Centre For Emotion Focused Practice

With individualised counselling for stress at our Melbourne practice, it is possible for anyone to conquer stress and anxiety. The techniques that you will discover can give you the tools you need to remain calm and composed in any situation; and you will then be able to maintain control of your body, brain and emotions.

The people seeing a psychologist for depression at the Centre for Emotion Focused Practice are challenged to reconnect to their needs and become aware of their emotional experience. They are encouraged to express painful emotions and transform them into adaptive emotional states. This way, we can develop the capacity to use emotions as a guide, without being a slave to them. Once a person is in control of the way they respond to emotions, we can begin to build satisfaction and happiness through positive psychology approaches.

Cognitive behavioural therapy is one type of therapy that can be effective in reducing the severity and occurrence of anxiety. Speaking very generally, this type of therapy involved helping a patient to recognise when they’re getting anxious and what’s making them feel that way, and then equipping them with tools to help them cope with those situations. Of course, each person’s experience of cognitive behavioural therapy (also known as CBT) will vary.

The counsellor or psychologist working with the client with GAD, will have an orientation and style unique to them, focusing on the therapeutic relationship, creating meaning in the person’s life and working with him to create change. A counsellor or psychologist can help the persons suffering from GAD to understand and control their anxiety symptoms.

Clients will be able to understand and identify emotional states, discuss emotion-related experiences with others, and understand the nature of emotion regulation strategies. Successfully addressing social anxiety will allow them a better overall life quality.

If you are looking for help, whether for yourself or for a loved one, our psychologists can assist in exploring underlying issues through therapy.

Finding the right therapist is the first step in treating trauma. The trained counsellors at the Centre for Emotion Focused Practice can help you uncover even long-buried traumas and help you resolve those emotional issues. Healing physically from a traumatic event is often accomplished much more quickly than recovering from an emotional trauma. You can find your way back to a normal and healthy life, regardless of the traumatic events in your past. Just be willing to open the door and take that all-important first step.

Career counselors are able to offer advice and suggestions that can help you find your niche in the employment market. A simple step such as career counseling could be the key that helps you to rediscover your passion and excitement for a job that brings you total fulfillment, and that alone is worth the effort.

Behaviour modification is only one of the techniques that a counsellor may choose to help address the issues that the family is facing. There are a variety of psychosocial models that can be utilised, and more than one option may be required before a positive difference is noted. Most family counsellors have discovered that it takes six months to a year to really make significant progress. This means that you should make a serious commitment to family counselling if you want to resolve those problems at home.

Clients can do a great deal for themselves during the time of dealing with the effects of loss. They should care about their health, seek out social support (apart from professional help), actively express their emotions, and realize that pain is an inherent part of the process of losing someone or something dear.

If grieving has taken control of your day-to-day life and left you without the ability to cope with daily demands, then finding the necessary help through grief counselling is crucial. Grief counselling can help you identify your issues and help you recover.

Eating disorders predominantly have psychological causes and establishing these causes are the answer for treating them. Whether it is negative body image, binge eating, comfort eating or anorexia, counselling can help a great deal.

Counseling will help you erase negative thoughts and show you ways to add positive thinking to your daily life. You also need to concentrate on making the right changes by discovering who you really are and focusing on the values and ideals that you hold dear.

If you are looking for help, whether for yourself or for a loved one, our psychologists can assist in exploring underlying issues through therapy.

The Centre for Emotion Focused Practice is a safe, secure, and ethical place for couples to work together to explore their emotions and forge out an effective, and long lasting change. The centre’s therapists are all fully qualified and strive for empathy, genuineness, respect and a positive working alliance which has shown to be the best predictor of a curative outcome. Our practitioners are relationship focused and affirming of each member of the couple’s needs, beliefs, values, feelings, and natural tendencies towards growth and healing.