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Anxiety

Anxiety is common. On average, one in four people – one in three women and one in fIve men – will experience anxiety at some stage in their life. In a 12-month period, over two million Australians experience anxiety.[1]

Anxiety is more than just feeling stressed or worried. While stress and anxious feelings are a common response to a situation where a person feels under pressure, it usually passes once the stressful situation has passed, or ‘stressor’ is removed.

Anxiety is when these anxious feelings don't subside – when they're ongoing and exist without any particular reason or cause. It’s a serious condition that makes it hard to cope with daily life. We all feel anxious from time to time, but for someone experiencing anxiety, these feelings cannot be easily controlled.[2]

Margaret can help you to understand anxiety and manage your symptoms through various counselling methods that are right for you

Relationship Counselling

Is your relationship breaking down?

You no longer attend social events together
Family gatherings are limited
You experience diminished sexual activity or no sexual activity
You do not spend much time together
You do not sleep in the same bed
One or both of you is having an affair
You and your partner have frequent arguments
There is a loss of interest in maintaining the relationship
It feels as if you and your partner have grown completely apart
You harvest resentment towards your partner
You've had recurring thoughts about separation or divorce

There are many external and internal factors that can place stress on a relationship, such as having children and parenting, friends and family, careers, illness, infidelity, and even financial strain. How a couple approaches these life stressors can have a major impact on the relationship.

Counselling is a good place to start when you are not finding satisfaction in your relationship. It will draw out what is missing in the relationship and what is in the relationship that shouldn’t be there. Counselling is not the only answer, it also takes, courage, commitment, honesty and a lot of hard work!

We were formed in relationship and also wounded in relationship. It is only in relationship that we grow, are nurtured and healed.

Depression

One in seven people suffer from depression at some stage in their life. It is a common disorder that is debilitating and burdensome and can greatly impair your life.

While we all feel sad, moody or low from time to time, some people experience these feelings intensely, for long periods of time (weeks, months or even years) and sometimes without any apparent reason. Depression is more than just a low mood – it's a serious condition that affects your physical and mental health.

Margaret recognises that the hardest thing is taking the first step by calling or going to see a counselor. It is not like you have a broken arm or influenza but a sickness of the mind that affects your mood and behaviour. You don’t have to feel alone or go through this by your self.

Call Margaret and she will journey with you as you go through and come out the other side to wellness.

Grief & Loss

Grief is a normal healthy emotion to loss, though a lot of the time it is not a particularly comfortable one. It is necessary to grieve significant losses in order to accept the loss, express the accompanying emotions and move on to the future.

Often the bereaved are not prepared for the roller-coaster of different emotions felt when someone close to them dies. Grief is not something that can be put off or ignored; it needs to be experienced, even though this can be very painful. Life is full of endings and new beginnings as we move through our journey. Death is an ending, the biggest ending we will ever experience, and this needs to be worked through. We need to grieve not only for the person that has died but for ourselves. Most people manage to work through the cycle of grief in time, but for some the maze of emotional feelings becomes overwhelming and the feeling of utter despair and loneliness can take over their lives.

Grief counselling can help you gain a greater sense of peace during what can be a painful stage in your life and you are not alone.

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Anger Management

The technique Margaret uses for Anger Management is a 12 step program. She teaches you to recognise anger in its early stages and to become friends with anger. Anger is telling you something!

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is used in this program where we look at core beliefs and determine if those beliefs are fitting or hindering and how they are connected with our anger and our behaviour.

Once this program is completed you will be able to recognise that you are getting angry before you ‘blow up’ and are able to think through what is happening and how you wish to behave.