Philip Johnson of choosingchange

Relationship Specialist

Providing practical, realistic and achievable outcomes through personal counselling and psychotherapy to help individuals and couples resolve their past issues, present troubles and help you achieve future expectations.

Philip is a Clinical Member of CAPA — the Counsellors and Psychotherapists Association, NSW) and is Registered with PACFA — the PACFA National Register of Psychotherapists and Counsellors.

What you can expect when seeing Philip

Philip offers counselling and psychotherapy for personal issues and for couples or individuals in relationship difficulties. A warm and responsive, completely private, confidential and attentive conversation happens that investigatse your needs and wishes.

Each person attending has particular requirements. Philip listens and helps you draw out of yourself pertinant factors that influence the kind of therapy to assist you.

The counselling you will experience occurs in the here-and-now. Fully functioning in the present, allowing the past to be and the future to be possible allows you to truly experience the real truths of this world: what is happening now is all there is to worry about.

This is not a "be happy at any costs" philosophy... it is a realistic understanding of the true nature of being.

Therapeutic counselling offered for:

self-esteem and assertiveness counselling; Relationship building and maintaining; drug and alcohol assistance; pre-marriage and pre-relationship counselling; anxiety, stress and depression counselling and therapy; sexual identitiy, functioning and intimacy enhancment; sexuality isuues, heterasexual and homosexual; spiritual and existential issues counselling.

In many cases and for many people, these issues overlap, mingle and confuse... one of the most important processes in counselling is developing a strategy to deal with the whole while looking and resolving the particular.

Often once one issue is resolved, others may emerge. It is important therefore not to rush. You will be encouraged to work at your own pace. Sessions may be weekly, fortnightly monthly or once or twice a year. You will determine this.

Philip Johnson:

has worked as an independant private clinical therapist in Sydney CBD for the past six years helping people deal with a range of issues and situations, crisis urgent issues counselling and ongoing personal development for individuals and for couples.

Philip's registration and memberships with CAPA and PACFA guarantee you will be attended to with the utmost professionalism and expertise. The requirements those professional bodies demand of Philip, gives peace-of-mind and assurance of integrity

Why your experience matters most:

is because you are unique in the world and no matter what it is your feelings, youe experiences, your knowledge and your reactions that play out in many ways in your life. If your experience did not count then there would be no problems in the world. You would not experience discouragement or ingcongriuty with your dealings with your friends, family and lpartner. The counselling offered here at the choosingchange rooms takes your position as central. You are and you must always be the expert in your life.

Visiting me and expereincing the counselling process is a temporary time in your life. My job is to get you out of this process as soon as possible. You will be taught how to do this work on your own, with the support of your friends and family you will carry on the therapeutic process for the rest of your life.

choosingchange theory:

My lifetime of experience supporting my education and training in counselling and psychotherapy(individual, relationship and marriage), helps me give you an edge that allows you to be the expert in your life — a safe, professional environment to consider options toward choosing changes in your life.

Change occurs only when you want it; when you know what is happening and have some resources to do it differently. Counselling and psychological therapy is about gaining knowledge about yourself in order to better operate in the world. This can sometimes be about a specific issue, or more generally about the whole of your life.

Functioning well in the world of relationships (family, friends, loved ones, work colleagues...) makes life easier and exciting. This gives you a sense of wellbeing.

Understanding how you operate, what are your ways of seeing things, as well as having an understanding of how other people operate, means you are going to be better equipped to cope if you find yourself in difficult situations.