Rebecca Lowe Therapy & Associates

30/07/2025

NEW AVAILABILITY - from September full weekdays and weekends.

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17/07/2025

“Use my EAP? No way. I don’t want everyone knowing what my issues are.”

I’ve heard this a lot over the years. Employees can be reluctant to access their free workplace counselling sessions due to fears of a lack of confidentiality.

There are also misunderstandings that NTG EAP use needs to have HR approval.

Luckily, with Northern Territory Government EAP processes, there is little to no chance of confidentiality issues including HR being involved…when you use an Approved Provider.

Accessing your free workplace counselling sessions through an approved provider enables you to directly access the counselling service with no communication what so ever required with your workplace.
No approvals.
No reporting of details that might identify you.
No AGS number reported back.
Just you, just the therapist.
No managers, general managers or HR need to know.
Ever.*
Unless there was something incredibly serious that by law could not be kept confidential. Such as you had committed a serious criminal offence at your workplace. That could not be kept from HR!

Yep, you guessed it. We are an NTG EAP approved provider. Your privacy, confidentiality and right to access helpful support are taken very seriously.

11/07/2025

"Where there's a will, there's a way".

I find there is just something about the inspiration and encouragement found in the natural world. If we just take the time and be open to it, I find it amazing; the messages that can be drawn from something like tree roots growing over rock. Or a tiny green sprout in the middle of concrete!

May you see inspiration and encouragement each and everyday.

23/06/2025

I just LOVE dogs! This little one, Lilly the Counselling Assistant, joined us for a Social Work PD day today.

09/06/2025

There is still time to register to attend a Q&A tomorrow morning (early) with Judy Atkinson. I attended a very powerful cross cultural training led by Judy some years ago.

On Tuesday 10th starting at 7:00 am AEST (the date and time advertised on the tile is Pacific Time) - tune into a chat with Myself and mum, Judy Atkinson and the team from Science and Nonduality Conference discussing The EternalSong and all things Healing in a Q&A session after a community screening of the film.

This film is a heartbreaking look at the impact that colonisation has had on the world but even more importantly, the ways back to healing!!

Register at https://theeternalsong.org

02/06/2025

Meet Anna Medlicott - Accredited Social Worker with, yes, almost 40 years’ industry experience!

Grief & loss, complex personal/family/workplace issues, NT wide NTG & NGO agencies, Anna has seen it all.

A long term Territorian of close to 40 years, Anna has a vast depth of experience to drawn on having worked in many different settings across the NT with individuals, couples, children, young people, families, and groups; with children in out of care residential settings, families and children during supervised access visits, people incarcerated, hospitalised, in palliative care and bereavement.

Anna has held positions with: Dementia Australia, AOD services, Danila Dilba, Dawn House, Team Health, Centrelink, NT Children & Families and the Jawoyn Aboriginal Association. Anna operates within trauma informed care principles and approaches in a respectful and dignified way. She is committed to the core principles of safety, trustworthiness, respect; acting in a non-discriminatory and fair manner. Anna has 13 years post qualifying experience.

31/05/2025

Introducing the next colleague to be working with us providing services to NTG employees and their families: Francesca Bennett, Registered Counsellor (ACA-Level 4) with 20 years’ industry experience.

Women’s issues, Family and Domestic Violence recovery for women, mental health, trauma recovery & use of Complementary Therapies are her specialities.

A long-term Territorian of 53 years, Fran has a passion for empowering women and supporting them on their journey to healing and recovery. She has a background in psychology and over 12 years post qualifying experience. Working in the domestic/family violence and mental health sector, Fran’s expertise lies in working with women healing from trauma.

Fran uses a trauma informed and strengths-based approach to therapy and works within a holistic framework that considers the mental, emotional, physical, cultural, social and spiritual needs of clients. Fran uses a combination of Counselling, Biofield Therapy and Emotional Freedom Techniques (tapping) to address the whole person, leading to transformative and lasting results.

See Fran’s website for a more in-depth description of her approach and services offered. https://www.francesca-hcw.com/

28/05/2025

Introducing my next colleague, working with me able to provide free counselling to NTG employees and their immediate families: Hamish Rahn – a Certified Practicing Counsellor (PACFA Member).

