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I welcome you to call me and have a conversation. It is important for you to have a good connection with your counsellor. 1300 667 996.
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Working with individuals and couples, utilising counselling, psychology, psychotherapy and coaching to help make your relationships rewarding and fulfilling and achieve your best for yourself. As well- helping with addictions, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, sexuality and sexual issues, career direction, life transitions, mindfulness and family systems issues.
Socrates (355BC) said it all: "Know yourself. An unexamined life is not worth living."
INTERVIEW YOUR THERAPIST: ask for information about qualifications and how you will be treated. This is mandatory: when you are doing anything in your life find out what you will get.
Call to find out about counselling. It is your responsibility is to find a therapist that suits you. You do have a choice. You are always the most important person in every room and my goal is to provide you with skills and resources to be the expert of your life. You know more about your life and experience than anyone else.
...change your mind, find your way. When you go to see a counsellor the therapeutic process attempts to establish understandings between thought and emotions, ideas and possibilities, allowing
new brain connections to help you live more effectively.
Balancing feelings, ideas and actions through individual, personal and relationship counselling that is effective, therapeutic and lasting. Counselling and psychotherapy that is helpful because it is individually tailored to suit you — your interests, your perspectives and your needs.
What works in counselling, and how to make the best of your sessions. See here... choosingchange theory, offered by Philip Johnson, reflects human nature by encouraging free thinking, spontaneity and conscientious decision making.

A lifetime of experience supporting my education and training in counselling and psychotherapy (individual, relationship and marriage) helps me give you the edge that allows you to be the expert in your life. Within a safe, professional environment, you will learn how and when to consider options toward choosing changes in your life. Philip Johnson...
...for all kinds of reasons: lack of trust, sexual or emotional infidelity, staleness or lack of connection with your partner or career or life itself, unresolved arguments, financial or personal frustrations, gambling, alcohol or drug addictiuon or dependencies. These issues affect many people at some time or other in their life.
and depressed feelings, especially, can have a dramitic and long term debilitating influence on your life. For many years depression has been over diagnosed and many people have been prescribed the wrong treatment. It is important to have this diagnosis done carefully. Not to say that drug treatment is wrong (in some cases it is the very best treatment) but a better question might be "Is it right for this person?"
Counselling Services...and Relationship Psychotherapist Services,
(Couple Counsellor)
... to help bring psychological awareness that is:
Counselling Couples and Individuals (Personal counselling) with care and solutions in order to establish, build and maintain enduring relationships and intimate connections with self and others.
Talking to someone just may be the answer to help you understand and/or resolve the issues you are facing. A professional counsellor/psychotherapist is trained to see beneath the surface and help you identify what may be causing you concern.
It is sometimes helpful to identify patterns and our REactions (based on past experiences) and learning—
These are, I believe, most helpful when we are facing issues and problems in our lives.
Couple and Marriage Counselling
Pre-marriage Counselling Pre-marriage Counselling helps you establish and maintain intimacy. Designed to bring an understanding of the kinds of issues newly married or committed couples will face in the early years of their union and offers ways of improving skills to better negotiate those issues and transitions.
Counselling may enable you to find ways to respond better (rather than react) when your buttons are pressed and provide more effective ways of relating with —
"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time."
Edith Wharton: (1862-1937)
What did Socrates mean when he said...
"An unexamined life is not worth living!"?
Seeking understanding is the beginning of change
Merely reading this indicates you are examining your life... presumably you have found you are searching for a greater understanding about either your life or your relationships or even the meaning of life.
Not to put too fine a point on it, I believe the very act of seeking understanding about our lives is possibly the meaning of life, as we know it.
Your expectations can sometimes be your greatest hindrance. This is the secret you have been wanting to know all your life. And, although you didn't know it, it has been with you all your life. Maybe you do know it...
Making every day an adventure is the goal...
As a child you may remember how exciting life was. Every day was an adventure and sometimes every hour you discovered a new world. Each experience bringing you a bliss that seemed inevitable and as perfect as you could imagine... until you began to expect things to always go that way... sometime around the age of five or six maybe. Maybe even younger. Perhaps, as you grew older and more mature your expectations were often the source of frustrations.
You can handle this today... using theory and practice to —
Sometimes a personal situation or issue will impinge on the employee's working effectiveness and that in turn can affect the workers around him/her and consequently have a marked negative effect on the business.
In most people, feelings of sadness, unhappiness, and disappointment are as common as fun, enjoyment, satisfaction and happiness. All of us experience a range and variety of emotions and feelings every day.
If feelings of anxiety and unhappiness show up occasionally most of us cope. But there is a marked difference between that so called "coping experience" and the crippling effects of long term, often undiagnosed, suffering of depression.
CBT certainly, usually tackles the surface or symptoms of depression (and other psychological uncomfortableness)... can it fully heal a person from the root causes of these issues?
Mindfulness plays a significant part in a counselling process where you will participate toward discovering different ways of being in your world. Mindfulness has varied meanings and my
understanding of it is from a Buddhist tradition after the time of Lao Tzu (circa Fifth Century BC).
While none of us welcome the uncomfortable or hard or difficult things or people in our lives, hardly any of us can say they have not experienced those times.
What to do with that knowledge is what mindfulness talks about. Your mind can activate ways of acting rather than REacting; responding rather than lashing out unthinkingly... I would also add that the lashing out is uncaring.
With practical Mindfulness you can learn to observe your REactions, changing the way you see these moments in your life — responding appropriately, effectively, more objectively. Once this habit is learned (or old habits of reacting negatively changed) your attitude and outlook can be dramatically different.
A love story, a story full of romance and adventure, meaningful and true about love for all of us, a human story, as Ang Lee reportedly said at the Golden Globe awards... "You can never categorise or stereotype a region or a place... "People fall in love, period... This is a universal story ... I just wanted to make a love story." Read More...
OR... A gay romance, a story about two homosexual men ...
To describe the beautiful and excellently made film as just "a love story" is to demean and trivialise the protest and political activism gay people have endured and fought for over the past fifty years. Has nothing changed?
Some things require specialised counselling. Same sex relationships are one of them.
Annie Proulx commented in a question-and-answer session after a screening of Brokeback Mountain (taken from her short story set in 1963, first published in The New Yorker in 1997)
Gay and Lesbian Counselling will focus on the above as well as particular pressures present in the gay and lesbian community .
Most of our time is spent in relationship with somebody... what smart couples know smartcouples is how to live together effectively. First principle is that you are your first priority. However, of all your relationships, your commitment to your intimate partner is probably one of the most important aspects of your life.
Maya Angelou - "And Still I Rise"
Philip Johnson "The Crowded Bed"
Philip Johnson operates the choosingchange clinic at 147 King Street, Sydney CBD.
choosingchange , Counselling Sydney CBD, Relationship Psychotherapy Sydney, Smart Couples... serving the Sydney CBD and the Eastern Suburbs and North Sydney — including Surry Hills, Bondi Junction, Darling Point, Woollahra, Edgecliff, Kings Cross, Double Bay, Paddington, Paddington, Potts Point, Darlinghurst, Central, Broadway, Chippendale, Ultimo, Pyrmont, Redfern, North Sydney, Lavender Bay, McMahons Point. For more information Contact.
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