Helping you find solid ground

Throughline Counselling provides in-person counselling in Bendigo and online therapy across Australia for adults.

Frederikke Jensen, Narrative Therapist and Master’s qualified counsellor, University of Melbourne & Grad. Dip. in Psychology, Charles Sturt University.

Welcome

Hi, I'm Frederikke Jensen, She/Her, a narrative therapist and Master's qualified counsellor in Bendigo. I started Throughline Counselling and have organised my therapy practice so I can provide medium to longer term psychotherapy for people who have felt stuck for a while.

Therapy beyond techniques and symptoms

If taking time off work, self-help, or technique-based therapy hasn't brought lasting change, exploratory talk therapy offers an opportunity to better understand yourself and your relationships.

Rather than focusing on symptom reduction alone, the therapy I offer invites curiosity about the patterns and experiences that give rise to distress.

I provide psychotherapy across these core areas:

Trauma Counselling: My approach is trauma-sensitive, and I gently help you put words to feelings and sensations, paying attention to our connection and pace.
Anxiety & Depression Therapy: Symptoms such as not sleeping, feeling anxious, or feeling irritable or distant from others tell us something is wrong—but symptoms do not tell the full story.
Grief, Loss & Suicide Bereavement Counselling: Being able to deeply feel your grief and mourn the person you lost or the relationship that ended is often one of the most difficult but also normal human processes to go through.

How I work as a counsellor

You can read more about my overarching approach and how we may begin working together on my How I work page.

Who I work with

I have particular experience and understanding of helping professionals, while also working with others who seek deep psychological change.

What guides my therapeutic work and thinking

Understanding and trust takes time to develop: Through my clinical work, my own experience, and ongoing reflective practice in supervision, I have learned that understanding and trust cannot be hurried. Importantly, therapy is not done to you, but with you and the therapy relationship is where the work happens.
Reflecting critically on what evidence-based practice means: For me this means asking questions about what makes therapy work for different people and actively engaging with reading research and thinking about how the studies were conducted and what interests may be behind something when it is touted as evidence based.

Throughline Journal

Finding throughlines of resilience, hope, and understanding in the midst of change

Blog

Can we talk about what evidence-based psychotherapy is?

Evidence-based therapy is about more than choosing a technique or modality with research behind it. Research on the technique or modality matters, but not without looking at the significance of the therapeutic relationship and the research into why some therapists consistently get better outcomes than some other therapists.

Dismantling the stigma of being a revolving-door therapy client

If you have been in and out of your therapist's room for a couple of years, struggling emotionally, and feel you cannot do without your monthly session with your psychologist or counsellor, then this reflection might be for you. It is particularly for you if you feel you should be able to do without these sessions and feel shame about asking for a mental health care plan again from your doctor over subsequent years.

If you are a helping professional—how do you choose a therapist for your own therapy?

‍The question you might have is: Should I choose a psychologist, a counsellor or a social worker? I have a different and long-winded answer compared to the usual opinion pieces you might find on therapy service sites, AI overviews in Google, ChatGPT or social media.

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