The Team

CJ Stewart – Psychotherapist and Educator

CJ is an ACA registered counsellor who completed his master’s degree practical experience with an LGBTQIA+ peer led organisation. With a particular interest in counselling techniques which are Autism and neurodiversity sensitive, he practices with a person-centred and trauma informed approach. CJ has a background in education and career counselling.

His skills and interests are focused on supporting clients from diverse communities who are experiencing major life changes such as pre/post adult diagnoses, new or troubled relationships, gender identity, sexuality, and career transitions. In his free time CJ enjoys designing, making, repairing and restoring items in his workshop, walking the dogs and relaxing outdoors with family.

CJ’s work is based on the philosophy that his client’s are capable of the change that they want to make, and that this can be done in multiple dimensions such as thoughts, feelings, relationships and culture, simultaneously. His skills and techniques come from a wide array of psychotherapeutic theories and are guided by a framework known as Unified Psychotherapy. This allows him to facilitate his clients utilising their lived experience and view of what success would look like for them. This model is flexible and person centred, and CJ will tend to keep himself out of your story, see it through your eyes, and empower you with skills and techniques that you can use to define and shape where you fit in the world.

CJ is comfortable with difficulties and solutions which are both complex and dynamic from session to session. Supporting better self-understanding and making sense of identities and relationships is his goal, and this is done through a deep capacity for empathy and understanding and providing a space for others to explore themselves without judgement.

Areas of practice: living, loving and working with Neurodiversity (ADHD, Autism, PDA etc), pre and post diagnosis, disability, sexuality and gender, men’s mental health, trauma, identity and life transitions, personal growth, self-improvement and relationship issues.

Qualifications
Autism and Assessment Training
Masters – Guidance and Counselling
Certificate 4 – Career Development
Certificate 4 – Employment Services
Bachelors – Technological Education

Professional Registrations:
Australian Counselling Association – Level 2
Career Advisors Association of NSW and ACT – Associate
Teaching Quality Institute of ACT

Methodologies: 
Person-Centred; Trauma Informed and Disability, Neurodivergence and LGBTQIA+ Affirmative Therapy

Currently Training in: Unified Psychotherapy

Brooke Armour – Psychotherapist and Office Manager

Brooke is an ACA registered counsellor with a Diploma of Counselling. Brooke has a particular interest in working with issues of grief & loss and in strengthening relationships whether they be romantic, familial, collegial or with the self. She has completed Level 1 training through The Gottman Institute and is eager to continue learning. Working with a person-centred approach, she aims to empower her clients to achieve their goals.

She is interested in supporting clients as they navigate through the complex and sometimes overwhelming feelings that come with the loss of a loved one; an interest that developed through her own grief experience. She is also passionate about the positive impacts of open communication and acceptance in relationships and aims to facilitate difficult conversations on the road to strengthening bonds. Brooke provides clients with a safe, non-judgemental space where she offers high levels of empathy and compassion to support the client in realising their strengths. This strengths-based philosophy allows clients to achieve sustainable results.

Brooke has extensive experience working in tertiary education with highly developed skills in providing support to students with a focus on, and passion for, wellbeing and equity matters. In her free time, she enjoys travelling, reading, spending time with friends and family and walking her dog.

Areas of practice: living alongside neurodiversity, grief and loss, mediation, relationship support, personal growth, self-improvement and relationship issues.

Qualifications
Diploma in Counselling
The Gottman Institute – Level 1
Advanced Study Major in Grief and Loss Counselling

Professional Registrations:
Australian Counselling Association – Level 1

Methodologies: 
Person-Centred; Strength Based; The Gottman method for Couples Counselling.