EvIDence-Based Counselling

  • Individual Counselling – 60 min – $160.00 Zoom/Face-to-Face
  • Couples Counselling – 75 min – $180.00 Zoom/Face-to-Face
  • Family Counselling – 75 min – $180.00 Zoom/Face-to-Face
To make a booking call 0455 207 255 or email info@dallasbentley.com.au

WHAT IS
'EVIDENCE-BASED'
Counselling?

  • Emphasises the reflexive nature of therapeutic relationships in which the client and therapist co-construct meanings in dialogue or conversations.
  • Moves away from hierarchical distinctions toward a more egalitarian offering of ideas and respect for differences.
  • Maintains empathy and respect for the client’s predicament and a belief in the power of therapeutic conversation to liberate suppressed, ignored, or previously unacknowledged voices or stories.
  • Co-constructs goals and negotiates direction in therapy, placing the client in the driver’s seat, as an expert on his or her own predicament and dilemmas.
  • Searches for and amplifies client competencies, strengths, and resources and avoids being a detective of pathology or reifying rigid diagnostic distinctions.
  • Avoids a vocabulary of deficit and dysfunction, replacing the jargon of pathology (and distance) with the language of the everyday.
  • Is oriented toward the future and optimistic about change.
  • Is sensitive to the methods and processes used in the therapeutic conversation.

THE BENEFITS OF
Zoom /
Tele-Health / Online Therapy

This can be helpful if you are experiencing social anxiety or are uncomfortable attending a therapy office or have young children at home. This also helps with any ‘stigma’ challenges around attending therapy sessions, or discomfort sitting in waiting rooms, or fears of seeing someone you know.

Former Supervisors
that continue to inspire and inform the ethics, counselling and supervision framework of Dallas Bentley

DAVID AXTEN
BA, BEd, MEdST, LSDA, FTCL
David Axten was a lecturer in the School of Psychology and Counselling at Queensland University of Technology and a counsellor and supervisor in the Universities Family Therapy and Counselling Clinic. David co-authored a 28-video package for counselling training, including Just Choices? and The Ethics of Counselling. He was heavily involved in professional counselling associations and was the former ethic’s chair for the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia.
ALAN RICHARDSON
Dip Psych MCounsel
Alan Richardson is a practicing psychologist trained in many forms of Experiential Psychotherapies. He has a Diploma in Process Oriented Psychology, is a gestalt therapist and has master’s degrees in Counselling and Education (Guidance & Counselling).
GLEN GUY
BA, Dip Psych, MEdSt, Med, MAPS
Glen Guy was a Senior Lecturer in Counselling at Queensland University of Technology and co-ordinated the master’s in counselling program and its associated counselling clinic for over 20 years. Glen has developed and applied a range of competency-based / collaborative inquiry / narrative’ perspectives and approached in all areas of his work.
ROGER LOWE
BA (Hons), MPsych, PhD
Roger Lowe was a Lecturer in Counselling at Queensland University of Technology. His main work over 30 years involved teaching and supervision to master’s students in counselling and psychology. He specialises in the teaching of time-effective therapies for individuals, couples, and families, and in the development of supervision practices based on these approaches.