CONNECT TO WELLNESS THERAPEUTIC COUNSELLING for WOMEN
Trauma Integrated, Empathetic Attunement, Cultural Safety
Therapeutic Approach
My approach is flexible, relational, collaborative and centred around working with you at your own pace and where you are at and what you would like to explore, as I belief that you are the expert in your lived experience with strengths and innate wisdom.
You can expect an emotionally empathetic safe space that honours and holds you in your uniqueness and individuality.
You will be treated with respect, warmth, kindness and compassion whilst we identify what therapies, tools, skills and strategies can assist you in your wellbeing, healing and recovery.
Therapeutic Therapies
Focused Psychological Strategies:
· Psychoeducation including Motivational Interviewing
· Cognitive Behaviour Therapy(CBT) including Behaviour Interventions, Behaviour Modification, Exposure Techniques, Activity Scheduling, Cognitive Interventions and Cognitive Therapy, Trauma Focused CBT
· Relaxation and Stress Management, Mindful Self Compassion, Training in Problem-solving skills, Anger Management, Social Skills, Communication and Parenting.
· Narrative & Interpersonal Therapy
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT):
· comprehensive skilled based therapy with the aim to promoting “a Life Worth Living”.
·Mindfulness, Emotional Regulation, Distress Tolerance and Interpersonal Effectiveness skills
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
· body based psychotherapy for attachment and trauma that taps into the language and wisdom of the body sensitively
· practical personal somatic resources to link the intuitions of the body towards recovery and restorative repair
Trauma Focused Acceptance Commitment Therapy (TFACT)
· a practical comprehensive compassion based trauma informed, trauma aware and trauma sensitive approach to addressing multiple traumas and mental health presentations
Extensive Experience
Krsna has extensive experience working as a social worker in a women's health centre and as a mental health clinician in community mental health.
Experience supporting women with their well-being and resilience, life transitions, relationships, parenting and attachment, grief & loss, childhood sexual abuse, adult sexual abuse, domestic and family violence, mental health conditions, disabilities and additions.
Qualifications
Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, Acceptance Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, (CBT), Complex Trauma, Dadirri: Ancient Aboriginal Mindfulness Traditions, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Masters of Social Work, Meditation, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, Specialist Supportive Clinical Management for Eating Disorders, Safeside Suicide Prevention, Yoga
(Future Training: Emotion Focused Individual Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, EMDR)