Your Journey To
A Better You
Starts here !
"Change starts with being truly heard and understood. In a safe and supportive space, we can work together to navigate your challenges and foster real, lasting growth."
My Story
My name is Maryanne and I am a highly regarded and accomplished counsellor and I am passionate about supporting the growth and personal development of my clients. I hold a valid membership with the Australian Counselling Association and am driven by seeing clients overcome the challenges they face, finding happiness, and creating a better and more peaceful future.
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I am respectful of my clients, their views, and understand that everyone is unique, as is their situation. My approach to counselling is based on building trust as I believe that truly knowing my clients leads to successful outcomes. I work with my clients to help them find their strengths, recognise their true qualities, triggers, resources and supports. With a person-centred approach, I empower and encourage my clients to explore what they want, where they are in their life, and where they want to be. I help them identify their goals, develop strategies and solutions and is there to provide support, guidance, reassurance, and positivity.
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Personalised Sessions
​All clients are diverse and so sessions are tailored to each person and their individual needs and desired outcomes. I use a mix of evidence-based modalities during sessions, including cognitive behavioural therapy, solution focused therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, mindfulness exercises, trauma informed techniques, somatic-based interventions, and expressive therapies.
Using these techniques, I empower my clients understand and make sense of their situation so that they may free themselves from the weight they may have been carrying around, achieve personal growth and identify a way forward for a happier future.
My Journey Through Extra Counselling Qualifications
In addition to my Counselling qualifications, I have undertaken further studies including:
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Couples Counselling: Models & Interventions
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Certified Specialist in Anger Management (CSAM)
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EMDR: A Primer for Clinicians
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Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP): Evidence-based CBT Skills for Anxiety Treatment
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​Anxiety Disorders: Recognising, Understanding and Responding
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Complex Trauma Certification Level 1 & 2 (CCTP/CCTP-II) with Janina Fisher
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Gottman Method Couples Therapy – Level 1
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Trauma Treatment Certification - EMDR, CBT and Somatic-based Interventions to move clients from Surviving to Thriving with Ariel Schwartz
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Gottman's Model of Repair in Relationships
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The Gottman Method Approach to Better Couples Therapy
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Shame and Self-Loathing in the Treatment of Trauma
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EMDR & Parts Work for Treating Complex Trauma: Somatic Techniques to Decrease Defensiveness and Facilitate Trauma Processing
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The Vagus Nerve Miracle
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Grief and Loss Counselling
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Expressive Therapies Counselling
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Child and Adolescents Counselling
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Certificate in Animal Assisted Therapy
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Trauma Informed Coach - The Centre for Healing
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Empowering People to Manage their own Suicidal Thoughts and Feelings (Mental Health Academy)
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Social Determinants of Suicide (Mental Health Academy)
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Suicide Bereavement: Supporting Those Bereaved by Suicide (Mental Health Academy)
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Art Life Coach
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Trauma and Mental Health (MHPOD)
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Cultural Counselling Therapy - Mindfulness of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders