Akshay Malde

Akshay Malde has many years of experience working as professional counsellor and life coach supporting clients from a diverse range of backgrounds and working through a broad range of challenges. He is an active member of the Australian Counselling Association and constantly engages in professional development as a commitment towards competent and effective service for his clients.

Akshay is warm, compassionate and committed not only to helping clients overcome the challenges they are facing, but also to helping them to build and live a genuine life  in which they are empowered and positively engaged in. With a professional and supportive approach, he uses his authenticity, insights, skills and extensive experience to work with his clients in a collaborative and respectful way, delivering outcomes that work for each client and their particular circumstances. Core parts of Akshay’s counselling process include the exploration of the client’s presenting issues and the further development of self-awareness and skillsets, to get to a place where the client can consciously apply learnt skills to navigate their current and future challenges. Akshay uses a holistic and philosophical approach in his work, where clients are not simply seen as people having “problems to fix”, but as people navigating the entirety of life.

Akshay believes that each person’s life and personal experiences are unique to them, but also that we all share a common humanity. Hence, he uses an integrated combination of Mindfulness-Based Therapy, Meaning Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Solution Focused Therapy for his practice. This combination is aimed at helping clients understand themselves, their experiences, the external world and their relation to it better, so that they can find meaning, purpose and make aligned changes.  Akshay lives by the ethos of making the most of life, and ultimately that is what he aims to support his clients with.   

• Diploma of Counselling
• Member of the Australian Counselling Association