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St Ives NSW 2075
Sydney, Australia

Phone: 02 91443509
Call Alec on 0439527118
stivestherapy@gmail.com

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Types of counseling and approaches

Jennifer has studied Counseling, with further study in Cognitive behavior therapy and Solution focused therapy. She draws from a variety of psychotherapeutic modalities and has an eclectic style that can be adapted to the needs of the client. She offers both face to face and telephone counseling.

As a counselor and psychotherapist, she also have a deep interest in helping adults with Mood disorders such as depression and anxiety, as well as ADD and ADHD. She also specializes in relationship, self esteem issues and grief and loss, and may often suggest nutritional protocols and supplements to help you. A Counseling session usually lasts 1 hour.


Alec is a qualified Gestalt psychotherapist. Gestalt psychotherapy is a growth-oriented, contextual and relational approach to working with people. The Gestalt approach embraces a person's physical, psychological, intellectual, emotional, interpersonal and spiritual experience in a holistic way. Each of these interconnected aspects of living is considered inseparable from a person's environment, history and culture.

A Well lived life

From a Gestalt perspective a well-lived life is grounded in a person's awareness of how they live their life and conduct their relationships, in the present, within their life space. From this perspective, Gestalt therapy seeks to promote a person's awareness, support creative choice and encourage responsibility in a person's effort to realize a meaningful and fulfilling life.

Gestalt is based on the following approaches:

    * It is grounded in the here and now
    * It emphasizes that each person is responsible for his or her own destiny
    * It focuses on the client's perception of reality
    * Aims to increase awareness both of self and of interconnectedness with others
    * It works with the 'what is'; change results from being more fully oneself
    * Clients explore what and how they are thinking, feeling and doing with the therapist as an active participant in the process
    * The wider field is taken into account; past present and future, the individual, family and culture.
    * There is an emphasis on unification, re-owning all parts of self.
    * Gestalt is not just a talk therapy; action is seen as important and clients are encouraged to try out new ways of being
    * Experiments are always aimed at exploration, discovery and awareness; experiential learning is the aim rather than achieving preset outcomes.
 
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