Guidance Counselling

Assisting With Relationships, Grief & Loss

To some older members of the baby boomer generation in particular, the term 'guidance counselling' would have referred to advice received during later high school years particularly in relation to university course choice and career selection.

Today, guidance counselling refers to chatting over any of life's issues with an appropriately qualified professional counsellor with a view to getting in touch with inner resources and gaining insight into different possible ways of resolving issues.

Sometimes, you will achieve the best outcome by seeking assistance from a counsellor who specialises in a particular field. For example, drug and alcohol addiction counselling is one such specialised field. However, most properly trained counsellors, psychologists and psychotherapists can help you with a very wide range of presenting life problems.

At Gold Coast Hypnosis, your personal Academy of Hypnosis, we offer person centred counselling, often with other proven psychotherapeutic interventions, to assist you move beyond sometimes debilitating reactions to the life events.

The types of counselling in which we find significant interest in our practice include:

• Grief Counselling to assist people deal with the loss of a family member or close friend, or even loss of a job and the like


• Miscarriage support to help people deal with the grief or other emotions arising from a miscarriage or still birth experience


• Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy to assist young people manage the wide range of issues they need to address during their growth and development years


• Depression Counselling - typically working with the clearance of the primary care medical practitioner, the addition of counselling and other psychotherapy tools such as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy to a depression management strategy can provide a research-proven increase in recovery potential and decrease in probability of reoccurrence - good news for sufferers


• Couples and Marital Counselling - to assist when those difficult periods (typical of most marital and partner relationships) arise from time to time where conflict is difficult to resolve and your usual means of communication is not working effectively

Please contact us to discuss your personal needs in any of the above areas.