Opening HoursHolistic counselling Brisbane. My compassionate, holistic approach to counselling and therapy honours you as a whole person to help you reconnect to your authenticity and purpose, to heal wounded aspects of yourself and thrive as the vibrant and unique human being that you are.
I’m thrilled to be offering holistic therapy and counselling services from Knead Massage in the Brisbane CBD on Fridays each week between 8:30am and 4:30pm as well as Zoom or phone counselling sessions by request.
I’m a mature-age, Australian Counselling Association registered and holistically trained counsellor, creative therapist and dream worker with a passion for guiding and mentoring other beautiful humans as they undertake their own journeys of self-discovery, growth, reconnection and thriving. I’m so looking forward to supporting you to experience more joy, fulfilment, ease and wellbeing in your life.
I work from a humanistic, trauma-informed and holistic therapeutic framework that sees you, the client, as more than just the sum of your parts and as an empowered and active participant in your own growth and transformation. My approach is deeply founded in my belief and experience that the most meaningful, lasting and transformative changes involve working with our whole being – mind, body, spirit/essence/truth (whatever you understand that to be). As your counsellor and mentor, I will draw on a range of therapeutic techniques and processes tailored to you and your needs, but you will always be in the drivers seat. You may opt solely for a more traditional talk-based counselling style, with the option to explore other therapeutic ways of engaging always available to you if or when you choose.
My therapeutic approach
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In my holistic counselling and therapy practice, I draw on a range of modalities and therapeutic processes to suit the needs and preferences of individual clients, including: Traditional talk-based counselling from a strengths and growth perspective aimed at helping you to work through personal difficulties or challenging life transitions as well as identifying, understanding and untangling unhelpful or limiting beliefs that may be contributing to personal suffering and psychological symptoms. In the spirit of self-discovery, my Stepping Stones approach will help you to identify your strengths, passions and purpose and support you to set and work towards meaningful life goals and behavioural change with a balance of compassion and accountability. Using the somatic and felt (embodied) sense to assist with processing and integrating emotional experiences, to help activate the parasympathetic response and to help shift habitual emotional reactivity or holding. Working with gentle body awareness and exploration processes as well as expressive movement and vocalisation practices. Drawing on creative and art therapy practices for emotional processing, integration and release, as well as for facilitating self-discovery and powerful emotional and cognitive insights. Working with your dreams and dream fragments using Jungian and depth approaches to help you harvest the rich insights, wisdom and messages from your unconscious offered to you through your dreams. Using mindfulness, guided visualisation and active imagination processes as a tool for managing (and reducing) symptoms as well as to explore and gather deep insights into the self, specific issues, relationships or dreams.
Therapeutic processes and modalities
Talk-based counselling
Stepping stones life mentoring and behaviour activation
Embodied processes
Art therapy and creative therapy
Dream Work
Mindfulness and active imagination processes
We all benefit from a deep attending to our needs yet they are often the very things we neglect when we’re busy, overly-taxed, depleted or struggling to cope.
My holistic approach to our sessions extends to the experience you have when you’re here. While counselling is never a passive or effortless process, and you are always in the driver’s seat, I always want you to feel as relaxed and nourished as possible while you’re undertaking this brave and enriching journey. We serve Pukka organic herbal teas so you can enjoy a warm cup during our session.
Please provide your tea of choice from our menu with your booking if you wish!
Ideal for initial sessions and a deeper dive into self over a longer period of time. I will work with you to identify purpose and goals for your life, for relationship or behavioural transformation as well as to help you to understand, untangle and engage therapeutically with personal challenges and unhelpful patterns. These longer 75 minutes sessions include depth work, transpersonal and creative therapy processes tailored to you.
Ideal for ongoing sessions to support you through shorter term as well as more persistent personal and mental health challenges, and to work towards achieving meaningful life goals and personal transformations. You will gain rich and powerful insights into yourself, past behavioural and relationship patterns as well as the possibilities for living a joyful life in alignment with your unique personal truth, gifts and callings. Standards sessions will be talk-based with integrated processes where appropriate.
Primarily talk-based counselling sessions over zoom video or phone with the integration of some (limited) holistic processes where appropriate. Ideal for ongoing sessions to support you through shorter term as well as more persistent personal and mental health challenges with the convenience of and to work towards achieving meaningful life goals and personal transformations. You will gain rich and powerful insights into yourself, past behavioural and relationship patterns as well as the possibilities for living a joyful life in alignment with your unique personal truth, gifts and callings.
I’d love to hear from you! Please fill out the form below to make an enquiry or to request a session booking, visit my website at www.marissacooke.com or call me on 0417417750.
Level 3, 233 Albert Street, Brisbane Qld 4000
T: 07 3003 0801
Mon & Tues 7.30am - 7.30pm
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