Counselling Services
Counselling is a powerful tool for unearthing your inner strengths and capabilities to deal with emotional and mental distress.
Our qualified counsellors in Adelaide help you to understand yourself more deeply and build new skills, as you rediscover your inner strengths, qualities and resources. We assist you to make sense of your experiences as we explore your story and overcome challenges together.
Our Counselling Services in Adelaide
Our counselling services are located in Mile End, South Australia. With a smaller setting, you can expect a more intimate and personalised approach to your counselling journey. The cozy and secure environment promotes a sense of comfort, making it easier to open up and share your thoughts and emotions.
How Will Counselling Help
Aspire Recovery Connection believe you are the expert in your own life, and have the capacity to grow towards fulfilling your potential at a pace that feels right for you. Our qualified counsellors help you to understand yourself more deeply and build new skills, as you rediscover your inner strengths, qualities and resources. Our counselling space is a safe and confidential place where you can tell your story, be genuinely heard and we work with you to overcome hurdles, heal from emotional pain and find a sense of peace and self-compassion.
Our time together is a collaboration where you bring your life experience and we bring our counselling skills with integrity and professionalism. Our counsellors also value lived experience, and will at times draw upon their own experience to support you. They’ll assist you to understand how the NDIS works, empowering you to make decisions and get the most out of your NDIS plan.
Counselling helps with distress associated with:
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Trauma
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Anxiety & depression
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Visions & voices
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Suicidal thoughts
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Dissociation & shame
Your Choice of Therapies
As a 100% lived experienced team, it is important for us to offer our community additional ways to support their healing journey. We aim to help you make sense of and work through difficulties and challenges while focusing on building new skills and progressing along your recovery journey.
Recovery Coaching
Peer Support
Therapeutic Groups
Trauma Informed Yoga
Trauma Informed Yoga
“Trauma is not what happens to you, it’s what happens inside you as a result of what happened to you.” (Carpotta, 2020)
Talk therapy (counselling) alone doesn’t always work, especially when the nervous system is constantly in a fight, flight and/or freeze state of survival and still affected by trauma. This is where working somatic therapies and polyvagal practices safely and gently, gradually allows the body to start to heal.
According to leading experts such as Bessel van der Kolk, the key to healing is to reconnect with bodily sensations and to understand that the body holds onto trauma before it learns how to heal in a safe environment.
Kate is a qualified trauma informed yoga teacher and has been teaching over the last 15 years, and loves to bring her knowledge and lived experience towards developing tailored 1:1 Trauma informed yoga sessions for an individual’s specific needs.
These tailored 1:1 trauma informed yoga sessions can assist you to safely calm your overwhelmed nervous system to reduce the intensity of triggers and anxiety. Kate will safely and gently guide you with body-based techniques, education and compassion to help you experience more mindful and peaceful states within your body and mind.
Seeking Employment Counselling
‘Seeking Employment’ counselling sessions are focused around empowering you to create your vision of stepping into employment, personal development and wellbeing as you embark on re-entering the workplace. These specific counselling sessions can assist you to explore your thoughts in a safe and caring environment that helps to organise your thoughts and feelings.
Benefits include:
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Planning your re-entry into the workplace
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Address concerns about challenges in the workplace
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Preparing for interviews
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Exploring your purpose and values
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Building emotional and mental resilience
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Rediscover your motivation
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Unearthing your inner strengths and capabilities
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Stress management
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Overcoming challenges and barriers
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Overcoming anxiety and anxious thought patterns
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Increased clarity and confidence
Frequently Asked Questions
1. How our counselling services work?
2. When are counselling services helpful?
Our circumstances are all unique, as is the path towards healing. If you are experiencing any of the following, reach out to us
- facing emotional challenges
- facing difficult life situations
- experiencing persistent feeling of distress or overwhelm
- worried about your overall well-being,
Seeking counselling is a significant and positive step to enhancing your mental health., counselling can help with:
- distress associated with trauma, anxiety,
- depression,
- visions and voices,
- suicidal thoughts or disassociation and shame.
3. How can I find a counselling service provider in Adelaide?
Have questions? We’re here to help.
Call us today!
Address
Building 5, 32-56 Sir Donald Bradman
Drive, Mile End, SA, 5031
Aspire Recovery Connection acknowledges Aboriginal people as the first Australians, traditional owners of South Australia, and respect their ongoing living and spiritual relationship with the land and sea. We respect and celebrate the many Aboriginal peoples and lands across the state.
We also acknowledge that past government policies contributed to the marginalisation, disempowerment, breakdown of connection to country, removal of Aboriginal children from their family, loss of land and income, and loss of culture and language of Aboriginal South Australians.