Shifting
Terrains
Shifting Terrains Counselling provides trauma-informed, integrative and evidence based therapy for young people, adults, and families in the Blue Mountains. We specialise in trauma, grief, loss, suicide bereavement, mental health and life transitions for children and adolescents. Led by a Social Worker with over 10 years’ experience in child and adolescent mental health, including complex hospital-linked presentations, we offer individual, family, and parent counselling sessions both in-person and online. Our approach creates a safe, confidential space to process change, make sense of loss, and build resilience through life’s shifting terrains.
Counselling for young people and their familes
Individual Counseling
Parent
Sessions
Workshops & Groups
About me
Navigating life's transitions with compassion.
Service Overview
Shifting Terrains Counselling provides therapeutic support for young people, adults, and families navigating grief, trauma, suicidality, and life transitions.
The practice offers a trauma-informed, relational, and integrative approach, drawing from Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and family-inclusive practice.
Areas of Focus
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Child & adolescent mental health
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Suicide related bereavement
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Trauma & complex trauma
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Grief & bereavement
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Identity and developmental transitions
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School disengagement
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Family separation & conflict
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Emotional regulation
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Neurodivergence
Service Types
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Individual counselling — young people
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Individual counselling — adults
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Parent support sessions
Theraputic modalities
ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY (ACT)
DIALECTICAL BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY(DBT)
DBT IS VERY SKILLS BASED THERAPY, ESPECIALLY HELPFUL FOR EMOTIONAL REGUALTION AND MANAGING DISTRESS. IT REVOLVES AROUND THE 4 CORE COMPONENTS OF EMOTION REGUALTION, DISTRESS TOLERANCE, INTERPERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS AND MINDFULLNESS
TRAUMA FOCUSED CBT (TF-CBT)
TRAUMA FOCUSED CBT IS CONSIDERED A FRONTLINE TREATMENT OPTION FOR TRAUMA. IT IS BASED AROUND ESTABLILSHING SAFTEY, PROVIDING SKILLS AND USING EXPOUSRE THERAPY.
Our story
About — Shifting Terrains Counselling
I’m a social worker and counsellor with over ten years’ experience supporting children, adolescents, and families across community and public mental health settings.
My practice has been shaped through working with young people navigating complex mental health challenges — including trauma, suicidality, emotional distress, family breakdown, and identity transitions.
I have experience within specialist child and adolescent services connected to hospital and community systems, supporting young people and families through high-acuity and complex periods of care. This work has involved collaboration with multidisciplinary teams across inpatient, outpatient, and community contexts.
My counselling is person centrred, relational and seeks to honour the theraputic alliance.
Get in Touch
Please contact me on the phone or email address below - please leave a message so I can get back to you as soon as I can.
Phone: 0488 900 503
Email: gareth.evan.thomas@gmail.com