Individual Psychotherapy / Counselling By YHG

Individual Psychotherapy / Counselling

1 hour fortnightly or monthly counselling sessions.

Rowenna practice a form of counselling and psychotherapy that:

  • Recognises that clients are interested in bringing their deeper questions and concerns and understandably want the support of a trusted other to help them navigate this terrain.
  • Acknowledges that it is unlikely that any one of us will avoid an experience of some difficulty, isolation, illness, loss or meaninglessness as part of our life.
  • Offers a relational therapy that provides authentic human contact, attuned presence, empathy and support at these difficult times and in the unfolding process of your personal exploration, healing and growth.
  • Engages in a collaborative process of inquiry and exploration that includes taking into account the full context of your life – social and cultural background, environment, circumstances, relationships, present resources and capacity.
  • Helps you develop self-understanding that comes from present centred awareness of your experience and your relationship with others.
  • Allows you to develop a capacity to bring about changes in yourself and your life through understanding and awareness.
  • Explores the way your past experience and your hopes for the future may influence or inform your present experience.

The collaborative assistance of a professional psychotherapist/counsellor can deliver critical support for both physical and mental well-being during a variety of life situations or health issues, including:

  • depression
  • anxiety
  • fatigue
  • managing strong emotions – anger, fear, distress, sadness
  • trauma
  • bipolar disorder
  • grief and loss
  • relationship problems
  • work relations, stress and job loss
  • parenting and family dynamics
  • addiction, gambling, compulsive behaviour
  • social skills
  • life transition, adjustment issues
  • self esteem / self worth
  • sleep problems
  • behavioural difficulties
  • ADHD and autism
  • chronic fatigue
  • depression, anxiety and fatigue associated with chronic illness and pain
  • hormonal conditions including: premenstrual stress or dysphoria, post natal depression and menopausal mood disturbance.

Relationship Counselling

At the heart of Rowenna’s approach to relationship counselling is the belief that “the ultimate basis of our existence is relational or dialogic in nature: we are all threads in an interhuman fabric”. Hycner

When we shift from “your story versus mine”, we move from a focus on the individual to “the between” of your relationship. This approach to relationship counselling assumes that what occurs in your relationship is co-created.

As you may have experienced, relationship patterns repeat, the same ideas and themes keep knocking on the door. With the support of your therapist you are invited to explore “the between”, to engage in a process that helps you to understand how you got here and to begin to experience your relationship differently. It is a therapeutic process that can allow for an opening and a chance to move beyond the impasse or difficulties unique to your relationship.

Let’s discover what continues to arise between you, which will no doubt make itself known in the therapeutic space and provide you with opportunities to get curious, try out new ways of relating or navigate through difficult situations.

As a relational therapist Rowenna will:

  • Create a safe environment for our work together
  • Provide attuned presence, empathy and a balanced alliance with you and your partner
  • Work with you to identify both patterns of relating that are troubling, as well as the strengths in your relationship
  • Support the development of healthy relational processes and communication
  • Raise awareness of each other’s internal experiences
  • Support you to hold steady to be able to hear what is challenging and to say what might feel difficult.
  • Focus on the here and now, bringing awareness to relational patterns as they emerge in the room
  • Explore and experiment with new ways of relating and practical change


Areas of focus:

  • Deepening connection
  • Healing from infidelity / breaches of trust
  • Repair and regathering
  • Life transitions – any significant change in circumstance, fertility, young families, when it’s just you two again
  • Mixed or non-conforming relationship and family configurations including polyamorous relationships
  • BIPOC and LGBTQI+ Respect, awareness, training and experience in culturally safe and sensitive therapeutic practice
  • Addiction and compulsive sexual behaviours
  • Sex and intimacy, including problems related to differences in desire.


Rowenna’s approach is informed by the following theoretical frameworks and methods:

  • Relational Gestalt Psychotherapy
  • Attachment Theory
  • Emotionally Focussed Therapy
  • Gottman Method

meet our Practioner

Rowenna Halge Counsellor and psychotherapist

Rowenna Halge

Individual Psychotherapist/Counsellor, Relationship Counsellor

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