Professional Referrals

Focus of Support

This service provides short-term, orientation-focused counselling for adults navigating everyday life challenges, transitions, or periods of uncertainty.

The work supports clients to regain clarity and direction when life feels misaligned, overwhelming, or difficult to manage, without positioning the client as unwell or requiring long-term treatment.

Counselling Structure

Support is delivered within a clear, contained structure that prioritises safety, pacing, and practical movement forward.

The structure is informed by

• grief and loss principles

• trauma-informed practice

• short-term counselling frameworks

This means sessions

• acknowledge loss, change, and disruption

• prioritise emotional and psychological safety

• respect personal pace, choice, and agency

• avoid re-exposure or pressure to disclose

• focus on stabilisation, meaning-making, and adjustment

Grief and loss are understood broadly, including loss related to roles, health, identity, relationships, independence, or life expectations, not only bereavement.

Counselling Approach

Counselling is delivered using a pluralistic, person-centred framework, with an emphasis on practical conversation and forward movement.

Approaches used include

• motivational interviewing

• solution-focused counselling

• goal-oriented, short-term counselling principles

Sessions focus on helping clients

• understand where they are in their life context

• clarify what matters to them now

• reduce overwhelm through structure and reflection

• identify realistic next steps

• strengthen agency and decision-making

Orientation-Focused Support

Orientation-focused counselling is particularly suited to clients who are functioning but disoriented by change, pressure, or cumulative stress.

Rather than treating symptoms, the work centres on helping clients

• regain bearings

• make sense of competing demands

• reconnect with values and priorities

• move forward with greater confidence and stability

This approach is commonly helpful during life transitions, adjustment periods, and decision-making stages.

Everyday Challenges Supported

Referrals are appropriate for clients experiencing

• life or role transitions

• decision paralysis or loss of direction

• ongoing stress or overwhelm

• reduced motivation or confidence

• relationship or family strain

• adjustment to health, mobility, or ageing changes

This service is not designed for acute mental health crises or complex clinical presentations. Where needs fall outside scope, referral options can be discussed.

Referrals

Referrals are welcomed from

• GPs

• community and primary health services

• aged care and support organisations

• allied health providers

Clients may also self-refer.