Individual and Couples Counselling

 Counselling involves working with clients in their individual situations to facilitate the positive changes utilizing the resources and abilities of the client and their community.  It is a client-directed and collaborative process.  In essence counselling could be summarized as the art of 3 stances. 

3 Stances of Counselling

            Standing Beside:        Providing positive affirmation and support

            Standing Apart:           Presenting alternative perspectives for consideration

            Holding a Mirror:       Reflecting the counsellor’s experience of the client

These stances enable the client or couple to experience themselves in different ways - to imagine, conceptualise and plan new ways of being.  For couples there is the opportunity to move out of ingrained and damaging patterns of behaviour and re-capture the excitement and romance that often characterized the early relationship.

Funding Sources

 REST Counselling provides fully accredited counselling for:

• Family Court (provides 6 counselling sessions for couples)
• WINZ (subsidy available to beneficiaries to contribute towards cost of counselling)
• EAP (workplace funded counselling – typically funds about 3 sessions)
• ACC (sexual abuse counselling)                        
• ACC (physical abuse counselling)