Kate Barber

Kate Barber

Counsellor

  • Bachelor of Applied Science, Nursing
  • Diploma of Counselling – AIPC (Australian Institute of Professional Counsellors)
  • Advanced Study Majors AIPC – Grief and Loss Counselling, Mindfulness Based Therapies, Relationship Counselling and Conflict Resolution 
  • Cert IV in Bereavement Support - Australian Centre of Grief and Bereavement
As a Registered Counsellor, Kate brings experience and a personal and empathic approach to counselling to help you navigate the various emotions that everyday life and its challenges throws at us. She will help you work through these emotions within a safe and non-judgemental space to help you make sense of what is happening and to help you find strategies to move forward.

Kate has been informally counselling and caring for people who are at their most vulnerable for over 25 years as a Registered Nurse. She has worked in the public, private and not for profit sectors in cancer support. With the experience of her own personal losses and challenges and those of many others who she has helped throughout her career, Kate has gained a deep understanding of the complexities of the varied emotional, physical and mental challenges that we face in our daily lives and our diverse individual responses. 

With a special interest in Counselling those affected by a cancer diagnosis, Kate has been in environments when good and bad news has been delivered, through frustrations of managing treatments, through acute illnesses, surgical procedures and through times that should be celebrated. She has held the hand of a loved one as they have neared the end of their life and comforted patients and families as they try and navigate the myriad of emotions a cancer diagnosis inevitability brings. Kate understands that a cancer diagnosis can turn your world completely upside down and she is here to support you when you may be feeling completely alone. From full counselling sessions face-to face, over the phone or via Skype, to offering Quick Consult phone counselling to help you manage scan anxiety, upcoming appointments or other challenges, Kate will support you.

Kate also offers General Counselling, Loss, Grief and Bereavement Counselling and Relationship Counselling.

Kate uses an Integrated Counselling approach – this means using a variety of techniques that are person-centred and individualized to you. These may include, but are not limited to, Mindfulness, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behaviour based approaches. She will work with you to help you identify your concerns, to find your inner resources and to support you in your decision
making. 

You can contact Kate directly on 0431 218 373, via email at support@bloomcounselling.com.au  or visit www.bloomcounselling.com.au
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