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Our Services
Counselling Services
Guiding Steps can provide a range of counselling services, based on positive psychology coaching interventions.
Our goal at Guiding Steps is to support you to enhance your independence, autonomy and choice and control over your supports, programs, and preferences.
Guiding Steps specialises in:
- Dementia and older people counselling
- Neurodiversity
- Positive psychology
- Pet Grief and Loss support
Guiding Steps offers a range of fee-for-service payment options.
NDIS plan and self managed participants welcome.
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
Neurodiversity affirming counselling
Neurodiversity affirming counselling
Neurodiversity affirming counselling
Services covered (but not limited to):
- Counselling support in your home, community or workplace
- Trauma informed responses
- Understanding of Neurodivergent and Psychosocial needs
- Skill building interventions
- Resilience training
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.
- Includes a range of disability and aged topics
- formal training or relaxed group coaching sessions
- Can be in-person or online
- Recorded training sessions are also available
- Ongoing or one off training and coaching programs can 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 (but not limited to):
- Structured sessions to build psychological wellness through interventions that build 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 loved ones diagnosis
- Strategies for supporting your loved one
- Forward planning
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 service recognises the grief and loss that people experience when farewelling their loved pet.
These brief sessions focus on (but not limited to):
- Anticipatory loss
- Traumatic loss
- Ambiguous grief and loss
- The grief and loss process
- Remembering your loved pet
Longer sessions can be arranged on request.