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Sara Parsons

Expertise: Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Wellbeing

Location: Wellington Central, Wellington Region

Member since: February 2010 | Profile viewed 965 times

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Emotional Wellbeing with Sara Parsons

Counselling is a short to medium term process. It usually takes place over weeks/months.

Counselling promotes personal change through a goal-centered process using enquiry, reflection and mind/body techniques that support "here and now" self-awareness.

Sara is a certified Transactional Analyst Counsellor and Psychotherapist. She helps individuals and couples find solutions to problems by using Transactional Analysis Approaches.

Sara sees people from:

• the Employee Assistance Programme
• the family court
• the Primary Health Organisation
• self-referrals

Sara works short or long term with adults, adolescents and couples.

She is comfortable and familiar working with people from different cultural and spiritual backgrounds.

Benefits of Emotional Wellbeing

 

People come to see Sara for a wide range of issues;

• Anxiety 
• Depression
• Addiction 
• Life Changes and Life Purpose
• Grief and Loss 
• Couple Work
• Self Esteem 
• Sexual Abuse* (ACC Registered).

 

What to expect

 

I will ask you to describe what you have come to see me about.

I may say to you "how do you want to be when the counselling/therapy is all finished?"

Having a goal; Once you know how you want to be at the end of the counselling/therapy, thenyou and I will set some small steps towards reaching that goal. I will support you to take these steps.

Enquiry and Reflection; During Counselling/Therapy I will help you to notice, accept and express any feelings/thoughts that are related to what you have come to see me about.

Tools to practice; I will suggest strategies for you to take away from the session to practice.  These can help you to achieve your goal.

 

Training

 

Sara trained in 1989 as a Counsellor at the Herataunga Campus of the Central Institute of Technology.

She trained as a Psychotherapist in 1997 at the Wellington Institute of Transactional Analysis.

Sara is a Registered Psychotherapist.

Sara is a Clinical Supervisor for beginning Counsellors.

Sara also uses Interactive Drawing Therapy Techniques in her work and personal life.

 

About Sara Parsons

 

Sara embraces a spiritual approach based on many years of training and practice in Meditation.

Sara has had employment as a Counsellor and Therapist with;

• a residential treatment centre for addictions
• Wellington Hospital Sexual Health Services
• a Hutt Valley and Wellington Secondary School