Living Well Counselling and Supervision

20/05/2024

https://events.humanitix.com/climate-anxiety-open-mic This is a free event; however, spaces are limited so bookings are essential.
The night will begin with a brief introduction to Go Beyond Gas with time for questions. Then Annolies Truman, professional counsellor and educator, will facilitate a reflective segment, allowing us to acknowledge concerns and emotions in a non-judgemental, collaborative environment, and address them through creative writing to discover/reinforce realistic hope and meaningful action.
Then we will have an open mic with an amp and microphone available. Music, poetry, artwork and creative expression of all genres are welcome. Whatever form your expression of eco-distress takes is fair game! Please remember this is a safe space for all.

Get tickets on Humanitix - Climate Anxiety Open Mic. The Local Hotel, 282 South Terrace, South Fremantle WA 6162, Australia. Tuesday 4th June 2024. Find event information.

05/03/2024

There are still places left in the From Eco-distress to Eco-hope workshop this Sunday at the Meeting Place:

13/12/2023

I had a great response to my eco-distress presentation to the ACA WA Chapter meeting on Saturday. Thanks to the 40+ counsellors who registered and interacted with my material. It was good to share our wisdom and experience of grappling with this difficult but necessary issue.

26/11/2023

24/11/2023

I have attained ACA, PACFA and AASW recognised certification in Individual and Group supervision, building on my Advanced Supervision Skills training. I am providing one-on-one and group supervision to explore and develop professional practice:
• clinical supervision for counsellors and social workers
• reflective supervision for health care professionals.

03/11/2023

Emotional Wellbeing for Strength, Connection and Calm
This short course aims to resource and support people to manage challenges in a way that promotes self-awareness, self-compassion and assertiveness. The process respects confidentiality, validates experience and builds capacity for calm, strength and connection. The course will explore relationships to self, others, work, nature and creativity.
Three 2-hour sessions.
Mon 6, 13 & 27 Nov | 6-8pm | $60
Bookings essential: https://bit.ly/48ceUdG

31/10/2023

Introduction to Emotional Wellbeing, Glyde-In, East Fremantle, Friday 3 November, 1-3pm.
This workshop will include an introduction to emotional intelligence, self-care, values, strengths, and loving kindness meditation. There will be group and individual activities to increase self-awareness and self-compassion. The process respects confidentiality, validates individual experience and builds capacity for mindfulness, strength and peace of mind. Please bring a pen and notebook.
About the facilitator:
Annolies Truman is a professional counsellor and educator. She uses a compassionate, strengths-based, person-centred approach, enabling people to feel safe and empowering them to discover resources for growth and healing.
Cost: $25, $20 for Members, $16 Concession
To enrol, go to

Glyde-In Community Learning Centre, 42 Glyde Street, East Fremantle, offers courses, talks and activities that we hope will enrich your enjoyment and knowledge, and foster a healthy community life. We aim to be a source of learning that doesn’t cost the earth, that doesn’t need prior knowledge o...

11/10/2023

Emotional Wellbeing For Calm, Strength, and Connection
This short course aims to resource and support you to manage challenges in a way that promotes self-awareness, self-compassion, and assertiveness. The 3-week course will explore your relationship to self, others, nature, and creativity. Please note: No class on 20 Nov
Every Mon 6 Nov-27 Nov | 6-8pm | $60
Bookings essential: https://bit.ly/48ceUdG

18/09/2023

https://emotionalwellbeing-tmp.eventbrite.com.au I'll be running a short course course, Emotional Wellbeing For Calm, Strength, and Connection, at The Meeting Place, South Fremantle in November. Enrolments are now open.

Explore your relationship to self, others, work, nature, and creativity.

23/05/2023

I'm now a recognised provider with Medibank, Bupa, AHM, Police Health Fund, Emergency Services Health, Phoenix Health, St Lukes Health, GMHBA and CUA Health (telehealth only), Teachers Union Health, AIA and Westfund, enabling clients to claim benefits. Medicare may be a way off yet for counsellors, despite our mental health crisis...

