Kieran O'Loughlin
I am a counsellor, psychotherapist and life coach working with individuals, couples and groups.
I work from a client-centred perspective with a strong emphasis on helping individual clients to build self-awareness, connect with their deepest values and overcome internal obstacles to make life choices that express these values.
With couples, I also work to facilitate the communication that will help the relationship become stronger and more intimate or else for it to end in a healthy way.
In all of my work I place a strong emphasis on clients being fully present to themselves and their aspirations, and on incorporating compassion for self and others into their lives so that they are able to fulfill their potential as human beings.
After working for thirty years as a teacher with secondary and adult students, and then as an academic at the University of Melbourne, I re-trained as a counsellor and psychotherapist. As well as my private practice work I have wide-ranging experience as a counsellor and clinical supervisor of other counsellors in the community health sector.
I have a very strong commitment to working with clients from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) communities across the full lifespan. I have specialist skills in counselling for HIV prevention and support and I have co-facilitated groups for individuals who have lived long-term with HIV, who are suffering from anxiety, who are limited by internalised homophobia and who are perpetrators of intimate partner violence.
In my client work I select from a range of approaches (as appropriate) especially Existential, Emotion-Focused, Acceptance & Commitment (including Mindfulness), Interpersonal and Psychodynamic therapies as well as Motivational Interviewing. My
focus in therapy is on finding the right approach for every individual client or couple.
PACFA Membership
I am a clinical member of the Psychotherapists and Counsellors Federation of Australia (PACFA) I belong to both its Colleges of Counselling and Relationship Counselling. I am also a accredited clinical supervisor and mental health practioner. My registration number is 22352.
Qualifications
I hold both a Graduate Diploma in Counselling & Human Services and a Master of Counselling, La Trobe University. I have completed the Specialist Couples’ Therapy course (Relationships Australia) and Clinical Supervision course (Bouverie Centre). I also hold a Certificate IV in Life Coaching (Life Coaching Institute of Australia) and Certificate IV in Training and Assessment (Inspire Education)
Previously I completed a Bachelor of Arts, a Master of Arts (Applied Linguistics) and a PhD (Applied Linguistics), all from the University of Melbourne. I also hold a Graduate Diploma in Education ( Melbourne State College) and a Graduate Diploma in Teaching English as a Second Language (Victoria College).
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