Counselling
General Counselling | Infertility & IVF Support | Pregnancy & Birth | Birth Choices/Plans | Birth Preparation | Birth Debriefing | Conscious Parenting
Counselling
As we face changes in life, it is sometimes necessary to find support to explore personal, emotional, psychological and relationship issues that may surface. Counselling can provide the space and support to understand more about yourself, the relationships you value and the issues that may affect them.
Counselling can help you to develop new skills for coping with change or to find new ways of looking at difficult or challenging issues in your life.
General Counselling
At Fertile Ground Health Group, our professional Counsellors are experienced in supporting and enabling their patients to deal with a wide range of issues including personal and emotional challenges, family and relationship dynamics, decision making, stress, bereavement and loss. In a supportive and non-judgemental environment, your Counsellor will help you to explore issues and their triggers.
Our Counsellors support you in finding the time and space that gently allows solutions to emerge. This process can create a new outlook to old problems and enable you to take a new approach with a sense of self-empowerment, when things feel beyond your control. We are often asked how talking can help. A Counsellor brings an unattached perspective that can help you find new insight.
Trying to get pregnant can raise issues for you personally and within your relationship. Issues around failure and success, grief and loss, and any past or present issues affecting your fertility can be explored and supported.
Pregnancy & Birth
Pregnancy and birth involve profound physical and emotional changes. Joyous expectations can combine with confusing and ambivalent feelings, often raising fears about your ability to face the challenges of pregnancy, birth and mothering as well as issues about life and death.
Women require support on this journey to enable them to find the inner resources they need to become powerful mothers. Counselling during pregnancy can bring to consciousness and heal patterns that may affect your birth and parenting experiences.
Birth Choices/Plans
Understanding your own needs and expectations leads to wise choices for a satisfying birth experience. Explore your options for pregnancy care and birth. Understand the implications of birth place choices (hospital, birth centre, home birth) as well as understanding the role of obstetric, midwifery, independent midwifery and birth attendant care.
Birth Preparation
Discover what to expect and how to deal with the strong, often painful physicality of birth. Explore breathing awareness, positions, movement, sound release, visualisation and support strategies to learn how to release and yield to body sensation. Understand psychological and relationship patterns which may affect birth dynamics.
Birth Debriefing
Following birth, Counselling can support early adjustment or any grief from unmet expectations, or simply fulfil the need to understand your experience.
Conscious Parenting
Conscious parenting means becoming the kind of parent you aspire to be. Explore underlying feelings and issues that influence parenting and family making and affect our sense of self as contemporary parents.
Fees
Individual Counselling (1 hour) $110
Couples Counselling (1 hour) $130
Couples Counselling (2 hours) $220
Birth Education (2 hours) $220 per Session - 2 sessions recommended
Birth Debrief (2 hours) $220
Please note our cancellation policy
Meet our Counsellors.
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Broken Open - How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow by Eliz
abeth Lesser