Holistic Counselling Support Services

  • 1:1 counselling can support you to gain self awareness, process life changes, develop healthy inner dialogue and improve the relationship with yourself. We often use Parts therapy or Internal Family Systems which looks at the different parts of oneself. Counselling can be helpful for anxiety, depression, grief, relational content and confidence, or self love.

  • Inner Motus works with those in relationships (including polyamorous relationships) to learn to understand each other, bring awareness to patterns, build trust and safety, and communication. I specialise in creating awareness through insights, education and tools that support you to make practical changes in the emotional, communicative and intimacy landscape of your relational dynamic. I work directly with both people individually, as well as how the interplay happens in the “us/we/our” part of the relationship using deep democracy, all parts are welcome and worked with.

  • Family dynamics can have their own unique challenges when it comes to understanding, communication and needs of the individual in a family system. We support each member of the family to have their needs heard and understood and we work to encourage a healthy family system dynamic. We do this through encouraging the wellbeing of the whole system through communication and understanding patterns.

  • Complex relationship may include abusive behaviours. See our Complex Relationship Support Page for more information about this session series

Who are our services for?

Inner Motus specialises in supporting people experiencing relationship content, including challenging family and partner relationships, attachment and childhood traumas, parenting support, grief states and conflict resolution. We work with couples, parents, individuals, families, LGBTIQA+ identifying people, and those experiencing a disability. Counselling is for anyone who wants to talk about what is going on in their lives, relationships, and inner worlds. It can be a very helpful short term therapy for getting through tough times in our lives.

“The path of self-creation is not for the faint of soul. It will take everything you’ve got to overcome misguided cultural conditioning and seemingly impossible circumstances. And, even then, you will have to contend with your own internalized shame and self-doubt. It’s an uncomfortable adventure that will stretch your consciousness well beyond its habitual range of e- motion. And yet, do you really have a choice? Isn’t that why you are here?”
— Jeff Brown

When Counselling can Support your Journey?

Holistic counselling is good for times when we want to engage our mental processes, our awareness of self and patterns. We look at the whole system (mental, emotional, physical, spiritual bodies) from a holistic lens, understanding the intricate nature of the human experience; as well as taking into account the systems many of us operate within. Counselling can be helpful when working through challenging transitions such as:

  • Moving through grief states

  • Relationship patterns

  • Working with conflict in relationships or work

  • Attachment wounding

  • Nervous system support and education

  • Working through family dynamics and internal family systems

  • Challenges with purpose and work

  • Stress and health issues

  • Understanding and working with your mental health

  • Big life transitions and changes

Talk therapy can be a limited form of therapy when used solo or for complex trauma, including childhood attachment wounding, chronic pain, PTSD, Identity Disorders. Counselling can be a very good “bookend” for these types of presentations. For example, talking and building a trusting relationship with a therapist can help us ease into deeper trauma somatic based therapies, such as breathwork. Counselling can be used in conjunction and alongside other trauma specific based modalities.

Modalities and Techniques we use during the Sessions

we aim to have all our session be trauma informed (working within your window of tolerance and we slowly build this capacity). We will do our best to communicate with you about your needs and if our services will be supportive for where you are at. We use the following counselling modalities as needed throughout sessions:

  • Internal Family systems (Inner child, inner parent and conscious adult)

  • Family systems (external family patterns and dynamics

  • Guided Imagery

  • Somatic based techniques to support you to connect with the felt senses in your body

  • Transpersonal therapeutic techniques

  • Existential, Transpersonal and Psychodynamic techniques

Sessions can be held either online or in person. Please contact me for in person sessions. You will need to have a quiet safe place to do the sessions. It may be helpful for you to wear comfortable clothes, be at a temperature that is comfortable for you, bring water, a tea and a journal.

Cancellation Policy

We understand that not everything goes to plan and sometimes and you need to cancel last minute. If you are doing regular counselling sessions and need to cancel our policy is 2 cancellation at no charge. After this we have a “night before” cancellation policy. This essentially means cancel as soon as you can. We may charge if you haven’t cancelled 5 hours prior to your session. We hold no judgments around why you may need to or simply feel like cancelling. We get it, doing this work needs to happen at the right time. Please let us know via email if you need to cancel.