Carmela Belfiore

Carmela Belfiore is a highly trained and professional counsellor with many years’ experience in the counselling field. She is skilled in working with a wide range of clients who present with many varying concerns or issues.  Carmela holds registration with the Australian Counselling Association. She brings a calm and confident presence to her work and genuinely values the opportunity to connect and walk alongside people through life’s challenges.

Carmela is deeply grounded in humanistic and person-centred values, and believes every person deserves to be seen, heard, and supported on their own unique journey. She employs evidence-based techniques in her sessions and provides an integrative, flexible approach which allows her to focus on a client’s underlying psychological processes and behaviours while tailoring sessions to meet the unique, individualised needs of each client. She draws on a range of evidence-based therapies including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Narrative Therapy, Mindfulness, Psychodynamic principles, Strengths-Based and Solution-Focused Therapy.

Carmela provides information, learning opportunities, and implementation of strategies and tactics in the counselling room, delivered in a practical and approachable manner to assist clients in facilitating their own behavioural change and personal growth. Whatever clients are experiencing or seeking personal growth in, Carmela aims to create a highly supportive space where they can explore and grow at their own pace and in their own way.

• Bachelor of Counselling
• Diploma of Counselling
• Graduate Diploma in Mental Health and Neuroscience (current)
• Member of the Australian Counselling Association