About counselling
About Us
Online-counselling is an Australian -based, online counselling service.
Grounded in a mission of helping others with growth and self-discovery, online-counselling provides people with keys and tools to make improvements in every aspect of their lives. Be it personal or professional, you will be helped to find a path that leads to improved personal wellbeing.
What is the difference between counselling and psychotherapy?
While there is some overlap between the two, counselling is about finding the solutions & resources which can help you manage your current situation. While medication can be immediately helpful, therapy helps you understand your present situation so that you can build resilience and personal skills to help you meet future challenges as they arise.
Psychotherapy on the other hand is a slower, deeper process. The ability to reflect on the psychological and emotional aspects of your life, takes time and patience. It is through a critically reflective process that unhelpful patterns can be identified and traced back to their origins. Once identified, the emotion keeping you tied to the initial experience can be released, freeing you of the sensitivity to triggers which may arise in relationships.
Unconscious processes, which are glimpsed through dreams or recurring motifs, can also be looked at within the context of your explorations, providing alternative perspectives or directions in therapy.
In contrast, clinical hypnotherapy which is also available online, is a faster process. Using a mixture of relaxation techniques and guided imagery you can be eased into a natural everyday trance.
A natural everyday trance is often described as being a state of heightened yet relaxed state of awareness, and it is here where those aha! moments occur, those flashes of insight which provide you solutions to long-puzzling dilemmas, lighting the way forward.
Smoking cessation and healthy eating support are also available as programs and are supported by the use of take home audio recordings.
At online-counselling, the conviction is held that when we are deeply understood then our own healing capacities unlock, creating the opportunity for lasting change. By understanding our past we can change our future for the better.
About Us
Astrid Southey
What to Expect with Counselling
What to Expect with Counselling
(Bachelor of Counselling, Advanced Diploma of Transpersonal Counselling, Associate Degree of Holistic Counselling*, and Diploma of Clinical Hypnotherapy)
Member of PACFA, AHA and HTA
Appreciation of people as individuals with their own experience’s of life and their unique internal resources has always been my focus when joining them on th
(Bachelor of Counselling, Advanced Diploma of Transpersonal Counselling, Associate Degree of Holistic Counselling*, and Diploma of Clinical Hypnotherapy)
Member of PACFA, AHA and HTA
Appreciation of people as individuals with their own experience’s of life and their unique internal resources has always been my focus when joining them on their healing journey.
When studying for an associate degree in Holistic Counselling, I was introduced to wide range of counselling approaches and have been particularly intrigued by Carl Jung's work on the unconscious mind and his explorations on archetype and myth.
Milton Erickson, the famous hypnotherapist has also fascinated me with his emphasis on the utilisation of a clients own resources in therapy. More recently I have furthered my interest in attachment theory with preliminary training in the Three Pillar Model for Adult Attachment Repair, which is based on the work of Dr. Daniel Brown, the Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School.
I have also been very grateful to have been inspired and taught by brilliant educators and leaders in the field of holistic counselling. Dr Tra'ill Dowie (Philosopher, Martial Artist, Head of School at IKON) Dr. Judith Ayres, (Emotional focused perspective).
These scientifically-oriented writers and educators have really informed my therapeutic approach, and showed me ways where people can be understood more deeply and helped more usefully.
A variety of therapeutic tools are used to tailor individual programs for a range of client issues including relationship difficulties, coping with anxiety, breaking unhelpful habits as well as self-discovery and self-actualisation.
Whether it is uncovering the origins of self-defeating behaviour or being able to identify sticking points in our emotional reflections, with online therapy you can be guided to clarify the challenges in your life and the emotions which flow from them, in your own safe and comfortable surroundings.
It is through critical self-reflection that you can refine your fit to the environment which supports you.
By understanding your past you can change your present and future.
What to Expect with Counselling
What to Expect with Counselling
What to Expect with Counselling
If you reach out by email, I will call you to schedule our first appointment where you will be able to tell me about yourself and something about your issue.
Please allow time in our first session so that we can get to know each other, discuss therapeutic options and assess the outcomes you hope to achieve with
If you reach out by email, I will call you to schedule our first appointment where you will be able to tell me about yourself and something about your issue.
Please allow time in our first session so that we can get to know each other, discuss therapeutic options and assess the outcomes you hope to achieve with online therapy.
The online Zoom platform will be used for delivery of online sessions.
During this consultation you will be asked some general questions about your health, lifestyle and family background and what it is that has brought you to counselling.
After we design your therapeutic program, you will be contacted to discuss a projected timeline for therapy together with opportunities for adjustments, and estimation for costs.
Referrals and rebates
What to Expect with Counselling
Referrals and rebates
No doctors referrals are needed to access services for online counselling. This is particularly helpful for those wishing to preserve confidentiality over the health services they choose to use.
At this stage no rebates are available for online therapy.
If you are on the NDIS and self-manage your plan you can also claim your counselling services.