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Our holistic counselling sessions are characterised by empathy, trust, and a commitment to your journey. We believe in fostering a deep therapeutic alliance that encourages self-discovery and empowers you to make meaningful changes in your life.
At Compass Counselling we understand that life can be hard. Are you feeling lost, going through a separation or divorce or grieving the loss of a loved one? Are you in a challenging relationship/s, have past trauma, or are struggling with life transitions? Have you struggled to talk about these issues in the past but would like to talk to someone now?
Through a safe therapeutic relationship, we listen to you with empathy, compassion and a non-judgemental attitude. We use a variety of counselling techniques to help you heal and move forward in your life, such as Emotion Code, Intuitive Healing, and Creative Therapies, working within both the conscious and unconscious mind. We respect you as a whole person, mind, body and spirit, meet you where you are currently at in your journey, and facilitate and support your healing in a holistic and gentle way.
Michele and Kitty are highly trained, being both qualified social workers and counsellors with additional training in alternative and creative therapy approaches.
It is essential that all of us find the self-worth and confidence to express and live who we truly are. Sometimes life experiences make it hard for us to remember our joy, feel safe to express ourselves, have relationships, achieve our goals or understand what we are feeling and why.
Compass Counselling’s mission is to use the power of holistic therapies combined with social work to help you come back to yourself, remove blockages, embody your personal strengths and find the resilience and inner trust to face and embrace all that life has to offer. This will enable you to improve your emotional and physical wellbeing.
Michele and Kitty met in primary school in 1976 and have been best friends ever since! Their lives have had many parallels, beginning, as young adults, with both Michele and Kitty developing a strong drive and commitment to working with people and helping others, and ultimately choosing to become Social Workers and Counsellors.
Michele and Kitty have also experienced many of life’s challenges, and now in their mid-life have the wisdom, maturity and learning that comes from these experiences to strengthen their work with others going through similar difficulties.
Michele and Kitty have over 30 years of combined experience working in social work and counselling roles and bring together their experience and training to create the best possible treatment approach to meet your individual needs.
We look forward to walking alongside you in your healing and recovery and celebrating with you in your positive change and empowerment.
By using energy healing you are moving the person into balance, where everything is in a more normal, healthy state, where conditions are right for the physical body to recover, thrive, and create healing on its own.
Everyone is born with intuitive abilities; it is our natural ability to understand something instinctively. This natural ability can also be attuned to our health, if you listen to your intuition, you can stay healthy. If you can listen to your body, you can transform any challenges into spiritual growth and enhanced wellbeing.
The Emotion Code is a simple and effective way to identify and release trapped emotions using muscle testing (which is often called kinesiology).
Drama Therapy (also spelt Dramatherapy) is a form of creative arts therapy that uses drama to facilitate change and healing. Clients do not need experience in drama to benefit from this creative method of therapy.
Michele and Kitty are qualified social workers and accredited through the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW). Social work is a university-qualified profession dedicated to assisting people to improve their lives, with a focus on their personal and social wellbeing.
Should either party experience technical difficulties, we will endeavour to email you straight away and/or try to reconnect online as soon as possible. If overall, more than 15 minutes of the session has not occurred due to technical problems we will offer to supplement this time, and if this is not possible, we will agree a reduced rate for that session in proportion to the service received.
Before the initial consultation:
In the initial consultation the therapist you see will explore your current difficulties and talk with you about how to proceed. We will want to ensure that your situation is best suited to having online therapy. However online therapy is not always suitable and in such cases we will try to recommend more suitable options that you might then wish to explore.
As therapists we aim to develop a trusting and friendly work relationship. To maintain the confidentiality and the boundaries of our work it is not appropriate to engage “socially” on any social network and social or professional forums.
As remote counselling is unique, the client needs to provide the counsellor with at least one support person as part of the intake form.
We look forward to walking alongside you in your healing and recovery and celebrating with you in your positive change and empowerment. We will get back to any enquiries within 2 business days.
