Do you feel stuck? Frustrated? Lost? Depressed? Are you struggling to find peace or make lasting change? Modern life is extremely challenging and demanding, taking a toll on our mental well-being and relationships. This can feel very overwhelming and isolating.
Claire would like to support you in embracing your inner wisdom and strength, and give you all the necessary tools to develop, grow and overcome your suffering.
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Her services include individual and couple counselling face-to-face and via Zoom. She is able to support and guide you through life's challenges:
Addictions
Anger
Anxiety
Career Stress
Confusion/Feeling Stuck
Depression
Despair
Generational Trauma
Grief
Loss
Relationship Conflict
Trauma
About Claire
Claire is passionate about Holistic Counselling as a way to reconnect a client with their own inner wisdom and step into their power. ​
She is a wife and a mother of three young children. It has been through her personal experience of suffering that she has discovered this approach to counselling. ​
Claire is registered both locally and internationally. She holds the the following registrations: Provisional Counsellor with the New Zealand Association of Counsellors (NZAC), Certified Practising Counsellor with the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA) and Full Member with International Institute of Complementary Therapists (IICT). She has completed PG Studies in Holistic Counselling and Psychotherapy through The Metavision Institute in Australia and has a Master of Arts in Research Psychology from Rhodes University in South Africa. She has also completed 6 months training as a Polyvagal Informed Therapist.
Holistic Approach
Holistic Counselling acknowledges that the discomforts and dysfunctions of the body, mind and spirit do not have separate causes and solutions. We are powerful beings with an intimate relationship to the world around us and possess great capacity for self-healing. Life is an intrinsic striving and longing towards something greater. Our discomforts and dysfunctions are the signposts along the journey.
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Claire uses a method known as Process Work. It is a client centered awareness method developed by Arnold Mindell who discovered that the client’s experience of their symptoms could be unfolded to reveal the seeds of healing and wholeness. It is a dynamic approach to the unity of mind, body, spirit and world, with it's roots in Jungian Psychology, Quantum Physics, and Taoism.
Clients' Experiences
What to Expect
Working with Claire is a collaborative process, where you are met with curiosity, acceptance, and presence. She brings her whole self to her work; embodying vulnerability and integrity, allowing you to do the same.
Claire acknowledges that she is not the expert of your life. She sees her role as an awareness guide or a translator. Her aim is to help you reclaim your whole self and live it fully without fear, shame, or guilt.
She accompanies you on a journey inward to discover your wounded parts and begin healing. This is an individual process that unfolds through the doing.
Claire will assist you in developing a set of tools and resources that arise from your lived experiences and that speak to your longings and purpose.
These tools are uncovered using somatic techniques that dive to the depths of your unconscious bringing greater awareness and challenging your perceptions.
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The Bridge
by Joy Cowley
There are times in life
when we are called to be bridges,
not a great monument spanning a distance
and carrying great loads of heavy traffic,
but a simple bridge to help one person from here to there
over some difficulty
such as pain, fear, grief, loneliness,
a bridge which opens the way
for on-going journey.
When I become a bridge for another,
I bring upon myself a blessing
for I escape from the small prison of self
and exist for a wider world,
breaking out to be a larger being
who can enter another’s pain
and rejoice in another’s triumph.
I know of only one greater blessing
in this life, and that is,
to allow someone else
to be a bridge for me.
Contact Me
Claire Welch
2 Chenery Road, Red Beach, Hibiscus Coast, New Zealand
"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."