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Counselling

Counselling takes a deeper look at life to relieve you of any heaviness attached to past experiences. Working with a Counsellor helps you resolve old feelings, and transform memories so that you feel lighter and more capable in the present and motivated by future possibilities.

It is journey to find what you need to help you, and what you need to release for you to feel happier, more centred and in control. Counselling is an empowering process. In your sessions you will be supported in how to resolve and release thoughts, feelings, and habits that have caused:

  • chronic anxiety
  • recurring depression
  • grief (immediate and long-term)
  • workplace bullying or upset
  • family of origin issues
  • relationship difficulties including separation, divorce
  • domestic violence
  • sexual assault, sexual abuse
  • mental health conditions such as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, PTSD, OCD, and addictions.

At The Source of Wellness, we have been counselling women, men, and couples since the year 2000.

Post session notice the small changes that signify big changes, such as changes to your usual responses.

Remember: “A wheel takes time to turn. Changes today require a full turn of the wheel before they are fully realised.”

Sessions are confidential and covered by the National Code of Conduct for Healthcare Workers (2015). Consults can be in-clinic or by video call / Telehealth.

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Life Coaching is about improving your life and working with a Coach to help you define, plan for, and reach your Goal!

Goals are individual and cover any aspect of life and wellbeing, such as:

  • Changing jobs, writing applications, dealing with rejections, interview preparation, staying focussed!
  • Re-entering the workforce after a break (travel or starting a family)
  • Problematic dynamic with people close to you
    Identify behaviours that sabotage your plans for happiness
  • Gain clarity about situations, when you are doubting yourself
  • Life-stage transitions such as employee to retiree
  • Design plans to achieve goals in life, health goals, success goals, relationship goals.

Between sessions you take steps to progress your Goals. It’s great having an accountability buddy for your Life Goal. It stops the repetition of times when you lost momentum because it was just you and no-one would notice if you stopped pursuing your Goal.

Now you have someone who supports you, is interested in how you are going, a professional who is available to talk about why you are feeling like you can’t keep going (if that comes up for you).

Life Coaching is about helping you understand yourself and what you want, and how to achieve your Goal, so you can enjoy the feeling of Success.

Wellness Coaching has the sole focus on your health and wellbeing goals, and helps you achieve that much-needed boost to focus on self, and prioritise those plans you’ve maybe made many times, but not achieved as life competes with your individual needs.

Wellness Coaching is the accountability and inspiration you need to reach your desired healthy level of fitness, which may require you to replace habits that involve couch surfing / comfort eating / or always putting everyone else’s needs before your own with other alternatives.

Wellness Coaching guides you in how to keep boundaries that allow you to stick to your plan and achieve your health & wellbeing goals and feel better!

You have permission to manifest your version of a happier you.

Sessions are confidential and covered by the National Code of Conduct for Healthcare Workers (2015). Consults are in-clinic or online via Telehealth.

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These sessions allow offer both talk therapy (Counselling or Life Coaching) to discuss your thoughts and feelings. And receive some physical therapy (Osteopathic Craniosacral Therapy) to treat physical strain patterns in the one session for total wellbeing.

This offering is unique to The Source of Wellness as we have the only health professional in Perth with dual-qualifications in Mind and Body treatment who is able to provide both services in one session for the benefit of her clients.

Life stressors and its affect on our mental health also affects our physical wellbeing with your body feeling heavy, tense, painful, or sluggish in function. And vice a versa when we have physical pain, especially pain that is undiagnosed or recurring, it affects how you think and feel about life in general.

Anxiety is the most common Mind and Body example. But it also affects us in many other situations, such as depression, long-term and acute stress, post-trauma, sudden injury. And other mental health conditions such as bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and schizophrenia.

You can choose Counselling or Life Coaching combined with  Craniosacral Therapy or Jaw Unwinding.

This combined session helps you reach your best space mentally, emotionally, and physically as quickly as possible.

Sessions are confidential and covered by the National Code of Conduct for Healthcare Workers (2015).in

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Women’s Wellbeing Circle meets monthly. It is warm and welcoming group which is easy to slide into as a visitor or to become a regular.

We discuss life & wellbeing topics as chosen by the group for more clarity and other perspectives, so you can take what you need as part of your journey to self-sustaining habits which support and underpin your energy to do life your way.

Women’s Wellbeing Circle is guided by our Life Coach, Ally, to assist each of you find greater meaning, heightened rejunevation, or new ways to handle repeat situations.

