Anne Castles - Holistic Women's Counselling Brisbane

Anne Castles - Holistic Women's Counselling Brisbane I hold space for women and mothers to transform challenges and trauma, to live a more joyful life! Helping you plan for a positive birth. Sliding scale fees.

BIRTH DEBRIEFING SESSIONS:

Integrating and processing your story and support to heal after challenging or traumatic experience. Help to integrate your experience, particularly if you are planning to have another baby (or not). PREGNANCY SESSIONS:

Support with fears around birth or postpartum, and support to make a plan to help you have the most positive transition to motherhood as possible. Support with anxiety, low mood, relationship concerns, unplanned pregnancy, previous difficult birth, pregnancy loss, previous life trauma (sexual violence, childhood trauma, PTSD). BIRTH PLANNING SESSIONS:

Childbirth preparation from a mind-body, trauma informed perspective. Holding space for inner work to uncover what will help you in your rite of passage and transition to parenting. POSTNATAL SESSIONS:

Fourth trimester support (and beyond), parenting and newborn support, identity transition and matrescence, support with feeling anxious or overwhelmed, bonding with your baby, relationship challenges, birth trauma support. TRAUMA-INFORMED HOLISTIC COUNSELLING:

Sessions for women wanting support to heal after trauma, childhood abuse or developmental trauma, domestic violence, or sexual violence. Support with general anxiety or depression, sleep issues, or low mood. MENTORING & SUPERVISION FOR SOCIAL WORKERS/DOULAS

Now offering support and mentoring for other doulas and birthworkers who want space to debrief with their work, how it's impacting them, and support for vicarious trauma. Also offering support and supervision for social workers (especially working in perinatal mental health). IN-PERSON SESSIONS:

Available on Tuesdays, Fridays and some Saturdays at It Takes A Village Midwifery in Kenmore, Brisbane. A beautiful clinic with some amazing, heart-centred midwives. ONLINE SESSIONS:
Now offering Australia-wide counselling or mentoring sessions via phone or video. I offer a warm, collaborative approach to healing and transformation, that builds on safety and trust, and meets you where you're at. Medicare rebates may be available if you’re pregnant/postpartum. Mental Health Treatment Plan option coming in 2022. WOMEN'S CIRCLES
Please see the Red Thread Sisterhood Facebook or instagram page for updates on the dates for circles. I have been honoured to walk alongside hundreds of pregnant women, mothers and people in the past 15 years. I hold a degree in Social Work from the University of Queensland (UQ) as well as undertaking many different doula, childbirth, midwifery and trauma related trainings. Holding the vision for women, mothers, parents and families to feel more held, heard and supported. In Solidarity,
Anne

http://www.annecastles.com.au

Art school final exhibition time! Please come along, so many amazing and talented artists! Some of my little Goddess scu...
03/09/2025

Art school final exhibition time! Please come along, so many amazing and talented artists! Some of my little Goddess sculptures will be there 😍

❤️‍🔥・・・To the extent that we are egos, we are somebodies. We come down and we become a somebody. As that awareness st...
04/04/2024

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To the extent that we are egos, we are somebodies. We come down and we become a somebody. As that awareness starts to identify as a soul, it immediately feels separate from our mother and everything else. Then we begin to experience another separation, now as ego.

So it’s a separation within a separation, if you will. That’s the descent into more and more dense form, and that form is what we live out as an incarnation. Somewhere along the line in that story, we awaken. We begin to realize we are not only the incarnation, that there is more to us than meets the eyes, and we begin to realize that the more that we think we are, we are. That leads us to re-look at our experiences and to open to new experiences that allow us to enter into other planes of consciousness, other perspectives, other ways of looking at it.

That awakening starts and at first, because you have been in such a thick substance, you’ve been so very entrapped in your story, in your body, in your suffering, that when you awaken there is a joy, a breath… it’s like coming above smog when you fly. But there is also a kind of fear of getting trapped again, and a tendency to push against the stuff you were trapped in. You can use that like a rocket booster to get you out there.

Ultimately though, as you get established more as a soul, more established as just awareness, which isn’t even you anymore, as those become more real, and you become more comfortable in them, you look and you see that the incarnation that you have taken wasn’t an error and it wasn’t failure, and you’re not making mistakes. It is just an unfolding process.

And it’s nothing so personal about it all. Your personality isn’t that interesting. At that point you start to, from a soul’s point of view, inhabit your incarnation, at first resignedly, and then ultimately joyfully, because it’s just God at play. It’s just form, it’s just form.

- Ram Dass

An update about counselling offerings in 2024… I work with women/folks who are seeking an integrative, holistic (body/mi...
30/03/2024

An update about counselling offerings in 2024…

I work with women/folks who are seeking an integrative, holistic (body/mind/spirit) approach to therapy and who are curious about exploring trauma-informed, mindfulness, somatic (body-based) and creative methods of healing.

✨SPECIAL INTEREST AREAS INCLUDE✨

* Support during pregnancy (processing fears/ healing from previous traumatic birth or pregnancy loss/ relationship support)
* Integrating and recovering from a challenging or traumatic birth experience
* Support during postnatal period 
* Relationships, sexuality and intimacy 
* Anxiety / depression / sleep issues
* Gentle / attachment focused parenting
* Healing after sexual violence (childhood sexual abuse, intimate partner violence, domestic violence)
* Complex trauma (childhood abuse, neglect, attachment issues)
* Fertility issues
* Grief and loss
* Life transitions (particularly menstruation, birth, menopause)
* Spirituality, spiritual development, spiritual ‘openings/awakenings’
* Altered states of consciousness 
* Preparation and integration of psychedelic experiences
* Embodiment, somatic, inner child approaches to healing
* Mindfulness, meditation, yoga and shamanic practices
* Community building, women’s circles, art-making

I offer a warm, relational approach to counselling and focus on your capacity to heal.

All counselling sessions are offered for 75 - 90 minutes, online or in Kenmore at

Medicare rebates available with a GP referral/ Mental Health Treatment Plan. Some reduced fee sessions may be available for folks with financial barriers.

You deserve to find a therapist that is a good fit for you. Please reach out if you’d like to connect for a free 15 minute call to see if you’d like to work together.

Love & solidarity,
Anne ✨🙏🏽✨

✨Announcement✨I’ve recently become an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker and folks can now access Medicare rebates f...
30/03/2024

✨Announcement✨

I’ve recently become an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker and folks can now access Medicare rebates for counselling sessions if they have a GP referral/ Mental Health Treatment Plan (MHTP).

I know that being able to receive support and counselling is inaccessible for a lot of people and I’m so pleased that this will make it more affordable.

Being heard in our pain,
Feeling seen in our reclamation,
Being witnessed in our transformation,
Feeling supported to heal,
These are our birthrights.

Please message if you want to discuss what support and counselling could look like for you.
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Address

It Takes A Village Midwifery, Kenmore
Brisbane, QLD

Opening Hours

Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 3pm

Telephone

+61439911417

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Brisbane Doula- Prenatal & Postnatal Services

Are you pregnant and feeling worried about your birth and what comes after?

Is your precious bundle in your arms, but you’re struggling more than you ever imagined?

During pregnancy I work with women who might have worries or fear about their upcoming birth, or who have experienced a previous difficult or traumatic birth. I work with parents who want to prepare for their birth as the major milestone and rite of passage that it is, and who want to feel fully supported and open to facing the unknown with courage and love.

After the birth I help nurture new parents to feel confident and connected to their baby and their intuition. For new mothers I offer nourishing postpartum meals, brief massage, breastfeeding support and newborn settling. I also provide birth debriefing and professional counselling to support parents to make sense of challenging or traumatic birth experiences.