Helping You Move Beyond Surviving, Towards Thriving.
With several years of experience, Warren provides compassionate and effective counselling rooted in a trauma-informed, DFV (including coercive control) informed, approach grounded in the science of regulation to help you get the most out of your sessions.
Our Services
We offer a safe and supportive space to help you navigate life's challenges, specializing in a range of personal, relational, and family needs.
Individual Counselling
Work one-on-one to explore personal challenges, heal from trauma, build resilience, and develop healthy coping strategies in a confidential setting.
For subsidised counselling sessions via VICTIMS SERVICES see below.
Couples Counselling
Strengthen your relationship, improve communication, and resolve conflicts with guidance that helps you reconnect and grow together in a safe, respectful environment.
Family Counselling
Navigate family dynamics, address the impact of trauma and DFV, heal past wounds, and build a stronger, more connected family unit with our compassionate support.
About Warren Hanvold Counselling
With a deep commitment to your well-being, Warren has been 'walking alongside' individuals, couples, and families for several years. Warren Hanvold, a Level 4 Registered Clinical Counsellor with the ACA, is trained in Counselling Psychology, and is Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT) Phase 1 Certified.
Warren offers trauma-informed practice. He is passionate about helping clients navigate their unique journeys.
Warren believe's in the innate capacity for healing and growth. His approach is not about quick fixes, but about empowering you with the tools to create lasting change and find a path forward.
"The glorious trees that you see today...all started from a seed that would fit in your hand...you have even more potential." WH
Our Trauma, DFV & Brain Science Informed Approach
We understand that our past experiences, especially trauma and DFV (including coercive control), are stored not just in our memories, but in our bodies and nervous systems. Our therapeutic work is designed to gently and safely address these deep-rooted patterns when you are ready at your pace.
Neurobiology-informed
We use insights from neuroscience, including principles from the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT), and Polyvagal Theory to help you understand how your brain responds to stress and trauma, empowering you to consciously reshape neural pathways for resilience.
Trauma and DFV-Informed
We prioritize creating a safe, respectful, and transparent environment. Our practice is grounded in principles of safety, trustworthiness, and collaboration, with a strong awareness of the impacts of domestic and family violence, including coercive control.
Client-Centered
Your journey is unique. We tailor our approach to meet your individual needs, drawing from various modalities to help you achieve your personal goals.
Victims Services
Victims Services counselling is government-paid therapy available for people who have been affected as a result of a crime. Becoming a victim of crime can be a distressing life event. Free counselling is available to primary, family and secondary victims of an act of violence. An initial 22 hours is available to primary, secondary victims and family victims and relevant family members. You can lodge an application for approved counselling online and may apply for up to 22 hours of free counselling by completing the online form via the Victims Services Website.
Please contact Warren directly if wanting to book a session through Victims Services.
E.M.D.R. THERAPY
E.M.D.R. (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) THERAPY
Is an evidence-based, therapy which, like R.E.M sleep, allows processing of memories; while being safely-grounded in the present - to avoid retraumatisation. An oversimplification is that E.M.D.R allows memories which are stored in our brain's 'danger detector' (amygdala) to get a 'time-stamp' (ie in-the-past, and get stored in our brain's 'life-story/narrative keeper' (hippocampus), so that when we are reminded of it, our brains can discern that the event is in the past; and hence, no longer a threat to us. This allows us to move from merely surviving-the-moment; to planning, and actioning, steps towards thriving (since when we think of that adverse event we can now also recall adaptive information from positive memories too - to give us context).
ADVANTAGES OVER OTHER THERAPIES
"[EMDR Therapy] is focussed on the symptoms and conducted in session
EMDR has comparable results to that of other trauma treatments such as exposure therapy, but over a much shorter timeframe
Clients do not have to talk in detail about their trauma" per EMDRAA.org
Contact Us for In-Person, Telephone, or Videocall Session
Address
North Sydney and Northern Beaches, SYDNEY, NSW
Phone
0420547088ABN
35153685613