BSSc (Hons)
Masters of Couples & Relationship Counselling
Masters of Social Work Diploma of Holistic Counselling
Eleni is a qualified relationship counsellor, psychotherapist, supervisor and educator. Her therapeutic goal is to facilitate positive change for her patients. She respects the subjectivity of her clients’ experiences, and creates a safe, non-judgemental, reflective and nurturing clinical setting.
Eleni has a wealth of experience in her chosen field. She has worked in community health services, including Panda (Perinatal Anxiety and Depression Australia), and specialised relationship services including Relationships Australia and Lifeworks. She is currently a sessional lecturer at the Australian Institute of Professional Counsellors (AIPC).
With over 15 years of clinical experience, Eleni is passionate about enhancing her clients’’ lives through knowledge and examination. She recognises the human capacity to heal and she supports her clients to access their inner qualities of strength, courage, self-awareness and resilience.
Eleni’s therapeutic approach utilises frameworks from an integrative psychotherapy lens; including couples and family therapy, emotion-focused therapy, somatic therapies, mindfulness, psychodynamic psychotherapy and neuroscience. She is a trauma-informed practitioner, and she has undertaken years of personal development and supervision. Eleni is a warm, sensitive and respectful therapist, who treats her clients’ vulnerabilities with care.
In individual therapy, Eleni’s particular areas of interest and expertise are pregnancy and postnatal care, anxiety, depression, trauma, stress, self-esteem, grief and loss.
In her work with couples and relationships Eleni works with communication differences, loss of communication and intimacy, parenting tensions, blended families, cultural differences, affairs, separation and divorce, life transitions, grief and loss. She has experience working with LGBTQI couples. She supports couples to more deeply understand their dynamics and patterns, to work towards accepting their differences, to attend to unresolved hurts, and to re-establish their emotional bonds.
Please feel free to contact Eleni on 0408 539 266 with any further queries.