When choosing a counsellor there are several important factors you should consider including training, experience and reputation.

Joy has been working with individuals and couples as a counsellor and psychotherapist in private practice since 2006 and has also worked extensively in organisations as a counsellor and an educator.

Drawing on her expertise as an Emotionally Focused Therapist Joy assists people to recognise their full potential in life and understand more about themselves and their interactions with others.

Qualifications and memberships

• Graduate Diploma Counselling and Psychotherapy (Jansen Newman Institute)

• Graduate Diploma Emotionally Focused Therapy (Institute of Emotionally Focused Therapy)

• Clinical Member PACFA (Psychotherapists and Counsellors Federation of Australia)

Why have counselling?

• Effective counselling provides a confidential environment and a skilled, impartial professional to help you understand what is going on in your life, why it is happening and how to make positive changes.

• You can be assisted to understand patterns which have become unhelpful or destructive in your life or relationships.

• Strategies are developed for managing the current situation, goals are established and insights into past influences may be explored.

Counselling and psychotherapy is a unique experience and Joy will work with you to understand the context of your situation and your various life influences.