Gail MGA Counselling

14/08/2025

For those amazing brave souls going through your healing journey, please look after yourself: rest lots, have lots of support, hold on to hope and moments of joy and know that your future self will always be grateful that you took this journey.

27/02/2025

So often the circumstances/stimulus is outside of our control, but the response is our choice and brave, courageous, authentic responses truly can bring freedom and growth

17/06/2024

Saturday August 3rd...for any female victim/survivor of Family Violence of any description you are warmly and gently invited to join with us on this Forest Therapy Victoria Walk

Join us for three hours of activities designed to connect you to nature and enhance your health and wellbeing.

08/06/2024

The taboo of loneliness! I have been pondering this recently. The shame that people feel when they share they are lonely, the often uncomfortable feelings others have when they hear someone else share with them that they are lonely. How quick people are to offer others solutions.

It's somehow seen as a weakness. Like somehow you are not strong enough.

I just want to encourage anyone that is struggling with loneliness that it says something truly special about you.
It could says you loved deeply and to lose that has left a big hole. What a beautiful soul you are to love so much and so wholeheartedly that the loss of that can never be quickly washed over.
It could say say that you yearn for deeper connections with others and what a gift that will be to the people who you will get to connect with. It could say that I long to be really seen and to really see others
it could say I made some mistakes and have some regrets and I'm sad about them. What a place of growth that is.
It could say there is some deep hurt and betrayal that I need to heal from and what a journey that could be.

None of this is easy. Its incredibly painful. But in all of this see that your heart is not hardened. We don't talk much about hearts oftenn but to have a soft heart in a hard world says something incredibly special about you.

Listen to your heart, be discerning in who you share with and recognise there is no shame in loneliness. Honor your soft and open heart today💗

14/04/2024

We throw out food that we can no longer eat, clothes we no longer like, exercise equipment we no longer use...

Yet we allow beliefs/thoughts that others have put on us or we have taken on occupy our mind without thought to whether or not they are serving us well.

So important for these to be challenged, re looked at and if needed thrown away.

07/01/2024

I love a beautiful garden...all the diffrent shades of green with beautiful natural plants and bright colours. It's a treat for every sense. But unlike most of my MGA colleagues, I have no gardening skills.

Recently a friend who is an avid gardener came to my home. I was pointing out something in my garden and proudly saying how beautiful it was even if I had no idea where it came from!! She laughed kindly and said "that's because it's a w**d". It took me a while to accept it as I pointed out its beauty and what it added to my garden.

Today as I accepted it was a w**d and went about removing it from my garden,I couldn't help draw the analogy with people. It's not so easy to identify those who will not be healthy to our lives. Like the w**ds they often appear Beautiful and they carry things which add to our lives. It's not until they are more entrenched in our lives does the unhealthy and sometimes toxic and highly damaging come out.

In my work with people coming out of abusive or damaging relationships, I am often struck by what warm, kind, open, caring and amazing people they are. I love the journey of helping them to not only identify what they have been through, recover and strengthen but to most importantly shine, see their value and live their best lives.

There are many quiet hero's in my Counselling rooms and I honor them today .

19/12/2023

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30/11/2023

To create a safe and healing space in both art and nature for those who have experienced family violence has been a dream in my heart for a while now. I am so pleased to be able to offer this. If you or anyone you know would benefit please know you be warmly welcomed.

Join us for three hours of activities designed to connect you to nature and enhance your health and wellbeing.

01/11/2023

I feel incredibly thankful and privileged to sit in sacred spaces with people when life is hard, painful, challenging,unexpected and just plain tough. It's in this spaces with amazing people I get to witness incredible courage and bravery.

Reflect today on all the ways you live brave and remind yourself how awesome you are