Davina Counselling & Psychotherapy: Your Partner in Mental Health
Relationship Counseling
Our counselling for couples uses the Gottman Sound Relationship House and Relationship Self-Awareness approaches to enable couples to strengthen their connections and transition throught the different phases of life
Our relationship counselling structure typically involves:
* Initial introductory session
* Adminission of Gottman Relationship Surveys (completed online)
* Individual interviews (typically 90 minutes each)
* Presentation of couple counselling plan and start of first session
Couple counselling typically involves 4-12 sessions after the individual interviews but varies depending on client presentation.
Family Therapy
We provide family therapy that helps families understand unhelpful interaction patterns, improve communication, and create healthier relationships. Using systemic approaches, our sessions aim to clarify boundaries, reduce conflicts, and strengthen family connexions for a harmonious home environment.
Our family counselling structure typically involves:
* Initial phone call with family members to contextualise concerns (this may also be done in person)
* All family members related to the presenting concern come to a session(s) to discuss concerns and developing strategies to address
* Depending on presenting concerns, we may suggest individual counselling.
Please note: domestic violence presentations may be referred to other agencies.
Individual Therapy
We work with a vast array of individual presentations for counselling that may include: stress management, anxiety, depression, work place stresses, gambling and other addictions, grief and loss, and other. Our focus is client centred where we help to address what is presented in the room at the time of the consultation.
Our individual counselling structure typically involves:
* Initial session to develop the relationship and understand the presenting concern(s)
* Ongoing sessions to address the concerns using modalities as appropriate to the concerns eg CBT, solution focused therapy, narrative therapy, ACT, grief and loss therapy, trauma informed therapy etc.
Mental Health Therapies
Client Centred Care
Client‑centred care is the heart of our work at Davina CP — a therapeutic space where your lived experience, values, and inner wisdom guide the process. We see every person as the expert of their own story, and our role is to walk alongside you with curiosity, attunement, and deep respect. Rather than imposing a model, we collaborate to understand what safety, growth, and meaningful change look like for you. This approach integrates humanistic principles with trauma‑sensitive practice, ensuring that your pace, your boundaries, and your goals shape each session.
Client‑centred care rests on a simple truth: your needs + your voice + your readiness = the path we build together. By honouring your autonomy and supporting your strengths, we help you reconnect with your internal resources so you can move toward healing in a way that feels authentic, empowered, and deeply aligned with who you are becoming.
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)
Regarded as the Gold Star of mental health therapies based on empirical research. This therapy is a proven treatment for a wide range of mental and emotional health issues, including anxiety and depression. It aims to identify and challenge unhelpful thoughts, and to learn practical self-help strategies.
Solution Focused Therapy (SFT)
Solution Focused Therapy (SFT)
This form of therapy is future-orientated, goal-directed approach to solving issues. This form of therapy focuses on solutions to problems or issues and discovering the resources and strengths a person has rather than focusing on the problem. Tends to be a short term therapy approach.
Narrative Therapy
Behaviours and Addictions
Solution Focused Therapy (SFT)
This form of therapy views individuals as separate from their problems and destructive behaviours. It empowers the individual to explore and reshape their life stories.
Trauma Informed Therapy
Behaviours and Addictions
Behaviours and Addictions
This is an approach rather than a form of therapy. The approach emphasizes the physical, psychological and emotional safety of the client, and helps individuals develop a sense of control and empowerment. We help to manage a wide range of mental health presentations through a client centred approach.
Behaviours and Addictions
Behaviours and Addictions
Behaviours and Addictions
This approach aims to explore the behaviours and addictions that may be negative in a person's life, exploring the consequences on all those in an individual's life. Work in this area utilises components of other therapy practices. Issues that may be present (but not limited to): online addiction, porn and sexual addictions, drug addiction, gambling addiction, self harming behaviours.