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 in finding resilience, dealing with their own trauma, grief and loss, occupational burnout and stress, so they can continue working and living well.
How do you keep your strength as a helper?
It is not always solely about the social injustices, relentless workload or the emotional impact of being overworked, or exposed to trauma and other psycho-social hazards.
What makes us good at helping others can also be our “kryptonite”, as we have learned to focus on the needs of others and strategies to keep going in very difficult circumstances where others might have buckled long ago.
Even if you are in a workplace where values align and friendly colleagues around you, it can be difficult to slow down, as you may not be in a work environment where slowing down is modelled organisationally.
For those where the work environment is toxic with a lack of support, it is harder to speak up, and the path to exhaustion and burnout can show as emotional, spiritual, and physical pain, with a sense of hopelessness and entrapment.
Benefits of therapy for those in helping professions
Engaging in therapy will reverberate to those around you—be it people you work with or people you love. Relief comes over time as we work on understanding and creating space for new ways of being in all aspects of your life: work, play and love.
My approach to therapy
Symptoms are what we see on the surface. Problems like burnout and work stress often cloak underlying issues. Helpers are not exempt from their own experiences of grief, the impact of traumatic events, depression or relationship problems.
For problems with deeper roots, I work with people longer term—you might have been in surface-like therapy, or tried coaching, which did not make enough of a difference.
In addition to working long-term, I see people for brief, intensive therapy to get through a difficult period in their professional or private life.
I use trauma-sensitive ways of working, considering how you might cope when feeling overwhelmed.
I help people address the root cause of emotional and psychological suffering with a relational approach, inviting reflection upon the dominant stories in you and our culture about how one should be/feel/act.
An intention of curiosity in our work together imbues understanding of yourself and others, making it possible for you to relate to work, interpersonal difficulties and life challenges differently.
Email or call for a brief conversation about therapy to work out if therapy with me is for you.
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