Kerry Ellis - Solution focused therapist

Kerry Ellis - Solution focused therapist I offer a solution focused approach to assist reaching your goals. Appropriate tools & strategies added to enhance success Who I am today?

Trained in counselling, hypnotherapy & coaching a combination of these modalities can be used to help you reach your goals sooner. Many people will, at some point in their lives, find themselves in the role of a counsellor, However, wont have an understanding of the concept of counselling or what the role of the professional counsellor entails. There is a big difference between a professional coun

sellor and a person who uses some counselling skills as part of their role, for example their role as a friend or colleague. A professional counsellor is a highly trained individual who is able to use a different range of counselling approaches when working with clients. So given this information, it is important to know a little about me. My Background... Having spent many years working in the finance industry in a corporate role, I found myself seeking regular massages to care for my mind, body, and spirit. This then led to me studying a Diploma of Remedial Massage, Diploma of Corporate Stress Therapies, and various other qualifications in child and adolescent massage. During this 15-year journey, it became obvious that I was bound to undertake an additional life journey into a Bachelor Degree in Counselling at the Australian College of Applied Psychology. Working initially in a drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility, I decided to spread my wings in a more generalist area and started with the community aid centre, ADRA, in Blacktown. There I have had the opportunity to meet and work with many clients suffering various different conditions from depression to addiction, schizophrenia, anxiety and trauma, just to name a few. Looking back at my career and occupations, I have always had a passion for working with people and helping them to feel better about themselves and their lives, in a safe, supportive environment. I continually undertake professional education and am an active participant in local interagency meetings and interested in local issues pertaining to mental health. My additional studies thus far have been in the areas of Clinical Hypnotherapy, Pain Management using the OLD PAIN 2 GO methodology, sand tray therapy, trauma, cognitive behaviour therapy for generalised anxiety, and grief and loss. I am passionate about my own personal and professional development, which includes regular clinical supervision to enhance the quality of my work, meaning clients have the best possible counselling relationship, allowing optimising our work together. Qualifications: Bachelor of Counselling; Dip. Clinical Hypnotherapy and NLP, Old Pain 2 Go Practitioner; Diploma of Remedial Massage; Diploma of Corporate Stress Therapies; Diploma of Sports Injury Therapy; Infant Massage Instructor. Professional Memberships Australian Counsellors Association; Australian Traditional Medicine Society; Australian Hypnotherapy Association. Are you ready to take the first step to a new/better life NOW? If your answer is YES, contact me on 0417 667 329 or Send me a private message to organise a consultation. I also offer a free 15 minute phone consult.

This morning I noticed the bed still wasn't made.Now before anyone thinks I've completely lowered my standards, the bed ...
19/06/2026

This morning I noticed the bed still wasn't made.

Now before anyone thinks I've completely lowered my standards, the bed does normally get made around here.

It just hasn't been high on the priority list lately.

A few weeks ago, I shared that our puppy had been unwell. Thankfully he's slowly getting better, but between disrupted sleep, cleaning up accidents, vet visits and generally keeping an eye on him, our usual routine has been a little all over the place.

Nothing dramatic. Work still got done, everyone still got fed and the washing eventually got washed and found its way back to its rightful owners.

But some of those little things that usually happen without much thought have been a bit hit and miss.

Standing there looking at an unmade bed this morning, I realised how easy it is to focus on the things that haven't been done while forgetting everything that has.

The bed got made eventually, the puppy is doing much better, and the house is slowly starting to resemble a functioning household again.

Love being able to capture a beautiful colourful sunrise. Great way to put a smile on for the start of the day
17/06/2026

Love being able to capture a beautiful colourful sunrise. Great way to put a smile on for the start of the day

The people who find it hardest to ask for help are often the people everyone else relies on. They're the ones solving pr...
17/06/2026

The people who find it hardest to ask for help are often the people everyone else relies on. They're the ones solving problems, checking in on others, getting things done and carrying responsibilities without complaint.

After a while, that role can become so familiar that reaching out for support feels uncomfortable. Not because they don't need it, but because they're so used to being the person who copes.

The problem is that carrying everything on your own for too long can be exhausting.

We all need support at different times in our lives at times, because we're human.

If something has been weighing on you lately and you've been telling yourself you'll deal with it eventually, perhaps this is your reminder that you don't have to work it all out alone.

Functioning and coping aren't always the same thing.Sometimes the strongest people I meet are the ones quietly holding e...
16/06/2026

Functioning and coping aren't always the same thing.

