Counselling - iCoordinate

What We Do

What is Counselling?

Counselling is a person-centred approach that assists individuals to explore their personal challenges and find new ways of doing things.

Counselling most often takes a talk-based therapeutic approach, experienced through sharing aspects of yourself and life situations with a an empathic, non-judgmental and impartial professional.

Counselling can explore many areas of your life both present relationships and situations and those from the past that may continue to influence your well-being.

Counselling aims to help you find ways to gain greater awareness of your self and those around you and implement strategies to do things differently improving your life.

Why Choose Counselling?

Counselling can help you:

Learn about or understand yourself, others and situations better

Learn how to identify and process your own and others emotions

To improve relationships

To flow through change and process life events

To gain a different perspective and understanding

To learn about boundaries and how to set them

To build decision making and problem-solving skills

To identify your needs, goals and how to achieve them

To build skills and develop tools to better navigate lifes challenges

Remove barriers, blocks and unhelpful thoughts and patterns

What we offer

Our counselling services primarily focus on individual therapy which is designed to meet the needs of each person. We recognise that everyone is unique and will benefit from different therapeutic and experiential approaches. We work closely with each person to develop a plan specific to their needs and goals.

To provide these customised supports we offer both room-based and nature-based options. If needed, we also offer telehealth sessions via phone or secure video conferencing.

Our rooms at our Maitland location are comfortable and private. We will meet and work through your needs and goals incorporating therapeutic and experiential activities which may include approaches such as, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Solutions-Focused Brief Therapy, Humanistic Therapy and Mindfulness-Based Therapies.

Nature-Based Counselling

Nature based counselling, as its name suggests, incorporates nature into the therapeutic session. It is also known as ecotherapy or nature therapy. It is well known that spending time in nature has a positive impact on mental and emotional well-being. We can arrange to meet you in one of our ecotherapy locations and help you explore learning and development through connecting with nature and greater aspects of yourselves. This can often involve mindfulness and awareness practices, walking and sitting in nature, reflecting on our place in the natural world.