Empowering Women Through Life's Changes
Personalised Counselling Services by Dr Susan Foster, a Counselling Psychologist Specialising in Women's Well-being.
Transformative Counselling Services
FOR WOMEN
Unlock Your Strength: Personalised Counselling
Empower your journey with tailored counselling for women. Overcome challenges, make confident decisions, and enhance your emotional well-being. Your path to resilience begins here.
Elevating Lives Through Compassionate Counselling: Your Partner in Personal Growth and Emotional Wellness..
Counselling provides a confidential environment where women can openly discuss their thoughts and feelings without judgment. This safe space encourages self-exploration and emotional expression.
Many women experience conditions such as anxiety, depression, or PTSD. Counselling offers evidence-based therapies that can help manage symptoms, improve coping strategies, and enhance emotional resilience.
Regular counselling sessions can also serve as a proactive measure for mental health maintenance, helping women identify potential issues before they escalate and develop ongoing strategies for self-care.
More specifically, women often face unique challenges such as societal expectations, caregiving roles, domestic violence, ageism, and gender-based discrimination. Counsellors can help women navigate these issues by offering tailored strategies to cope effectively.
Through counselling, women can work on building self-esteem and confidence. Empowering discussions can help them recognise their strengths and make decisions that align with their values and goals.
FOR YOUNG WOMEN
Discover Your Inner Strength
Providing specialised counselling skills is especially important for young women empowers them as it helps them to recognise their strengths, build self-confidence and develop coping strategies to deal with possible life’s challenges. It encourages self-exploration and self-awareness providing the opportunity to understand emotions, values and beliefs. Such self-awareness is essential for making informed life decisions.
As well counselling helps address a wide range of internal and external issues, such as: academic stress, peer pressure, self esteem issues, relationship challenges to name a few. Additionally, it fosters healthy relationships and finally it helps normalise the process when seeking help for personal issues that are impacting on their lives.
Providing specialised counselling skills is crucial for empowering young women, as it helps them recognise their strengths, build self-confidence, and develop coping strategies for life’s challenges.
This process encourages self-exploration and self-awareness, enabling them to understand their emotions, values, and beliefs, which is essential for making informed life decisions.
Counselling addresses a wide range of internal and external issues, including academic stress, peer pressure, self-esteem problems, and relationship challenges.
Furthermore, it fosters healthy relationships and normalises the process of seeking help for personal issues that impact their lives, ultimately contributing to their overall well-being and personal growth.
FOR GIRLS
Nurture growth through investing in your future
Providing specialised counselling skills is especially important for girls as it is essential to communicate the value and importance of mental health care in their overall well-being and development. Specialised counselling provides a safe and confidential environment outside their family and friends in which to express themselves openly and without fear of judgement.
Additionally, counselling can empower by helping them develop coping skills, resilience and self-awareness. Counselling can provide the potential for personal growth and self-discovery. Finally specialised counselling provides practical benefits such as improved relationships, better academic performance, and enhanced overall well-being. Investing now has long term positive benefits on various aspects of their lives.
Providing targeted counselling skills is essential for girls as it communicates the importance of mental health care in their overall well-being and development.
This approach offers a safe, confidential environment outside of family and friends where girls can express themselves openly without fear of judgment.
Counselling empowers girls by helping them develop coping skills, resilience, and self-awareness, fostering personal growth and self-discovery.
It also yields practical benefits such as improved relationships, better academic performance, and enhanced overall well-being.
Investing in targeted counselling for girls now has long-term positive impacts on various aspects of their lives, setting a foundation for healthier, more fulfilling futures.
Online Counselling
Seamless Support, Anytime, Anywhere
Experience the freedom of online counselling via zoom email or telephone. These services offer ways for you to engage in counselling using the contact method you feel most comfortable with.
By using internet technology such as email, telephone, or Zoom, you can direct your own counselling. You can choose the time, the place, and the pace of your counselling to suit your needs.
Zoom Therapy
Using zoom is an excellent way for you to engage in therapy with your counsellor face to face. both your counsellor and you can hear and respond to changes in voice tones, facial expressions and be aware of non-verbal communications. However, it is quite likely that some clients may not have experienced zoom before and this will be a new experience. If this is the case, clients will be walked through the process and given detailed access notes.
Telephone Therapy
If you prefer to interact via telephone this can easily be arranged. Telephone offers you the opportunity to remain anonymous. An advantage of telephone counselling is that non-verbal communication can be carried in your tone of voice or the pace of speech which can be picked up by your experienced counsellor. However, for confidentiality reasons, you will need a private room where you will not be overheard.
Email Therapy
If you prefer to interact via email this can easily be arranged. Counselling via email offers you the opportunity to consider what you wish to say before you send it as well as having time between exchanges to reflect on the information you have sent/received. Additionally you receive a transcript of what has been said to refer back to.
Dr Susan Foster
PhD MA (Psych) BA (Ed_Psych)
Registered Counselling Psychologist (APS) (ACA) (AIPC)
Discover compassionate guidance with Dr. Susan Foster, an ACA Counselling Psychologist. Specialising in women’s well-being, she offers personalised support for mental health, relationships, and more. Backed by solid credentials, Dr. Foster brings expertise and empathy to help you thrive.
Qualifications:
As a counselling psychologist, and a mental health professional, I help women who are experiencing emotional and mental health issues by offering a personalised counselling service dedicated to women and their specific needs. I work within a wide variety of techniques and therapeutic approaches and other supportive methods to assist women in making difficult decisions, when coping with mental health disorders, developmental issues, relationship difficulties, domestic violence, and grief and loss.
Thus helping clients improve their personal and interpersonal functioning and achieve overall wellness. As a counselling psychologist I am different from a general psychologist in that I focus on the human aspects of psychology and less on scientific analysis. The combination of a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in psychology and a graduate diploma in counselling provides the educational and practical foundation, advanced training, and professional qualifications necessary for a competent and ethical counselling psychologist. It ensures that I am well-prepared to meet the complex