Andrea Kroser

Andrea will provide you with a safe and enriching environment where you are better able to understand yourself, gain insight into your patterns of behaviour, manage the challenges you are facing and empower you to achieve your goals.

Psychotherapy and counselling provides individuals and couples with a means of exploring and resolving interpersonal or intrapsychic issues through the special relationship between client and counsellor. Through this professional relationship people are able to better understand themselves and make changes in their lives, and in their relationships. Feeling frustrated with life, challenged by repeated negative patterns of behaviour or just searching for greater meaning, counselling can be the path to greater awareness and a more fulfilling life. Read More

Some issues counselling can assist you with:

• Finding a better way to cope with life
• Handling stress and conflict in a healthier manner
• Depression and anxiety
• Feeling lonely, inadequate or having difficulty ‘fitting in’
• Relationship issues
• Dealing with difficult family situations

• Concern about alcohol or drug use
• Self-esteem issues
• Experiencing a lack of motivation or ability to concentrate
• Grief and loss
• Coping with crisis

Counselling provides an environment for couples to openly discuss issues of concern about their relationship and to deal with conflict respectfully and constructively. Read More

Counselling can help a couple to:

• Find out what they want from their relationship and from each other
• Understand how they contributed to whatever their relationship has become
• Build a more satisfying relationship
• Improve their communication

• Manage conflict
• Address sexual issues
• Resolve thoughts of separation or divorce
• Improve parenting skills

Andrea has a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in Psychology from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, a Graduate Diploma of Counselling from the Australian College of Applied Psychology, as well as a Master of Couple and Family Therapy from the University of New South Wales.

"By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit." (Albert Ellis & Robert A. Harper)

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Counselling sessions are private and confidential to support and assist clients with respect and a non-judgmental approach that is essential for healing sensitive issues.

Andrea’s work is mainly based on the humanistic / existential philosophy. Her client-centred approach is expressed in attitudes and behaviours that create a growth-producing climate. The aim is to empower individuals who can then convert this power for their own personal and social transformation.

Where appropriate Andrea will draw on other modalities and therapeutic techniques such as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy and Systems Theory, depending on what is best suited to the individual client in order to bring about the desired change.

The aim of therapy is not merely to assist people to solve their problems. Rather, it is to assist clients in their growth process so they can better cope with problems they are now facing and with future problems. Counselling will assist you to develop skills and improve your awareness so that you in turn can face the challenges of life in a positive manner and deal with them constructively.

Most couples experience ups and downs, conflicts and misunderstandings. Often couples are able to work through these differences positively and move on. But sometimes conflicts remain unresolved and frustration, anger and resentment grow. This is when couple counselling can be helpful.

Sometimes it is difficult to see what is happening in your relationship. Andrea works with individuals and couples to identify, understand and change problem areas in a supportive and neutral environment. Difficulties are looked at within the context of present and past relationships and not viewed as being located within the individual. Through exploration and insights into the patterns developed in the relationship, clients are able to create new and healthier avenues for expressing themselves and strengthening their connection with others.

Relationship counselling will assist with the development of insights, knowledge, skills and approaches that allow you to change these unhealthy patterns of behaviour. It will also assist you to respond more productively to relationship difficulties in the future, creating healthier and more satisfying partnerships.