Counselling helping you find solid ground
Located in Bendigo and online
Relief from psychological pain begins with the act of being heard—telling your story in your words.
Welcome
Hello, I help people find resilience and agency in dealing with the underlying reasons for psychological pain.
Frederikke Jensen, Narrative Therapist and Master’s qualified counsellor
Who I work with
I work with helpers and helping professionals from a diverse range of occupations such as allied health, social workers, community workers, teachers, lawyers and carers dealing with their own trauma, grief and loss, occupational burnout and stress, so they can continue working and living well.
Helpers are not exempt from their own experiences of grief, the impact of traumatic events, depression, loneliness or problems in personal relationships.
If you have struggled for a while and exhausted traditional means of self-help strategies, coaching or therapy that mostly focused on technique, and are still struggling, I invite you to take a deeper look at what is going on.
As helpers, we may also have grown accustomed to the idea that the needs of others are more important, and this may, for some, mean working harder in careers or other areas of life. It can look like perfectionism, but sometimes when we unfold that label, other experiences and emotions come forward.
Benefits of therapy for helpers and those in helping professions
Engaging in therapy will reverberate to those around you—be it people you work with or people you love. Relief and recovery from burnout comes over time as we work on understanding and creating space for new ways of being in all aspects of our lives: work, play and love.
How I help helpers and helping professionals
Symptoms are what we see on the surface. Problems like burnout and work stress often cloak underlying issues in both your personal life and workplace.
I use trauma-sensitive ways of working, which means considering how you cope when feeling overwhelmed.
I help people address the root cause of emotional and psychological suffering, inviting reflection upon the stories you carry with you.
An intention of curiosity in our work together invites understanding of yourself and others, making it possible for you to relate to work, interpersonal difficulties and life challenges differently.
I offer a calm space—a refuge to explore from, but also a place to do deep work—therapy is a form of work, that both client and therapist engage in together.
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