Welcome to Ready Counselling
Welcome to Ready Counselling. I provide a safe space to nurture and support individuals, children and their families. I’m here to help young minds flourish, create safety in relationships and an environment where you can reflect, witness, heal, and connect. Supporting meaningful, respectful relationship and connections.
About Loretta
AASW Social Worker
Loretta is a dedicated therapist passionate about supporting the healing journeys of individuals and families. With years of experience and a compassionate approach, she creates a safe and environment that enables reflection, understanding and healing through therapeutic connection. Loretta believes in the power of play and relationship to foster attachment, resilience and growth. Her commitment to each child's unique journey makes her a trusted partner for families seeking support. Her desire to offer an authentic relationship with every individual creates warmth, safety and trust.
Loretta grew up and obtained her Social Work degree in New Zealand. Her practice framework has a firm Kaupapa Māori perspectives. Valuing manaakitanga - hospitality, kindness, generosity, and support – the process of showing respect, generosity, and care for others. It emphasizes caring for people, their needs, and their well-being, fostering strong relationships and a sense of community. Whakawhanaungatang is also important as this refers to the process of establishing and nurturing relationships, fostering a sense of belonging, and building connections through shared experiences and working together.
These beliefs reinforce the importance for Loretta to make connections, build safety by offering respect towards truly knowing one another.
I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land in which we live and the lands in which we work together to facilitate growth and healing. I pay my respect to elders past and present. I stand for a future that profoundly respects and celebrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives, culture, language, history and connection to the land, waters and sea.
Our Specialized Services
At Ready Counselling, we offer unique trauma informed counselling services tailored to meet the specific needs of individuals, children, youth, and families.
Services Include:
Family therapy
Individual Counselling
Sexual Assault/Harm Support Counselling.
Oncology Counselling
Interactive Drawing Therapy
Professional Supervision
What to Expect
Interplay: The playroom features carefully chosen toys and materials supporting various forms of play like role play, sensory exploration, and skill-building. Through play, Interplay therapy fosters interactive sessions in a safe and supportive environment, where participants actively engage in activities and play. With a focus on building and enhancing relationships, therapy emphasises trust, understanding, and communication within the family unit.
Delving into unconscious dynamics, Interplay brings awareness to patterns of interaction and addresses underlying emotional needs. Tailored to the unique needs and goals of each participant, Interplay takes a holistic approach, considering various aspects of their lives. Overall, Interplay therapy promotes healing, growth, and resilience within individuals and families. Scaffolding secure attachment experiences for the child and the caregiver.
Sexual Assault/Harm Counselling
Guidance after Sexual Trauma.
Receive empathetic and empowering counselling support in a safe and confidential environment. Our services focus on healing and recovery for those impacted by sexual harm, ensuring a supportive journey with professional guidance.
Supervision for Practitioners
Supervision is a vital component of social work, assisting professional development, providing a structured space for reflection, affording opportunities for growth, and allowing a chance to demonstrate accountability. Offering a self aware and reflective approach, who has experienced what it is to receive good clinical supervision. I will endeavour to create an authentic relationship where self-reflection and guidance can occur in person or online.
Oncology Counselling
Mind-Body Support for Cancer Journey. A cancer diagnosis can be a stressful time involving a range of emotional, social and psychological changes. Adjusting to these changes can be a huge challenge for the person with cancer, as well as those around them. Ready Counselling will endeavour to create an emotional and psychological support tailored for individuals who are impacted by cancer. Through compassionate counselling, we address the emotional challenges, fostering resilience and hope.
The Benefits of Counselling
Creating Positive Transformations Through Different Therapeutic Modalities
Enhanced Healing and Growth
Counselling at Ready Counselling is designed to empower young minds, enhance emotional growth, improve school performance, and foster better peer relations. We believe in nurturing healthy development and creating positive transformations for children, youth, and families through our specialised services and compassionate approach. Connection is the foundation for a child’s growth and development because attachment is our fundamental need. Strong attachment between a child and their primary caregiver is the foundation of resilience, mental health, trust, and the ability to thrive in the world. This is why Ready Counselling involves the child’s parent or primary caregiver within the sessions. This creates an environment where both parents and children can express themselves openly, build trust with the facilitator and each other. Parents/caregivers are central to the child’s development, and together, we create the best path forward for lasting, positive change.
Internal Family Systems Informed.
IFS is a transformative tool that believes that every person as a system of protective and wounded inner parts led by a core Self. Just like members of a family, inner parts are sometimes forced into extreme roles within us. Self is in everyone. It can’t be damaged but it also knows how to heal. An Internal Family Systems lens can help people heal by supporting self to access and healing their protective and wounded inner parts.
Internal Family Systems involves helping heal individuals, by listening inside themselves in a new way. Learning to recognise the different parts present inside, the thoughts and feelings, and go through a process of unburdening the extreme beliefs, emotions, urges or sensations that these parts may hold.
Interplay
Discover healing through relationship with Ready Counselling interplay program.
Healing Through Relationships:
By emphasising the significance of interpersonal connections, Interplay facilitates healing and growth within individuals and families.
Safety and Trust:
Interplay creates a safe environment where participants can express themselves openly and build trust with facilitators and each other.
Understanding:
Through guided interactions, Interplay helps individuals gain insight into their own emotions, behaviours, and the needs of others.
Integration and Healing:
Interplay supports the integration of thoughts, feelings, and experiences, leading to healing and personal growth.
Caregiver-Child Relationship Enhancement:
By addressing unconscious dynamics and emotional needs within parent-child relationships, Interplay strengthens bonds and fosters deeper connections
EMDR
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy, commonly known as EMDR, is a mental health therapy method. EMDR treats mental health conditions that happen because of memories from traumatic events in your past. It’s best known for its role in treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but its use is expanding to include treatment of many other conditions. EMDR can help people with a wide range of mental health conditions. Adolescents, teenagers and adults of all ages can benefit from this treatment.
Big Feelings
Karen Young
Big feelings are a call for support in the same way children weren’t meant to carry big physical loads on their own. They also weren’t meant to carry big emotional ones. When feelings get too big children will create their feelings in us as a way to share the emotional load
Anonymous
I have appreciated my time with Loretta. Fit is so important and it’s the first time I have felt truely heard and got some meaningful tools.
Anonymous
Loretta has become a safe place for my daughter. Someone that she can be herself with and work through all the things that have happened in her life.
Trauma is a fact of life. It does not however, have to be a life sentence. Peter Levine
Healing doesn’t mean the pain never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives.