Kathy Laverty

Psychotherapist | Counsellor | Transactional Analyst

Kathy provides the following:

Psychotherapy

This field of specialisation aims to help facilitate your capacity for self-actualisation, healing and change. The aim is for you to understand yourself and your relationships and create options to enable you to live an aware, creative and spontaneous life. Psychotherapy focuses to a greater extent on achieving change in the personality. Together we will look at the past, present and future. This will be facilitated through a contractual process.

See here for more information

Supervision

Supervision is the cornerstone of professional development for counsellors, coaches, psychotherapists and psychologists, as well as a reflective space for organisational leaders. A place of understanding the relationship between theory and practice. It is divided into beginning, intermediate and advanced stages of professional development. This is a collaborative learning relationship, a space to acknowledge and work with questions. To separate out the personal from the professional aspects of self and assist the trainee and the professional in developing and maintaining a sound ethical practice that results in a solid professional identity.

Counselling

Counselling is a professional activity within a contractual relationship. The process will enable you to develop awareness and skills that allow you to have options in your life. Counselling focuses on enhancing people’s capacity to cope with specific life challenges such as relationship ending, bereavement, and anxiety. Seeing a counsellor helps people resolve crises, reduce distress, develop goals for change and improve their wellbeing.

Relational Consulting And Couples Retreats

Our Couples Relationship Enhancement Retreats are strategically designed two and a half day Couple’s Relationship Enhancement (CRE) program held in the beautiful Blue Mountains resorts. Here couples are given time to pause, reflect, revive and enhance their relationship.

This is a unique opportunity for you, as a couple, to further your understanding of psychological principles, communication and developmental patterns.​

Relational Consulting’s CRE Retreat will be a time to invest, explore, transform and rekindle passionate desire in your relationship.​​ As a couple, your participation in this retreat will equip you with key principles, based on current research, to discover how to build and restore your relational potency.​

See here for more information

Transactional Analysis Training (TA101)

The TA 101 professional development workshop is for anyone interested in Transactional Analysis as a method of understanding communication, the ‘games people play,’ and personal life patterns.

Established for people who want to use Transactional Analysis concepts in their professional or personal lives as well as those who are interested in becoming Transactional Analysis counsellors or psychotherapists, the format of the workshop combines theoretical input on the major concepts of TA with experiential exercises, giving participants an opportunity to apply these concepts to situations in their own lives.

See here for more information

Social dreaming workshops

Kathy Laverty has participated in the running of the social dreaming matrix in Australia, South Africa and New Zealand. Social Dreaming is a method for discovering the social meaning and significance of dreams through sharing them with others. It starts from different assumptions than individual, therapeutic dreaming. This is done by the deliberate and sustained method of free association and amplification through the Social Dreaming Matrix.