Maria Carr Counselling and Healing offers a range of counselling services including General Counselling, Grief Counselling and Relationship, Couple or Marriage Counselling. All sessions are available online or face to face.

General Counselling

There are times throughout life where you may be presented with anxiety, grief, loss, challenges, stress and trauma. Counselling can be a great assistance when presented with whatever issue you may be facing. Counselling offers a confidential and safe space to talk about your concerns or issues to someone who is professionally trained. It provides a space for helping you to understand what is happening in your life, an opportunity for reflection, clarity and change and moving forward.

Maria Carr is a qualified and experienced counsellor providing general counselling for issues that require guidance and support to assist you in achieving a balanced, fulfilling life. Maria is an integrative counsellor who uses a range of counselling skills and therapies tailored to each individual person and meets them where they are at in their journey. Maria offers an empathetic and non judgemental approach in an emotionally supportive space providing clients with an opportunity to reflect, understand and make sense of their feelings, emotions and experiences. Maria will facilitate you on a journey of exploration, reflection, acceptance, change and healing. 

COST | $150 - 60 minute session

Available Online or Face To Face

Relationship, Marriage,

Couples Counselling

Rebuilding and Empowering Relationships

There are times throughout relationships where couples may find themselves in conflict, there may be a lack of communication, understanding, intimacy and a disconnection. Often couples need someone to listen and guide them through this difficult stage in their relationship. Maria Carr is a qualified counsellor with experience in relationship counselling. Maria is passionate about helping couples to repair their relationship and connection. Maria will guide and teach new ways to improve connection, communication, intimacy and rebuilding the relationship. Maria offers an empathetic and non judgemental approach in an emotionally supportive space providing couples with an opportunity to reflect, understand and make sense of their feelings, emotions and experiences. Maria will facilitate you on a journey of exploration, reflection, acceptance, change and healing.

Relationship counselling benefits include:

• Awareness of yourself and your partner

• new perspectives 

• Ability to clarify issues

• New ways to communicate

• Understanding communication styles

• Reconnect

• Rebuild the partnership

• Clarify issues

• Work together towards change

 How the Sessions Work

The first session is an individual 30 minute phone call or zoom session for each person to tell their side of the story. It gives each person the opportunity to freely discuss their view of the  relationship, the history of their relationship and the issues and needs they feel are affecting the relationship. 

The second session will be a 60 minute session with the couple. The information gathered through the individual phone calls will be discussed, along with the key issues and problems. Maria will provide strategies and may provide homework for the couple in between each session. Maria will discuss the subsequent sessions with the couple

Counselling sessions may include individual sessions to allow for self work which may be affecting the relationship (such as childhood trauma, past relationships issues). Maria will tailor the sessions for each couple and will discuss and guide the couples. 

COST  |  $180 - 60 minute session

PACKAGE  |  $1020.00 - 6 X 60 minute sessions

Available Online or Face To Face

Grief Counselling

Grief is the process that allows a person to live with the loss and to heal emotionally. Grief is unique, there is no one way to grieve, each person grieves in their own way, as we have different coping mechanisms, personalities, faith, life experiences and the loss we are facing. Healing is a gradual process, just as grief is unique, healing is unique for each person.

Quite often grief is associated with the loss of a loved one, however grief can be caused by other losses in our lives such as relationship changes (separations, divorce), loss of employment, financial changes, health and well-being changes and changes in our living arrangements. Grief includes not getting married, not having a baby, retirement, health changes, milestones and traumatic events. 

Maria is a qualified grief and loss counsellor there to support you with your grief and loss. 

Maria’s own lived experiences of grief and loss, professional training, empathy, warmth and understanding will help you work through your loss and move you towards healing and rebuilding your life. Maria understands the importance of working through the loss that has brought you to counselling as well as working through all the secondary losses. Using a range of therapies and techniques she will tailor the sessions to your needs, find practical options to manage the impact of the grief and loss on your life, begin the healing process and assist you with tools and strategies to rebuild your life after the loss.

COST  |  $150 - 60 minute session

Available Online or Face To Face

Online Counselling

Counselling using online zoom video calls, allows people the opportunity to access counselling who would normally find it difficult to attend in person. Access is available to clients regardless of location. Online counseling has the same principles as face to face sessions except in a virtual setting. The sessions are confidential and private in line with the code of ethics administered by PACFA.

Research has found that online counselling is just as effective as in person counselling.

Benefits of Online Counselling:

• Offers you the choice and flexibility on how to receive counselling

• Allows you to receive counselling from the comfort of your own home or work

• Requires no travel 

• Allows for a Covid safe environment.