Jacob Burger

Jacobus Burger is an impactful and highly qualified counsellor with many years of experience supporting children, adolescents, adults, couples and families through a wide range of life challenges. The combination of his qualifications and life experience allows him to offer a well-rounded approach to mental wellbeing. His strong understanding of human performance and the factors that truly impact people’s wellbeing helps clients build the confidence and resilience needed to manage life’s challenges.

Jacobus places great importance on creating a highly supportive space where clients feel heard, understood, and respected, and he strives to build an authentic connection with everyone he works with. His counselling style is person-centred, practical and grounded in compassion, attachment, reconnection and empathy. He works flexibly with clients to explore their immediate concerns while also understanding the deeper patterns that may be contributing to distress. In his work with families and children, Jacobus uses attachment-focused counselling and Interplay Therapy to examine the relationships around the child, rather than the child’s behaviour in isolation. When working with young children, he uses guided parent-child interaction and play-based therapy to improve communication, repair trust, strengthen emotional safety and rebuild connection. Where appropriate, he may also draw on equine-assisted approaches to support emotional awareness, confidence and connection.

Jacobus understands the impact of trauma, transition, cultural adjustment and pressure on individuals and families. Each session is tailored to the client’s needs, goals and circumstances. Jacobus uses an integrated counselling approach that may include Attachment-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Informed Counselling, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Interplay Therapy, and family counselling. He helps clients move toward greater clarity, emotional safety, stronger relationships and genuine reconnection.

• Master of Counselling
• Interplay Facilitator
• Equine Assisted Psychotherapist (ongoing)
• Member of the Australian Counselling Association
• Member of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia