Psychotherapy and Counselling in the Blue Mountains
Katoomba, Blue Mountains, Australia + Online
Connecting to the body’s intuitive knowing
Releasing the patterns that cause our personal suffering
The body holds the patterns of our psychological history
Our psychological world is organised as a set of patterns stored in the nervous system. These patterns give rise to how we feel and behave. Feelings like stress, depression, or anxiety are a natural nervous system response to our modern lives. These experiences have underlying patterns of organisation that once served as a way to cope but now, no longer function as they originally did. By working with the body, we don’t explain away the stress, or anxious or depressed thoughts, but instead, work to restructure the very patterns that give rise to these thoughts appearing. Working with the body allows access to the root cause of our psychological distress and a way to understand ourselves more deeply. This cultivates the capacity to better deal with what life brings.
A gentle but powerful approach
People often come to me after having tried other types of therapy and finding that the previous approach did not help to the extent they had hoped. If it is your first time seeking therapy, or you have tried before, the idea of needing to go over your biographical history can feel daunting. As I work with how a person is psychologically organised, we only need work with how our history is alive now in the present. Our stories are important and need to be listened to, but they also need to be comprehended in a way that alters how we feel. This occurs by understanding how our stories are arising in our current experience and shaping our behaviour. My approach is powerful but there is also a gentleness in how I encourage unknown aspects of a person to step forward. This fosters a natural capacity to draw on healing resources from within.
The body’s intuitive intelligence
The body’s perspective is often felt but ignored or explained away by the mind. Simple examples of this may include feeling “off” after a social encounter, having butterflies before speaking to someone, or more sustained body processes such as anxiety or depression. These different physical experiences indicate a tension between the two different ways of understanding the world. This tension can be relaxed by learning to listen to what the body has to say and taking seriously what is being said.
FAQ
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Master of Counselling and Psychotherapy
Graduate Diploma of Counselling
Bachelor of Psychological Studies
Accredited with the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA)
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I engage with the deeper levels of knowing already within a person, currently not in awareness. This is achieved by exploring cues present in the body or imagination that, when ready, are brought forward into consciousness. In this way, it is a way of drawing on inherent, unutilised wisdom the person already holds.
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I am trained in Processwork, which is a type of Jungian depth psychotherapy that utilises cues present in the body to access unconscious processes via the imagination. Additionally, I work with directly perceiving communications from the body. I do this by helping people cultivate a particular type of awareness that enables access to their own body’s intuitive knowing.
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My approach is suitable for most people seeking to make changes in their life. I help people who have depression, anxiety and other mental health symptoms through to making people making big life changes or working on themselves. I work with people at all stages of life. All that is required is the motivation to understand yourself.
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The philosophy at Noetic Counselling is that there is more to us than we realise. By bringing the aspects of ourselves currently out of awareness into consciousness expands our understanding of ourselves and enables a deeper understanding of why we do the things we do. It is from this place of understanding, that people can compassionately make long lasting, meaningful change. Changes chosen consciously rather than continuing to repeat old patterns that no longer serve.
Rowan Druce
Somatic Psychotherapist and counsellor
I have spent many years turning inwards, working to unravel the mysteries that lie within. This has included extensive personal psychotherapy and bodywork with accomplished healers and therapists. This personal work has enabled me to see more clearly the inner processes within myself, and also others. It is from my experience of these more elusive layers of myself that I have cultivated a grounded understanding of the inner landscape, enabling me to help people turn towards deeper parts of themselves in a safe yet effective manner.
I have previously lived many lives and shed many skins. Working as an industrial abseiler, construction worker, telecommunications rigger, stage rigger, and working on wind turbines, power stations, gas platforms and iron ore mines. I have spent time building a mud brick house, working as a painter, through to working as a social worker. Through all these experiences I have always been interested in the people I meet and work with.
I now wish to help bear the torch, like others did for me, to help people explore their own inner worlds. I work at the Psychology and Psychotherapy Hub in Katoomba.