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    Holistic Counselling at Flourishing Connections

    Holistic Counselling at Flourishing ConnectionsHolistic Counselling at Flourishing ConnectionsHolistic Counselling at Flourishing Connections

    Holistic counselling services for individuals, couples, families, and children including telehealth, walk & talk and nature  

    Schedule a Session

    Holistic Counselling at Flourishing Connections

    Holistic Counselling at Flourishing ConnectionsHolistic Counselling at Flourishing ConnectionsHolistic Counselling at Flourishing Connections

    Holistic counselling services for individuals, couples, families, and children including telehealth, walk & talk and nature  

    Schedule a Session

    Flourishing Connections

    Counselling and Mental Health Support Services

    Flourishing Connections offers self development workshops and counselling for individuals, couples, families, and children. Working from a trauma informed, developmental & relational lens, providing a supportive and affirming space for therapeutic care, including support for NDIS participants who are self or plan managed.

    Flourishing Connections : Your Partner in Mental Health

    Anxiety

    Depression

    If you're struggling with anxiety, I’m here to help. I specialise in therapeutic supports that can help you learn practical coping strategies to manage your symptoms. Working with you to develop a personalised treatment plan that meets your unique needs.

    Depression

    Depression

    Depression can make it difficult to enjoy life and engage in activities you once loved. I’m here to help support you, to walk alongside you to help you find understanding, develop skills and offer a safe space to unpack. Depression is lonely, but it doesn’t have to be. Let’s take the journey together to find ways to bring hope and joy back in your life one step at a time.

    Trauma

    Trauma

    Trauma lives not just in our memories, but deeply within our bodies and our nervous systems, affecting how we cope, feel, and connect with others. During counselling sessions I use a body-focused (somatic) approach to help your nervous system realise that the danger has passed. Instead  of just talking about the past, you learn to notice physical sensations—like a tight chest or shallow breathing—without judgment. Together we help expand your capacity to feel difficult emotions by learning practical skills and strategies to help calm your physiological alarm bells and support better coping and lasting resilience.

    Flourishing Connections : Your Partner in Mental Health

    Individual Counselling

    At Flourishing Connections , I offer personalised counselling sessions tailored to your unique needs. Wether its online or via our nature based option, my approach focuses on understanding your experiences and developing practical strategies to improve your mental well-being. Whether you're facing anxiety, depression, or trauma, I offer not only a supportive environment and talk therpay but other creative and somatic ways of expression  to help you explore your feelings and build resilience. 

    Relationship Counselling

    Relationships are an important part of our lives, but they can also be challenging. Relationship counselling can help support you and your partner to improve communication, build intimacy, and strengthen your relationship. Our sessions integrate proven methods like Gottman Method and unpacking Attachment styles to help you both move away from destructive patterns and towards a deeply connected partnership.Guided sessions don't just ask you to talk about your problems but help support you both in  building emotional capacity so you can both express your needs without blame, listen without becoming defensive and provide skills to help with de-escalating conflict to help support  you both towards connection and a resilient and loving partnership.

    Parenting Support /Carer Support

    Being a parent is the hardest job in the world, yet we are often expected to 'just figure it out' on our own. But when behavioural challenges, meltdowns, or constant family friction pop up its easy to feel over whelmed, guilty or even stuck in reactive loops. The phrase 'it takes a village' exists because no one is meant to do this alone. Parenting support counselling isn't about judging your past choices or giving you a rigid rule book. It about providing a safe, compassionate non judgemental space for parents and carers to find the connection, be able to pause, breath and receive the support and reassurance they need to thrive. Through individual support sessions or via our evidence based workshops we provide you with practical tools to strengthen your own mental and emotional wellbeing, help you to build skills and strategies to manage your own nervous system while responding to BIG emotions, break generational cycles and patterns, set clear and loving boundaries and empower you to provide the best possible support with raising emotionally intelligent and resilient kids.

    Signature Workshops

    Equip yourself with the advanced tools of a resilient parent or carer. My evidence-based signature self development workshops focus on high-impact strategies for real-world care:

    • Anchor & Attune: The Capable Caregiver Program: Meeting chaos with calm!- Learn to understand and navigate emotions before they explode. Understand your own window of tolerance. Stay calmer during the chaos and validate without giving in. Supporting firmer, loving and healthier boundaries while supporting someone through BIG emotions and become a confident Co-regulator!
    • Rooted & Resilient - How to identify your core values and build safe, healthy boundaries with partners, family , friends & at work!: Can't say NO? Feel guilty if you do? - Learn how to identify your values and confidently set healthy boundaries that feel good, and align your care with what matters most while setting limits that prevent you from guilt shame and burnout. 
    • The Confident Communicator - Connecting Through Conflict:  Do you shut down in conflict? Find it hard to articulate yourself and express your needs?  - Learn easy but essential communication skills that can help you feel confident and able to effectively and assertively communicate your needs while remaining compassionate to hearing  how you can support the other party. Transforming conflict into connection through proactive, respectful dialogue.

    I don't just give you a checklist; I give you the skills to lead with confidence while safeguarding your own mental and emotional wellbeing!


    workshops On Demand coming soon!

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    Welcome to Flourishing Connections Counselling

    Here to help support you in a safe, comfortable, and affirming environment. Offering a range of mental health services, including individual, children & Youth, family and couples therapy and specialised support for NDIS participants, parenting support trauma, anxiety, depression, relationships, and more. 

    Located in Be

    Frequently Asked Questions

    Please reach us at flourishingconnections@outlook.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.

    Flourishing Connections  offers a variety of counselling & psychological services including individual therapy, couples therapy, family therapy, parenting support and support and wellbeing workshops. 


    Yes, we can be of service to self managed NDIS participants. 


    Unfortunately at this time we do not accept GP Mental Health care Plans (MHCP) however, we can work in collaboration with your GP for Holistic wellness.


    Walk and Talk and Nature based counselling is available in Lake Macquarie East NSW only.


    An intake form will be emailed to you to complete before your first session when you contact us to book in. During your first session with Flourishing Connections , your therapist will ask you questions to get to know you better and understand what brings you to counselling. You will also have the opportunity to ask any questions you may have about the counselling process.


    A counselling session with Flourishing Connections typically lasts for 60 minutes, although session length may vary depending on your specific needs and preferences such as relationship/couples/ family therapy.


    About Me...

    Michelle Burns - Director/Founder /Counsellor

    A qualified Counsellor registered with the Australian Counselling Association. I am also a little quirky , creative - I love art, animals, especially highland cows & dogs. I am also a Mother and a wife, and enjoy camping and caring for my neuro spicy family while also providing a range of mental health services to my community. I work from a trauma-informed, developmental, attachment, and relational perspective. I integrate various therapeutic modalities, including Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Somatic Therapy and Gottman techniques. I aim to offer a holistic and neuro-affirming approach when supporting individuals, couples, families, and children. Additionally, I provide parenting support sessions and can accept plan & self-managed NDIS participants. You can also find me facilitating my  programs + workshops and passionately speaking about BIG emotions, co-regulation and  personal growth.

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    If you would like to Book in a session call...

    Flourishing Connections

    0423 354 099

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    09:00 am – 05:00 pm

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