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Welcome!

Oli Doyle Counselling offers trauma counselling in Bendigo and online for survivors of all ages.

Welcome to your safe place to land.

Living inside trauma symptoms can be some kind of twisted nightmare. Everything is upside down, back to front, or just a tangled mess. Small things trigger big reactions you can’t control and there just beneath the surface is a feeling of impending doom.

And while society tends to focus on the traumatic event (or events), the domestic violence, the sexual abuse, the involvement with a narcissist or a cult (or high control group), what matters more to survivors is the ongoing effect of the things that happened to us.

It is the paralysing fear you feel when confronted by a trigger, the rage provoked by minor rudeness and most of all the feeling that you must be broken.

You are not broken. You are a survivor.

Welcome to Oli Doyle Counselling, a safe place to land for trauma survivors, blending compassion and care with best practice.

Here, within the safety of a caring therapeutic relationship, your nervous system can unwind as you build a sense of inner safety, process the swirl of thoughts, feelings and sensations and integrate your trauma history into a present moment that begins to make sense. Then begins the exciting (and daunting) journey of post-traumatic growth.

Many survivors worry that they will need to recount painful stories, to remember the past, to re-experience the trauma, but none of this is necessary for healing and growth.

The process of recovery begins with the establishment of safety inside your body and in the therapeutic relationship.

From there we begin to gently notice what is arising here and now, to find words to describe the feeling states within and to make sense of these inner experiences in new ways.

We let go of old stories that don’t serve us anymore and we integrate the experiences of trauma into a new way of being in the world.

As a survivor and a counsellor who is passionate about the recovery of survivors I use an evidence-based approach grounded in research, neuroscience and the lived experience of those who have stared trauma in the face and continued. I stay on top of best practice so you can safely immerse yourself in the process of recovery.

I am based in Bendigo, Victoria and offer online and phone support to survivors, children and young people all over the world.

To discuss your needs please email oli@olidoyle.com or call 0430 181 746.

Giving you flexible access to counselling with online and phone appointments to suit a range of international time zones.