Realise your full inner potential
Counselling for Adults and Couples
Welcome to Realisations Counselling
We offer you professional and confidential support for those times in your life when you are experiencing various forms of difficulty. These difficulties may be impacting on your personal, social, family and/or professional lives. We are here to provide support and guidance, and to work with you so that you can achieve your full inner potential.
Your counselling sessions are client-focused, strength-based and in line with your stated goals.
Why engage in counselling?
Counselling is an investment in your current life and your future. Counselling has been clearly shown to assist people of all ages and from all walks of life to overcome seemingly insurmountable issues, to regain confidence and self-esteem, to build stronger relationships (personal and professional) and to assist in addressing small or large ‘challenges’ in life.
Counselling can also assist you to realise your full inner potential – to determine which goals are important to you, in line with your values, and to develop strategies to achieve these in your life. Through counselling, you will gain greater insights, self-awareness, clarity, self-determination and direction in your life.
Ethics
As members of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA)
we support and are bound by the ethics of our professional association.
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You can view the ethics standards for PACFA.org.au here
Confidentiality
Your privacy and confidentiality are extremely important to us. All personal information gathered by our counsellors during the provision of the service will remain confidential and secure except where:
• It is subpoenaed by a court, or
• Failure to disclose the information would place you or another person at serious and imminent risk; or
• Your prior approval has been obtained to provide information to another professional or agency. eg. a GP; or
• Your prior approval has been obtained to discuss the material with another person, eg. a family member or employer
• If disclosure is otherwise required or authorised by law.
About us
Our counsellors are fully tertiary qualified and are members of: ​
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Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia PACFA
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Employee Assistance Professionals Association of Australasia EAPAA
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EMDR Association of Australia EMDRAA
Dr Genevieve Armson.
Clinical Counsellor, Clinical Supervisor
BSc (Honours), MBA (Distinction), M.Couns, DBA
As a Clinical Counsellor (PACFA #28019), Genevieve provides supportive, confidential and client-centred sessions. She has a passion for assisting her clients to realise their full inner potential through strength-based counselling.
Genevieve has a deep interest in trauma, self-awareness and self-esteem, personal growth and development, depression and anxiety, existential crossroads, stress, conflict, management and leadership capabilities, and relationship challenges. She is also a registered EMDR practitioner.
From the start of her career, Genevieve has inspired thousands of individuals on the road to ‘realising their full inner potential’.
She has a Bachelor of Science (with first class honours - University of Sydney), majoring in Inorganic Chemistry; a Master of Business Administration (with Distinction - Curtin University), specialising in Adult Education; a Master of Counselling (Curtin University), and a Doctor of Business of Administration (Curtin University), studying creative and innovative learning in organisations.
Counselling Services for Adults and Couples
Counselling for adults and couples
We offer counselling for adults and for couples – someone to talk to about ‘your stuff’; someone who will not only listen empathically but who will also assist you in addressing the issues that are worrying you.
Your counselling sessions are confidential and are focused on what you would like to achieve through engaging in counselling. Each session is one hour. The number of sessions, timing and their frequency are designed to suit your unique needs, and are discussed between us at the first session.
Issues that may be addressed can include: relationship challenges; communication issues; self-awareness and self-esteem; personal growth and development; depression and anxiety; existential crossroads; stress; conflict and management; trauma and leadership capabilities.
Cancellation policy: If for some reason you need to cancel or postpone the appointment it is necessary to provide at least 48 hours notice to avoid full payment of our fee.
Refunds from health funds
Refunds from the following health funds are now available, dependent on your level of health insurance cover:
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Mediation and Executive Coaching Services
Easing conflict in the workplace
Mediation services
Conflict is a natural part of life – in our personal lives and in the workplace setting. Differences between individuals and teams in the workplace are inevitable. But what is the best way to deal with these differences? What is the best way to manage these conflicts? Left unattended, they can cause significant damage to a workplace. The organisations that seek to address these conflicts know that the aim is not to avoid conflict, but to identify the optimum way in which it can be managed. Well-structured and informed workplace mediation offers a way forward. It is based on providing an opportunity for the parties to “identify issues, develop options, consider alternatives and make decision about future actions and outcomes” (The Australian National Mediator Standards 2007).
What is mediation? Mediation is a confidential, voluntary process that, with the support of a qualified mediator, assists parties in conflict to identify issues, develop options and alternatives, consider and make decisions on the way forward.
What is the role of the mediator? The mediator is there to support the parties to reach their own decisions in an impartial and confidential manner. The mediator assists you to identify and test out your assumptions, to facilitate communications and understanding, and to support the parties in jointly developing strategies with the aim of arriving at mutually-beneficial outcomes. Mediators do not give advice, nor do they determine the solution.
How long does mediation take? The duration of a mediation session really depends on the commitment of the parties and the number and complexity of the issues being addressed. A mediation session may be 2-3 hours, or it many involve a series of meetings. This will be discussed with you prior to undertaking the mediation work.
Realisations Consultancy can offer you a mediation service that is confidential, professional,
research-based and outcomes-focused.
Executive coaching
Coaching is a partnership aimed at assisting individuals to achieve their stated results in their personal and professional lives.
Employees at all organisational levels may be involved in a coaching program for a variety of reasons: they feel a need for training; they are building on existing skills; they feel ‘stuck’; they wish to develop their potential for a career move; they need to address performance issues, or they are looking to maximise their strengths. We utilise the GROW model for your coaching programs:
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goals. We commence the first session by discussing and recording your specific goals for the coaching program
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realistic. Our discussions are based on real situations, specific to your role and organisation
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options and opportunities. We explore ideas, strategies and options that will assist you to achieve your stated goals, and address the issues that you currently face or wish to have alternative approaches to. We also identify the opportunities for implementing our agreed strategies.
W =
the coachee needs to be willing to be engaged. W also stands for ‘way forward’ ie at the end of each coaching session we will have agreed on a number of actions that you will implement in your workplace. At the commencement of the following session we discuss your progress (the way forward) ie what worked, what still needs work.
Contact
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