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Empowering Your Mental Health Journey
Counselling and psychotherapy for personal growth and healing
Balmain NSW for F2F sessions
Online sessions also available
Why Psychotherapy and Counselling?
Psychotherapy and counselling offer a safe, confidential space to explore what’s troubling you, whether it’s anxiety, trauma, relationship challenges, or simply feeling stuck. Talking with a trained professional can help you understand your patterns, gain clarity, and develop tools to navigate life with more ease and confidence. It’s not about being “fixed,” but about being supported as you grow, heal, and reconnect with yourself.
What's the Difference?
Counselling tends to focus on specific issues, such as grief, stress, trouble at work, time management, or decision-making, and is often short-term.
Psychotherapy goes deeper, exploring long-standing patterns, emotional wounds, and unconscious processes that may be shaping your present. It’s usually longer-term and suited to more complex concerns. In practice, there’s overlap, and I draw from both approaches depending on your needs. What matters most is that we work together in a way that feels safe, respectful, and effective for you.
Together, We Find New Ways Forward
Gestalt
Gestalt
Gestalt therapy helps you build self-awareness and emotional balance by focusing on the present moment. It encourages noticing your thoughts, feelings, sensations, and actions as they arise so you can respond more intentionally and create positive change. A central idea is that perception is dynamic: sometimes you think you see one thing, but when you shift your attention or look from a different angle, a new image or meaning appears. This capacity to re-see experience — like an optical illusion that changes when you change your focus — opens space for new insight, choice, and a stronger sense of wellbeing.
EMDR
Gestalt
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) is a structured, evidence‑based therapy that helps the brain reprocess distressing memories and reduce their emotional intensity. Using bilateral stimulation—guided eye movements, alternating taps, or tones—within an eight‑phase protocol, it supports integration of traumatic material, diminishes intrusive imagery and hyperarousal, and helps install more adaptive beliefs and bodily calm. Proposed mechanisms include working‑memory taxation and orienting responses. Delivered in a trauma‑informed, client‑centred framework, the approach is active yet gentle and avoids prolonged reliving of trauma.
Couples
Couples therapy teaches practical communication skills, repairs relational ruptures, and deepens emotional connection. In a safe, supportive setting you’ll learn tools for resolving conflict, rebuilding trust, and managing strong emotions. Therapy helps partners understand underlying patterns, express needs clearly, and negotiate change with greater empathy and respect. Over time this work strengthens intimacy, reduces reactivity, and creates a more secure, satisfying partnership where both people feel heard, valued, and better equipped to face life’s challenges together.
Group Facilitation
Somatic Experiencing
Group sessions provide a safe, supportive environment to explore personal challenges, relationships, and growth alongside others. Drawing on Irvin Yalom’s process‑oriented approach, the groups encourage openness, mutual feedback, and relational learning while a trained facilitator maintains containment and safety. Participants practice new ways of relating, repair ruptures, and receive peer support as they work through difficult emotions and patterns. These groups reduce isolation, deepen connection, and accelerate insight and healing through shared experience, honest reflection, and compassionate engagement.
CBT
Somatic Experiencing
Somatic Experiencing
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is a practical, evidence‑based approach that helps you understand how thoughts, feelings, and behaviours interact. Through structured, collaborative work you learn to identify unhelpful thinking patterns, test them with behavioural experiments, and develop healthier coping skills for stress, anxiety, and low mood. CBT is goal‑focused and skills‑based, teaching tools for emotion regulation, problem solving, and relapse prevention so you can manage symptoms more effectively and build lasting resilience.
Somatic Experiencing
Somatic Experiencing
Somatic Experiencing
Somatic Experiencing focuses on how the body stores stress and trauma. Through gentle body‑awareness, tracking sensations, and guided resourcing exercises, it helps release held tension, restore a felt sense of safety, and rebuild nervous‑system regulation. Sessions emphasise titrated, bottom‑up processing—rather than reliving memories—so you can discharge trapped energy, reduce hyperarousal, and reclaim bodily calm. Over time this work strengthens resilience, improves emotional regulation, and supports both physical and psychological wellbeing, making everyday life feel more grounded and manageable.
For a free 5-10 minute consultation call 0415 731 527 OR email me on glynsullercounselling@gmail.com
