Soul Centred Living || Workshops, Supervision, Training for Mental Health Professionals in Sydney


	What is Soul Centred Living?
	Our Services
		Counselling
		Workshops
		Supervision
		Training for Mental Health Professionals
	Our Counsellors
		Roby
		Dani
	Information
		Addiction
		Spiritual Astrology
		Forgiveness
		Trauma & Abuse
		Anxiety
	Recommended Reading
	Contact Us
	Soul Centred Living Phone: +61 2 9953 9947 Address: PO Box 565 Mosman NSW 2088 Level 1, Suite 11, Mosman Arcade 880 Military Rd, Mosman NSW 2088

Counselling

Roby and Dani specialise in treating and helping people affected by depression, anxiety, addictions, difficult relationships, trauma and abuse. Therapy options that may be appropriate for you include CBT, EMDR, mindfulness meditation, guided visualisation and relaxation. Counselling aims to help you find greater understanding and the strength to change and live positively.

CBT

Cognitive behavioural therapy involves changing the reasoning behind people's thinking, on the basis that certain thoughts and beliefs can result in unhelpful reactions to situations. Behavioural therapy aims to change behavior. CBT combines these two types of therapies. It is effective for anxiety problems, including phobias, panic attacks and depression.

EMDR

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is an innovative process for helping people with trauma, abuse, anxiety and depression. The client does not need to tell the therapist the nature of the trauma for therapy to be successful. During EMDR, the brain's information processing system is activated. You are gently released from unhelpful thoughts and limiting beliefs. EMDR can provide immediate and lasting relief from past trauma and abuse.

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Mindfulness Meditation

Mindfulness meditation is the process of being right here, right now. You are neither reliving the mistakes of the past nor anxiously anticipating the future. With practice, clients usually find stress is significantly reduced, problems appear more manageable, and life becomes more vivid and enjoyable. Mindfulness meditation is a world-recognised therapeutic tool for the body, mind and soul.

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Guided Visualisations

Our bodies can't discriminate between sensory images in our minds and what we know of as reality. What we think is what we experience. Because we respond more strongly to positive stimuli than to negative, the benefits can be extremely powerful. Many US hospitals now use guided imagery to heighten patients' immune systems, lower blood pressure, reduce bleeding during surgery and speed healing.

Hope for couch potatoes: one recent study checked out the effects of guided visualisation on exercise, with some thought-provoking results. The first group did hand exercises. The second imagined themselves doing hand exercises. The third group did no exercises. Results? Very little difference in gained hand strength between the group who did the hand exercises and those who simply imagined themselves doing the exercises.

Creative visualisation can also alleviate depression and anxiety, reduce perception of pain, lower fatigue and increase relaxation. It is successfully used by top athletes to improve their performances and by people with anxieties about flying, public speaking and so on.

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Relaxation

Learning to relax is an important part of effectively managing stress and anxiety. Without that ability to relax, chronic stress or anxiety can cause burnout, anger, depression and medical problems. Being deeply relaxed is the exact opposite of the 'fight, flight or freeze' responses (see trauma ).

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Workshops

We run workshops on a variety of issues, including practicing the life skills of spiritual psychology. You do not have to be a past or current client to attend. These workshops are designed to give you the tools for transforming anxieties and negative emotions into tools for positive living. We keep our workshops small so that we can give you individual attention and help.

Future workshop will include:

'Be Here Now': Learning to Live Richly

Spiritual Astrology & Psychology: Why Am I Here?

'Lie to Me': Toxic Relationships & How To Survive Them

The Good Life: The Ten Rules of Happiness

Spiritual Psychology: Your Soul's Desire

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Professional Training Workshops

Workshops and training days for mental health professionals cover a wide range of topics, including addictions, trauma/abuse, sexual anorexia, toxic relationships, depression, phobias and anxiety. We teach new and mainstream therapeutic approaches to these and other client issues. Although all our work is client-centred, in order to get the most out of it, we ask that you bring an open mind and heart, and a willingness to address personal issues that this work may raise.

We keep these groups small. This helps you learn faster, and it allows us to give you personal attention and make sure you are on track.

Supervision

Roby Abeles provides clinical supervision to psychologists, counsellors, psychotherapists and other mental health professionals. She has extensive experience as a supervisor for postgraduate psychology students and licensed therapists in the US .

Roby specialises in addictions and trauma/abuse, and has vast experience with most other issues.

She has recently been invited to provide training and supervision to staff at the highly regarded South Pacific Private Hospital in Sydney . She also provides on-going supervision to groups and individuals.

Learning occurs best in a gentle, non-judgmental, self-reflective atmosphere, where everything is used for the highest good of all concerned. Naturally, there is also humor in observing our own journeys. Kindness to yourself and others is vital. Roby's emphasis is on learning and not on striving to be 'the perfect therapist'.

Some of the theoretical orientations available for supervision include: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Rogerian Client Centred Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Developmental Therapy, EMDR, Psychosynthesis, Ego State Therapy, Spiritual Psychology.

Previous supervisees of Roby's can be contacted for feedback on the usefulness of Roby's supervision. Please make this request when you contact us.

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Training for Mental Health Professionals

Our Training Program is a rich educational experience for those who wish to use Soul Centred Living skills to counsel others or to add a further dimension to the counselling skills they already possess. Our courses can be taught as adjuncts to and along with traditional psychological theoretical orientations. Roby Abeles had great success weaving the skills & principles of spiritual psychology through the more traditional classes she taught at the California State University 's masters program in Counselling Psychology.

Topics include:

Survival Skills: Reframing the Pathological Language of Psychotherapy - Roby Abeles

Soul Centred Psychotherapy: An Introduction - Roby Abeles

Mindfulness Meditation: An Introduction - Dani Gicquele

Positive Living: Tools for the Compassionate Warrior - Dani Gicquele

Anxiety & Panic: Practical Breathing and Relaxation Techniques - Dani Gicquele

What is EMDR?: Trauma & Peak Performance Issues - Roby Abeles

Creative Resistance: From Crisis to Transformation - Dani Gicquele

Secondary Traumatisation: Recognising & Preventing Professional Burnout - Roby Abeles & Dani Gicquele

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