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 To Counselling
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 Level 2 membership with the Australian Counselling Association and the Vocational Mental Health Practitioners Association. I am driven by seeing clients overcome the challenges they face, finding happiness, and creating a better and more peaceful future.
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.
Personalised Counselling 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 Additional Counselling Professional Development Qualifications
In addition to my Counselling qualifications, I have undertaken further studies including:
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Reunification Therapy Specialist Training
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Gottman Method Couples Therapy – Level 1
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Gottman Method Couples Therapy – Level 2 *
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Certified Anger Management Treatment Professional (CAMTP)
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Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP)
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Clinical Applications of Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy
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Unleashing the Power of Family Therapy - Introduction to EFT with Families
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Family Counselling, Marriage & Couples Therapy *
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Couples Counselling: Models & Interventions
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Certified Internal Family Systems Practitioner (IFS)
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EMDR: A Primer for Clinicians
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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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Anxiety Disorders: Recognising, Understanding and Responding
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Trauma Informed Coach
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Navigating Shame, Secrecy, and Disclosure
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Life Line Crisis Support Worker
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Child and Adolescents Counselling
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Grief and Loss Counselling
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Trauma and Mental Health
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Complex Trauma Certification Level 1 & 2 (CCTP/CCTP-II) with Janina Fisher *
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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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Expressive Therapies Counselling
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Certificate in Animal Assisted Therapy
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Empowering People to Manage their own Suicidal Thoughts and Feelings
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Social Determinants of Suicide
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Suicide Bereavement: Supporting Those Bereaved by Suicide
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Art Life Coach
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Cultural Counselling Therapy - Mindfulness of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
* Currently in progress*