Vanessa Orsborn

Vanessa Orsborn has extensive professional experience working as a counsellor and psychotherapist and is a registered member with the Australian Counselling Association. She is highly trained across a wide range of issues and concerns, empowering her to work with individuals, couples, and families. Vanessa also has a medical background which contributes to her understanding of mental, emotional, and physical challenges from a medical and biological angle as well as social and psychological lens.

Vanessa is passionate about building authentic, trusted relationships with her clients as this facilitates an environment where clients can understand themselves, and what drives their thoughts and behaviours on a deeper level. Vanessa believes our life experiences shape our world view and our patterns of thinking, and that once these are explored, that we all have the capacity to make ongoing changes to live a better fulfilling life. Therefore, she is committed to helping her clients in finding new ways to manage life's challenges, with a focus on balancing emotional and physical health, whilst simultaneously exploring the root causes of underlying concerns. This allows clients to develop a greater self-awareness and change, leading to improved well-being and relationships.

Vanessa’s strengths are in building a strong, non-judgmental, and secure environment where clients feel supported along their path to personal growth. She is trauma informed, works from an attachment lens, and integrates Emotionally Focused Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, amongst many other modalities, which allow her to adapt to the needs of her clients. With her couples she also implements the Gottman Method, Emotionally Focused Therapy, and has extensive training in sex therapy. Vanessa believes in combining strategies and tools for clients to help manage their ongoing day-to-day challenges, leading to a greater understanding of the self and an improvement in psychological wellbeing and their relationships with others.

• Master of Counselling