• Often people come to counselling because they want something to be different, or they are beginning to see that something has to change in their current situation..
• Counselling will help by assisting you to focus on and be much more clear about what it is that is of concern to you.
• Counsellors use a number of approaches to help you understand and address these issues.
• The Counsellor is there to offer support and understanding and to listen and respond in a non-judgmental, non-critical way.
• A Counsellor will respect your values, choices and lifestyle; and will help you explore your feelings.
• A counsellor may try to help you discover what lies behind what is troubling you; and help you to make decisions, choices or changes that are right for you. 

• Relief at talking to someone
• Growing self-confidence
• Clarifying issues
• Determining options
• Improved relationships
• Movement towards your goals
• Working through and resolving grief and loss

Time: Travel, attendance and working on yourself between sessions.

Effort: Applying yourself to the tasks of change.

Money: APC Counsellors are self employed and set their own fees. These are usually able to be negotiated according to your ability to pay. To access the Mental health Plan under Medicare, you need to have been diagnosed with a Mental iIlness. APC along with its Peak Body, PACFA is working hard to ensure counsellors along with Psychologists to be accredited under Medicare. Until this happens clients are not yet able to claim through Medicare however the fees of many counsellors are set at such a level that there is often no difference in the “out of pocket” payment that you might pay another practitioner or qualified counsellor. 

A counsellor who is a member of the APC is highly trained.  A counsellor is able to treat and manage a variety of issues that confront people on a daily basis.