Kate Landete Counselling

10/08/2025

Healing happens in connection, when we feel truly seen, heard, and understood, we begin to restore the parts of ourselves we thought were lost.

05/08/2025

It’s almost ready!!!!

✨ Something New is Coming… ✨

If you’ve ever thought:
“I know what I should do to manage my anxiety but I just can’t seem to do it.”

“I know I should meditate or breathe… but it doesn’t work when I’m actually anxious.”

“Why can’t I stop overthinking everything?”

“Other people seem to cope so much better than I do.”

“I feel exhausted from being ‘on’ all the time.”

“I wish I could just switch off my brain for a minute.”

“I know these thoughts aren’t logical, but they still feel real.”

I’ve been quietly (well not so quietly anymore!) working on something behind the scenes.
An 8 module course/ workbook built from the tools I use every day with clients, designed to help you actually understand your anxiety, and learn how to calm it in a way that feels doable.

🌿 Evidence-based
🌿 Trauma-informed
🌿 Realistic, kind, and flexible
🌿 Created by a counsellor who gets it

It’s not about “fixing” yourself.
It’s about building a relationship with your nervous system, one that helps you feel more grounded, more capable, and more like you.

Drop a ❤️ in the comments if you want early access or more info when it’s ready.

05/08/2025

We all have that inner voice/inner mean girl/inner jerk (I know I do!) that is sometimes not what you’d describe as kind.

In fact, it can be downright mean!

It might tell you you’re failing, falling behind, not doing enough, not good enough, that something awful is going to happen.

And when left unchecked or unchallenged, these thoughts can feel like the absolute truth which can be really detrimental to our wellbeing and have a big influence on how we think, feel and behave.

It can be really helpful and empowering to challenge these kinds of unhelpful thoughts!!!!

Next time your mind gets loud with self doubt, try gently asking:
💭 Is this true?
💭 What’s the actual evidence that this is true?
💭 Could something else, more neutral, helpful or positive be true too?
💭 Is this helpful?
💭 Is it kind?

Your thoughts don’t define you, they are not fact.

You’re allowed to pause, reflect, and choose a softer response.

Kate x

01/08/2025

Yeah, I was lying to myself when I said no more book orders!

What is Resource Therapy?

Resource Therapy is a powerful, trauma-informed approach that helps you understand and heal the different parts of yourself, the ones that feel anxious, overwhelmed, angry, or shut down.

In sessions, I often talk about the different parts of us, the part that overthinks, the part that avoids, the part that just wants to feel safe.

Resource Therapy is a gentle, respectful way of working directly with those parts.

Each part has its own story, needs, and reasons for showing up the way it does. When we listen, rather than fight against them, we can begin to shift long held patterns. In therapy, we gently connect with these parts to give them what they need : safety, a voice, healing.

It’s not about fixing you, it’s about working with the parts of you that need support.

28/07/2025

26/07/2025

“Anxiety is just being overly stressed or dramatic.”

“It’s just worrying too much.”

“Everyone gets anxious. Just toughen up.”

❌ Nope. Anxiety is more than everyday stress.
It’s a real mental health condition that affects your brain, body, and nervous system.

You can feel anxious even when nothing’s wrong.
It’s not drama.
It’s not weakness.
And you can’t just “calm down” or “think your way out of it.”

✅ Truth: Anxiety is complex, common and It deserves understanding, not minimising.

Everyone experiences stress and worry, they’re normal responses to challenging situations. But anxiety (especially when persistent or intense) can:
• Occur without a clear reason
• Interfere with daily life, work, or relationships
• Persist long after a stressful event is over

Clinical anxiety disorders (like GAD, panic disorder, or social anxiety) go beyond everyday worry and often require professional support.

These reactions come from the brain’s fear center (amygdala) and nervous system being on high alert NOT a lack of willpower or just “overthinking.”

Telling someone with anxiety to “just relax” or “stop worrying” is like telling someone with asthma to “just breathe.”

Anxiety often involves automatic, learned responses that happen below the level of conscious thought. It takes time, tools, and often therapy to regulate.

