Sharon Murphy is a counsellor and psychotherapist and a registered Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner.
Major turning points in life can trigger emotional upheaval. Counselling and psychotherapy can lead to a greater understanding of life's changes and challenges and to ways of learning and growing from the experience.
Family Dispute Resolution can assist separated parents develop parenting arrangements and making co-parenting succeed.
Welcome to the Counselling, Therapy and Mediation site specialising in assisting you with:
Child
Psychotherapy
"How do I help my child who is struggling emotionally, socially and with learning?"
Child therapy is carried out through the metaphor of play, stories and drawings. Through exploring what arises in each session, the child learns to process feelings and experiences, rather than reacting with anxiety, impulsivity, or inattentiveness.
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Couples
Therapy
"How can we break the cycle of frustration and hurt and improve our relationship?"
Individual sessions help to better define and describe what one needs. Joint sessions are designed to alternate between therapy-style sessions and mediation-style sessions to address both the emotional and practical aspects of the relationship. Patterns of interaction are examined in the light of past imprints.
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Therapeutic
Family
Dispute
Resolution
"How do I minimise the impact of our separation on the children?"
Family Dispute Resolution involves individual and joint sessions focusing on the children for recently separated and long-divorced parents alike, creating a parental bridge between separated parents to give children a space away from underlying tensions.
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Adolescent
Psychotherapy
"How do I weather my teenager's behaviour when I'm so worried or so angry?"
Therapy helps the adolescent learn to process more of his/her own emotions, thoughts and struggles, rather than "acting out" or turning pain inwards. Parents are supported not to negate the adolescent's reality, not to over-react and not to disengage.
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Separation
Counselling
"How do I minimise the emotional fallout from separation?"
Both the person leaving and the person being left may feel intense emotions: anger, guilt, sadness, despair. Our history of loss is triggered. One's emotions are typically out of sync with the other's. Yet practicalities need to be dealt with, and where there are children, their needs must be thought about and responded to. Separation counselling can assist at this time.
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