Psychotherapist Ballarat
​ Integrative Mental Health Support

PSYCHOTHERAPY & COUNSELLING

"Make sense of your story"
Psychotherapy and counselling offer a professional, evidence-based approach to mental health and emotional wellness. Using proven techniques, we explore your experiences, gain clarity, and develop strategies for meaningful change. Whether you're navigating emotional challenges, relationship struggles, or feeling stuck in life, therapy provides a safe place to reconnect with your values, build resilience, and make choices that support your well-being.
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As a PACFA registered psychotherapist in Ballarat, Jacqui Fernandez provides online counselling and psychotherapy supporting stress, anxiety, behavioural change and emotional wellbeing.

Health fund rebates may be available depending on your level of cover.
​Registered Clinical Member – PACFA
Accredited Practitioner – ATMS
Psychotherapy offers a supportive, non-judgmental space to explore your experiences, gain clarity, and develop strategies for meaningful change. Whether you're navigating emotional challenges, relationship struggles, or feeling stuck in life, therapy can help you reconnect with your values, build resilience, and make choices that support your well-being.
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When should you see a Psychotherapist?
You may benefit from therapy if you are:
  • Feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or emotionally drained
  • Experiencing sadness, anxiety, or helplessness that doesn’t lift
  • Struggling to function day-to-day or feeling “off balance”
  • Reacting in ways that feel out of proportion to your usual self
  • Using coping mechanisms like alcohol, drugs, or emotional withdrawal
  • Living with a persistent sense of unease or worry
  • Wanting someone to talk to in a safe, confidential space
What is limited confidentiality? 
Psychotherapists are legally bound, to respect client confidentiality. However, this confidentiality will be waived if in our professional judgement we feel that you are going to harm yourself or harm someone else. ​
​What therapies do we use?
We take an integrative approach, drawing on a range of evidence-based modalities to best suit your needs. These may include:
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • Solution-Focused Therapy
  • Motivational Therapy
  • Family Therapy
  • Somatic and mind-body approaches where appropriate
Sessions can be delivered for individuals, couples, families, or groups, and are always tailored to meet you where you are.
​Focuses predominantly on the relationship between our  thoughts, feelings and behaviour. 
 Focuses on gaining an understanding how our past affects us. This is achieved by exploring our unconscious content that underlie our behaviour, feelings and emotions and how they relate to early experiences.
​ Focuses on helping couples build empathy, understand each other and develop the skills to resolve issues within yourself and your relationship
 Focuses on Helping and guiding them to overcome their difficulty without interrupting the course of their natural stages of development, using age appropriate strategies.