Types of Counselling

Relationship Counselling
Family Counselling
Anxiety & Depression Counselling
LGBTQIA+ Counselling
Grief Counselling
Anger Management
Pre-Marriage Counselling
Online Counselling

Session Fees

Individual: $210
Couples: $210

Areas of Interest

Young couples
Couples with young families
Senior couples
Extended families/in-laws
Affairs
Couples in business
Helping partners safely improve their assertiveness in their relationship
Grief and loss (20 years, including volunteering for NSW Cancer Council for over 7 years), including exploring the time after diagnosis, during treatment, survivorship, and possibly journey to end-of-life
Strong experience with working with individuals around life changes that affect their current or future relationships (eg. job loss, relationship breakdown, partner’s serious illness diagnosis, parenting after separation, death of a partner or in the family)

Types of Modalities

Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)
Gottman Method
Narrative Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural (CBT)

Accepted Insurance Funds

AHM
Bupa
Medibank Private
ARGH Group

“One good conversation can shift the direction of the change forever.”

— Linda Lambert

Specialised Training

Gottman couples therapy training
Acceptance and Commitment (ACT) certification
The Developmental Model of Couples Therapy, Dr Ellyn Bader

About David

David’s style is naturally calm and curious, which allows him the chance to connect with clients where they are at, and sit with them in a safe and supportive environment.

After 20 years and nearly 5,000 sessions of experience, he holds the highest level of membership with the Australian Counselling Association (ACA) and he is an accredited Clinical Supervisor of counsellors and social workers.

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Hart Centre Located in Chatswood, NSW

More About David

<ol> <li>Clients have mentioned that they have found me engaging and that they felt safe, heard and not judged</li> <li>I bring a depth of counselling experience</li> <li>I am naturally curious, which helps clients gain a better understanding of their current challenge and develop new strategies to experiment with to move things forward for them, either together or separately</li> </ol>
Over 20 years.
I find working with couples satisfying when they gain a deeper understanding of their current situation, clarity around the contribution that one or both is making that is unhelpful, and the courage and curiosity to experiment with others ways of either working better together or determining that the relationship should end.
I am currently working another couple, in their late 40’s who are in a new relationship, one who has an adult (and quite dependent) son and the other who has no children. Over our sessions so far, we’ve unpacked the concern of the father for his son and his partner’s frustrations of not ever feeling like she comes first in her partner’s life. They are now growing in higher appreciation of the other’s point of view and their own unmet needs. Their relationship is strengthening from session to session as they increase their awareness of the impact of their actions on the other and how their commitment to each other is giving them space to find new ways of showing the other how much they care, and yet remain supportive and understanding of the needs of other family members.