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Counselling for Adults and Adolescents

Counselling for adults and adolescents provides guidance for individuals to work on issues or concerns that may be hindering their ability to be more effective and productive in their life. Areas of concern may be around the home, school, in the work environment, communicating with others, lifestyles or even in the process of change itself.

Counselling for adults and adolescents can lead to self-understanding and self-knowledge, which further enhances one’s confidence and self-esteem and the ability to effectively face life’s challenges.  

Family Counselling

Allows each individual to be heard, while at the same time understanding the differing perspectives of the other family members. Family counselling helps to validate each member of the family in order to facilitate and experience healthy negotiations of difficult issues  

Relationship Counselling

Relationship counselling enables couples to diffuse conflict, communicate more effectively, understand and resolve problems in the relationship. Relationship counselling helps the couple to learn to identify their needs and wants, share dreams and gain a greater appreciation and acceptance of their partner.  

LifeMap Program

The LifeMap Program is for people wishing to chart their course in life.  It is offered as a weekend workshop or as a course for one evening a week for 4 weeks.

How does LifeMap work for me? 

Through a personal and interactive process you will:   

•  Identify your core values, dreams and goals

•  Bring insight and understanding to your life

•  Get to really know your self 

•  Align with your dreams and create strategies for moving forward

•  Create your original LifeMap

•  Develop tools to help you track and maintain the course to fulfil your dreams

This weekend workshop will equip you with the potential for a lifetime plan. It is designed to be a supportive, positive and enriching experience. The content and material of the workshop aims to highlight your strengths, positive attributes and offers you a harmonious way forward.

 This workshop is for people who want to make the most out of their lives -

•  Identify your core values, dreams and goals

• To take responsibility for where they are headed

• To master their destiny

• To rethink their Big Picture

• To understand what this life’s about

Life Coaching

Coaching is a one - to - one relationship with a professional coach who helps you clarify and articulate what you want most from life and how to achieve it. Coaching helps you create the results you desire most in life; for  your work and your relationships, in spite of the problems or obstacles you currently face.

The benefits of coaching are to: 

1.      Help you approach life, not as a series of problems to be solved, but rather as opportunities to create what you truly want.

2.      Enable you to produce results with less support, less stress, and much more enjoyment.   

Vocational Assessment & Career Counselling

Vocational assessment and career counselling may be helpful at transition points when career decisions are to be made. Examples are: leaving school or university and starting out on a career, dissatisfaction with your current career path, re-evaluating your career at mid-life, preparation for part-time work, retrenchment or retirement.  

Individual Psychotherapy  

This is a process for understanding our self and our patterns of interacting in the world. The benefits allow us to::  

1.     Feel affirmed

2.     Gain clarity about who we are

3.     Know what matters most in terms of our core values

4.     Be able to set limits and not feel stuck or compromised

Psychotherapy is used in the treatment of situations like, depression, anxiety, stress, grief and loss, eating disorders, relationship issues, loss of meaning and purpose about one's life, post traumatic stress.  

Hypnotherapy Services

Hypnotherapy can prove effective as a specific therapy or as part of a medical and psychological team working to improve the health and well being of the individual. Below are some of the conditions for which hypnotherapy is indicated as a practical treatment.

• Eating and appetite disorders - obesity, weight control, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa.

• Dermatological conditions - eczema, psoriasis, warts, herpes simplex, neurodermatitis.

• Addictions and unwanted habits - smoking, alcoholism, drug abuse, nail biting, stuttering, nocturnal enuresis (bed-wetting), bruxism (teeth grinding), trichotillomania ( hair pulling), snoring.

• Gynaecological problems - PMT, amenorrhea,  dysmenorrhea, psychogenic, infertility, menopausal problems. 

• Obstetrics - for painless childbirth, morning sickness, heartburn, post-natal depression.

• Pain control - for minor surgery, dentistry, arthritis, general neuromuscular aches and pains..

• Sexual issues - impotence, premature ejaculation, frigidity, vaginismus.

