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Kate Barrett-LennardRegistered Mental Health Care Provider
MA Family Therapy B.Sc (Child Psych), B.S.W. Body Centred Psychotherapy AGC - Management, Train-the-Trainer, Suicide Prevention (APS) Clinical Supervisor |
Favourite Quote: "Within every crisis there is hidden blessing and within every set back, a new step forward." Dr. John Demartini |
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Kate is a Registered Social worker, Counsellor and Mental Health Care Provider with a Masters in Family Therapy and a Bachelor of Science in Child Psychology. She is especially interested in working with people who suffer Grief, Trauma & Depression, Children & Adolescents in the family unit, Couples Counselling and issues of concern in the corporate arena, from CEO to staff,
Kate is welcoming and warm in her approach to the individual's therapy and provides an unbiased and empathic setting for couples. |
Kate believes that children and adolescents need to be understood from the standpoint of their own unique needs and experiences in the family, at school, with their peers, friends, parental expectations, other family influences etc. To help the child the whole family needs to be seen and understood as well as the child. The objective is a thriving family connected to its own resourcefulness ready to navigate the stages of family life.
For Kate, Couple work requires the therapist’s ability to be impartial but empathic with both parties at all times. The skill of listening to both sides and validating feelings is an important precursor to any good work.
Trauma work takes deep trust but through a good therapeutic relationship you can begin to talk, feel, heal, grow and become more of your authentic self. Empathy and skill enables you to experience therapeutic safety and being “emotionally held”.
After 10 years as a full-time business coach/consultant Kate can assist you as a manager, a CEO or a staff member with goal setting, strategy, people skills training, breaking ceilings of limitation and self-sabotage, management training (organisation and planning, budgeting) and developing healthy business systems. She encourages self –reflection for managers today along with thought leadership, innovation and good SWOT analysis each year.
For Kate, Couple work requires the therapist’s ability to be impartial but empathic with both parties at all times. The skill of listening to both sides and validating feelings is an important precursor to any good work.
Trauma work takes deep trust but through a good therapeutic relationship you can begin to talk, feel, heal, grow and become more of your authentic self. Empathy and skill enables you to experience therapeutic safety and being “emotionally held”.
After 10 years as a full-time business coach/consultant Kate can assist you as a manager, a CEO or a staff member with goal setting, strategy, people skills training, breaking ceilings of limitation and self-sabotage, management training (organisation and planning, budgeting) and developing healthy business systems. She encourages self –reflection for managers today along with thought leadership, innovation and good SWOT analysis each year.
Kate specialises in:• Trauma recovery |
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Kate sees clients presenting issues including:
Children, Adolescents, Couples, Adults: |
Business partners:
• Self-sabotage Self-esteem • Multi-cultural & Relocation concerns • Career re-visioning/Resume • Corporate team building • Developing business relationships • Business coaching • Loss of Motivation • Exhaustion & Burn-out • Etc.. |