Your wellbeing is important to me and in order to receive the support and care that is right for you, I encourage you to ask questions and explore areas you may need to clarify for your own understanding.
Here at Connecting Dots Counselling, you will be welcomed, listened to, supported, treated with respect and encouraged.
Inspire, Empower, Change
Seniors, Adults, Young Adults, Adolescence
YOUNG ADULTS, ADULTS AND SENIORS
(18+ years)
Young Adults
This is a stage of life where you would typically be transitioning from leaving high school and moving into a world of further study or work or both. A time where friendships may alter and new ones are discovered. Finding out how you fit into this world and using the skills and knowledge you have gained so far. A time where possible long-term relationships develop and families created. Disappointments because life has not gone the way you had hoped. A career, a husband or wife or a family you had hoped for did not happen.
Adults (Middle Adulthood) and Seniors (Late Adulthood)
This is a stage of life where we can experience both challenges and personal growth and we often seek out the deeper meaning, our purpose in life. We also experience physical changes in this stage and that can come with its own set of challenges and feelings. We reflect on our lives and question our choices, which can lead to regret or motivate us to change things.
These transitions and changes can sometimes leave you experiencing the following feelings and displaying the following behaviours, which may therefor lead you to seeking some extra support:
This is a stage of life where you would typically be transitioning from leaving high school and moving into a world of further study or work or both. A time where friendships may alter and new ones are discovered. Finding out how you fit into this world and using the skills and knowledge you have gained so far. A time where possible long-term relationships develop and families created. Disappointments because life has not gone the way you had hoped. A career, a husband or wife or a family you had hoped for did not happen.
Adults (Middle Adulthood) and Seniors (Late Adulthood)
This is a stage of life where we can experience both challenges and personal growth and we often seek out the deeper meaning, our purpose in life. We also experience physical changes in this stage and that can come with its own set of challenges and feelings. We reflect on our lives and question our choices, which can lead to regret or motivate us to change things.
These transitions and changes can sometimes leave you experiencing the following feelings and displaying the following behaviours, which may therefor lead you to seeking some extra support:
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Together, we will move towards a version of your life or of yourself, that you would prefer and one that brings you peace and joy.
Even if you are not sure what that looks like right now, we will work together at your pace, until you are able to or want to take small steps in the direction you would like to go to enhance your life.
Even if you are not sure what that looks like right now, we will work together at your pace, until you are able to or want to take small steps in the direction you would like to go to enhance your life.
ADOLESCENTS
(13-17 years)
To the Parent:
- This can also be a stage of change, where your primary school aged child is moving up to high school. (12/13yr age group). This can often bring many opportunities as well as challenges.
- It is during these times, that your preteen may need some extra support to help them through that transition.
- Generally, the stage of life we know as Adolescence, can pose many challenges for both your young person, you and family members. This is because it is a life stage where most teens are trying to discover how they fit into their world, what makes sense to them and who they relate to and connect with. A real identity mission. Of course, that often comes with risk taking and consequences of the choices they make, which can be confusing and have an impact on their wellbeing.
- Many parents just want to know that their child is safe and functioning in their lives, in a way that keeps them healthy and happy using skills necessary to handle what life may throw at them. Sometimes having a bit of extra support to help your Young Person live their best life may be needed.
These sessions are an opportunity to have fun and build on their existing strengths, so they can fine tune their skills like:
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When we are under stress, we cannot think in a calm, logical and ordered way!
Our own selfcare as parents is vital if we want to support the Young People in our care.
At Connecting Dots Counselling, I am here to support you in your own selfcare, so you can be your best version of yourself in order to encourage your teen to be the best version of themselves.
To the Young Person:
That being said, you are in the most wonderful stage of discovery. Discovering how you fit into the world around you, discovering what energises you, excites you and motivates you and therefore discovering more about yourself and the version of yourself you would love to be.
My hope is that you feel encouraged to reach out.
You are never alone.
theresa@connectingdotscounselling.au
Our own selfcare as parents is vital if we want to support the Young People in our care.
At Connecting Dots Counselling, I am here to support you in your own selfcare, so you can be your best version of yourself in order to encourage your teen to be the best version of themselves.
To the Young Person:
- You might find that you are finding it difficult to recognise and understand your feelings.
- Reaching out can be hard for some, but I want you to know, that you will be in control of the session and from the outset, you get to choose where you would like to have your session.
- It can be Walk and Talk (often along the Mindarie coastline and parks, Online and Face to Face at my premises in Mindarie in a very relaxed environment where sometimes we even sit on the floor and draw or use the sand tray or slouch in the chair.
- I will move at a pace you are comfortable with, and you will share with me only what you would like. I get it, you are meeting with a stranger, so it can take time to build trust.
- Our sessions are confidential, unless you give me permission to pass on any information you agree to.
- Because you are important to me, I also need to make sure that you are safe, so we will have a discussion around what this looks like in your life.
- This can be a place which enables you to express your feelings openly without judgement and to take control of your life.
- Together we will explore your existing skills and possibly learn new skills, which will ultimately empower you to problem solve, know your self-worth and reach any goals you identify.
- And we might even have some fun together.
That being said, you are in the most wonderful stage of discovery. Discovering how you fit into the world around you, discovering what energises you, excites you and motivates you and therefore discovering more about yourself and the version of yourself you would love to be.
My hope is that you feel encouraged to reach out.
You are never alone.
theresa@connectingdotscounselling.au
What do I know about the wonderful people like you, who I walk alongside?
(Disclaimer: based on real client sessions with all personal details removed to honour client privacy)
(Disclaimer: based on real client sessions with all personal details removed to honour client privacy)
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I also know that you are courageous, motivated and willing, because you came to counselling. Even if you were made to come to counselling, you showed up and participated. You shared, you explored, and you trusted. I know that for some of you that was hard. I know that you are capable of being the person you want to be and living the life you desire.
I know this, because I believe in you and hold onto hope for you.
I know this, because I believe in you and hold onto hope for you.