These are just some of the many ways you may benefit from counselling:
Deal with a cancer diagnosis and treatment
Heal from past trauma
Reduce anxiety and depression
Adjust to life with a chronic illness
Approach death and dying in a peaceful way
Learn to be kinder to yourself
Feel less isolated and alone
Process the pain of grief and loss
Move forward after cancer treatment has ended
Accept the things we cannot change
Find new meaning and purpose
Be supported if you are caring for a loved one
Cope with chronic pain
Build self-confidence
Learn to live mindfully/ in the moment
Adjust to major life changing events
Reduce stress
Improve quality of life and emotional well-being
Reconnect with self and others
Come to terms with disability
As human beings, most of us will experience periods of hardship, adversity, suffering or trauma at some point in our lives, if not multiple times. Our experience can change the way we understand ourselves, others, and the world around us. It can also be a reminder of what really matters to us. This was certainly my experience after going through the shock of a breast cancer diagnosis and treatment in 2013 while in my 40’s and raising 4 young teenage children.
My struggles over the next year or two, led to a quest to understand more about the long-term impacts of a trauma (such as a cancer experience) on quality of life for survivors and their families, and a deep desire to learn how to better support other people and their families through their own unique life challenges. I decided I wanted to become a counsellor and went back to university to study.
My Story
No Doctor's Referral or Mental Health Plan required
Self-managed or plan-managed NDIS clients welcome
Kindness begins with the understanding that we all struggle.
Charles Glassman
Qualifications & Accreditations
Bachelor of Education (B.H.M.S.Ed), Certificate of Gifted Education (C.O.G.E), Master of Counselling (M. Couns.)
Member of the Australian Counselling Association - Membership Number: 15044
