Deep Listening - Relationship & Couples Counselling

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Deep Listening - Relationship & Couples Counselling

SAMA means a ‘listening’ with the heart (arabic), and also stands for Sensitive, Attuned, Moving, Awareness.

Counselling offers an opportunity to lean in to listen deeper. I am an experienced Couples & Individual Counsellor (MA Counselling, ACA reg). Hey, I am Barbra - a counsellor, mother, partner, daughter, friend, yoga teacher... etc...

I have a Masters of Counselling and have trained in a number of techniques. I specialise in working with people (couples and individuals) in the are of relationships. We are wired for connection, relationships are one of the most important aspects of our lives - including intimate partnerships, family relationships, coparenting relationships and social networks. I am passionate about helping support deeper connection in all areas of life.

16/02/2026

Personalised support for you in working through core relational challenges, issues and growth edges. There are things that we are collectively dealing in our relationships, yet each of us has a unique experience based on twists and turns on this wild journey et of life. Counselling sessions can be done as a one-off or as part of ongoing blocks. Book directly via website in Bio.

14/02/2026

Counselling is not just for times of crises, it is for actively nurturing fulfilling, evolving relationships. Counselling can help you build capacity - so you can stay present with another person even though your first impulse may be run or fight when there is any sort of disagreement. Counselling offers a space where you can learn how to ask for what you want and need, in a way that is more likely to be received well. "Love is an action even more than a feeling… it requires intention and attention " (Gottman) Decreasing affection and emotional responsiveness are often the cause of separations, not conflict per se. Counselling can support couples and individuals to understand themselves and each other more # loveandintimacy

05/02/2026

Building relational health through the ACTIVE practices - for the mind and body, creating more space, creating rest, receiving nourishment, taking rest. I specialise in offering personalised support in this area, because while it sounds easy, it’s not! Buch it’s rich work, and so fulfilling. counselling

23/01/2026

Being in love is a beautiful and sometimes overwhelming experience. And yet do you wonder why the honeymoon phase ends? Or if that is normal? Or if things should just magically stay in that same glow of love? 💕 Become a master gardener, the work of relationships can be joyful, yet requires careful tending.

14/01/2026

Remember to be kind to yourself. We are all perfectly and humanly imperfect.  And intimacy is all about how we manage the collision of our imperfections.
Sometimes there is tension and other times harmony. All close relationships move in and out of phases of connection and disconnection. But disconnection hurts, and when we feel hurt we tend to go into self-protection mode. It’s not easy thing to learn how to come back together after those moments of disconnection.
The essential work of counselling is about bringing greater awareness to how we act when we are hurt and learning to manage conflict with greater integrity.

21/12/2025

The greatest gift to the next generation is your own recovery and a commitment to not pass down the harm that you may have experienced as part of intergenerational trauma. Family pathology remains lls from generation to generation ….. u til one person has the courage to do the work. That courage may be about engaging in counselling to look at the things that create reactivity and anger, or to simply reflect on our own stories in a family context for greater insight. Thanks Terry Real for the work you do to encourage this change.

04/12/2025

we learn about love and relationships initially from how we see it modelled, by our parents, by our caregivers.
we learn from our culture
Some of us may not have had the best modelling of healthy relationships, which has likely impacted how we show up in our adult relationships.
So think about it -
how do u model love and relationships to your children?
How do you model conflict and repair?

This is a way we teach them that relationships can be safe, supportive and respectful, intimate

we all have stuff to grow into.
So maybe… go to counselling for the sake of your kids.

Get curious, be open to learn things about yourself that may help heal patterns of pain that have travelled across generations.

31/10/2025

Beautiful testimonial from clients who came to do a couples therapeutic retreat with me a couple months ago. I love seeing people meet their edge by just showing up to a personalised retreat like this. I see so much growth in a short amount of time when people say yes to the deeper self inquiry. Nature does most of the work here at near Uki. So grateful for the opportunity to support others on this special land. DM me for information about these retreats.

23/10/2025

I studied somatics with Dr Scott Lyons a few years back, as part of his Somatic Stress Release courses and Embodied Flow yoga trainings. I love the way he articulates what can happen as we start to go deeper into relationship. This is normal, but a lot of people bail as soon as things start to feel even a little uncomfortable. Do you notice a protectiveness or defensiveness that arises when intimacy goes deeper? There is so much opportunity to learn about ourselves through relationship. Often having a counsellor or therapist to support you through this inquiry is super valuable!

21/10/2025

Work with me.
I offer individual sessions for men and women, and sessions for couples. Bangalow, Mullumbimby or Online. Counselling is something most of us tend to put-off, but it can bring surprising value for into your life and can inspire change even after just one session. Feel free to connect to speak about how I work.

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http://www.samadeeplistening.com/

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Sama ~ “deep listening” (arabic/sufi)

Somatic Relationship Coaching:

The process of deep listening involves a listening not just with our ears, but with all of our senses, with the whole body instrument. It is a way of attuning to the subtleties of our inner experience and our relationships (outer experiences and interactions).

A somatic (body-focused) approach is about enhancing our ability to feel and sense what is ‘alive’ right here and now. It is a practice of presence.

So in times where we feel vulnerable or ‘challenged’ - how do we respond? Do we lean in to feel, or do we try to move away from feeling? Many of us have habitual ways of moving away from, or avoiding things that are uncomfortable.