Counselling - Victoria - ORMOND 

What happens in the first session? My intention in the first session is to bring relief to the tension that has usually built up within the relationship at the time people first present for counselling.  So most people find a sense of relief that they are doing something about the problem.  If the couple are attending together they get a sense that both have an interest in improving the situation; that they are really both on the same side.  They have a feeling that t…

In over twenty years experience   treating anxiety and depression I have discovered that quicker and better outcomes can be achieved if the condition is treated within the context of primary relationships, that is marriage and family.   In treating depression with CBT, the distorted thinking which is uncovered invariably involves the experiences the patient is having with other family members, especially a spouse.   When working with an individual we attempt to get pe…

  Keith Wray MAPS Registered Psychologist, Individual Psychotherapist, and Marriage Counsellor. Keith Wray has had over 20 years experience in helping individuals and couples through counselling and psychotherapy, and many more years of personal life experience involving marriage and family. His training has included: cognitive-behavioural, humanistic, psychoanalytic (object relations) and family therapy approaches and he combines or targets these approaches to meet specific cl…