Sometimes the strongest people I meet are the ones quietly holding everything together while wondering how much longer they can keep doing it. They go to work, pay the bills, look after everyone, still keep smiling and feel absolutely exhausted at the same time.

It's the kind of exhaustion that not even a good night's sleep fixes.

That kind of exhaustion comes from carrying too much for too long and most around you won't notice because you're still functioning and getting things done as life keeps moving.

Sometimes the strongest people I meet are the ones quietly holding everything together while wondering how much longer they can keep doing it.

If that's where you're at right now, perhaps the answer isn't to push harder.

Perhaps it's time to stop carrying it all on your own.

This week our household got turned upside down by a small sick puppy named Fynn.He has canine coronavirus, which I had n...
12/06/2026

This week our household got turned upside down by a small sick puppy named Fynn.
He has canine coronavirus, which I had never heard. Watching him feel so rotten while also managing the 3am toilet trips, the reshuffled workdays, the cancelled weekend plans, honestly it has been a lot.

What I keep coming back to is how much we rely on our routines without ever really noticing them. They are just quietly there, holding everything together in the background. It is only when something pulls them out from under you that you feel how much weight they were carrying.

Disruption does not have to be dramatic to be genuinely hard. Broken sleep is hard. Constant replanning is hard. Managing something that is outside your control, day after day, takes a real toll even when the reason seems small in the scheme of things.

If your week has included any version of that, a sick child, a work situation that keeps shifting, something at home that has thrown your rhythm off, I just want to say I get it. That particular kind of tired is real.

Fynn is progressing but apparently a little bit of a long road and we will all get back into routines and sleep soon.

How has your week been?

10/06/2026

Grief is the result of having loved. What a statement . Not the first time I’ve heard this statement . Today a sporting great in my world was honoured not only for his contribution to the sport but more importantly his contribution to the research into an incurable fatal
Disease but also his belief that we must take on challenges with a what can I do as opposed to what I cannot do attitude. I grieve today not because I necessarily loved a man I never met, but because I loved everything he stood for everything he wanted to leave us all as his legacy. RIP Neale Daniher and thank you for your service to a sport and to human life .

Exciting news. I have just released my third book, Goals That Fit, and it is now available on Amazon.If you have ever se...
01/06/2026

Exciting news. I have just released my third book, Goals That Fit, and it is now available on Amazon.
If you have ever set a goal with the best of intentions only to watch it quietly disappear under the weight of real life, this one is for you. No pressure, no rigid systems. Just a thoughtful, evidence-based approach to understanding what genuinely matters to you and how to move towards it in a way that fits your real life.
You can find Goals That Fit along with my other titles REST. RECOVER. RESET. and STRONG ENOUGH TO ASK at the link below.

Follow Kerry Ellis and explore their bibliography from Amazon's Kerry Ellis Author Page.

Workplaces often focus on performance; however, performance is usually the last thing to change in someone who is experi...
31/05/2026

Workplaces often focus on performance; however, performance is usually the last thing to change in someone who is experiencing stress.

Before performance drop there's stress building, focus slipping and patience thinning with most of it going unnoticed until it becomes a problem.

Supporting people earlier isn’t just good for them, it's smarter for the business.

If you’re in a workplace where this is happening, it’s worth addressing before it escalates.

A few weeks ago we brought a puppy into our family.Honestly, it’s been harder than I expected. Not in a bad or regretful...
29/05/2026

A few weeks ago we brought a puppy into our family.

Honestly, it’s been harder than I expected. Not in a bad or regretful way, just disruptive in ways I hadn't thought about.

Our whole routine has changed. Sleep, eating patterns, everyone is more tired and distracted and the house just feels different.

I’ve even found myself waking through the night listening for movement, worried he’ll wake up or need something.

It genuinely reminds me of having a newborn in the house again.

This situation has reminded me how much humans rely on routine emotionally.

We often don’t realise how grounding our normal rhythm is until something shifts it.

Even good change can feel stressful while we’re adjusting to it and that part doesn’t get spoken about enough.

You can feel grateful for something and still feel overwhelmed by the adjustment at the same time.

I also keep catching myself wanting the difficult stage to pass quicker, wanting the toilet training done, wanting things to settle and wanting normality back.

But then there’s this other part of me that knows these moments are temporary too and life has a strange way of making us miss things we were once exhausted by.

Maybe both things can be true at once.

Have you ever gone through a life change you wanted to survive quicker… only to later miss parts of it?

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