Services
Gemma Summers PhD
I work as a psychotherapist, counsellor and coach, which are different pathways to healing, growth and development. I use both process-oriented and solution-oriented approaches, always mindful of the uniqueness of each individual. My work focuses on key areas:
1. Women’s Empowerment: Health, Work, Relationships, Finances and Spirituality
Empowerment often requires becoming empowered around specific issues such as health or weight, relationships and family, work and life direction, financial or spiritual life. It also includes healing past wounds and awakening to new capacities and potentials in ourselves.
2. Relationship Work: Conflict Resolution for Inner and Outer Conflict
My graduate degree is in conflict resolution and I also teach on this topic—both inner conflict with ourselves and outer conflict with others. Relationships bring a variety of issues and opportunities, and communication skills are vital for living and loving with others.
3. Emotional Regulation: Stress Management and Self-Care
Stress, anxiety, depression and grief are very common today. It’s important to understand how emotional regulation works and to acquire good self-management strategies to stabilise your emotional life.
4. Meaning and Purpose: Life Direction, Creativity and Calling
Another big area is meaning and purpose—exploring your life direction and following your creativity and inner calling. Life can feel great when you’re being true to yourself and working for the right things in your life.
5. Transitions and Change: Crisis, Opportunity and Change
Moving from one situation to another—and dealing with everything that comes up along the way—is often a very powerful time in life. Crisis can be part of change, when things happen in a chaotic or distressing way. Support can help you ride the wave of change and sort out how best to deal with it.
6. Supervision and Consulting: For Counsellors, Coaches, Consultants and Psychotherapists
It’s important to receive safe and sensitive supervisory support for one’s own work. I offer customised support and input, co-designed for your practitioner needs.
7. Writing, Speaking and Leading: Workshops, Training and Facilitation
I also write books and articles and facilitate at workshops, seminars and retreats on a variety of topics. Please click on my Events and Retreats pages to read more about these.
Session Information
Individuals sessions are $150 and normally run for an hour. Discounted fee is $130 per session, for those who require it.
Couple sessions are $250 and run for 1.5 hours.
Skype and phone sessions are offered as 30 or 60 minute sessions.
To inquire or book a session, call Gemma on: 0417-298-370 or email gemma@goodmind.com.au
Main Methods and Approaches
I use well-respected methods that help reduce symptoms and reorganise the mind, emotions and body.
These include:
- Counselling and Psychotherapy
- Hypnotherapy, Meditation and Mindfulness
- Coaching and Vision Work
- Body-Mind Awareness and Energy Healing Techniques
- Support and Empowerment Education
Symptom-reducing therapies, combined with goal-oriented approaches and awareness methods all help to heal the past and move you into a better future. Personal work enhances your emotional stability, mental clarity, physical health and spiritual wellbeing, along with strengthening meaning and purpose in your life.
I believe in:
- Improving emotional stability and coherence.
- Building resilience, flexibility and stress hardiness.
- Focusing the conscious mind on goals while helping the unconscious mind adopt new habits.
- Healing and conditioning the nervous system for better mental, emotional and physical balance.
- Resolving emotional wounds, paving the way for new capacities and creative potentials.
- Cultivating practices that build intuitive intelligence, spiritual strength and inner resourcefulness.
- Up-skilling through transformational education on key topics.
Further Information on Methods and Approaches
Counselling and Psychotherapy: Helpful for emotionally debriefing events, receiving non-judgmental support, and developing self-knowledge and awareness.
Body Awareness and Energy Healing: Helpful for regulating the nervous system, stress levels and emotions.
Meditation and Mindfulness: Helpful for managing negative thoughts and feelings through conscious breathing, awareness of the moment and calming of the mind.
Hypnotherapy and Visualisation: Helpful for gently restructuring the relationship between the conscious and unconscious mind to build new patterns.
Life and Performance Coaching: Helpful for activating goals and action plans.
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: Helpful for retraining thinking and behaviour into more constructive beliefs and behaviours.
Resilience and Positive Psychology: Helpful for strengthening those parts of life that protect us from stress, while fostering safety, stability and growth.
Transformative Education: Helpful for acquiring skills and tools that enhance one’s relationships, self-management, life direction and goal achievement.
For further information, call Gemma on: 0417-298-370 or email gemma@goodmind.com.au
