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Counselling is underlined by a focus on Physical and Emotional Safety, Trustworthiness, Empowerment, Collaboration and Choice and importantly a practice ethic to avoid re­ traumatization for clients who have current and past experience of trauma.

 

At the commencement of counselling, you can expect your counsellor to discuss with you the counselling process, your goals and your readiness to make a commitment at this time

 

We won't jump straight into your trauma. Ensuring your emotional, psychological and physical safety will come first.

 

Trauma and its impacts is very complex. trauma counselling will link all the pieces of your story past and present to create a meaningful understanding of what happened to you and what you did to survive and how you ended up where you are today

 

To process trauma safely counselling will help you identify your everyday triggers into trauma and most importantly help you develop skills to better manage those triggers without resorting to unhelpful and harmful behaviours. Trauma counselling seeks to help you cope with and rebuild your life and to rebuild healthy relationships with yourself and others.

 

Your trauma experiences and survival story is central to your healing and will unfold as best fits you as counselling progresses and you can utilize skills to process them in a safe way.

 

Trauma counselling can take time. It's not a straight line process and there may be ups and downs along the way that may challenge you but it is essentially a process of personal growth and empowerment achieved through a trusting and non-judgmental collaboration between you and your counsellor.​