Counselling

Creating Ripples is a Professional Psychological Service that offers counselling services to children, adolescents, individuals, couples and families. Vivienne will help you to explore your emotional experiences, in a safe and secure environment, to learn to regulate and manage your emotions through the counselling process.

The counselling process is about learning to live through life’s challenges, to manage our emotions with the aid of strategies; shifting from distress and confusion through to acceptance and clarity, to thrive and achieve to our fullest potential.

Vivienne has interest and extensive experience working on:

Vivienne’s Counselling Orientation draws upon a range of therapeutic approaches depending on the client’s need. These approaches include:

When working with children aged approximately 4 through 10 years of age, Vivienne uses a play-based approach; with older children and adolescents counselling can also include creative tools, all focused on assisting clients to express their thoughts, emotions and needs. This work aims to supports clients to explore strategies, regulate their emotions, understand varying perspectives, manage their behaviour, etc.

All sessions are private and confidential and available via telehealth or face to face in line with a COVID safe plan.

Creating Ripples is a Professional Psychological Service that offers counselling services to children, adolescents, individuals, couples and families. Vivienne will help you to explore your emotional experiences, in a safe and secure environment, to learn to regulate and manage your emotions through the counselling process.

The counselling process is about learning to live through life’s challenges, to manage our emotions with the aid of strategies; shifting from distress and confusion through to acceptance and clarity, to thrive and achieve to our fullest potential.

Vivienne has interest and extensive experience working on:

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Trauma
• Grief and Loss
• Anger management
• Stress management
• Relationship difficulties
• School related difficulties
• School refusal
• Self esteem and confidence issues
• Coping with transition and change
• Peer issues
• Disruptive behaviours

Vivienne’s Counselling Orientation draws upon a range of therapeutic approaches depending on the client’s need. These approaches include:

• Emotion Focused Therapy
• Emotion Focused Couple Therapy
• Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
• Mindfulness
• Family Systems Therapy
• Developmental perspective
• Attachment Theory