About

Natalie Turns
Counsellor/Owner

M.A.C.A 19554
DipCouns | MCouns | BAComms

I work with couples in the 'midlife reset' stage of their relationships who have lost connection and want to find their way back to each other. The relationship isn’t necessarily broken, it’s just buried under life.

Couples counselling isn't only for relationships in crisis. Sometimes, you simply realise that you've drifted apart. The arguments may not be constant. There may be no betrayal or major event. You may even look happy from the outside. But something has changed. You miss each other. You miss yourself. Counselling can help you understand what has changed and how to reconnect.

Drawing on decades of experience in leadership coaching, psychosocial change management and counselling in my work with organisations, individuals and couples, I focus on helping you navigate connection, clarity, intimacy, redefining roles, FIFO (fly-in-fly-out) and infidelity, either with your partner or on your own.

I am a registered counsellor with the Australian Counselling Association and have worked with clients in my private practice in Sydney and now in East Victoria Park, Perth.

New clients welcome. In-person appointments are available for individuals and couples in person or online.

Focus areas:

  • Life transitions and adjustment 

  • Relationships and connection 

  • FIFO individuals and relationships 

  • Anxiety and depression

  • Burnout and overwhelm

  • Grief and loss

  • IVF, infertility, assisted reproduction

Approach

The aim of counselling is to relieve distress, raise awareness and understanding of oneself and others, and create an elevated sense of wellbeing by tapping into your inner resources and putting things into perspective.

Using a trauma-informed, person-centred approach to counselling means that you set the context for the sessions and are always treated as the expert in your life.

Through evidence-based therapy techniques we can together identify the inner skills and resources you can draw on as we explore, reflect, and connect the issues you’re experiencing regardless of gender, religious affiliation, race, cultural heritage, sexual orientation or economic circumstance.

“The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood.”
— Dr Ralph Nichols.