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- Practical support and encouragement to take a significant step forward
- Effective methods based on discoveries in recent research and considerable professional experience in life coaching, counselling (career, personal, relationship, marriage/couples, family, adolescent) and hypnotherapy·
- Constant encouragement to progressively assess the usefulness of our service and modify it as necessary
- Effective ways to deal with intense emotions and stress in either business or personal life
- Assistance with unhelpful and self-defeating habits of behaving in either business or personal relationships
How to Find Your Way Around Our Website
When you find something in the list below which interests you, click on the corresponding pink heading on the top left side of this page.
Services for Individuals (Counselling, Hypnotherapy, Psychotherapy)
This page provides more information on the following Melbourne-based services (life coaching is available by telephone anywhere in Australia):
- counselling (what it is, who can benefit from counselliing, and how to choose a good counsellor)
- counselling psychology and counselling psychologists
- hypnotherapy and somatic psychotherapy/hypnotherapy (including benefits of hypnotherapy and how to choose a good hypnotherapist)
- life coaching (see also Life Coaching page of this site)
- experiential psychotherapy such as Holotropic Breathwork (professional version of rebirthing) and mind-body healing
- stress management and stress reduction
- weight loss using hypnotherapy, psychotherapy or counselling
- stop smoking using hypnotherapy, psychotherapy or counselling
- resolution of a wide range of personal problems using counselling, psychotherapy or hypnotherapy
While people often seek life coaching for personal and professional development and career mentoring, experiential psychotherapy and hypnotherapy are often preferred for personal problems such as relationship issues (personal and business relationships), sexual difficulties, eating disorders, lack of confidence, low self-esteem, conflict, shyness, divorce/separation, grief, anxiety, phobias, panic, depression, poor self-esteem, post-natal depression, addictions, self-defeating habits, trauma and abuses, public speaking, and so on.
Services for Couples and Family (Marriage Counselling & Family Therapy)
This page tells you about what we offer in Melbourne in the way of relationship counselling (couples counselling, marriage counselling, pre-marriage counselling, relationship coaching, couples therapy), relationship enrichment, sex therapy for sexual difficulties and love-making training and education.
It explains what relationship counselling, marriage counselling, couple counselling and relationship coaching are and who can benefit from each of these services. It also explains the benefits of pre-marriage counselling, relationship enrichment and relationship coaching.
It helps people to recognise the early warning signs of a troubled relationship so that they can get help before it is too late. There is also a discussion of how well relationship counselling, couple counselling and marriage counselling work, the option of relationship coaching to reprogram the emotional centres of the limbic brain, and what to do if your partner won't go to marriage counselling or relationship coaching with you.
This page also provides you with information on our Melbourne-based family counselling services (family therapy, step-family counselling, adolescent counselling and adolescent coaching). For couples who do not live in Melbourne, relationship coaching, marriage enrichment and pre-marriage counselling and adolescent counselling can take place by telephone.
Self-Help Articles
This page contains articles by psychologist Dr Linda Edwards which are based on sound psychology, psychotherapy and hypnotherapy principles. Topics include: techniques for releasing the emotional patterns that cripple your life, relationship enrichment through nurturing, enhancing long-term sexual relationships by 'making love' rather than 'having sex', stress management and executive stress reduction, and becoming free from reactive depression and endogenous/major depression. You are free to print these self-help articles for your own use if you wish.
Emotional Intelligence
This page explains what emotional intelligence is, why our emotions are important, why it pays to increase emotional intelligence, how to develop emotional intelligence, psychologist Dr Linda Edwards' fast way to increase emotional intelligence and the timeliness of becoming an emotional intelligence mentor.
Life Coaching and Career Mentoring
This page discusses what life coaching is, the benefits of life coaching, why life coaching works, whether you would benefit from life coaching, whether you need life coaching or counselling, what you can expect from accelerated life coaching, and whether you need to commit to the usual three month program. This page will also provide you with information on life coaching, career mentoring and emotional intelligence training available in Melbourne and by telephone in other parts of Australia.
Professional Training, Articles and Research
This page contains reprints of Dr Linda Edwards' published journal articles in the fields of psychology and hypnotherapy, especially transpersonal psychology. It also discusses professional training and supervision available in Melbourne for counsellors, life coaches, counselling psychologists, clinical psychologists, grief counsellors, relationship counsellors, couple counsellors (including pre-marriage counsellors, marriage counsellors and relationship enrichment counsellors), hypnotherapists, Gestalt therapists, transpersonal psychologists and other psychotherapists.
Copyright Dr Linda Edwards 2001-2006, Art of Living Psychology, Camberwell, Victoria 3124 (Consulting Rooms are in Melbourne in the Camberwell, Surrey Hills, Burwood and Canterbury region, also serving Ashburton, Balwyn, Box Hill, Glen Iris, Hawthorn, Kew and Malvern).
