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Counselling & Therapy in Geelong for Anxiety, Relationships, and Feeling Stuck
Support for Anxiety, Overthinking, and Life’s Emotional Challenges
Get tailored counselling for anxiety, emotional overwhelm, or trauma — whether you're navigating a recent challenge or feeling stuck for a while.
Why Choose Jamie Anthony Therapy
Dr Jamie Parker
Therapy for Anxiety, Overthinking, and Feeling Emotionally Stuck
Get empathetic, judgment-free support to help you process thoughts and feelings clearly — whether you’re dealing with anxiety, emotional overwhelm, or low confidence.
Personalised Guidance for Your Unique Situation
Receive strategic support tailored to the emotional challenges you're facing — including relationship issues, decision paralysis, or ongoing inner tension.
Build Mental Strength and Emotional Clarity
Use tried and tested cognitive and behavioural approaches to regain control of your thoughts and actions, boost emotional resilience, and gain clarity in daily life.
Limited-Time Offer: 50% Off Your First Appointment in Geelong or Online
BHS, BAppSc (Osteopathy)
Dip. Strategic Psychotherapy & Clinical Hypnosis
Serving clients in Geelong & online
Flexible Therapy Pricing Options:
After your first session, you’ll gain access to affordable pricing plans for ongoing support.
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Affordable: Flexible rates to suit different budgets
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Confidential: Your sessions remain private and secure
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Solution-oriented: Focused on progress, not just talking
Professionally Recommended
Words from fellow healthcare professionals and colleagues:
MJ Ruelo
Nutritionist
"Jamie is an incredibly accepting person who is able to meet his clients wherever they are at with their problems. He can look past their struggles and is able to see their potential for health and happiness, no matter how lost they feel."
Supportive Communication
Opening up about life’s challenges takes courage. My approach to counselling prioritises creating a safe, confidential, and supportive space where clients can speak openly and feel heard.
Drawing on my background in mental health and psychotherapy, I adapt my communication style to suit each individual’s needs—ensuring every session feels personal, grounded, and helpful.
Strategic Guidance
My counselling sessions are goal-oriented and solution-focused, aimed at helping you move forward. Together, we’ll explore evidence-based strategies to overcome challenges, tap into your strengths, and make meaningful progress.
Whether you're facing anxiety, stress, burnout, or a life changes, this strategic and practical support is designed to empower your growth.
Cognitive & Behavioural Awareness
Our thoughts, beliefs, and behaviours shape how we feel and how we live. Many of these patterns run on autopilot, influencing us without us realising.
Through therapy, we’ll bring these patterns into awareness and develop tools to build emotional resilience, improve mental clarity, and support long-term wellbeing.
This work draws on principles from cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and related therapeutic frameworks.
Support For Individuals, Couples, Families, and Adolescents
Therapeutic Support for a Range of Issues
Anxiety
Anxiety is one of the most common mental health challenges people face. At its core, it’s a protective response that helps us prepare for or avoid potential threats. However, when anxiety becomes chronic, it can show up as constant worry, racing thoughts, sleep disturbances, or a sense of dread — often interfering with daily life, relationships, or work.
My approach to therapy for anxiety focuses on uncovering and working through four key contributing patterns:
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Global thinking
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Internal orientation
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Ineffective compartmentalisation
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Low tolerance for ambiguity
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Sometimes, having a safe, supportive counselling space to talk things through already brings relief. For others, we may explore broader influences like social conditioning, lifestyle patterns, or unhelpful mental frameworks that keep anxiety in place.
Whether you're dealing with generalised anxiety, social anxiety, or a stressful life transition, we work together toward greater clarity, calm, and confidence.
Depression
Depression can affect anyone at any stage of life. Sometimes it’s linked to a clear cause—such as the loss of a loved one, chronic illness, or major life transitions. Other times, it lingers without any obvious trigger. This is because depression rarely stems from a single source. It’s often shaped by a mix of influences like biological factors, difficult home or work environments, emotional overwhelm, or the internal beliefs we use to make sense of the world.
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Common symptoms can include persistent sadness, low motivation, emotional numbness, fatigue, or a loss of interest in things that once brought joy.
