Welcome to the counselling centre

• We provide free counselling, coaching and holistic health advice
• We facilitate mental health awareness and first aid.

For an appointment, please contact the Secretary.

Counselling is:

• Confidential and private
• A voluntary process

What is counselling?

A counsellor is a trained, objective professional with whom you can build a healing and trusting relationship. They are trained to offer different types of assistance; most frequently talk-based styles of therapy.

Counselling is a process of talking about and working through your personal problems with a counsellor. The counsellor helps you to address your problems in a positive way by helping you:

• To clarify the issues;
• To explore options;
• To develop strategies;
• To increase self-awareness and coping mechanism;
• For some people, just the process of telling their story to a counsellor, and being listened to, is helpful.

The counsellor is someone trained to offer a talk-based therapy. There are many types of talk-based therapy. The counsellor may work in partnership with a medical doctor or other health professionals at times to give comprehensive and integrated care.

Counselling provides confidential support. This means that everything you discuss with the counsellor is private, between you and the counsellor. The exception is when a counsellor has a duty of care to report something that threatens your wellbeing or the wellbeing of others. This legal requirement will be explained to you in your first counselling session.

Common reasons people seek counselling

Anyone who is struggling with a personal concern can seek counselling. No issue is too big or too small to ask for support. Common issues that people seek counselling for include:

• Study, work and career issues
• Transition from high school to university life
• communication and relationships issues
• stress, anxiety and depression
• Relocation from home country to country of study
• grief and loss
• life transitions such as the birth of a new baby, separation, divorce or the death of a family member or friend
• parenting
• addiction
• abuse
• trauma
• self-esteem difficulties
• exploring gender identity and/or sexuality.