Counselling

Counsellors are allied health professionals that support people to address and resolve issues and concerns in their lives, promoting mental health and wellbeing and enhancing self-understanding.

Using different types of evidence based therapies, including talk therapy, art therapy, animal assisted therapy, music, dance and drama therapy, counsellors can facilitate a variety of changes, including:

• change in perspective
• new insight
• new ways of thinking about situations
• new awareness of feelings
• enhanced capacity to tolerate and regulate feelings
• new actions or behaviours
• new decisions about life.

Counsellors work with children, young people, adults, couples, families and groups. Counsellors work in a variety of public and private settings and fields including health promotion and health care, community, family, youth, ageing, mental health and relationships.

Careers

Studying counselling opens a wide range of career paths.

• Youth worker
• Careers advisor
• Community case worker
• Relationship counsellor
• Aged care
• Chronic health support
• Mental health counsellor
• Life coach
• Group facilitator
• Mediation facilitator
• Children and family counsellor
• Prison counsellor
• Trauma specialist counsellor
• Drug and alcohol counsellor