Working predominating to assist men, youth & young adults, individuals, relationship issues, depression & anxiety. Hamish offers late evening appointments Mon-Wed.

Hamish Rahn began his career with an Advanced Diploma of Contemporary Music, completed in 2009 at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Afterward, he pursued a Bachelor of Counselling, which he graduated with in mid-2023. With two years of industry experience, Hamish has worked with individuals from diverse backgrounds, gender expressions, and life experiences. He is dedicated to building therapeutic relationships grounded in trust, honesty, commitment, and compassion.
Hamish has honed specific skills in trauma-informed care, emotional regulation, group facilitation, cultural competence, and community development.

Passionate about providing high-quality therapeutic support, he is currently working toward meeting the rigorous requirements to become a Clinical Registered Psychotherapist. His approach to therapy is informed by Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Attachment Theory, Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), Compassion-Focused Therapy, the Gottman Method for relationships, and mindfulness-based practices.

Hamish operates https://darwinpsychotherapy.com/

To make a free counselling appointment with Hamish, accessing the NTG EAP, either contact him directly or contact this business.

26/05/2025

Not much of an introduction should be necessary for this colleague working with me providing NTG EAP. Veteran social worker Pamela Trotman – Mental Health Accredited Social Worker, Adjunct Professor CDU, AASW Fellow & author with over a whopping 55 years’ experience!

Trauma recovery & managing personal/professional stressors/crises.
Pamela is a long-term NT resident of 35 years with experience across a range of practice contexts, first in metropolitan and regional NSW then, since 1989 the NT. Since the early 2000s her focus has been ‘trauma recovery’ which she describes as ‘rebuilding one’s life and reclaiming self’ following catastrophic events.

Pamela adopts a variety of therapeutic approaches gained from extensive post-graduation training which she combines with equally extensive lived experience in her work with clients in their efforts to achieve wellbeing and emotional-social health. Clients include individuals, couples and families who have been impacted by catastrophic events.

A second feature of Pamela’s work is her interest in assisting clients to ‘navigate’ challenging emotional and social contexts (personal and professional) and life crises so their mental health or sense of self is not undermined. Each approach requires the client to actively invest in the process with Pamela’s support and guidance.

Find Pamela’s Triumphing Over Trauma book here: https://www.noahpublishing.com.au/

To book a free counselling appointment with Pamela accessing the NTG EAP either contact her directly or contact this business.

25/05/2025

Introducing Registered Psychologist Sue Mulcahy - working with me to provide free counselling to NTG employees and their families. I would describe my colleague Sue as a down to earth, no mucking about therapist, who's willing to call a spade a spade. Genuine, warm, real, dedicated and invested in her work.

Sue has worked with children, adolescents and adults with complex needs and trauma. She has extensive experience supporting clients facing a wide range of challenges, including: depression and anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress, grief and bereavement issues, stress, workplace conflict, parenting issues and child/adolescent behavioural problems, childhood trauma, relationship issues, domestic and family violence.

Sue is now operating from North Coast NSW via telehealth (online and phone sessions) though she continues to have strong ties to Darwin and the NT having loved living and working here from 2018 to 2024.

24/05/2025

As an approved provider, counselling and therapy services are free of charge to all Northern Territory Government employees, including immediate family, who are eligible to access the EAP. *Immediate family includes current partners and dependants.

23/05/2025

Just talking doesn’t work.
Traditional ‘Talk Therapy’ has been one person sitting with another person, talking through life and self struggles.

Yes this ‘works’. If I didn’t believe (and personally had experienced) that talking problems through makes a constructive, lasting difference, I certainly would not keep offering the counselling that I do.
However, my practice position is that just talking doesn’t bring about the deeper mental, emotional and spiritual shifts that are possible and available to us as. Especially when the concern involves the re-opening of an old wound or something traumatic.

That’s why when working with people who meet with me for therapy I include other modalities such as drawing, breathwork, mindfulness and offer outdoor sessions through walk & talk therapy. I also make sure I work with the person to find interventions that work for them in shifting strong emotions – such as intentional lifting of weights at the gym or writing out thoughts and engagingly ripping up the paper, to include multiple senses in their emotional processing and sense making.

So, I’m very happy to talk and do so all the time. But I don’t rely on only talking. The body needs to and even wants to be involved.