BSW, MHumServMgt, Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher

Provides individual services to adults:
Counselling
Mindfulness-based counselling

Expertise:
- Anxiety
- Burnout
- Childhood trauma
- Depression
- Interpersonal relationships
- Major life changes
- Managing conflict in the workplace
- Mindful leadership
- Optimising resilience and wellbeing
- Stress and worry
- Trauma
- Workplace issues and bullying

About Kim

Kim O’Neill has a Masters degree, is a qualified Social Worker and a Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher. Kim specialises in mindfulness-based counselling and approaches to managing anxiety, stress and trauma in life and work. Kim is passionate about working with her clients to enable self-led change and find new solutions for old problems. She is also a dog lover and has two French Bulldogs!

Kim started work 30 years ago as a counsellor in a variety of clinical settings. For the past 20 years she has worked in senior leadership and executive roles in mental and social health organisations. Working with a diverse range of clients has taught Kim that what we all want is more joy and meaning in our lives.

Kim firmly believes that building a practice of mindfulness will support you to manage whatever obstacles come your way.

In a complex and stressful world, we must connect with ourselves, accept where we find ourselves, and learn new ways to deal with life’s challenges and worries. We often feel out of control, discontent, or that the problems in our lives are too big to cope with. We feel lost and overwhelmed and it negatively impacts how we function and show up in our day-to-day lives and work. These issues can show up as feeling anxious and stressed, constantly worrying about our relationships, money and work.

Kim works with individuals to create a safe space where you can slow down and process fear, anxiety, and trauma by understanding how your mind works, and the relationship between your thoughts, feelings and behaviours, and how they impact the quality of your life.

Kim teaches people to recognise and identify emotional triggers and symptoms, the habit of thoughts and emotions in our lives and ways to create new habits and behaviours that improve our lives. Kim supports people to de-identify with their experiences with kindness and compassion while pragmatically finding ways to deal with emotions like anxiety in the moment.

BSc. (Hons), BA, MBA, MProfPsych, MAPS

Registered Medicare provider: Medicare rebates available if you have a Mental Health Treatment Plan (MHTP) from your GP or specialist. 

NDIS 

TAC 

WorkSafe Victoria 

Private health insurance rebates may apply

Provides individual services to:
Adults
Adolescents

Expertise:
- Anxiety
- ADHD and attention deficits
- Childhood trauma
- Depression
- Interpersonal relationships
- Major life changes/adjustment issues
- Managing conflict
- Optimising resilience and wellbeing
- Panic attacks
- Stress and worry
- Trauma, PTSD

About Samantha

Samantha Fredericks is a registered psychologist with an MBA and diverse experience in clinical and business environments.

Samantha is kind and compassionate, and tailors strategies for her clients so you feel heard, supported and empowered to create meaningful change, enhance your relationships and your life, and achieve your goals.

Samantha works one-on-one with adults and adolescents with anxiety and panic disorders, depression, overwhelm, attention deficits, trauma, PTSD and complex presentations. She believes that we experience psychological distress when there’s a disconnect between where we find ourselves in our lives and relationships right now, what has happened to us in the past, and what we worry may happen in the future.

Samantha’s integrated, person-centred approach draws from evidence-based psychotherapies including Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Schema Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT), Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) and mindfulness-based tools to help clients to accept where we find ourselves, develop a deeper insight into what underlies our symptoms and how to improve our level of day-to-day functioning. Samantha aims to support each client to build insight, self-awareness and resilience to navigate life with meaning and purpose.

Samantha is also interested in animal-assisted therapies to reduce loneliness and increase feelings of connection and wellbeing. Her Cairn Terrier has a burning ambition to become a Therapy Dog and join her working at Blaze Psychology and Wellbeing.