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Counselling Services at Guiding Steps
Counselling Services
Guiding Steps offers a variety of counselling services, focusing on positive psychology coaching interventions to support you in enhancing your independence, autonomy, and control over your supports, programs, and preferences.
At Guiding Steps, we specialize in:
- Dementia and older people counselling
- Neurodiversity counselling
- Positive psychology coaching
- Pet grief support
We provide a range of fee-for-service payment options and welcome NDIS plan and self-managed participants.
Counselling for older people
Neurodiversity affirming counselling
Neurodiversity affirming counselling
Issues covered (but not limited to):
- Living with Dementia or cognitive decline
- Retirement planning
- Personal identity in older years
- Declining health
- Maintaining Personhood
- Transition to aged supports
In addition to these topics, we also offer neurodiversity counselling to support individuals in navigating cognitive changes. For those dealing with the loss of a pet, our pet grief support services provide compassionate assistance. Furthermore, we incorporate positive psychology coaching to enhance well-being during retirement and beyond.
Neurodiversity affirming counselling
Neurodiversity affirming counselling
Neurodiversity affirming counselling
Services covered (but not limited to):
Counselling support in your home, community, or workplace, including specialized neurodiversity counselling. Trauma informed responses that cater to various needs, alongside understanding Neurodivergent and Psychosocial needs. We also offer pet grief support and skill building interventions, as well as resilience training through positive psychology coaching.
Group and workplace training
Neurodiversity affirming counselling
Wellbeing coaching and counselling
Caralyn is now offering workplace consultancy, support, and coaching programs that are tailored to specific groups and workplaces. These programs cover a range of topics, including neurodiversity counselling and pet grief support, ensuring that they meet the unique needs of participants. You can choose from formal training or relaxed group coaching sessions, which can be conducted in-person or online. Additionally, recorded training sessions are available for those who prefer to learn at their own pace. Ongoing or one-off training and coaching programs, including positive psychology coaching, can also be arranged.
Contact Caralyn for more details and a quote for this service.
Wellbeing coaching and counselling
Wellbeing coaching and counselling
Wellbeing coaching and counselling
Based on positive psychology interventions, this focused and tailored coaching offers, including but not limited to, neurodiversity counselling and pet grief support:
Structured sessions to build psychological wellness through interventions that enhance quality of life,
Strengths based,
Goal oriented,
PERMA+ assessments,
ACT and mindfulness strategies that can easily be implemented in your own life.
Counselling for carers
Wellbeing coaching and counselling
Pet loss and grief counselling
Topics covered (but not limited to): Coping with care responsibilities, understanding a loved one's diagnosis, strategies for supporting your loved one, and forward planning. Additionally, our sessions may include aspects of neurodiversity counselling, pet grief support, and positive psychology coaching to enhance your overall well-being.
Pet loss and grief counselling
Wellbeing coaching and counselling
Pet loss and grief counselling
As a pet lover and committed fur-friend, Caralyn understands the challenges faced when losing a family pet. This pet grief support service recognizes the profound grief and loss that people experience when farewelling their beloved pets. With a focus on neurodiversity counselling, these brief sessions address (but are not limited to): anticipatory loss, traumatic loss, ambiguous grief and loss, the grief and loss process, and remembering your loved pet. For those seeking a more in-depth experience, longer sessions can be arranged upon request, incorporating elements of positive psychology coaching.