Welcome to ReConnections
Being together to assist with self-healing, adaptation,
integration & inner peace.
1st January 2023: With regret, I will not be able to offer my services at this time, as I am taking leave to care for my elderly, ill father. Hopefully, I can return to providing therapeutic services again in the future. With all my best wishes to you, monika.
Hello, thank you for stopping to visit. My name is Monika Wilson and I am a professional counsellor, supervisor and teacher. I offer services to assist people, such as yourself, who might have experienced chaotic changes in your life like illness, loss, trauma, abuse, depression or anxiety, or perhaps the death of a loved one, to locate within yourself healing, adjustment and resources, integration and, inner peace and contentment … or whatever might be your preferred hopes. I appreciate that life always holds the dual possibilities of unwanted chaotic changes and, at the same time, initiated changes of awakening and transformation. To read more about the counselling processes, and what they mean to me, click here
My services are underpinned by a deep understanding of the inevitability of change and the natural, cyclical journey of life and death. My passion and hope is to assist you to speak of your losses, understand and allow your grief, adapt to change, transform yourself, find new forms of quality and meaning in your life, and uncover your natural states of love, peace and joy. I value interconnectedness and integration, equanimity and equilibrium, spirituality and sacredness, calmness and stillness, and working with people from a base of compassionate love and an ethic of service. If you’d like to learn more about me … click here
Recently, like many other professionals, I have been drawn into the world of neuroscience, learning more about the understandings of the human mind, the brain and nervous system, and what research is showing us about these complex aspects of ourselves. We now know that the brain can change itself and the ‘talk therapies’ such as what I provide are pivotal in assisting these changes in the neural wiring in our brains. I now hold a certificate of Clinical Neuropsychotherapy.
I am a qualified ACT therapist and have undertaken the training necessary for this amazing approach to life and change. ACT is about taking action, but values driven action. It asks the questions: am I present, am I open, and am I doing what matters? This approach is about accepting what is out of your personal control, and committing to taking action that enriches your life. It is an evidence based therapeutic approach that is gaining in popularity around the world and assists with anxiety, depression and PTSD. ACT helps us to develop psychological flexibility and a toward approach to uncomfortable thoughts and feelings, thereby assisting us to develop a more balanced approach to life.
All of us during our life time experience loss, sometimes a lot all at once! Losses can include redundancy or retirement, change of house or location, older children leaving home, divorce, the devastating loss of a beloved family pet, loss of health and independence. In truth, as life includes change, it will inevitably include all sorts of losses. From loss, we experience a unique set of reactions called ‘grief’. In grief therapy we, firstly, stand still with your loss. Then we can learn more about your grief – what’s it like? In learning what grief is like, we value its function, and then are better placed to integrate it into our lives … to adjust to living with grief. I have dedicated my professional development over the years to actively studying and learning about grief in all of it’s complexities. I bring with me to this work up to date research knowledge and the wisdom gained from being with people who grieve. I am a proud and continuing member of the Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement link here and highly recommend the information and resources of link here. If you’d like to read more about grief … click here.
After twenty years spent working in the end of life and palliative care field, I would be equipped to assist you to negotiate this most trying of times. This might include the obvious difficulties of negotiating the terrain of the medical network, information about options or about strategies for coping and adjusting. Or, perhaps, it might be about the more subtle assistance required at this time in the form of healing relationships, tying up loose ends, adjusting your sense of identity, and surrendering the the great unknown. A qualified and sensitive companion, such as myself, during this time can make such a difference.
The notion of spirituality means so many things to each person. Initially, a spiritual counselling session would include working together to locate your language and meanings of spirituality that works best for you. This provides a template, like a road map, for then developing practices of your choice that will enable you to grow your spiritual health and to make spirit a tangible and priceless part of your everyday life and who you are.
Uniquely Outreach or Online
The services I provide, which includes palliative, grief and bereavement counselling, are available to all people on the Sunshine Coast and Hinterland region. I provide a unique, flexible mobile service – coming to your home (or hospital or aged care), if you wish, thereby offering you convenience, comfort and safety.
I am also available via online platforms such as Zoom and Skype, and offer telephone counselling too.
I am available Monday to Friday and am able to provide flexibility of appointment times if you have employment or school hour commitments.
My fee is a flat rate of $80 per session for counselling and no GP visit or referral (or mental health care plan or diagnosis) is needed.
Clinical Supervision is $90 per session.
Please feel welcomed to telephone me on 0413 962 899 if you wish to have a chat, ask a question or make an appointment time. Or you can email me at monika@reconnectionscounselling.com
I hope I may be of service to you and I wish you great healing and peace.
May All Beings Be happy!