Hobart Counseling
Susan J. Walters
Holistic Counsellor
Hi and welcome to the LMHC website, I’m Susan, a fully qualified, professional Counsellor providing Holistic Counselling in Hobart and which includes the following services;
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- Counselling & Psychotherapy
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Clinical Supervision
Holistic Counselling is a specialist modality which recognises the connection between good psychological health and the physical, social, environmental & spiritual aspects of our lived experience.
Working together, we support you to develop self-awareness and new skills that will improve your general health & overall vitality. Begin each day anew and continue living your best life.
Authenticity
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Work with me to achieve your full potential by developing your innate ability to accomplish considered, creative, playful & growth enhancing solutions to whatever you find challenging.
At Life Matters you’ll be supported to find solutions & provided “transferrable” skills (for use beyond therapy) to ensure you can continue to move confidently forward in your life.
Curiosity
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My Counselling Experience has been obtained working in private practice & corporate settings since completing an Undergraduate Degree and Specialist Vocational Training.
I undertake relevant Professional Development (PD) activities every year to ensure that you’re provided a high quality & up-to-date service. Quite simply to support your life matters.
Focus
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The aim of every Counselling session at Life Matters is to safely support/facilitate your personal development, self-awareness and growth. Through conversation, authentic connection and practical tools & strategies, we will together transform your life.
focus
/ˈfəʊkəs/
1. adapt to the prevailing level of light and become able to see clearly.
“to focus on the problem at hand”
2. pay particular attention to.
“the work will focus on a specific or key area”
Ethics
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Our work together will draw from a diverse range of methods to assist you with your particular difficulties. I aspire to work to the highest ethical standards and ensure best possible outcomes.
I will be mindfully present for you during each of our sessions and you can be assured that your safety & wellbeing are my highest priority.
At Life Matters it’s held that our inner & outer experiences may sometimes be at variance, however acheiving a unified state (congruence) best supports your optimal health.
Qualifications
Victoria University
Diploma of Liberal Arts (Victoria University)
Diploma of Counselling
Australian Institute of Professional Counsellors
Advanced Diploma of Transpersonal Counselling
(Phoenix Institute of Australia) now Ikon Institute
Holistic Counselling Is…
A Personal Experience
Being human is in truth an ever-changing process of becoming, through which we can learn to fully embrace life with all of it’s personal & collective, ordinary & transcendent manifestations.
Hope and despair, joy and sorrow, love and loss are each authentic, integral & ultimately inevitable… human experiences.
Your lived experience (the experience and knowledge gained through living) is rich. Better understanding the stories you tell yourself will help you create the life you desire and deserve.
Of Becoming
What is Holistic Counseling?
As humans however we usually seek to and often develop the most, through consciously integrating our subjective (mental & emotional) lived experience.
This process of becoming better attuned to yourself, will assist you to discover richer meaning/new levels of connectedness with others and with the world around you.
Love & Joy
What is Holistic Counseling?
Your personal journey may already include some difficult, isolating, perhaps even ‘wounding’ experiences and it’s understandable that such can result in feeling displaced, disconnected or even closed off to new life encounters.
Therapy is about offering yourself permission to reflect on the deeper meaning of your unique personal experience and will help you to rediscover that your life is invaluable.
Meaning Making
What is Holistic Counseling?
Making life meaningful, purposeful & rewarding is the result of doing the things and spending time with the people that you love.
What matters therefore is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of your life in every given moment.
Personal Growth
What is Holistic Counseling?
Envisaged by Assagioli as a ‘synthesis’, this model draws upon a wealth of concepts & techniques recognised as available to all, adaptive & supportive, in service of human healing and growth.