• Everyday life -  hypnosis can free the individual from irrational fears, phobias, panic attacks, driving test nerves, insomnia, guilt feelings, obsessive compulsive behaviour, blushing, jealousy, emotional problems, relationship issues, tension, and many of the worries and anxieties of everyday life.

• Career and self development -  communicating, motivation, time management , goal setting, bullying at work, performance, success, public speaking, developing the imagination, creative blocks, stage fright, shyness, boosting self confidence.

• Modern day living - self-hypnosis to help prevent stress and tension, reduce high blood pressure and the risk of cardiovascular disease.

• Academic issues - study habits, exam nerves, improving concentration, memory enhancement.

• Sports and stage - performance enhancement, sports injuries, training discipline, event nerves.

• Other areas - allergies, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), ulcers, depression, tinnitus, migraines, chronic fatigue, asthma, tics, tremors, bereavement, body image

Corporate & Business Services 

Employee Assistance Programs  

 These programs are popular with many major businesses and organisations.  EAP's give workers and members of their families an opportunity to solve personal problems such as alcohol and drug abuse, depression, stress, marital issues and other potentially harmful situations before problems adversely impact on job performance.  EAP's can provide professional assessment and counselling for workers and their families.  They are also a resource for wellness training in the workplace through onsite workshops and education programmes.  

The benefits of an EAP extend to the employee, their family, co-workers and the organisation itself.  Organisations with EAP's can also experience cost savings through such things as absenteeism, on-the-job accidents and tardiness.

Beyond Conflict - resolution and moving on

• Business partners with issues that need to be resolved.  

Family law court precedents and structures have very clear guidelines and legislative power to split assets.  In business disputes and dissolution of business relationships no such protection is afforded.  Many private businesses do not have the capital base to exit shareholders.  Disputes and differences frequently occur.  Resolving such issues using litigation is costly and time consuming.

•  Family businesses where there is conflict between various family members.

• Businesses that need succession planning.

Succession planning involves training of new CEO and transitioning existing CEO either into retirement or new job or into chairman role.    Conflict can occur when the old CEO stays on and becomes Chairman transition. (Beyond Conflict & Creating the Future- Strategic Visioning)

Creating the Future - creating vision, strategy and alignment

This includes businesses which:

•   Need to set a new vision for the company or refresh the vision

•   Businesses that are undergoing merger and acquisition activities.  This type of activity requires new vision and strategy to be determined aswell as to work through processes of them and us becoming ‘we’.

For teams:

•  For teams needing to take ownership of new work practices

•  For teams in the process of change

•  Determining their team life phase

• To provide the opportunity for the team to revitalise

Executive mentoring and coaching

Increasingly managers feeling overwhelmed, stressed or isolated are turning to executive mentors and coaches to help them overcome professional and personal hurdles.

How does coaching and mentoring help?

• Clarifies your purpose and direction

• Organises decisions and actions so they consistently move you toward you goals

• Plan life, career, or business steps with effectiveness and power

• Take on challenges with greater ease

• Evaluate risk objectively

• Handle transitions such as a new career, divorce, job loss or retirement 

• Evaluate and adjust your own results

• Finish what you start with high standards of excellence

• Enjoy both the process of creating and the results

Resulting in:

• Improved communication, assertiveness and initiative

• Increased passion, enthusiasm for life and work

• Greatly increased creativity and capacity to produce described results

• More harmonious relationships with friends, family and co-workers

• Greater personal and professional fulfilment

• More freedom! Better health! Financial success! Less stress! More time, energy and fun! More confidence!

Professional Development

• Clinical Supervision

• LifeMap Training Courses

• Therapists Luncheons

Clinical Supervision

Clinical Supervision is a vital and ongoing requirement for all therapists and an important component of professional accountability.  We provide supervisors who have a range of skills in either individual or couple therapy for individuals or small groups.

LifeMap Training

LifeMap is an unique program conducted over a weekend or as a 4 week course for 1 evening a week. It was developed by LifeConnect for people wishing to chart their life course through a personal, supportive and interactive process.  We welcome interest from therapists wishing to complete the training to run this course.