Jen O'Bryan
About me
I’m a somatic psychotherapist/counsellor utilising Breathwork to facilitate and heal trauma, grief and other human sufferings. I have extensive life experience and lived experience with this modality. I have worked deeply on my own complex trauma and have the ability to sit calmly with pain and suffering working to bring trust and safety for clients. I am passionate about therapy as a way to understand ourselves and to heal. I don’t believe in labels or pathologizing what I believe to be normal human suffering or just the difficulties of living in a human body mind and spirit.
Education
Qualifications & Experience
- Registered Nurse and Palliative care nurse. 1982-2024
- Breathwork Counsellor 2018- current
- Graduate Diploma of Counselling and Psychotherapy 2022-2023 training- current practice.
- Grad Dip in counselling and psychotherapy
- Experience in private practice since 2018
Areas of Counselling
Therapies Offered
Client Preferences
Working Year Experience
- Grief and loss
- Trauma
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Relationship conflict and difficulties
- Life transitionsÂ
- Menarche to menopause to dying.
- Individual counselling
- Couples therapy.
- Adolescents (ages 13-18)
- Adults
- Couples
6-10 years
Language(s) Spoken
Communication Options
Based in
Hourly Fees Range
English
- Individual counselling
- Couples therapy.
Melbourne, Australia
$160 per hour AUS dollars
My Approach
I am focused primarily on the person or couple in front of me and what they want to work with. I work slowly and gently to determine their focus but aim to build relationships, trust, and safety first and foremost.
I am curious and open to all issues that people bring to the therapy room and want them to be in charge.
I work to listen deeply, especially to each individual, and understand where they come from, their history, and how that makes them who they are. I will then work to help bring self understanding for the person to work with their issues both in the therapy room and after the leave.
I believe passionately that people struggle because they do not understand themselves, haven’t had the emotional tools they need for life, have had childhood experiences that have traumatised them, and that these carry on into adult life, affecting their relationships.