John is a counsellor and psychotherapist registered with the Australian Registry of Counsellors and Psychotherapists and a clinical member of both PACFA and the Australian Counselling Association (ACA) as a Level 4 counsellor (their highest level). He has over 30 years experience working with people and specifically over 10 years in the counselling and psychotherapeutic field. He is also a registered clinical supervisor of other counsellors and therapists. John’s 30 years of experience working with people, apart from his broad formal qualifications, brings a life experience that enables him to work with an exceptionally wide range of challenges that face people in today’s world. He holds the view that our ever fast moving world dictates that counselling is no longer confined to the provinces of temporary personal challenges or chronic mental illness. Rather it is a vital tool for personal growth in an unpredictable world. He has been engaged by a number of organisations to speak publicly about such matters and has taught at postgraduate levels. John is devoted to bringing greater understanding, joy spontaneity, enthusiasm, loving and inner peace to all his clients notwithstanding your starting point in working with him. Working with John enables you to make wiser and more empowering choices in your life. As you grow in this way, relationships around you, often a central focus of client dilemmas can be healed and enlivened. As one of many clients have attested: “I finally understand that no one in this world has the power to make me feel anything. I create, promote and allow the feelings and behaviours that I want in my life...Knowing that no one external can take that feeling away is liberating.” John’s approach to working with you is client focussed i.e. your needs are at the forefront of sessions with him. He thinks of himself as a tour guide. You decide the journey, he points out the scenery and you make choices about the scenery you wish to view. His training in such a wide range of therapeutic approaches enables him to match these to how you can best make progress and change the scenery to what you want more of in your life. He establishes a working relationship with you that provides a sense of safety to explore new ways of being that then brings greater satisfaction and well being into your life. John has appointments available in Cremorne, on Skype and FaceTime.