Collaborative Counselling provides counselling based services to clients throughout the Sunshine Coast region. Mandy is primarily a strengths based counsellor / therapist and works on creating a supportive environment that enables you to control and direct the process of change.

Mandy is  trained and experienced in:

• Solution Focused Brief Therapy – A focus on solutions, rather than on problems
• Narrative Therapy – A focus on re – authoring unhelpful stories to create new and preferred stories
• Motivational Interviewing – A focus on exploring and  resolving ambivalence towards change
• Experiential therapy – A focus on identifying and addressing hidden or subconscious issues through hands-on activities
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy – A focus on challenging unhelpful thinking in order to create change
• Client Centered therapy – A focus on client directed goals through congruent and empathic listening and questions
• Emotionally Focussed Therapy – A focus on patterns in relationships and the creation of more secure bonds
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy – A focus on the present and the alignment of life values with committed action