Trained within a Transpersonal Psychology framework, Franca assists people to explore the potential for personal growth through times of transition, crisis, loss, anxiety and depression, issues related to gender identity, uncertainty and confusion, experiences of a non-ordinary kind, spirituality, accessing creative energy, times of rapid growth and, times of great change.
Franca brings a collaborative element to the sessions to give people the optimum opportunity to develop awareness and compassion for their experiences. In this way, self-agency develops as do sustainable ways to access inner strength and wellbeing in times of stress, now and through future life events.
Franca provides a clear space in which to reflect and explore the underpinnings of issues, and to integrate the wisdom inherent in them.
Each counselling session may include one or more of the following modalities as a means of self-enquiry; exploring, uncovering, discovering, eliciting meaning and stimulating growth from issues which have presented:
- mindfulness techniques
- creative visual expression and art practices
- movement and voice
- gestalt
- ritual
- dream work
- active imagination
- symptom articulation
- somatic awareness
- health and wellbeing
- psychoeducation
- talking
- being in nature; and
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)