At Wattleseed Counselling, our therapeutic practice is grounded in this symbolism. We recognise empathy and therapeutic connection as essential foundations for empowerment, healing, and meaningful change.
Our vision is to support those we walk alongside to explore concerns, challenges, and experiences within a safe therapeutic relationship. Through this process, clients may develop greater understanding, find clarity, experience relief, or move toward acceptance and recovery from the symptoms and impacts of distress.
We understand that it can be difficult to give voice to deeply held worries, painful experiences, or personal concerns. There may also be barriers to speaking openly with family members, friends, or others within one’s support network.
Our aim is to establish a safe, respectful, and trusting therapeutic relationship in which clients feel supported to explore what is troubling them, at their own pace and in confidence. Our approaches are evidence-based and trauma-informed, recognising the importance of emotional safety, collaboration, choice, and respect. There is nothing you can say that we cannot hear.
At Wattleseed Counselling, we also acknowledge the significant influence that personal beliefs, values, culture, and lived experience have in shaping thoughts, emotions, behaviours, and relationships.
Our practice is guided by the core values of honesty, trust, transparency, integrity, and accountability. These are not simply stated principles; they are values we actively embody in our clinical work and professional relationships.
As an experienced Registered Professional Counsellor with the Australian Counselling Association, Kym is committed to ongoing clinical supervision and reflective practice to ensure these values are consistently upheld while walking alongside each client.
Appointments can be made directly with Wattleseed Counselling, and a referral from your General Practitioner (GP) is not required. While GPs are welcome to refer clients to our service, you do not need a Mental Health Care Plan to access counselling support.
Mental Health Care Plans are often connected to a specific mental health diagnosis or condition and may involve referral pathways with extended wait times. We recognise that timely access to therapeutic support is important, particularly when concerns feel immediate or difficult to manage.
Wattleseed Counselling also welcomes referrals from organisations and services that may already be supporting you, assisting with more efficient access to counselling where appropriate.
In our first session we will discuss and determine a clear view of what you hope to achieve in the therapeutic setting, such as your needs, goals and expectations for Counselling. Based on this vision we can then discuss and establish a plan and schedule, to work toward your desired outcomes.
Counselling aims to reduce stressors you may be experiencing in your life, whether this is navigating or making sense of difficult situations or decisions, or exploring what the underlying cause is for particular emotions, thoughts or beliefs – therapy can support you.
Grief and Loss is commonly experienced in multiple areas of our lives. Mostly it comes to mind when we are thinking of the death or loss of a loved one, however it is far more wide-reaching than that and some may not recognise that this is what they are experiencing. There are also some types of loss that aren’t ‘socially recognised’ which cause us issues in trying to make meaning and adapt to our loss.
What happens if grief is untreated or unresolved ?
While intense emotional responses are normal in the acute phase of grief, sometimes people experience problems integrating their loss and moving forward in their life, feeling ‘stuck’ or ‘frozen’ in chronic mourning, continuous rumination and inability to see a way forward, which indicates they may be experiencing what was known previously as complicated grief, and is now known as Prolonged Grief. If you believe this is what you are experiencing, we are able to provide you with specialised support.
Another area of particular focus for Wattleseed Counselling – is providing therapeutic support for victims and survivors of family violence.
Having worked for 15 years in the family violence service sector, Kym has a wealth of experience for providing one-on-one support to victim survivors of family violence, deep knowledge of the drivers of family violence, and the nuanced ways that violence, abuse and coercion are pervasive and cause incredible ongoing psychological and cumulative harm. Due to this, you will receive an understanding for your therapeutic experience that is rarely found amongst mental health professionals.
We welcome professional referrals with client consent. Please Click Here for our referral form. If you wish to discuss the referral or have any queries please let us know.
Appointments are available Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm (After hours appointments by arrangement).
All therapy appointments are 50 minute sessions.
(The above fees are exclusive of GST)
If you need to re-schedule your appointment, please contact us no less than 24 hours prior to your appointment. Cancellations require a minimum of 24 hours’ notice.
Cancellations with less than 24 hours of your scheduled appointment will incur a cost of 50% of the scheduled appointment fee and cancellations with less than 3 hours’ notice will incur the full appointment fee. This also applies if you do not attend your appointment. This can be waived at the discretion of Wattleseed Counselling in relevant circumstances.
In the event you are unable to attend your face-to-face appointment there is no fee for changing to an online appointment such as via Telehealth – providing notice is provided as early as possible and no later than 3 hours prior to your appointment.
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