Hello and welcome!
I'm Lisa, a psychotherapist and holistic counsellor.
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I believe that the best way that humans can make positive change in the world is to understand and heal ourselves. Psychotherapy is a type of healing that can lead to deep and profound change. When you have the courage to work with and process your emotions and feelings with a therapist, you can find healthier ways to respond to life, rather than reacting out of old, harmful patterns. This will free up your energy to experience and be in the world fully.
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Therapy might be good for you if you want:
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freedom from emotional dysregulation, family or relationship issues, existential angst, or self-destructive habits.
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connection with self possession - if you lose yourself in relationships, or relationships feel either/both too far away or too close and overwhelming.
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understanding by exploring your past and how it has created unconscious behaviours and patterns in your life.
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to fully inhabit your life and stop the anxiety and overthinking.
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I bring together together traditional counselling methods like mindfulness, cognitive behavioural therapy and talk therapy, with somatic body-based work, expressive work, attachment theory, ecotherapy and a holistic approach, to work with mind, body and spirit. ​​
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To enable a competent practice and to ensure I provide a place of healing, safety and authenticity, I continue regular personal sessions, supervision and continuous learning. ​
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I work on the traditional lands of the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation (Surry Hills, Sydney, Australia).
​You are so welcome to ​​contact me using the form below to ask a question or make a session booking.
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"Our discontents are often rooted in an unmet longing for wildness, mystery and meaningful engagement with the world..a craving for the untamed terrain of the soul."
-Bill Plotkin
Wild Earth Psychotherapy and Counselling
Services
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Wild Earth psychotherapy sessions
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I use the latest techniques of body orientated trauma resolution to help you feel safe in your body while exploring and processing thoughts, emotions and memories.
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When the survival responses of the autonomic nervous system are activated (fight, flight, freeze) but not fully discharged, trauma stays locked in the body, together with memories and feelings. The first step is to help you track when you are in fight, flight or freeze and to teach you how to bring your nervous system back to equilibrium.
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Working with the body also helps us understand how our life and worldview is to a large extent a function of our nervous system and blocked energy patterns. These patterns can keep us recreating similar life situations and relational dynamics.
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The aim is to help you feel more grounded, embodied and present, and your nervous system more regulated. You will learn techniques to contain and regulate the level of charge or energy in your body, to self soothe and to notice where you habitually hold or block energy in your body to limit feeling. You will start to feel and look more integrated, less rigid and more present to your life. The analytic and counselling part of the therapy will help you understand the why of these unconscious inhibitions in terms of childhood or other experiences as well as techniques to unhook from unhelpful thinking patterns.
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Holistic counselling uses a range of tools to help you explore your inner world, including art and symbol, story and myth, dreams, ritual and meditation. I support you to explore central questions about the meaning of your life to help you navigate your way through life transitions, emotional crises and other issues with a focus on your potential. I can help you uncover the different masks you wear in life and how they may help or hinder you from leading an authentic life.
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Pricing and location for therapy/counselling sessions
15 minute initial phone consultation - no charge.
50 minutes in person session at the Surry Hills location - $110
1 hour ZOOM online session - $110
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Ask a question or make a booking, I'd love to hear from you!
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​Wild Earth Psychotherapy
Surry Hills, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Email: wildearthcounselling@gmail.com
Web: www.wildearthcounselling.com
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ABN 42 877 191 005
“A person who doesn't breathe deeply reduces the life of his body. If he doesn't move freely, he restricts the life of his body. If he doesn't feel fully, he narrows the life of his body. And if his self-expression is constricted, he limits the life of his body.”
— Alexander Lowen
Tell me, what is it you plan to do,
With your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver, The Summer Day
