Throughline Counselling

22/08/2026

Conversational Leadership ❤️ is to be invited.

22/08/2026

Rain nourishes our country and gardens, just like being in a therapeutic relationship can nourish a frazzled self and set you on your way to healing.

And, like rain can lead to a flood, so can talking about traumatic experiences lead to emotional overwhelm—because the flooding has already happened to you.

In narrative therapy, we approach trauma by pacing and thinking together about how you can tell your story in ways that make you stronger, with sensitivity to the overwhelm you have experienced.



https://www.throughlinecounselling.com/journal/what-is-trauma-sensitive-counselling

21/08/2026

In person therapy is different, there are things as a therapist and client we notice being in the room with one another that is not in the frame when online.

Online is of course convenient, and sometimes the only option if you live regionally or cannot make the trip to your therapist's office in person due to work or caring for others.

You are welcome either way!



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15/08/2026

To be in nature can be a joyful experience and an essential mindfulness practice that gives us a sense of connection to ourselves and the world around us.

If you have been exposed to vicarious trauma, moral injury, and the weighty fatigue coming from burnout, you might need more than walks in nature.

A listening ear and a 'witnessing' by another who is able to hear your story without crumbling might be needed to collate that tired and frazzled self that you don't recognise anymore.

The inclination to go for that walk, to feel embodied, may yet feel effortless again after working through the pain in therapy or talking to friends or family you trust with your experiences.

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14/08/2026

Young carers are everywhere, in our families, schools and communities, yet many remain unseen.

Together with the Victoria's Statewide Young Carers Network, The Bouverie Centre is advocating for:
👉 Greater awareness
👉 Earlier identification
👉 Funded support

Join us in making young carers visible. Share this post, raise awareness, and help ensure young carers receive the recognition and support they deserve.

To learn more: https://www.satellitefoundation.org.au/resources/make-young-carers-visible/

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04/08/2026

Good news for young people in Bendigo and surrounding areas.

02/08/2026

I hope you are able to find joy today. It is a beautiful day on Dja Dja Wurrung Country in Central Victoria. Time in nature is beneficial, but we are not always ready for flow when life is challenging—and sometimes we need to reach out for help.



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28/07/2026

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've wondered why you're still in therapy after years, this reflection explores shame, therapy frequency, 10 session norm, and why needing ongoing support is not a personal failure.

04/07/2026

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. This post is also a personal reflection on some of the ‘profession bashing’ that I have encountered from different mental health professionals in Australia and why I think you might want to ask some different questions of a potential therapist and make up your own mind.

If you are a helping professional looking for your own therapy, what matters most when choosing a therapist? Explore questions about training, therapeutic orientation, and experience.

30/06/2026

If you have encountered trauma, you may be seeking to understand why it happened and try to contend with the injustices of it all.

This is no easy journey, as your sense of self and the world may have been shattered. There is a smorgasbord of fast recovery on offer in therapy land and online media, but I think, regardless of therapy modality, most therapists who are experienced in working in this area know that this can take time, especially if we are talking about trauma that happened in relationships.

In narrative therapy, we endeavor to make sense of traumatic life experiences, not as a hero's journey but as authentic, realistic stories of struggles and pain. The aim of the work of putting words to the struggles to reconnect us to ourselves and our fellow humans, in the context of political, cultural and gender perspectives.

"Trauma is not a virus to be medicated away, nor a tale to be forgotten, nor a deep sadness to be replaced with reckless optimism. What it can be is a catalyst for different stories – better stories – about who we are, what we value, and how we might live in the ‘after’. And these stories are not happiness-seeking – they are meaning-making, meaning-remaking. They are the narratives of tragic optimism that don’t fall prey to comfortable amnesias or myths of human invulnerability. They harbour no illusions about the indestructibility of our worlds."

The quote above that fits so well with the way we work in narrative therapy is from a beautifully written essay in the online magazine, Psyche.

You are welcome to contact me at Throughline Counselling if you want to learn more about how I work.

https://www.throughlinecounselling.com/trauma-therapy