to include the effects of choices others. Greater attention is given to expressing more mutually safe, responsible, respectful, accountable and fair patterns of relating.
Couples often attend therapy to discuss:
difficulties expressing ideas or concerns
developing shared understandings re intimacy
pre-commitment conversations
clarifications of fairness regarding expectations, hopes, roles and responsibilities
affair recovery
separating with kindness and generosity
To book a session please click here
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15-minute phone call
60 minutes booked session
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15-minute introductory call no charge
60 minute session $220 inclusive of GST
90 minute session $265 inclusive of GST
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From over 25 years of working with men in community and prison contexts, consulting with men in therapy, teaching, training, research and supervision related to family violence, sexual violence, power and privilege, and working collaboratively and cross-culturally. I hold a Master of Clinical Social Work and was awarded a PhD by Research in the area of violence intervention. I practice progressive and relational therapies including Narrative Therapy. Ongoing practice appraisal creates wonderful opportunities for enhancing respectful and fulfilling therapies.
Professional supervision is offered for:
family violence intervention
sexual violence intervention
professional development
practice appraisal
progressive therapies and philosophical approaches to therapy
Professional workshops:
Working with perpetrators of violence
Men’s Health
Anti-Racism
Anti-Sexism
Whiteness and decolonising practice
To book a session please click here
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60 minute Individual session
Contact to discuss group sessions
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60 minute booked sessions - contact to discuss (unwaged, waged, corporate rates)
Group sessions are charged at an hourly rate, contact to discuss further.
The Kurangk on Ngarrindjeri country
Cultural Safety and Respect Partnership Work
As a non-Aboriginal Australian man I have lived almost all of my life on the Red Kangaroo Plains region of the unceded lands of the Kaurna people. Throughout my professional life I have worked in partnership with Aboriginal women and men to develop culturally safe and appropriate workplaces from a commitment to decolonising and anti-racist practices, truth telling, fairness and justice. In partnership with Aboriginal people as friend, colleague, and client in the public sector and in private consultancy my practice is informed by my responsibilities to continuously advocate for culturally safe and respectful service provision for Aboriginal people and communities.
Since the early 2000s I have worked in partnership with Aboriginal women and men offering invitations to individuals and communities to examine white privilege and institutional racism to co-create greater cultural safety for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. This has included:
Working in partnership in Cultural Safety and Respect Workshops as a private consultant,
Writing and delivering in partnership tertiary level courses,
Individual work as a clinical practitioner with Aboriginal men in custodial and community
Partnering in the development, implementation and evaluation of therapeutic based programs for Aboriginal men
Providing training and support to individuals and organisations to decolonise practice.
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