Bethany Dawn

Certified Counselling Practitioner

Person Centred Counselling

Evidence-based

care in the Southern Forrest

102 Giblett St.

Manjimup, Western Australia

Integrating person-centred techniques

with skill building

and trauma processing therapies

Counselling

Psychotherapy

For the inevitable stresses of life and loss

and/or to assist with decision-making processes.

A longer term working arrangement that addresses persistent issues, mental health concerns and/or trauma processing.

Choosing to begin therapy can be intimidating. Whether you have experienced therapy in the past or this is your first time, I commend you on a brave choice you have made for your wellbeing!

My own values of empathy, respect, personal empowerment, and professionalism align seamlessly with those of the Australian Counselling Association and the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia.

Sunrise counselling and psychotherapy offers a warm and safe place to explore whatever may be going on for you right now.

Therapist training

• Psychology bachelor degree with minors in criminology and advanced psychology
• Master of counselling degree
• EMDR advanced level training
• DBT skills training
• IFS training
• EFT and EFIT training
• Trauma informed training

ARHG Health Fund Provider

Health funds included:

• Police Health Fund
• Emergency Services Health
• Phoenix Health
• St. Luke’s Health
• GMHBA
• CUA Health (telehealth only)
• Teacher’s Union Health
• AIA
• Westfund

What Clients are Saying about Sunrise

"Throughout the whole process, I felt safe, heard, and cared for. Bethany has a no nonsense, empathetic manner that I really responded to.

I am looking forward to my next session to continue my personal healing journey.

Thanks again Bethany "

- Rockingham resident

"While my circumstances have not changed my own mental and emotional health has improved significantly in the last 6 months since therapy with Bethany. I feel much more 'myself' and my moods and general well being have improved significantly. 5 out of 5 stars!"

- Albany resident

Individual

Counselling

$130/hour

Relationship

Counselling

$150/hour

“When it feels disheartening

to learn that

trauma changes the brain,

remember that

healing changes the brain too.”

- Poppy Leigh

Trauma and the Body

Sometimes people will experience something that their mind finds difficult to make sense of. When we experience this in everyday life, we will sometimes loose sleep thinking about it, or we find ourselves talking to our friends and family trying to make sense of what happened.

If an event is one that evokes a survival response from the body AND our minds find it difficult to make sense of, the brain stores this information in unique way that is designed to keep us safe in the future. This is why we can sometimes experience feelings in our body like sweating, breathing difficulties and stomach upset, and not really understand why our body responds this way. These symptoms can have medical explanations, but can also be an indication that there is a memory stored in our brains for body response, but this memory may not be in our awareness because the mind has not yet made sense of it.

Psychotherapy can work to move these kinds of memories from the subconscious to the conscious to allow our 'grown up' minds to make sense of the experience. See Bessel Van Der Kolk's book The Body Keeps The Score for more information on this topic.