CARE Counselling Australia is a therapy & counselling service offered by Mary Ackerman, based in Melbourne, Australia. I provide you with a safe place and time, during which you can achieve Change, develop Awareness, work towards Resolution and Explore life's challenges to empower yourself. This site introduces my counselling & therapy services (for both couples counselling and individual counselling); provides a short summary of my experience and qualifications; and outlines my approach to working with you.
Services
At CARE Counselling, I provide couples therapy to couples of any gender, sexual orientation, ethnic/cultural group. Most couples experience challenges during the course of a relationship.
I work with both partners to reduce distress, build resilience and acceptance, adopt healthy pro-couple behaviours, understand your partner's emotional, psychological, make-up (and your own), increase knowledge, self-awareness, and integrate this new learning into a new couple paradigm.I also offer Discernment Counselling for those couples who are not sure whether Couples Therapy is appropriate for them.
I work with both partners to reduce distress, build resilience and acceptance, adopt healthy pro-couple behaviours, understand your partner's emotional, psychological, make-up (and your own), increase knowledge, self-awareness, and integrate this new learning into a new couple paradigm.I also offer Discernment Counselling for those couples who are not sure whether Couples Therapy is appropriate for them.
If you or your partner are considering separation/divorce but are not completely sure that's the best path, you are in a tough spot. Discernment Counselling is designed for you! It's a chance to slow down, take a breath, and look at options for your Relationship. I will help you decide whether to try to restore your Relationship to health, move toward separation/divorce or take a time out and decide later.
Our internal 'self-talk', the language and words that we use to explain our feelings and emotions, can be extremely powerful; through counselling and therapy, you as an individual can discover a more healthy way of understanding and communicating your experiences and emotions, helping you to deal better with the challenges in your life.
As outlined in my Profile page, I have spent many years living and working in Australia and overseas: France, Japan, Hong Kong, the UK.
Further, having worked with individuals and couples of many different ethnicities and nationalities, with couples marrying or setting up home outside their own culture, religion, ethnicity, those with their own mixed cultural backgrounds, I am sensitive to the limitless challenges that can ensue when working through difference within the home (or workplace).
Further, having worked with individuals and couples of many different ethnicities and nationalities, with couples marrying or setting up home outside their own culture, religion, ethnicity, those with their own mixed cultural backgrounds, I am sensitive to the limitless challenges that can ensue when working through difference within the home (or workplace).
Firstly, what is meant by "Theoretical Orientation"? I see this as the conceptual scaffolding from which to understand a client's therapeutic needs. It is important to me that such a theoretical orientation has been proven useful and helpful to clients i.e. Through my academic studies and continuing professional development, I have built up a firm, yet flexible, framework from which to practice therapy.
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