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COUNSELLING with
elisabeth van assum
Counselling with me invites you to get in touch with your life’s challenges
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Life's challenges can be difficult and overwhelming. Counselling offers a supportive space to get in touch with those difficulties and explore new ways of experiencing yourself.
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No matter how overwhelmed you feel, therapy offers a space to develop trust in your process so that you replace overwhelm with self-compassion and self-acceptance. Hopelessness can be shifted into possibility and change.
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Creating space to see yourself clearly and non-judgmentally is what allows opportunities of transformation to arise. Learning to trust yourself and connect into your capacities is how you transform difficulty into possibility.
Counselling With Me
I specialise in assisting individuals navigating life's challenging transitions, which can encompass a wide range of experiences like break ups, family loss and grief, illness, disruptive thoughts and memories, career shifts, compulsive avoidance and distraction, feelings of stuckness… etc which often express themselves as anxiety, depression and stress.
I help you understand your issues through a process of self-compassion and self-acceptance by facilitating you getting in touch with the feelings and sensations that are making it difficult to stay present in your life. We work on finding ways to reduce harsh self criticism and replace it with kind self acceptance. This work fosters an internal experience of reduced self-judgment and increased self-awareness which then leads to greater clarity and capacity to respond to your life, rather than react.
Counselling for you
Learning to express and speak openly about the issues you experience and receiving gentle and supportive feedback from me, you develop the ability to truly listen to your wise and kind inner voice and unravel the stories of your life in ways that will not overwhelm you. The process is inherently self-directed, with my support aimed at helping you achieve your desired outcomes.
As you engage in this process, you will identify the internal & external conditions and processes which shape your experiences, perceptions and decisions. This ability to distinguish between internal and external in turn can lead to reducing the feelings of anxiety, depression and stress.
By committing to this work and getting in touch with yourself, you'll generate the capacity necessary to make empowering and transformative choices which can redirect your life into more fulfilling, realistic and fruitful experiences.
counselling services
improve quality of life which frequently manifest as anxiety, depression, & stress
Generate insight into the relationships between adverse childhood events & quality of adult life
Explore mid-life transition events including menopause, relationship changes, sexuality, elder care, career shifts, grief
Work with women coming into awareness of dissatisfaction in their relationships and careers
Attend to the impacts of working in mental & front-line health fields
Clarify issues rooted in systemic & historical oppression - including addressing issues of collective trauma arising in climate change, colonialism, capitalism, sexism, abelism, homophobia, transphobia and racism
Explore gender & sexual identity, specifically coming out later in life, transitioning out of established heteronormative conditioning and connecting into more authentic experiences and expressions of self. Serving and inclusive of all members of the LGBTQA2+ population
“My actions are my only true belongings.”
~ Thich Nhat Hanh