PACFA, the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia defines counselling and psychotherapy as...

"professional activities that utilize an interpersonal relationship to enable people to develop understanding about themselves and to make changes in their lives. Professional counsellors and psychotherapists work within a clearly contracted, principled relationship and are bound by the code of ethics of the PACFA registered organizations that the he/she is a member of.

Although counselling and psychotherapy overlap considerably there are also some differences. The work with clients may be of considerable depth in both modalities: however, the focus of counselling is more likely to be on specific problems or changes in life adjustment. Psychotherapy is more concerned with the restructuring of the personality or self.

Although both counsellors and psychotherapists work with a wide variety of clients, psychotherapists are more likely to work very intensively, with individuals who experience extensive disruption to their lives due to deep seated issues of the psyche. Counsellors are more likely to work in specific areas where specialized knowledge and methods are needed. " (See Practioner profiles for information on areas of interest of each practioners)

This is an extract from a PACFA working party paper which was adopted as a working party paper at the inaugural meeting of PACFA, Melbourne, 29th Nov. 1998.

For appointment/ enquiries about counselling and psychotherapy, contact Jane on 0401 857 886.

Flower Essences have been used for the purpose of healing over many centuries. A number of cultures, including the Australian Aborigines, the Egyptians and the Amazonian Indians, used flowering plants to treat emotional states and imbalances.

Dr. Edward Bach, a successful U.K. physician, is renowned for being the modern pioneer of flower remedies. He developed his world-renowned Bach Flower Remedies as a healing mode in the 1930’s. More recently other essences, including the Australian Bush Flower Essences, have become available. Today the healing qualities of flower essences are recognized and used worldwide.

The essences stimulate an enhanced awareness and ability to transform limiting attitudes, emotions, and behaviour into more creative and health-affirming ways of living. They challenge us to make a commitment to self-awareness, self-responsibiliy and self-work.

Flower Essences are powerful healers as they help bring a person into emotional, mental and spiritual harmony.

Flower Essences are prepared from diluted infusions of flowers in water. They are taken orally a few drops at a time, several times a day. They are a simple and safe method of treatment, and can be harmoniously integrated with many allied practices.

The use of Flower Essences has been a powerful adjunct to Jane Jeffers’ professional work over more than fifteen years. For appointment/enquiries, contact Jane on 0401 857 886.

MINDFULNESS MEDITATION:

Mindfulness involves paying attention, on purpose, non-judgmentally, to what is happening in others, inside you and to your environment, within each moment of this precious life.

“Wherever you are, be there totally.” Ekhart Tolle

Practicing mindfulness can help you reduce stress and anxiety, improve concentration and academic performance, effectively manage emotions and behaviour, develop greater empathy for others and the world, and be more optimistic and happy.

Jane Jeffers facilitates weekly group mindfulness meditation sessions:

• Tuesdays, 8.00pm – 9.00pm
• Wednesdays, 11.30am – 12.30pm 
• Fridays, 9.30am – 10.30am.
  

Individual meditation sessions are available by appointment.

CD: "Practising the Art of Mindfulness Meditation"
Jane has created this CD to introduce you to the concept of mindfulness and to enhance your mindfulness meditation practice. Please refer to "CD Sales" for further information

For appointment/enquiries, contact Jane on 0401 857 886

Mindfulness meditation can help children

• connect to their inner strengths and qualities
• relax
• deal with their fears, anxieties and pressures
• develop their creativity
• expand their self-awareness and self-confidence
• bring their attention to the present moment
• be better prepared for all that life is

Jane Jeffers is seeking expressions of interest for a workshop, for children and their parent/grandparent significant adult, based on Goldie Hawn’s “10 Mindful Minutes - Giving our children - and ourselves - the social and emotional skills to reduce stress and anxiety for healthier, happier lives”, Piatkus, UK, 2011.
Representing the culmination of years of research and programs developed by theHawn Foundation, this book promotes the development of mindfulness – mindful breathing, sensing, listening, seeing, smelling, tasting, movement – to show parents and children how to reach their potential and live a fuller, richer life.

For appointment/enquiries, contact Jane on 0401 857 886

Reiki (Pronounced Ray-key) is an ancient holistic healing method developed in Tibet some thousands of years ago. It was re-discovered in the mid-nineteenth century by the Japanese scholar, Dr Mikao Usui.
Rei means ‘universal’, while ki is the name for the vital life force that flows through all living beings. The reiki practitioner is a conduit through which this energy flows. The practice of reiki, which one can either do on oneself or receive in treatment from a reiki practitioner, involves placing the hands in particular positions on the body to cover the major energy centres. There are four basic positions on the head, four on the front of the body and four on the back.
The person being treated remains clothed, and the treatment takes about one hour. The post treatment experience is one in which the body feels balanced, vital, relaxed and integrated. As reiki is a holistic method of healing, the calming and restorative effects work on the emotional, mental and spiritual levels as well.
Reiki boosts the body’s natural healing abilities, thus improving and maintaining health and well-being.

Jane Jeffers is a qualified Reiki 11 practitioner and has been providing reiki healings for the past fifteen years. For appointment/ enquiries, contact Jane on 0401 857 886.

Dreams express the unconscious. The unconscious has a particular capacity to create images and to use those images as symbols. It is these symbols that form our dreams, creating a language by which the unconscious communicates its contents to the conscious mind.
The purpose of dreamwork is to bring out hidden potentials and to integrate them into waking life.
Therapeutic Dreamwork enhances self awareness and increases choices for living and acting in the world.
Tasks include: reflecting on dream symbols; having a dialogue with a dream figure; bringing an unfinished dream to resolution; using body work/artwork to concretize a dream image.
Dreamwork can be used with individuals, with partners, and in groups.

For appointment/enquiries, contact Jane on 0401 857 886.