My approach to counselling for depression is gentle but practical. Together, we’ll work to chip away at the heaviness, introducing stress-reduction techniques, supporting new habits, and nurturing the confidence to live with more purpose, energy, and clarity.
Relationship Stress
Healthy relationships are the cornerstone of a fulfilling life. Yet stress, unresolved conflict, or poor communication can strain even the strongest connections. People who were once deeply close may find themselves stuck in patterns of misunderstanding, emotional disconnection, or recurring tension. Left unaddressed, these dynamics can lead to frustration, hurt, or distance—especially when honest dialogue has been avoided.
Through relationship counselling, I offer a supportive space where individuals, couples, or groups can explore the root causes of conflict, improve communication skills, and rebuild emotional trust. Whether you're facing frequent arguments, feeling emotionally distant, or struggling with unspoken resentment, we'll work together using practical strategies to restore clarity, connection, and mutual understanding.
Phobias
Phobias are often described as “irrational fears,” yet the fear itself can feel incredibly real and overwhelming. Whether it’s the fear of flying, needles, public speaking, or social situations, these responses usually stem from imagined threats shaped by past experiences or beliefs picked up from others. While a phobia may emerge suddenly or develop over time, it often reflects deeper anxiety patterns and learned avoidance behaviours.
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My approach to phobia counselling gently disrupts this cycle. We’ll explore grounding strategies to anchor you in the present, mindfulness tools to calm your nervous system, and practical ways to shift avoidant responses. We'll also challenge unhelpful thinking patterns—like confirmation bias—that reinforce fear. Whether you're looking to feel more confident in daily life or take control over a specific fear, our work together can help you move forward with calm, clarity, and choice.
When someone experiences trauma, their nervous system can become overwhelmed by the intensity of the situation—leading to shock, fear, or dissociation. Even long after the event has passed, these experiences can leave a lasting imprint, triggering symptoms like hypervigilance, emotional numbing, or avoidant behaviours. Post-traumatic stress can affect anyone, and healing is possible.
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My approach to trauma therapy is gentle, supportive, and personalised. Together, we’ll identify the patterns and protective responses that are no longer serving you. This might involve learning self-soothing techniques, reprogramming intrusive thought cycles, and finding ways to safely release stored emotional tension. Whether you're coping with a recent event or long-standing trauma, counselling for post-traumatic stress can help you reconnect with a sense of inner calm, clarity, and control.
Post Traumatic Stress
Obsessive Behaviours
Obsessive or compulsive behaviours often develop as unconscious strategies to manage anxiety or distress. If you experience repeated urges, rituals, or intrusive thoughts, your brain may be stuck in an internal loop that’s trying—ineffectively—to assess and neutralise perceived threats.
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Typically, these obsessive-compulsive patterns follow a four-step process:
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Feeling anxious about a perceived risk
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Deciding what action will ease the anxiety
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Performing a behaviour to “neutralise” the risk
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Exiting the loop—knowing when and how to stop
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While this loop can provide short-term relief, it often reinforces anxiety over time.
In therapy, we gently explore the deeper fears and internal beliefs that maintain these patterns. Through OCD-informed counselling, we’ll work together to ease discomfort, challenge unhelpful urges, and build healthy self-soothing tools—empowering you to respond to triggers with more clarity, calm, and confidence.
Performance/Social Anxiety
Performance and social anxiety are forms of general anxiety, but they centre around fear of judgement and stress in social or evaluative situations—like public speaking, job interviews, or group settings. Many people experience social anxiety as part of a broader challenge, such as depression or trauma. It’s often not until this anxiety eases that people realise how much it was interfering with daily life.
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In counselling, we explore these patterns using evidence-based strategies for performance anxiety and social anxiety. These often include addressing:
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Global thinking
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Inflated self-focus
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Ineffective compartmentalisation
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Low tolerance for ambiguity
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Through structured therapeutic support, we gradually work toward easing discomfort in social and performance contexts—building confidence, clarity, and comfort when facing social interactions or evaluative settings.
Contact Me
For any questions you have, you can reach me here:
Dr Jamie Parker, Osteopath
Psychotherapist & Hypnotherapist
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