FIONA STEVENS
Counselling & Wellbeing
Empowering and supportive therapy, helping you heal past hurts, build healthier relationships, and reconnect with your true self.
Offering in person appointments in Coolangatta, Gold Coast or online Australia wide.
Welcome to Fiona Stevens Counselling and Wellbeing
You might be feeling disconnected from your true self and not knowing who you are anymore, carrying levels of anxiety and worry and a sense of not being good enough, overthinking and self-doubt.
You can feel like you are stuck and repeating old patterns, feeling exhausted and overwhelmed, not being able to make the changes you desire. These patterns can impact on the relationships you are having or want to have in your life. How you see yourself, and value who you are can influence those relationships around you.
I believe everyone is able to understand themselves more deeply and experience healthy boundaries in relationships with the ability to say no without guilt or shame. Therapy should be about rediscovering this, and not being "fixed", because you are not broken.
Therapy with me is a gentle, trauma-informed process. It’s not about fixing you—because you’re not broken. It’s about creating a space where you can feel safe enough to explore what’s really going on, at your own pace.
Together, we begin to notice and understand your inner critic, rather than being controlled by it. Using approaches like CBT, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and mindfulness, we gently work with the thoughts and patterns that have been keeping you stuck.
We will also focus on reconnecting you with your inner world—your emotions, your needs, and your sense of self—so that your self-worth comes from within, not from constantly proving yourself to others.
Over time, this work can help you feel more grounded, more confident in your boundaries, and more like yourself again.
Hello, I'm Fiona Stevens
My professional journey started a little later in life when I discovered to gift of working "with" people. I have been on a long journey in my professional career, working in many areas of counselling and support, case management and advocating to support positive changes. This journey has led me to exploring my own development in CBT, ACT and Trauma Informed therapeutic approaches. I have also explored more deeply in my personal journey in yoga and mindfulness. My work offers a supportive, safe space grounded in evidence based approaches.
I work primarily with women and men 30 years and over who appear high functioning and who feel anxious and diminished in their relationships, who want to confidently express their needs, set boundaries, and feel connected and truly seen.
Counselling Information
When we are in stress or conflict our defense mechanisms are activated and we can feel at war with yourself and others. A safe therapeutic relationship can enable you to tap into resources that support and calm the nervous system and regulate fight/flight/freeze responses.
Fiona offers evidence based approaches to support emotional regulation and nervous system de-escalation.
Fiona offers an understanding of personal and interpersonal neurobiology that supports developing a healthy and safe relationship with self. If you are experiencing life stress, loss of sleep, pain, anxiety, depression, we can work together to build new skills in managing life. The tools used incorporate trauma-informed practice approaches using CBT, ACT, Mindfulness, movement, and stress based reduction techniques.
Fiona is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker provides ‘Focused Psychological Strategies’ (counselling) to people with mental health challenges (such as anxiety or depression) under the Better Access to Mental Health initiative. Your GP care plan allows access to a medicare rebate for your counselling. You can ask your GP to appoint Fiona Stevens on your mental health care plan.
Contact Fiona for a free 10 minute consultation - 0473 921 214
FEES
Counselling (50 minutes) $150.00
Medicare Rebate $ 87.25
(sliding scale and bulk billing is available - please discuss your circumstances)
APPOINTMENTS
Thursday and Friday @ Kirra Hill Community Centre
After Hours times appointments available online only
Professional Supervision
Professional Supervision is an option for those people wanting to seek support in their professional and career development. Following a model of supervision but also inviting you to explore critical reflection to your practice and we can explore a space that is safe to develop to your potential.
FEES - 60 minute sessions
Full time employees - $90.00
Part-time or new graduates - $65.00
Cancellation Policy
In case of cancellation or postponement, please provide as much notice as possible. Cancellations within 48 hours of the appointment (not including weekends and public holidays) incur a $50 cancellation fee. In case of cancellation within 24 hours, the full fee is due (please note that Medicare will not provide a rebate for cancellation fees).
We acknowledge the Yugambeh speaking people as the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we live and pay our respects to their Elders past and present and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.