Mission
To deliver therapy that is clear, skilled, and genuinely useful. Clients often come to therapy feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or exhausted by repeating patterns.
The aim is to help you make sense of what is happening, identify what is maintaining distress, and build practical strategies you can use in everyday life.
Vision
For clients to experience what good therapy can be: clear, practical, and on point steady support that leads to genuine relief and lasting change.
The clinic aims to provide high-quality, structured care so people gain clarity, build skills, and make changes that hold up in real life-not just in session.
What we offer
How we work
About
AV Counselling Clinic is a boutique private practice providing evidence-based psychological therapy for adolescents, adults and relationship counselling for individuals and couples.
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The clinic supports people experiencing anxiety, low mood, burnout, grief, and relationship difficulties. Therapy focuses on understanding what is contributing to distress and supporting practical, sustainable change over time.
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The practice works with private clients as well as approved funding pathways, including Psychological Access+ (Northern Sydney), Victims of Crime scheme, and Medicare (Better Access rebate), to allow for accessibility to high levels of quality care without the burden and financial stress to cost-of-living.
AV Counselling Clinic is intentionally a small practice, allowing for thoughtful clinical work, continuity of care, and a focus on quality rather than volume.
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The work is grounded in contemporary psychological research and informed by extensive experience across public, community and private mental health settings. Sessions are collaborative and purposeful, with an emphasis on clarity, emotional regulation, and practical strategies clients can apply outside the therapy room.
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There is a particular focus on anxiety presentations and mood-related difficulties, alongside stress, burnout, grief, and relationship distress.
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One thing we do in order to offer choice and privacy is by having access to clinics at different locations available.
Opportunity
Let the dreams of today determine the opportunities of tomorrow.
Approaches used in the clinic
Different types of problems respond best to different sorts of treatment modalities so it's important that a thorough and thoughtful assessment is carried out before any treatment is prescribed.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
is a structured, evidence-based approach that helps people understand how patterns of thinking, behaviour, and emotional response contribute to distress. Therapy focuses on identifying what is maintaining difficulties and developing practical strategies to respond differently in everyday situations. CBT is particularly effective for anxiety, panic, trauma-related symptoms, depression and stress.
Eye Movement Densensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR is used to support recovery from trauma and PTSD-related symptoms when distressing experiences continue to intrude on daily life. This approach helps the nervous system process unresolved experiences so they become less emotionally disruptive over time. EMDR is introduced carefully and only when sufficient stability and readiness are in place.
Solutions-Focused Approaches
Solution-focused based work supports clients to clarify goals, recognise strengths, and build momentum toward change. Rather than analysing problems endlessly, therapy focuses on what is already working anyhow to expand it. This approach is particularly helpful when clients are seeking direction, practical progress, or support through periods of transition.
Systemic and Relationship-Focused Therapy
Systemic approaches consider how individuals are influenced by their relationships and broader environments. When working with relationship or family-based concerns, therapy focuses on interaction patterns, communication, and emotional dynamics. This work supports improved understanding, connection, and repair, particularly during periods of conflict or relational stress -(Post-Milan Model-Structural Model-Gottman Method Level 1 and 2)
We don't have to do it all alone.
We were never meant to.
​-Brene Brown