Helping you live your best life
Improve your wellbeing by developing strategies and skills that are as unique as you are
Support Services
General Counselling
Life throws everyone unexpected circumstances that challenge your usual way of coping. This sense of overwhelm can impact mental health when left unmanaged.
Trauma & PTSD
Trauma, PTSD and complex PTSD can be crippling and frightening. Work further than traditional therapy to get to the deeper somatic layers of healing the effects of trauma.
Work Psychosocial
The personal cost of workplace stress is significant. Many people experience forms of work-related stress which impacts mental health and negatively flows into personal and family life.
Stress Management
Managing stress can be difficult when you're time poor and juggling numerous responsibilities like family, work commitments, financial pressures and relationships.
Grief and Loss
Grief is personal and everyone experiences grief and loss differently. It may be complex and bring intense fluctuating emotions which can feel lonely and debilitating.
Anxiety & Depression
Anxiety and depression may be separate or interchangeable, affecting how you think, feel and act, causing physical and behavioural symptoms which can take hold.
Cultural Adjustment
Adjusting yourself and family to life in a different country can be challenging when it comes to finding connection in lifestyle, work, community and a new environment.
Career Guidance
Whether you are a school leaver, in the midst of a career change at any age, or have been unemployed for a while, find your passion and purpose to the right pathway.
Burnout
Burnout is a chronic form of emotional, mental and physical exhaustion, occurring through prolonged work and life stress with potential for significant impacts on health.
Anger Management
Managing emotion in a heightened state is hard when running on a short fuse. Anger is a normal human emotion, however unregulated, it can become unhealthy, causing distress and risk.
Relationships
Conflict and ongoing inter-personal disputes can become a chronic stressor. Suppression and avoidance are unhealthy coping mechanisms causing additional communication issues.
Addiction
Overcoming addiction can bring significant ongoing challenges, influenced by numerous factors. Person centered support and healing is the key to effect change.
Well Life Counselling
Life throws everyone unexpected challenges, some can be overwhelming, devastating and confusing. You may find yourself in unfamiliar territory, wondering how you got there. Sometimes an unforeseen event or trauma can throw you off your path.
Counselling can help during a time in your life when you need that extra support.
With a person-centered ethos because you are the expert in your own life, Well Life Counselling is about empowering you.
Working together but you will always be in control.
Through a trauma informed and culturally sensitive framework, a collaborative approach is essential to your goals and provides respectful, professional and non-judgmental support. Listening to your unique circumstances helps develop an understanding of what’s important to you, upholding your values, beliefs, resources, priorities and capacity.
Sandra O’Neill, accredited counsellor will support through your journey to understand and manage your emotions, distressing thoughts and behaviours helping to create strategies that work best for you to get on top of your mental health. Trusted, evidence based, clinical therapies such as CBT (cognitive) EFT (emotional) DBT (communication) with a solutions and strengths-based approach incorporating psychoeducation to empower you to learn more about yourself, building skills and resilience. You may also find energy psychology and mindfulness helpful to be easily intergrated for continuous regulation, which you can use well beyond counselling.
Well Life Counselling is here to help you navigate your ship but you are always steering it
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Mental Health Helplines & Resources
Urgent assistance is available outside our office hours.
If you or someone you know is in crisis and needs help now, call triple zero (000).
Lifeline provides 24-hour crisis counselling, support groups and suicide prevention services.
Call 13 11 14, text on 0477 13 11 14 (12pm to midnight AEST) or chat online
Beyond Blue aims to increase awareness of depression and anxiety and reduce stigma.
Call 1300 22 4636, 24 hours/7 days a week, chat online or email.
eheadspace provides free online and telephone support and counselling to young people 12 – 25 and their families and friends.
Call 1800 650 890, 9am – 1am AEST / 7 days a week, chat online or email.
Kids Helpline is Australia’s only free 24/7 confidential and private counseling service specifically for children and young people aged 5 – 25.
Call 1800 55 1800.
1800RESPECT is the national domestic, family and sexual violence counselling, information and support service. They are a confidential service available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Call 1800 737 732, text 0458 737 732, chat online or video call.
Griefline supports anyone experiencing grief, providing access to free telephone support. Call our helpline or book a Grief Support Call at a time that suits you.
Call 1300 845 745, Monday to Friday, 8am to 8pm, or book a call.
