Gabrielle Gawne-Kelnar I'm a fully qualified counsellor and psychotherapist, with accredited training. I tailor a range of counselling and psychotherapy styles to meet your needs.
These therapies can offer you emotional relief and a safe and respectful place to explore the issues you face. They will create an island of time just for you, so you can draw breath, and shed some light on the answers you already carry inside you.
These therapy styles include person-centred therapy, narrative therapy, existential therapy, solution-focused therapy as well as aspects of mindfulness, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and art therapy. I work with beginnings, transitions and endings: the art of being human. So whether you're seeking a way through depression, anxiety or loss, relief from a painful situation or relationship dynamic, or to manage a transition in your life, I can help you find your way.
The main issues I work with include depression, bereavement, anxiety, living with chronic and terminal illness (including cancer), relationship and family challenges, grief and loss, self-esteem, gambling problems, issues around identity, sexuality and spirituality, life transitions, and personal growth and development.
If you'd like to talk about how counselling and psychotherapy can help, contact me.
Gabrielle's work · Psychotherapist / counsellor in private practice in Sydney · Co-facilitator of telephone support groups at Cancer Council NSW · Editor of The CAPA Quarterly, the journal of the Counsellors and Psychotherapists Association of NSW (CAPA) · Author of The Therapist Within
Gabrielle's counselling / psychotherapy qualifications · Graduate Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy (Dux) (JNI) ·Certificate in Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) · Accreditation as a Lifeline Telephone Counsellor (+over 2 years' experience) · Statement of Attainment in Narrative Therapy (JNI) · Knowing and Not Knowing: Spirituality, Intimacy and Psychotherapy (JNI) · B.A. Fine Arts (Honours) · B.A. Communications Studies
Ongoing professional development in counselling and psychotherapy: · Ongoing professional supervision · Narrative Therapy (Lifeline, 2-day training) · Exercise the Mood: Exercise as a Treatment for Depression (Black Dog Inst) · Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Dealing with Problem Gambling (CCWT) · Working with Families where a Member has a Gambling Problem (CCWT) · Dialogue with Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn: mindfulness and clinical applications (Westmead Hospital) · Brief Work with Unconscious Processes (CAPA) · Language and Experience: weaving together Focusing and Narrative ideas (CAPA) · The New Neurobiology and What it Means to Psychotherapy (CAPA) · Inside Emotionally Focused Therapy (CAPA)
Gabrielle's professional membership Member of the Counsellors and Psychotherapists Association of NSW (CAPA)