Services we provide
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Individual Counselling
Ranges offer face-to-face and tele-health counselling. We have flexible after hours appointments and outreach based counselling
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Family and couples support
Ranges offer couples counselling, adolescent counselling, counselling to parents with neurodivergent children parent coaching and family therapy to enhance your family dynamic.
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Dad Coaching
Support for expecting, new and seasoned dads to navigate the journey of fatherhood.
Why Ranges Counselling?
Our therapy approach is to work with clients over a short- to medium-term period (longer if necessary) to help them find the tools and methods that will enable them to set objectives, get closer to their aspirations, and lead satisfying lives. We will discuss your past experiences, what has and hasn’t worked for you, and then we will focus on what can be practical to you for the journey that lies ahead.
Ranges Counselling involves communicating in a secure and empathetic environment about any relationship troubles or obstacles you are facing. It can assist you in finding constructive strategies to tackle the circumstance.
We offer innovative counselling practices as we understand coming to a counselling office may be challenging for some. Our practices include eco therapy, outreach based and home based counselling.
Ranges counselling utilises integrative evidenced approaches; acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), schema therapy, dialectal behavioural therapy (DBT), Gottman Principles , Emotionally Focused therapy (EFT), Mindfulness CBT, Somatic Experiencing , Schema Therapy , Attachment therapy and Positive Psychology .
Gabriel Carazo
Counsellor / Psychotherapist
Gabriel is an ACA registered counsellor, and brings to his counselling a non-judgemental approach founded on a humanistic client centred approach and trauma-informed practices to his professional practice.
Gabriel has 12 years of community sector experience, commencing employment in residential support settings, before moving on to case management roles specialising in complex care, disability justice and within forensic background.
Gabriel is a father of 2 so understands the complexities that surround having a children and the pressure it can place on relationships. Gab is extremely passionate about breaking down these stereotypical barriers of men unable to communicate their feelings, and guide them towards being full emotionally intelligent beings.
Gabriel offers direct 1:1 support, outreach based counselling, walk and talk therapy, eco-therapy, well-being and psychosocial development coaching
Gabriel also specialises in behaviour support in life stages/transitions. He offers parent coaching and psycho social education, as he understands the challenges of parenting and life stages. Utilising his expertise in behaviour support and parenting, he provides support, guidance and transition planning for children entering childcare, kinder and school. He understands these life stages may be hard for some children. Gabriel currently facilitates parenting playgroups.
Qualifications
Graduate Diploma Relationship counselling , Diploma in Counselling , Certificate in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy , Diploma Alcohol and other drugs (Mental Health), Certificate Acceptance and Commitment Therapy , Practitioner Certificate Family Therapy, Professional Certificate Positive Psychology ,Certificate MiCBT (Mindfulness based Cognitive Behaviour Therapy) , Certificate IV in Mental Health , Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, Gottman Principles Level 1 and Gottman Bringing baby home
