Phone Counselling

How Does Telephone Counselling Work?

Telephone counselling provides you with instant help. This service is ideal if you live in a remote area or are very busy. A counselling session can be scheduled for your lunch hour or after work. A lot of my patients ring me at 7.00 pm, after their children have gone to bed and they have some quiet time. Telephone counselling also allows you complete anonymity, this is a choice of some of my high profile clients. You can have as many telephone consultations as you need or you may find you need only one or two sessions and you can ask questions by email, to save you time and money.

Telephone counselling fee is $95 per hour. This cost includes follow-up emails and information mailed out to you to help you in recovery. You can pay by Credit Card or deposit the money into the Courage to Change Business Account when you make your appointment. Phone (02) 4454 3556 for details.

How Can Telephone Counselling Help Me?

You are talking to a qualified specialist counsellor with over 25 years experience in treating emotional overeating, alcohol dependency, stress, anxiety, depression and dysfunctional relationships.

Telephone counselling enables you to:

• Talk freely without fear of retribution
• Express your thoughts and feelings in the safety of your own home
• Obtain a quick response to a critical situation
• Talk to someone who has "walked the walk" and can "talk the talk"
• Talk to someone you can trust in a safe and confidential environment
• Talk safely about:
  • Emotional Overeating
  • Binge Eating
  • Toxic Relationships
  • Depression
  • Compulsive Shopping (over-spending)
  • Alcohol Dependency
  • Prescription Drugs
  • Gambling

Topics covered in telephone counselling session:

• Fear of Rejection
• Letting go of Anger
• Letting go of Guilt
• Letting go of Resentment
• Emotional Detachment
• Accepting Reality
• Accepting Personal Responsibility
• Setting Boundaries
• Letting Go of the Past
• Building Self-Esteem

What you can expect to feel after your first telephone counselling session:

• Peace of Mind
• A Program to Follow
• Relief - Because you have someone to talk to who can honestly say they know how you feel!

REMEMBER... emotional overeating is but a symptom of an underlying problem - very often co-dependency.

Telephone Counselling For the
Co-Dependent Personality

Courage to Change is a counselling program designed to help you unlearn co-dependency behaviour. The program concentrates on eliminating negative self-talk and letting go of guilt, resentment and self pity.

Co-dependency is often a legacy of childhood and manifests itself as using food as a comfort during stressful times. Co-dependency also results in people pleasing, self-defeating behaviours and relationship difficulties. Co-dependency is linked to low self-esteem.

Relationship difficulties are another aspect of co-dependency requiring professional help.

Telephone Counselling For the Over-Eater

This program will assist you to get to the root cause of your problem. Courage to Change is not a "band-aid" treatment. I will help you to:

• Understand how your limiting ideas and concepts influence your dieting success
• Learn how to overcome your emotional overeating connection Develop new stress coping mechanisms
• Understand how brain chemistry can affect your inability to lose weight

Telephone Counselling For Depression

Courage to Change provides you with practical help to overcome emotional illness, stress, anxiety and unhappiness.

• It is important for you to understand your brain chemistry
• Learn how to use amino acids to boost brain chemicals known as neurotransmitters
• Easy tools to help you change your thinking to change your feelings
• A tailored program to help you gain more control over your emotions and state of mind so that you can enjoy life.

Telephone Counselling for Alcohol Dependency

This is a tailored program to suit people at various stages of alcohol dependency. There is a big difference between dependency and true addiction. Dependency is the psychological aspect of alcoholism and alcohol addiction encompasses both the psychological and the physiological.

I went through both and would not recommend leaving your recovery until you reach the "shakes and the sweats" stage.

You didn't get to where you are overnight so it is going to take time to recover. There is life after alcohol! A beautiful life.

Alcoholism is a progressive illness and co-dependency plays an integral part in recovery. There is no magic pill to help you. It is a long road but worthwhile. You will experience a freedom you will never want to lose, once you have taken your first step - admit you are powerless over alcohol and your life has become unmanageable. That's the First Step and it is the hardest.

One-on-one counselling or telephone counselling keeps you accountable and on track. You can work at your own pace - one day at a time.

You can take the alcohol out of the fruitcake but you still have the fruitcake so there is a lot of work to be done.

You don't have to stand up in front of a crowd and bellyache about your past sins. You can recover in the privacy of your own home with a counsellor who has 26 years of sobriety to help you.

Why wait? Contact me now on (02) 4454 3556 to make an appointment and save your life.