Gentle Changes Online Counselling, Mindfulness and Performance Coaching
Providing evidence-based trauma-informed counselling -
helping people become unstuck.
Welcome to Gentle Changes
Appointments now available
To make an appointment with Minna, you can either
Call or text: 0480 742 926
or click on the button below.
Becoming unstuck
It is a clunky phrase, but I like it.
As we go through life, we develop unique strategies to cope or deal with what happens. Over time, we can become stuck in a pattern of behaving or reacting that no longer works for us.
Becoming unstuck means developing different coping methods and strategies—neuroplasticity in action.
Using the phrase - becoming unstuck - removes the idea that 'we have failed and need therapy'. We haven't failed. We have survived with the tools available to us.
Imagine if we could say,
"I'm just a little bit stuck, and I need some assistance".
Take the first step to becoming unstuck.
Approach
My approach is holistic, trauma-informed, evidence-based, and collaborative. I collaborate with clients to identify their goals and develop a personalised treatment plan incorporating various
person-centred techniques, including mindfulness,
acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT),
cognitive-behavioural therapy,
and solution-focused therapy.
Performance Coaching
Does the thought of public speaking make your
- voice clam up?
- heart start racing?
- stomach churn or sink?
Book an appointment to learn some strategies to relax your body so that the physiological impact of stress does not impede performance.
Public Speaking, Singing, Performing
gentle changes counselling
one of the hardest things we can do is ask for help
Carers
You cannot pour from an empty cup.
Taking on the role of carer during my mother's cancer journey was one of the most difficult yet rewarding things I have ever done.
Were it not for the cancer years, I would not have embarked upon the attainment of the Master of Counselling (University of Canberra).
Carers can grieve in advance, grieve the life that could have been, grieve the sense of self and who they are.
Mindfulness & Meditation
How can this help me?
Regular mindfulness practice can help the body to lower the base level of stress that we carry around with us. Stress creeps up on us, day by day, and we think it is normal (for us). and it may well be. Learning how to relax the body helps to re-set the brain. the practice of returning to a relaxed state helps us to regulate stress that life inevitably brings our way.
Webinars & Seminars
Available for community and corporate groups - delivering psychoeducation about stress, emotion regulation, mindfulness and the importance of psychological flexibility.
By appointment only.
Please contact minna@gentlechanges.com.au
UNLOCK YOUR POTENTIAL WITH GENTLE CHANGES
Welcome to Gentle Changes Counseling
Change is possible.
In its simplest form - repetition creates consistency.
We learn to survive by the methods available to us. Over time, these survival patterns become our go-to coping strategies.
Neuroplasticity means the brain can make new patterns, new strategies. Your neurons love making friends with other neurons. Your brain tries to short-cut patterns that it identifies. This is how habits form (both good and bad). Sports people refer to this as 'muscle memory'. I refer to his as a solidified neural pathway.
Learn to identify your patterns and you can decide whether these patterns still serve you. Do they still help? Perhaps you would like to learn some new strategies.
Change is possible, but it does take time.
Repetition creates consistency.
