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Supporting a healthy approach to life's challenges through counselling

Supporting a healthy approach to life's challenges through counsellingSupporting a healthy approach to life's challenges through counsellingSupporting a healthy approach to life's challenges through counselling

At our airconditioned office in Scarborough QLD, or by Zoom from anywhere, we are an affordable, gentle counselling service

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Supporting a healthy approach to life's challenges through counselling

Supporting a healthy approach to life's challenges through counsellingSupporting a healthy approach to life's challenges through counsellingSupporting a healthy approach to life's challenges through counselling

At our airconditioned office in Scarborough QLD, or by Zoom from anywhere, we are an affordable, gentle counselling service

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Our Therapy

Come and journey with us!

  

In Spanish, “camino” means “way”, “path” or “journey”. For each of us, life is a pilgrimage. At Camino Counselling we believe that none of us are meant to travel this pilgrimage alone. At points along "the way" it can be helpful to have a companion who is professionally trained to listen and to walk alongside us, to support us in creating positive change, and to help us understand ourselves better, so we can discover who we really are in order to live a happier life.

What can we help with?

  Understanding relationships

Stress

Anxiety

Depression

Recovering from trauma

Grief and loss

Burnout

Developing healthy boundaries

Discovering your uniqueness and a deeper understanding of Self

Self-growth

Resilience

Changing unhealthy patterns to healthier ones

Marriage and relationship counselling

Pre-marriage counselling

The impact of family of origin 

Face-to-face or online services

 We offer face-to-face counselling services at Scarborough on the beautiful Redcliffe Peninsula. We also offer sessions via Zoom for those who can’t travel to Scarborough.


During COVID-19 we ensure that social distancing is maintained and that our room is appropriately sanitised between clients. 


Sessions are held in our private and comfortable airconditioned counselling space just a few minutes' walk from Scarborough Beach. You are welcome to come for a small number of sessions or for a longer journey.

Counselling hours

 Appointments are available Monday to Thursday; other times by negotiation.

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Who We Are

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From our counsellor

If I let my guard down... by Janet Mumford

If I let my guard down... by Janet Mumford

  

I’m Janet and I’ve recently moved to beautiful Scarborough! I hold a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Psychology from Sydney University, a Graduate Diploma in Counselling from the Australian College of Applied Psychology and I am registered with PACFA (Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia; registration number 23550).


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I’m Janet and I’ve recently moved to beautiful Scarborough! I hold a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Psychology from Sydney University, a Graduate Diploma in Counselling from the Australian College of Applied Psychology and I am registered with PACFA (Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia; registration number 23550).


Alongside my professional qualifications I have decades of experience working with women both individually and as a group leader. I am married, have raised five children, moved 14 times including both interstate and overseas and supported my husband through six military deployments. I am well acquainted with the stressors of grief and loss and trauma, of cultural transitions and of parenting.


I understand the exhaustion of burnout and of losing “who you are” while trying to be who others need you to be.


I am passionate about supporting people to discover their uniqueness and be all that they were created to be.

If I let my guard down... by Janet Mumford

If I let my guard down... by Janet Mumford

If I let my guard down... by Janet Mumford

  

If I let down my guard

The tears might come

If the tears come, they might not end

What will gush out is painful

What if I can’t control it?

What if it doesn’t stop?


Like a powerful waterfall that keeps pouring forth water

Like a fire hose whose spray doesn’t dwindle

Like a volcano erupting and spewing forth its lava

What is within is sacred and 

  

If I let down my guard

The tears might come

If the tears come, they might not end

What will gush out is painful

What if I can’t control it?

What if it doesn’t stop?


Like a powerful waterfall that keeps pouring forth water

Like a fire hose whose spray doesn’t dwindle

Like a volcano erupting and spewing forth its lava

What is within is sacred and not for all


And I’m so tired, so very tired

Tired of trying to hold it all together

Tired of containing that which lies within

Tired of running on near empty

Tired of being who everyone else needs me to be

And not even knowing who I am


I feel like a wilted flower

A discarded ornament

A wounded lioness trying to protect her pride

A car running on one cylinder

I feel alone


Who am I to complain?

Others are in, and have been through, far more difficult situations than me

I’m sure somehow this is entirely my fault

If I was just a different personality

If I just ‘got over it’

If I just looked at things more positively

I should be able to move on


I’m sure I would be judged, misunderstood, compared, if I allowed what is contained to rise to the surface

I’m not sure if I can even put words to what surges within

I’m not sure if I want to put words to it

I don’t need someone to ‘fix’ me or to pretend to have the answers


I want someone to listen

To step into my world and walk alongside me

What is within is sacred and not for all


I wonder what it might be like to allow someone in

To be real, loved, not judged

To release some of that hidden force into still and quiet waters

To be gentle with myself

To be loved and accepted

The Wall by Janet Mumford

If I let my guard down... by Janet Mumford

The Wall by Janet Mumford


I wrote this poem after visiting The Australian War Memorial with my husband.  While we were there he signed a wall that has been made available for Afghanistan Veterans.  I was moved to tears as I saw all those names of soldiers who had signed the wall and reflected on the many, many families who have been affected by war.  I honour you.



Yesterday, I saw all those names.

From deep within the tears began to flow

No longer could I hold them back

The sleepless nights

The sharp pain in my heart

As my children sobbed in their beds

The brave face

Alone

Exhausted

But somehow looking strong

One foot in one world

The other foot in another

War

Nightmares

Hyper vigilance

Guilt

Rockets, blasts, injury

Death

Dance, drama, netball, singing

Groceries, meals, school,

Birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas,

Concerts, awards nights, formal,

Shopping, holidays, housework,

Bin nights, home repairs, car repairs,

Life appears to continue as “normal” in spite of war

In a far away land,

Darkness, death, despair

Another country, another people

That will be intricately woven

Into us…a military family

We live in paradox

It is not one or the other

It is both war and everyday life

As a military family we carry both

War comes home and dwells with us

There are more tears to come

A wall to sign

An acknowledgement

So many names of those who’ve served

So many women holding war and family. 

Thoughts for the journey...

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