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
My approach to therapy
Symptoms are what we see on the surface. Problems like anxiety and depression often cloak underlying issues, such as deep emotional wounding, grief and loss and social injustices.
I use trauma-sensitive ways of working based on knowledge about attachment and how early life shapes how we cope with adversity.
I help people address the root cause of emotional and psychological suffering with a relational approach and also invite reflection upon the dominant stories in our culture about how one should be/feel/act.
Just like feelings of fear, shame, helplessness and low self esteem are shaped in earlier relationships, a therapeutic relationship can be a vantage point for new possibilities of being and seeing.
An intention of curiosity in our work together, imbue understanding of yourself and others, making it possible for you to relate to work, interpersonal difficulties and life challenges differently.
Reflection and insight is not everything a felt sense of a different experience must develop in therapy.
Who I work with
As a registered counsellor, I help the helpers, with a background in human services as a leader and supervisor. I support helping professionals in finding resilience, dealing with their own trauma, grief and loss, and occupational burnout and workplace stress so they can continue working and living well.
Why helping professionals can struggle
It is not always solely about the social injustices, relentless workloads or the emotional impact of trauma work and psycho-social hazards. What makes us good at helping can be our “kryptonite”, as we have learned early to focus on the needs of others and developed strategies to keep going in difficult circumstances.
Counselling can help with:
Problems that have deeper roots. I work with people longer term, where infrequent therapy, coaching, or supervision has not made enough of a difference. I also see people who for brief, intensive therapy to get through a difficult period in their professional or private life.
Relationships with family members, friends and partners or colleagues at work.
Anxiety and constant worry about failure.
work stress and occupational burnout.
Depression and thinking about giving up.
Complex Trauma, grief and loss.
The stigma of being a helping professional who struggle emotionally and have lost motivation.
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