Trauma Support Providers

Professional Biography

Qualifications:
B.Bus, Dip.Cl. Hypno, Dip Prof.Counselling, Dip Ego State Therapy, Advanced Clinical Resource Therapist, M.Counselling, EMDR, BSP1

Associations:
Andrew is a clinical member of the Psychotherapists and Counsellors Federation of Australia (PACFA), a professional clinical member of the Australian Association of Clinical Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy (AACHP), a registered member of the Australian Society of Clinical Hypnotherapists (ASCH), a level 4 member of the Australian Counselling Association (ACA) and a member of the EMDR Association of Australia.

Professional Experience:
Andrew’s professional experience is diverse, eclectic and integrated as a result of working as a counsellor since the 80’s, a hypnotherapist from the 90’s and a psychotherapist from the millennium and a brain based therapies (EMDR, Havening and Brainspotting) since 2016.

Therapeutic Approach:
Andrew’s approach is fundamentally humanistic: embracing person centred, solution focussed, Jungian and brain based therapist (EMDR and Brainspotting), all within the framework of a trauma informed approach to recovery adapted from Herman’s 3 phase model.

Andrew offers hypnotherapy (short term), counselling (medium term) and psychotherapy (long term) solutions and incorporates biofeedback techniques to stabilize clients from a mind body connection perspective.

Andrew embraces a collaborative co-constructive mindset with the client to establish a comforting, safe and co-constructive environment. Client led goals are always individual however frequently include: enhance self awareness; make sense of life challenges and experiences; embrace new life interpretations; desensitization of triggering and activating memory based events with somatic body sensations, to enable renewed permission to move forwards in your life with a greater sense of empowerment, control, peace and acceptance.

Client Types

• Adolescent
• Adult