Helen Sharwood

Helen Sharwood is a highly experienced psychologist and counsellor who places great importance on creating a respectful and safe environment where clients feel heard and understood. Helen’s more than 20 years of counselling experience and her natural empathy frequently enables a rapid understanding of clients’ issues and facilitates her approach to therapy. She offers telehealth services to individuals from diverse cultural, personal and work backgrounds.

Each client is valued as an individual bringing their own particular issues to therapy. A collaborative client-centred approach provides the opportunity to explore, discover and gain insight to support better choices and decision making. As therapy progresses whether it is short-term solution-based or longer term, clients can report that they feel more confidence, clarity and life purpose.

Evidence-based therapies such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness and Compassion Based Therapies are Helen’s preferred but not only therapy modalities. If wanted Helen teaches and provides information on practical life skills such as sleep hygiene, distress tolerance techniques, and breathing exercises. Helen is dedicated to supporting each individual with best fit practices to achieve meaningful change with the objective of empowering clients to enjoy a more fulfilling life.

• Master of Arts (Counselling)
• Graduate Diploma of Counselling
• Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) registered practitioner
• Member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS)