Brigitte House , PACFA

Brigitte House focuses on strengthening wellbeing and supporting people to transform and move through life’s challenges. She helps clients deepen their connection with themselves and explore what brings meaning to their lives, drawing on a background that combines social work, community services and psychotherapy.

Her professional path began in social work within the community services and not-for-profit sector, where she accumulated 22 years of experience. Ten years ago she expanded her practice into psychotherapy and counselling and began teaching meditation. Her clinical work spans agency and private practice settings and includes both face-to-face and telehealth sessions.

Brigitte has worked with a wide range of presenting concerns, including stress and anxiety or panic, depression, grief and loss, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, existential questions, gender diversity and sexuality issues, and addiction recovery. She practices in a person-centred, trauma-informed and somatic-oriented way, using process experiential methods that place the therapeutic relationship at the heart of healing. She is a member of PACFA, the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia, a recognised professional association for counsellors and psychotherapists.

Approaches for Online Care and Embodied Healing

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the relationship between therapist and client, offering empathy, acceptance and collaboration so clients can explore their values and make changes at their own pace. This approach supports issues such as self-esteem, relationship concerns and life transitions.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches present-moment awareness and gentle attention to thoughts and bodily sensations. It can help reduce reactivity to stress and support coping with anxiety, grief and chronic worry.

Somatic Therapy attends to the body’s signals and how emotions are held physically, using body-centered techniques alongside talk therapy to address trauma, anxiety and stress-related symptoms.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Brigitte works collaboratively with clients and with other licensed professionals when needed to identify the methods that best fit a person’s needs, goals and preferences, adjusting the approach as therapy unfolds.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can be scheduled as video calls or phone sessions, and shorter check-ins are possible via live chat or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to maintain continuity of care when in-person meetings are not feasible, while allowing therapists to use the same clinical approaches effectively across formats.