💙 Need help navigating anxiety?
Kate offers trauma-informed counselling and a self-paced Creating Calm anxiety workbook is being released soon, created to help you feel safe, seen, and supported.

22/07/2025

My “to read” / “re-read” work pile is growing instead of getting smaller!!!!!

Is anyone else guilty of getting unusually excited about text books and buying more before they finish the ones they already have?

Whilst we are on the topic (like I need more encouragement haha) if you could recommend one personal development book or book that created any kind of positive change in your life what would it be and why?????

Kate

22/07/2025

Hi, I’m Kate, welcome to and if you’ve landed here, you’re probably doing your best to hold it all together and some things just don’t feel right.

I work with people who feel anxious, depressed, confused, are carrying old wounds, stretched thin, burnt out or like they’ve been running on empty for a while now, even if they’re still showing up every day, smiling, coping.

Maybe you’re the strong one. The one who keeps going. The one who doesn’t let anyone down. And maybe, underneath all of that, you’re exhausted.

That’s who I support, people who are tired of managing everything alone.

I’m a Clinical Counsellor and EMDR Practitioner based on the Central Coast. I believe that therapy shouldn’t feel clinical, cold or a one size fits all approach. I offer grounded, compassionate support where you can exhale, be real, raw, vulnerable, messy and untangle what’s been building beneath the surface.
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I’m not here to “fix” you, you’re not broken. But I am here to walk beside you with curiosity and care until you find the tools and strategies that work specifically for YOU to help you start feeling more like yourself again.

I started this practice because I know what it’s like to feel overwhelmed and unseen, and I wanted to create a space that felt different.

Safe.
Human.
Relational.

You can laugh, cry, scream, swear, throw things, lay on the floor, cuddle under a blanket on the lounge, we might sit outside, draw, use cards, play music, move your body - whatever helps make this space work for you, I am all for it.

You don’t have to do this on your own anymore. I’m glad you’re here.

– Kate 💙

21/07/2025

Kate Landete Counselling operates out of the beautiful Coastal Wellness Cottage in East Gosford alongside a variety of incredible health and wellness practitioners.

For Counselling sessions we have a beautiful, sun filled room overlooking the back gardens of the cottage and I adore working from this special, welcoming, warm and nurturing space.

My clients say it’s instantly calming when you walk into the space and love sitting with a hot cuppa in the reception are before their sessions.

You can find me here at the Cottage on:
☀️Mondays every fortnight 930am - 1pm
☀️Tuesdays and Wednesdays 930am - 5pm
☀️Thursdays 10am - 6pm

For :
🌀Face to face sessions
🌀Telehealth sessions
🌀Telephone sessions

There is plenty of on site parking, the cottage is wheelchair accessible, bathrooms and baby change table inside, as well as cafes and parks in the surrounding streets.

I am also available on Fridays for Telehealth and Telephone sessions only.

For more information or to book in to see me, please head to www.katelandetecounselling.com.au or contact me directly.

I look forward to connecting with you and supporting you soon.

Kate Landete

20/07/2025

Hi there!

I’m Kate and I’ve been here for a while so it’s definitely time to give some new love, energy and updates to my page and information.

I am a Clinical Counsellor with my own private practice on the Central Coast of NSW and very proud to be an Accredited EMDR Practitioner with .

I am all about helping adults and young people (ages 12 and up) navigate anxiety, depression, trauma, grief & loss, life transitions, motherhood and parenting, burnout and any of life’s messy seasons really, and the impact these can have on people’s Mental Health and capacity to cope.

With a warm, trauma-informed approach, I offer support that’s grounded in safety, compassion, and real-life tools for healing and change.

Whether you’re feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or ready to work through something more deeply, you’re not alone.

There are a number of ways you can work with me that are always growing and evolving.

- In person sessions

- Online/telehealth sessions across Australia

- Telephone counselling sessions

- EMDR Therapy (extended 90 minute sessions)

- EMDR Intensives

- Online programs & workbooks

Please reach out for more information.

📍Central Coast NSW + Telehealth
📩 katelandetecounselling@gmail.com
🌐 katelandetecounselling.com.au