Life Streams
Counselling and Life Skills
Phone: 08 93131600
- Individuals
- Couples
- Adolescents and children.
Fees are means tested
Medicare & private health rebates apply to some counsellors
After hours bookings available
Counsellors: Lyn Devlyn, A.Th. Sert. Pastoral Couns.
Keren Masters, B.A Family Studies, Grad. Dip. Couns.
Emily Dickinson (Youth), B.S Social Work, M.S. Social Work
Confidential, caring and supportive counselling offering help towards wholeness, through a holistic approach encompassing the spiritual, emotional and physical needs.
Cnr Murray Street & McNabb Loop, Como 6152, ph 08 93131600
Our counsellors specialise in:
Couple and Family Relationships
Marriage counselling is a tool to help people in troubled relationships learn to understand one another better. If you are here, visiting this site, it's likely you are in a situation that would benefit from an outsider's perspective. This may involve problems or issues in general, such as difficulty communicating, a loss of closeness, or personal problems that have developed and are occurring within your marriage. At Life Streams Counselling and Life Skills we will walk with you to help you see what God wants from your marriage.
Grief and Loss
The death of a dearly loved friend, family member, or spouse, or the loss of something important to our lives--a marriage, a career, our youth or health--all of these things can trigger the outpouring of emotion and pain known as grief.
If you're in the process of grieving, you know that it isn't a simple experience – it is a delicate place to be in life and can certainly be very lonely as well as scary. A tumultuous time of conflicting emotions: numbness, anger, disbelief, helplessness and countless others. If you are coping with a recent loss, hope may seem awfully distant. At Life Streams Counselling and Life Skills we will walk with you through the grief.
Separation and Divorce
The trauma of divorce brings hurt and pain - as though our heart is breaking. For a while it seems that we can never put the pieces of our lives back together. At Life Streams Counselling and Life Skills we want you to know that there is life after divorce. We seek to provide hope and new direction for broken lives.
Depression and Anxiety
Depression plagues many people, and the results can be crippling. You may find that simple day-to-day activities have become extremely difficult, and you don’t know why. We can explore together the sources of your depression through our counselling and give you tools for your recovery and healing.
Anxiety is not merely worry. Restlessness and an inability to rest or sit still are other symptoms of your anxiety as well. High degrees of anxiety may cause you to experience panic or anxiety attacks that can be quite debilitating. Your anxiety is a form of needless suffering that may be healed through loving, supportive counselling and insight into your unique situation
Self Esteem
How do you feel about the person you see in the mirror?
Our self esteem is the source of our personal happiness or lack of it. It establishes the boundaries of our accomplishment and defines the limits of our fulfilment.
If we think little of ourselves, we either accomplish little or drive ourselves unmercifully to disprove our negative self-evaluation. At Life Streams Counselling and Life Skills we seek to guide you to God who enables us to think positively about ourselves, and find your true potential.
Anger Issues
Frustration and anger are normal responses to situations, but at times we have difficulty controlling our anger, or owning up to and honestly expressing our anger. Then we feel worse because of the guilt that ensues as a result of feeling angry. Anger is an energy force which is often harmful; it is caused by feelings of helplessness and the need to control situations, people and consequences. At Life Streams Counselling and Life Skills we encourage anger expressed in a healthy way which can foster personal growth and significance, improving relationships and changing lives.
Spiritual Direction
At Life Streams Counselling and Life Skills we encourage every person to realize their own freedom and responsibility of developing a relationship to God through Jesus Christ while in community. Through listening carried out in the context of a trusting relationship, we encourage an awakening to the spiritual in everyday life.
Youth Issues
Youth today are growing up in a complex world full of temptations. They face daily peer pressure of drugs, sex, bullying, stealing, and cheating just to name a few. Young people today deal with things like eating disorders, abuse and relationships. These complex issues do not just go away. Youth need to be free to discuss their specific issues in a positive & safe environment in order to overcome them. At Life Streams Counselling & Life Skills, we seek to provide that safe place for youth to chat through their problems & gain some productive skills to work through the difficulties of adolescence.
Fees are means tested and appointments can be made through the church office on 08 9313 1600.