Brigitte House , PACFA

Brigitte House brings a strengths-based focus to therapy, helping people deepen their connection to themselves and discover meaning while building resilience to face life’s challenges. She combines a compassionate, person-centred stance with practical tools to support emotional regulation, relationship repair, and personal growth.

Her background spans two decades in the community services and not-for-profit sector, beginning in social work and expanding into psychotherapy, counselling, and meditation teaching over the last 10 years. That experience includes work in both agency and private practice settings, offering care face-to-face and via telehealth. Over the years she has worked with a broad range of concerns, including stress, anxiety and panic, depression, grief and loss, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, existential questions, gender diversity and sexuality matters, and addiction recovery.

Clinically she draws on person-centred principles, trauma-informed and somatic approaches, and process-experiential methods where the therapeutic relationship is central to healing. She also holds PACFA credentials - the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia - which is a national professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists, and integrates this professional framework into her practice.

Therapeutic Approaches for Online Healing

Brigitte uses client-centred therapy to create a supportive, nonjudgmental space where a person’s own priorities guide the work; this approach helps with self-esteem, relationship concerns, and finding personal meaning. Somatic therapy is offered to help people notice and work with bodily sensations and nervous system responses that often accompany anxiety, panic, and trauma, using body-focused awareness to complement emotional processing. Trauma-focused therapy provides gentle, focused methods to help people process overwhelming experiences and reduce their ongoing emotional impact while building capacity for safety and regulation.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Brigitte and the client work together to identify goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then adapt methods over time so therapy remains responsive to changing needs.

Online therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit sessions into busy lives and to access support from home or other convenient locations. Licensed professionals can use these formats to maintain continuity of care, offer flexible scheduling, and tailor interventions so they work effectively in remote or telehealth settings.