Counselling with Tina

Counselling with Tina I am available for counselling/pychotherapy on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturday morning. Feel free to email me or contact me through messenger.

I support adolescents, parents, adults and couples to have a better relationship with themselves, each other and their life path, through counselling, psychotherapy or coaching I live in Perth, Western Australia. My consultations can take place face to face at Vivacious Living at the corner of Riseley Street/Canning Highway, Perth, W.A, through Zoom, (or other preferred online means) or telephone. I'm flexible to adjust my hours to connect with clients who may be living in another country and time zone. My work so far has been influenced by the following approaches: Person-centred approach, Relational Transactional Analysis, and Gestalt, Narrative Therapy, CBT, Systems Family Therapy, Positive Psychology and more recently by research and findings in neuroscience, and trauma. I am trauma informed. I have been counselling since 2002. I have had extensive experience with adolescents, parents of adolescents, and adults of all ages and cultural background, having lived in Perth, Dubai as well as Italy. I also work with couples. Being fluent in Italian, French, and having basic understanding of Arabic allows me to relate to individuals from these cultures more easily. These are my specialisations:

a) adolescent issues, parenting issues, developmental issues and life transitions, including
retirement and old age, cultural issues
b) relationships with oneself at any age: assisting clients to express and to discover their
patterns,
both helpful and not so helpful and to foster and to maintain a good, solid sense of self,
d) relationships with others, such as partners, children, family members and co-workers,
communication patterns;
c) emotional regulation, and working with anxiety, worry, and other difficult emotions. Besides counselling, I’ve been a high school teacher and a parenting workshop facilitator in Perth and in Dubai. I’m a wife and mother of two adult children.

21/11/2025
15/11/2025

I love this quote by H Huxley, the best and the only advice
12/11/2025

I love this quote by H Huxley, the best and the only advice

It’s dark because you are trying too hard.
Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly.
Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.
Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.
I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little p**g.
Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me.
When it comes to dying even. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic.
No rhetoric, no tremolos,
no self conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Little Nell.
And of course, no theology, no metaphysics.
Just the fact of dying and the fact of the clear light.
So throw away your baggage and go forward.
There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet,
trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair.
That’s why you must walk so lightly.
Lightly my darling,
on tiptoes and no luggage,
not even a sponge bag,
completely unencumbered. ~Aldous Huxley

07/11/2025
03/11/2025

In the Netherlands, public parks and plazas are now home to “chat benches” — a simple yet powerful idea aimed at easing social isolation. These benches carry a small sign inviting people to sit if they’re open to conversation. Whether it’s an elder feeling alone, someone experiencing homelessness, or simply a passerby who wants to connect, the chat bench signals a safe and open space for dialogue.

Local volunteers often take turns nearby, ready to engage gently or just sit and listen. Some benches are part of wider community care networks — where outreach workers quietly monitor well-being through friendly talk. Others are entirely grassroots, with the sign alone acting as a quiet invitation.

The success of these benches lies in their subtlety. There’s no pressure, no appointments, no forms — just the timeless human act of sitting together and speaking when the moment feels right. For seniors, this can offer rare daily companionship. For someone unhoused, it can restore dignity through normal, respectful conversation. And for the broader public, it normalizes talking to strangers again — building micro-moments of empathy in a fast-moving world.

The design is low-cost but high-impact, showing that sometimes public health and social inclusion begin not with infrastructure or apps — but with a wooden seat, a metal sign, and a little shared time.

29/10/2025
22/10/2025
22/10/2025

Glimmers are more than a gimmick – they are a way to navigate the daily grind, and to find slices of joy in the mundane.

22/10/2025
26/07/2025

Lo psicologo pugliese Alessandro Iacubino ha ideato un’iniziativa per avvicinare le persone ai temi della salute mentale, mentre sono al mare. Ogni lunedì, dalle 10 alle 13 e dalle 16 alle 19, in uno stabilimento di Rodi Garganico offre a chiunque, e in modo gratuito, ascolto e conversazione. Un’azione che vuole spezzare la solitudine e rompere i tabù sociali che permangono sui temi del benessere psicologico.

Il progetto si chiama “Psicologo sotto l’ombrellone”, ma il nome può essere fuorviante, perché non si fa terapia. Si tratta invece di «un progetto territoriale di divulgazione», che «ha lo scopo di vincere i pregiudizi che si hanno sulla cura del benessere mentale, è un progetto di comunicazione verso la nostra comunità dominata da alcuni tabù che spesso impediscono alle persone di varcare la soglia dei nostri studi professionali», scrive Iacubino sul suo profilo Instagram. Un luogo di primo contatto, insomma, niente di più.

«Questa iniziativa vuole essere soprattutto ASCOLTO... prendere per mano le persone e capire di cosa hanno bisogno», continua il post. Insomma, «non si "cura" o benché meno si fa "terapia" sotto l'ombrellone, non si fanno quattro chiacchiere, non si svende la professione, non si banalizza il lavoro in studio dando dei consigli, nessun professionista da consigli», spiega.

L’iniziativa ha ricevuto molto risalto a livello nazionale, ed è stata ripresa da diverse testate.
In questo senso, sta contribuendo a «normalizzare la cura della mente così come ci prendiamo cura del corpo», conclude.

Foto credit: alessandro_iacubino/IG

Address

Riseley Square, Suite 9A/9 Riseley Street
Applecross, WA
6153

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 7pm
Tuesday 10am - 7pm
Wednesday 10am - 7pm
Thursday 10am - 7pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 2pm
Sunday 10am - 2pm

Telephone

+61477504537

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