Lee Wong Counselling

Online Counselling and Life Coaching

Counselling provides a safe environment for clients to engage with a trained, professional counsellor to talk about issues and problems they’re facing, while trying to work towards agreed upon goals in the clinical space. To find out more about the counselling process, visit this page. So how does Online Counselling differ to Face-to-Face counselling, and how is it different to Life Coaching?

Online Counselling can often involve multiple different modalities, such as telephonic, video, chat/text-based and group conferencing. Lee Wong Counselling currently provides telephonic and video based online counselling. Online Counselling has many benefits compared to Face-to-Face counselling, namely:

• Increased privacy from your own safe and confidential location
• Safer environment with no risk of in-person spread of contagions
• No commute and healthier for the environment
• More flexibility in operating hours
• More accessible due to connecting from any place you feel secure in
• Increased comfort to set-up your space as you see fit for the counselling session
• Greater variety is available as you are not limited by travel – could be interstate, or even international!

Counselling is often a long-term process in which clients work with their healthcare professional to assess and address problematic beliefs, behaviours, relationship issues, feelings and sometimes physical responses. Therapy often involves exploration and processing of emotions and thinking patterns that may result in self-destructive habits or further conflict in everyday life. With traditional counselling, clinicians spend the first few sessions developing a robust understanding of context behind a client’s concerns before exploring active strategies together; at Lee Wong Counselling, we offer a counselling and coaching blend to many clients by offering a safe space to express your concerns, while also exploring useful tools and strategies as topics come up in each session.

While counselling focuses more on emotions, life coaching focuses more on identifying what you wish to achieve in the present and future, and helps to work together to set and achieve manageable goals to that end. If you are highly motivated and the problems you face are practical, business or career concerns, coaching can be very effective. However, coaching does not often involve reflection of past history, and commonly focuses on exploring active strategies rather than tackling why a present problem came to be in the first place. This can create a new challenge, as when you do not understand the value of a problematic habit fully, you may tend to keep on using it even if you do not want to.

Lee Wong Counselling believes in a wholistic approach to providing support to clients, and as such, endeavours to incorporate elements of counselling and coaching based on the unique needs of each individual. Through the extensive experiences I have gained as a counsellor, I firmly believe that each individual has a unique way of learning, and it is therapy that needs to be tailored to the individual, not the individual that should be forced to adapt to the therapeutic approach. Through coaching we can explore practical strategies to lessen immediate negative impacts from our presenting issues, and through counselling we can process past traumas and unhelpful thinking and behavioural patterns to minimise them occuring again in future. When combined together, we can experience a powerful shift in our psyche to help us feel more at peace with the past, motivated in the present, and empowered with a clear direction for the future!

If you are interested in finding out more about whether my services are the right fit for you, I encourage you to continue browsing through the different pages on my website, or reach out via the contact form and I would be pleased to share what insights I can.