When you just need someone to talk to…
When you just need someone to talk to…
Counselling is a supportive and confidential process where you can openly share your thoughts and emotions with a qualified professional. It helps you gain insight into your challenges, develop practical coping strategies, and improve your overall psychological and emotional well-being.
Through counselling, you can enhance your self-awareness, build resilience, and foster healthier relationships. It empowers you to navigate life’s obstacles with clarity and confidence, set and achieve personal goals, and guide you toward growth, insight and living a more fulfilling life.
Counsellors focus on supporting the whole person — their emotions, lived experience, nervous system, relationships, and the patterns that shape their wellbeing. Counselling is relational and collaborative, offering guidance, co‑regulation, emotional education, and practical strategies to help manage distress and build resilience. The work is grounded in connection, safety, and understanding how your internal world responds to stress, change, and life events.
Psychologists work within a specific clinical framework that centres on identifying and treating mental health conditions, and their role often involves working within rigid diagnostic categories. Many people find that psychological support alone with a psychologist doesn’t meet all their needs, especially when medication or SSRI’s help with symptoms but don’t address emotional overwhelm, trauma responses, relational patterns, or nervous system dysregulation.
Counselling complements psychological care by offering the relational, supportive, and experiential space needed for deeper emotional healing.
Counselling sessions are calm, collaborative, and shaped around what feels comfortable for you. We begin by checking in and exploring what’s been happening in your life, what feels difficult, and what you’d like support with. You’re never pushed to talk about anything before you’re ready, and the pace is always guided by your sense of safety.
Together, we explore your emotions, patterns, and experiences in a way that feels manageable. This may include gentle conversation, reflection, grounding, co‑regulation, and practical strategies to help you understand your reactions and support your wellbeing. Sessions are a space where you can slow down, feel heard, and make sense of what’s happening inside your nervous system. Over several sessions, counselling helps you build clarity, confidence, and emotional steadiness.
Counselling is a collaborative process, and your active participation is key to its success. Here's what we ask of you during our sessions:
The number of counselling sessions you need depends on your goals and individual circumstances. Some people may find clarity and relief after just a few sessions, while others might benefit from ongoing and long-term support. During your first sessions, we can discuss your needs, create a treatment plan and adjust when needed.
Counselling is right for you if you're experiencing psychological or emotional distress, navigating life challenges, or seeking personal or emotional growth. Counselling provides a safe, supportive space to explore your feelings, develop coping strategies, and gain clarity.
If you're unsure whether it is right for you, starting with a single session can help you determine if counselling aligns with your needs.
Feeling nervous about engaging in counselling is completely natural, and it shows how deeply you care. It’s a big step toward improving your wellbeing and opening yourself to dealing with difficult emotions. Remember that counselling is a safe, confidential and non-judgmental space where your feelings and experiences are respected and valued. You don’t need to have everything figured out before you begin, as simply showing up and being open is enough.
We offer counselling sessions Monday through Friday with varying availability. Please note that late appointments currently have a short waitlist due to high demand. Please reach out to Flourish if you cannot find a suitable time on our booking page.
Yes! We offer counselling in our Echuca-based practice and also offer online via Zoom videoconferencing and phone appointments to all of our clients.
Currently, the Australian Government have not subsidised mental health care through the Better Health Initiative for counsellors or psychotherapists, nor do we have the ability to bulk-bill. Ongoing discussions to make counselling more accessible are currently in consultation, and the ACA and PACFA are actively advocating for this change. We will inform all of our clients if and when this occurs.
Sessions can be booked online here, at the bottom of this page or on our menu. I can also book one on your behalf if you are having difficulty navigating the booking system. Give me a call, and I will gladly assist you through the booking process.
Flourish Counselling & Psychosocial Support has an open-door policy, and you do not currently need a referral for counselling sessions, but we do take referrals from GPs, allied health, support coordinators and other agencies if you are provided with one.
Things happen from time to time that are unexpected. Flourish understands this and will work with you to reschedule a session if needed. To ensure that our services remain accessible for all, we do require 48 hours' notice for cancellations to ensure that our appointments remain available for our clients who need them. If you want to reschedule an appointment, there are no charges if we are given sufficient notice.
Yes! Flourish Counselling & Psychosocial Support is an LGBTQA+ friendly practice, and we provide a safe and welcoming environment for individuals of all gender identities and sexual orientations.
Yes! Flourish Counselling & Psychosocial Support offers counselling sessions, psychosocial recovery, capacity-building support and skills development to NDIS participants who are plan-managed or self-managed with improved daily living funding. We can also write progress reports for upcoming plan reviews to support your ongoing journey with the NDIS and make recommendations for increased funding if required.
For EAP clients, you will need to contact your EAP provider and ask them to initiate onboarding with Flourish so we can support you in your time of need.
NDIS capacity-building funding is designed to help you grow the skills, confidence and independence you need to live the life you want. It focuses on building your abilities over time, not just providing short‑term support.
Through capacity-building supports, we can work on things like:
The goal is to support you to become more independent, more confident, and supported in your everyday life. Every session is tailored to your needs, your goals, and the pace that feels right for you.
At Flourish Counselling & Psychosocial Support, I take privacy matters seriously. All information shared in counselling sessions with our clients and participants is private and confidential and will not be shared with anyone without your explicit consent. The only instance privacy may be breached is if you, or someone else you disclose, is at risk of harm, or, in rare cases, we are subpoenaed to court to provide evidence, although this is an extremely rare occurrence.
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Flourish Counselling provides trauma‑informed counselling and NDIS therapeutic supports in Echuca and surrounding areas.
We acknowledge the Yorta Yorta, Dja Dja Wurrung, and Taungurung Peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we live and work, and pay our respects to Elders past, present, and emerging.
Flourish Counselling Echuca provides compassionate, trauma‑aware counselling for individuals in the Echuca region. We embrace diversity and are committed to an inclusive, respectful, and neurodiversity‑affirming practice.
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