We focus on helping you heal from trauma and find your inner calm and strength again. We use kindness, understanding, and proven methods to make sure you feel safe and supported while you work through your past hurts. Together, we'll start a journey of healing that helps you become stronger, letting you live a life full of meaning and happiness.
We’ve added the ACE Trauma test to make it easier to assess if you may need assistance from a licensed therapist.
It’s only 10 questions and we never collect or store any information about you.
The Central Coast Trauma Centre is founded by BJ Murray. We work from a humanistic, strength based and relational framework. Those are big words; this just means that we don’t use a text book approach or a diagnostic label approach. We pay attention to YOU and then we use this information to decide together on the best approach. This means that we authentically show up for you and acknowledge the expertise that you have in your own life and how it has got you to be here today. We take an integrative approach to counselling and we draw on different techniques depending on you as an individual and your unique circumstances. One of the main techniques that we use is Brainspotting, it is a unique and powerful way to release and process stuck Trauma that might be holding you back for the life that you want.
At Central Coast Trauma Centre, we are Trauma Informed and this means that we don’t ask “what is wrong with you”, we ask “what happened to you”. This framework informs all our practices. We work with many issues including Depression, Anxiety, PTSD and Relationship issues and we often work with women who have suffered from Domestic Violence relationships and are needing long term support and healing.
If you would like a chat with us first to decide if we are the right fit, please book in a 15 min consult here.
The first session is an information gathering session and we start to get to know each other, it can be scary to turn up for a counselling session with a stranger and have to talk about stuff that is difficult for you, but it will be worth it and we support you all the way through this stage.
This is up to you and how you feel you are going and progressing with the counselling. We will give a suggestion of how many sessions it might take for you to begin progressing , but counselling is not an exact science and we always go back to what THE CLIENT FEELS IS HELPFUL FOR THEM.
Yes we will do after hours sessions. If there is nothing on the calendar that suits. please call us and we can discuss your needs.
All information is kept private and confidential in a secure client management system. We will not speak to anyone about the information of our sessions without your permission. The only time we would have to break that confidentiality is if something you told us signalled that you or a child was in danger. We have mandatory requirements that we have to fulfil.
We do not work under the medicare system, so a medicare rebate is not offered. Our standard rates can be found on the booking page. We have rebates for several health funds, please call to check if you are eligible. Some people can access ‘Victims of Crime’ or ‘Carers’ subsidies. Please call us to see if you are eligible.
