Give your emotions a place in your life. Experience the full range of emotions, without fear of overwhelm. Enhancing self-awareness, developing coping skills, and fostering personal growth.
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Effective counselling fosters resilience, improves communication, and helps in building healthy relationships.
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Counselling mental health provides support for coping with challenges, stress, and emotional struggles.
Learn moreWe believe that there is no such thing as a bad emotion. We all feel sad, angry or anxious at times. It is part of what makes us human. Just as we can feel joy, love, excitement. We need that complete range of emotions to be able to navigate life in a healthy balanced way. But any emotion can become a problem when it takes over, when you become overwhelmed by emotion.
During our sessions, we can help you develop an increased awareness of how you are feeling, what effect your emotions are having on you and help you develop techniques to give your emotions a place, so that you don't become overwhelmed.
At Western Sydney Counselling & Therapy, we specialise in working with neurodiverse clients. Having over 15 years of experience in working with children on the spectrum we have developed a unique program incorporating some of the most innovative and up to date strategies to assist clients with ASD to feel more comfortable in their environment.
Our method of embracing the lived world of a person with ASD and joining in their experience while in session, has helped many of our clients see incredible improvement in their day-to-day lives. We have seen clients who are non-verbal, displaying sensory avoidance, struggling greatly with both interoception & proprioception (noticing and making sense of ones own body signals and emotional state, as well as the body language and emotional cues of others), develop the skills and desire to voluntarily engage with others and doing so effectively and comfortably, being able to recognise and understand emotional cues and respond accordingly.
Our method includes educating those around the person with ASD. Helping them better understand why certain approaches simply do not work with an autistic person and then providing them with the techniques and skills to assist their family member / friend / colleague / student navigate day to day life. Just having a proper understanding can prevent a lot of frustration and conflict and create a calmer environment for all.
Sebastiaan's practice started operating in Sydney in 2022. Discerning an increased need in mental health support in the fast expanding Western Sydney area he initially opened up a Equine Assisted Therapy practice in Leppington, which still operates very successfully with three therapists.
In time, he decided to expand the practice and added traditional counselling sessions to his practice. Realising that people live varied lives and having the desire to be available to anyone who needs emotional support, he provides traditional room based therapy, 'walk and talk' therapy (walk around a welcoming environment while engaging in therapy), and online / phone sessions (Telehealth).
Our practice works with privately funded and NDIS clients and works with children, teenagers and adults.
While we welcome your questions through our contact form, we have put some common answers to questions here for you.