08/02/2023

From Eco-anxiety to Eco-hope Workshop
Enrolments essential via coordinator@glydein.org.au
Fostering connection, realistic hope and meaningful action for your health and the health of our planet.
Venue: Glyde-In Community Centre, 42 Glyde Street, East Fremantle
Date: Saturday 11 March, 11am - 3pm
Annolies Truman, professional counsellor and educator, specialises in:
• Empowerment to address eco-anxiety
• Wellbeing, body image & healthy lifestyle
• Life transitions
• Grief & loss, perinatal loss, cancer journey
• Supporting heath care professionals
• Professional supervision

03/02/2023

From Eco-anxiety to Eco-hope:
Workshop to foster creative responses to climate change
Venue: Glyde-In Community Centre, 42 Glyde Street, East Fremantle
Date: Saturday 11 March, 11am - 3pm
Enrolments essential via coordinator@glydein.org.au
Eco-anxiety is an appropriate response to the environmental crisis we see unfolding. But how do we deal with our feelings of grief, anger and fear? This reflective workshop will allow you to acknowledge concerns in a respectful environment, and address them through creative writing and drawing, connection to nature and one another, mindful self-compassion, realistic hope and meaningful action. Previous participants describe finding hope, collaboration, inspiration and commitment. Bring a notebook, pen, pastels/crayons, hat and lunch.

03/02/2023

Being a health care professional in our current environment can be highly demanding. Health care workers have reported to me that they were stressed, overworked, overwhelmed, or even burning out. While at KEMH, I was given an opportunity to trial a Wellbeing program for staff which provided brief sessions to address workplace stress and build mutual support amongst staff. I am now working outside of WA Health where I offer individual or group reflective supervision, workshops and counselling to health professionals in areas of:
• Workplace stress
• Vicarious trauma
• Self-care and self-compassion
• Professional boundaries
• Managing change
• Managing conflict
• Cross-cultural communication
• Exploring values and reconnecting to a sense of purpose
I find that engaging in reflective supervision leads to greater balance, clarity and agency.

02/02/2023

The naming of body image activist Taryn Brumfitt as Australian of the Year has highlighted the importance of accepting and loving our bodies. This can be especially challenging during cancer or other serious illnesses, when the illness itself or its treatment can change how we look and feel about our bodies. A negative self-image can affect our confidence, our relationships (to ourself and others), our sexuality and our whole outlook on life. If you are grappling with this or other significant life changes, talk to someone you trust. If your friends and family find the topic difficult, seek peer support or contact a counsellor.

Treatment for cancer can change how your body looks and works. How you feel about yourself (your self-esteem) may be affected by: removal of a body part

28/10/2022

https://heraldonlinejournal.com/2022/10/28/anxiety-promts-eco-workshops/
Great coverage in today's Fremantle Herald. For details, including cost and bookings please see my website - lwcs.com.au

GROWING anxiety about the state of the planet has prompted a Fremantle-based counsellor to run a series of “eco-hope” workshops starting next Saturday November 5. Annolies Truman said she’d noticed…

24/10/2022

Eco-hope workshop - promoting realistic hope, an antidote to inaction and despair - 5 & 12 November.

06/10/2022

This workshop will use compassion, connection and creativity to encourage mindfulness, realistic hope and earth-affirming action.

08/09/2022

Nature as healer. If you are hurting, spend some time in the bush, by the beach or in your local park and experience the calm and the different perspective this brings.

31/08/2022

The growing environmental crisis is causing increasing distress and anxiety amongst people who are concerned about our common future.
I facilitate supportive workshops and group and individual counselling for people distressed by and grappling with the ecological crisis and supervision for those already working in this space.
I use compassion and connection to nurture clients’ wellbeing, and creativity to foster individual or collective responses, often in the form of imaginative, life-affirming projects and actions.
The objectives are threefold: healing of the individual, the community and the planet.

28/08/2022

My website is up and running. Please visit lwcs.com.au and have a look 😀

22/08/2022

I use a compassionate, strengths-based, person-centred approach, empowering you to discover and draw on your own resources for growth and healing. Through acceptance and openness, I create a safe space for you to work at your own pace. My respectful, non-judgemental techniques help you to find your inner motivation for positive change.

18/08/2022

Welcome to Living Well Counselling and Supervision.
I acknowledge the custodianship of the Wadjuk people of the Noongar nation and pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging. This always was and always will be sacred Noongar Boodja.
My wish is that you will find peace, hope and wungening (healing) on this page and beyond.