How to Set Up a Counselling Service in Australia: A Step-by-Step Guide
Starting a counselling service in Australia is a meaningful and rewarding way to make a positive impact in people’s lives....
Counselling: The Difference Between Giving Advice and Offering Recommendations
In the field of counselling, professionals are often called upon to guide individuals through challenging decisions, emotional struggles, and complex...
Boundaries and Friendships: How They Impact Professional Relationships in Counselling
Boundaries are essential in maintaining healthy, ethical, and effective professional relationships in the field of counselling. While counsellors often develop...
Does Virtual Counselling Replace the Need for Face-to-Face or Online Therapists?
The rise of virtual counselling has transformed the mental health care landscape—making therapy more accessible, removing geographic barriers, and empowering...
Why Insurance is Essential for Counselling Practices
Running your own counseling practice offers a deeply rewarding opportunity to support others while building a fulfilling and successful business....
Why Australia’s Counselling Standards Must Remain Inclusive
Australia’s mental health sector stands at a crossroads. The recent draft of the National Standards for Counsellors and Psychotherapists has...
Get involved: Review draft national standards for counsellors and psychotherapists
You are invited to participate in consultation to test the draft national standards for counsellors and psychotherapists. Allen + Clarke...
Tips to build up the counselling relationship
For counselling to be successful, it requires the client to share their experiences and behaviour honestly. Ideally, the counselling relationship...
Advice for when you feel stuck with a client
Clients go to counsellors often because they feel stuck in some way and need help to resolve or get past...
Helping clients struggling with loneliness
Loneliness is a very common human experience and different people experience different levels of it, with differing causes and effects....
NDIS: application for recognition as a counselling member organisation
View Response from minister Member qualifications and expectations Our members are required to practise at the highest standard and when...
The NDIS and providing counselling to people with disabilities
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is a national scheme that provides funding to eligible people with disabilities and connects...
Recognising and addressing shame as a counsellor
The difficulty in addressing shame is that it can be so heavily concealed. Shame is not necessarily always traumatic or...
The Importance of Networking for Counsellors
Networking is essential to your professional success as a counsellor. When you are starting out, making connections with other mental...
Reconciliation Week
Acknowledgment of County I acknowledge to the east, the Butchulla people, and to the west, the Kabi Kabi people, their...
The Challenges and Benefits of Online Counselling
With modern technology it has become more viable for almost anyone to access the expertise of a counsellor online through...
Dealing with Difficult Clients in Counselling
As a counsellor, you will inevitably come across difficult clients in your career and will need to deal with them...
Confidentiality in Counselling
The purpose of confidentiality Ethical behaviour is fundamental to the counselling practice and one of the ethical concepts that are...
Respecting Client Autonomy in Counselling
Client autonomy is allowing and encouraging an individual’s freedom of choice and action. It addresses the responsibility of the counsellor...
A Counsellor’s Duty of Care
What is duty of care Ensuring clients and colleagues are safe and treated appropriately is the vital obligation of every...
Staying Within your Scope of Practice
A scope of practice is a profession’s full spectrum of roles, responsibilities, actions, and decision-making capacity that individuals within that...
Self-awareness and Culture’s Role in Counselling
A counsellor’s job is to observe people and their behaviours, and it is equally important they make the same observation...
Reaching the End of a Counselling Relationship
When you reach the end of a client-counsellor relationship, it can be difficult for the client to adjust. Working closely...
The Importance of Advocating for Counsellors
Professional counsellor advocacy is the act of promoting the profession with an emphasis on the removal or minimisation of barriers...