There is chat, laughter, ginger tea, snacks, and space for Mind+Body relaxation.

Live your best life, or at least your better life! and we look forward to welcoming you at the next meetup.

For more information see our Women’s Wellbeing Circle page, or click here to book (go to In Clinic / Group tab).

First circle is FREE for you and a friend.

Couples Counselling. Couples Relationship Coaching. Rebuild your relationship
Couples Counselling. Couples Relationship Coaching. Repair your relationship. Reconnect with your partner.
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Relationship Coaching can involve both Counselling and/or Relationship Coaching for partners to get a relationship reset, and re-inspire your relationship.

Your journey together starts with a review of the path your relationship has taken to this point, and what you would like both individually and as a couple in life.

Find a deeper connection and resolve issues that have become divisive at home in a space that allows you both to speak and be heard.

In long-term relationships you can miss changes in your partner, in how they now think and feel about situations which you thought you knew.

There is a focus on communication and other key relationship domains, which you can individualise for your relationship, such as:

  • repair and rebuild post infidelity
  • establish fresh communication between you
  • share financial responsibilities
  • co-parenting arrangements while together and if separated
  • social needs together, and separately
  • extended family and care of ailing parents
  • changing needs self, family, and children
  • work schedules or preparing for retirement
  • moving house, or travel goals

It is about improving your present while building towards a future relationship goal. Sessions will help you explore topics and ideas so you can:

  • negotiate to meet your relational needs without negating the needs of your partner
  • resolve differences without giving in or giving up, and
  • how to take the negative emotions out of the subtext of your relationship.

Improve your connection with self and with each other. 

In structured sessions you will both be guided to understand your blocks to manifesting your vision of a happier you within a happier couple dynamic.

Sessions are strictly confidential and covered by the National Code of Conduct for Healthcare Workers (2015).

Consults can be in-clinic or online with both partners able to log in separately to a joint video call.

Craniosacral Therapy is part of Osteopathy and treats a broad range of physical health conditions and pain syndromes.

Craniosacral Therapy is an Osteopathic treatment that is done with you fully clothed to resolve strong physical pain by working with your Nervous System to create healthy changes in your muscles, organs, bones. 

Physical pain caused by poor posture, injury, accident, diet, lifestyle, virus or bacteria, or dysfunctional lymphatic drainage can be treated. Other conditions which arise because of chronic or traumatic life events such as Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Migraines, Tinnitus. 

Craniosacral Therapy is also a great way to treat muscle and bony pain caused by postural imbalances or injuries from motor vehicle accidents, and the stress caused by mental or emotional stress. 

This style of treatment works very well for newborns with signs of pain and distress. It is delivered as a series of treatments to make positive, lasting change in your overall health and wellbeing.

Your body will process each treatment for up to 3 days. In this time whatever you note in terms of sensations and pain, just allow it to be. Your body is working to let it go. Drink water, drink less or no caffeine and alcohol, rest and allow in the 3-day post treatment period. 

One treatment is not a miracle. But each treatment is able to go deeper or work on different aspects of the problem for a complete resolve.

Lymphatic Drainage is also highly effective with Craniosacral Therapy and at The Source of Wellness is combined with Acupoints from Chinese Medicine to stimulate the lymphatic system to kickstart. Especially good for intracranial hypertension, barometric headaches, fluid build-up in limbs and armpits, post lymph gland removal, recovery from breast cancer. We have very good results using this combination of treatment.

Man on treatment table with therapist releasing long-held jaw tension for maximum positive effect.

Tight clenched jaws, teeth grinding, subluxating jaws which click in and out of the joint. This treatment series releases the excessive tension in muscles which attach the lower jaw to your skull, facial muscle tensions, cranial bone compressions, jammed Atlanto-Occipital (AO) joint, and tight compressed cervical spine (neck) to create normal range of movement in your Temporo-Mandibular Joint (TMJ). 

Creating relaxed functioning of upper body, head and neck structures is essential for full resolution of your jaw problem.

Jaw Unwinding includes techniques to release both internal and external contracted jaw muscles, as well as affected and contributing external body structures are treated.

Treatment will provide you a new feeling of relaxation in your jaw. 

Your homework between sessions is to notice when your jaw tightens and what is happening around you or inside you (your thoughts or feelings) at the time and reverse the automatic habit to clench. This simple exercise will lessen how much treatment you will need to achieve a jaw that functions with ease and without tension.