Fiona is a highly experienced, warm and reflective counsellor with 15 years’ experience supporting a diverse range of clients. She holds a clinical level 4 membership with the Australian Counselling Association (ACA), and has worked within a number of settings, including private practice, community health and the public sector.
Fiona passionately believes that we are relationally driven, with a deep need for connection, belonging and to feel loved. As such, Fiona takes her role as a couple’s therapist extremely seriously, and finds purpose in her work, as she supports her clients to make genuine and long-lasting positive change in their relationships.
Fiona works with couples in the areas of; betrayal & deception, the re-building of trust, addictions, ADHD & neuro-diversity, managing differing & clashing neuro-diversities within the relationship, healing after separation, grief & loss, anxiety, depression, trauma, gambling, personal growth & development, coaching & making tangible changes.
Fiona draws on her vast knowledge and extensive insights to provide support to her clients in a collaborative manner. She is committed to creating a safe therapeutic space for her clients to openly explore and address underlying issues and challenges, as well as guiding the therapy to re-examine commitment, meaning and purpose within the couple’s relationship.
When working with Fiona, she will initially explore your relationship goals and help identify challenges within your relationship. She will explore how the couple can better understand each other’s needs, and she will provide specific strategies and tools to improve communication and effectively manage conflict. All of which will strengthen your relationship.
Fiona finds the most fulfilling part of her role is to support clients resolve interpersonal difficulties, and work through their barriers that are preventing them from moving forward, as well as growing and flourishing their relationships to finally feeling a sense of purpose, belonging & connection in their world. Fiona finds each session incredibly rewarding, as she continually aims to support lasting, positive change.
Fiona will tailor her counselling approach to each unique couple, and draws from a range of different approaches such as; attachment theory, ACT, the Gottman Method, systems theory person-centred therapy, and mindfulness-based therapy. She also incorporates existential thinking into her work.