Holistic Counselling, Psychotherapy Services, and Somatic Experiencing Trauma Resolution

 

Whatever brings you here, a crisis, a pattern you can't shift, a relationship under strain, or simply a growing sense that there is more available to you than you're currently living, the work begins with finding the right kind of support.

 

Gina Bloom is a qualified Transpersonal Psychotherapist, Holistic Counsellor and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), working with individuals, couples and groups online via telehealth counselling across Australia on Zoom and in person in the Byron Bay area.

 

Her approach works with the whole person — mind, body and soul — to address not just presenting symptoms but their underlying causes, creating lasting change.

 

Holistic Counselling & Transpersonal Therapy

 

My approach is based on the assumption that there is nothing wrong with you, and you don't need to be fixed. Holistic counselling and transpersonal therapy work from the understanding that what we call a 'healing crisis' is often an invitation — an opportunity for growth that goes deeper than symptom relief, towards a more authentic and fulfilling way of living. Most people start to feel the benefits from their very first session.

 

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Somatic Therapy & Somatic Experiencing

 

Trauma, stress and anxiety are not just held in the mind — they live in the body, in the nervous system, in patterns of response laid down long before we had words for them. This is why talk therapy alone doesn’t shift the effects of trauma. Somatic therapy and Somatic Experiencing (SE) work at this deeper level, gently and permanently resolving what talk therapy alone often cannot reach — importantly without requiring you to relive what happened.

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Groups, Workshops & Retreats

Some of the most profound healing happens in-community. Gina is a longtime Facilitator on the Path of Love retreats internationally, and she also co-runs other workshops and retreats grounded in somatic healing and transpersonal inquiry. Group work offers something individual therapy cannot — the particular power of being witnessed and held by others who are also, courageously, doing their own work.

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Specialist Counselling Services

From couples counselling and attachment healing, to working with spiritual emergence/emercency/psychosis, sandplay therapy, and therapist supervision and training — this page outlines the breadth of Gina's specialist experience.

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Online counselling across Australia and globally via Zoom video

Gina works with clients across Australia and internationally via online counselling on Zoom. Most people find online sessions to be as effective as in-person work. Many clients find that the accessibility and privacy of video actually deepens their experience of therapy.

Gina brings well over a decade of clinical experience as a psychotherapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, alongside an additional 20-year background in mental health research. She works across the full spectrum of the services listed on this page. If you're unsure whether her services and specialisations are suitable for you, the best first step is simply to get in touch.

 

Conditions and issues I can help you with:

 

Trauma, stress and nervous system healing

 

• All kinds of trauma — recent, historical and complex trauma triggers and interactions

• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex PTSD (CPTSD)

• Developmental and attachment trauma (early childhood trauma)

• Accumulated stress and burnout

• Global High Intensity Activation (GHIA)

• Anxiety, panic attacks, and difficulty relaxing or letting go

 

Mood, identity and life transitions

 

• Depression and feeling flat or hopeless

• Grief, and issues associated with loss, death and dying

• Managing change, uncertainty and the unknown — personal and global

• Major life transitions: relationships, family, work and career, health

• Aging and menopause

• Adolescents and young adults

• Identity issues, including around gender, sex and sexuality

• Dealing with ego deficiency / ego death and existential issues

 

Relationships and attachment

 

• Couples counselling

• Attachment healing — recovering secure attachment

• Anxious, avoidant and disorganised attachment orientations

• The anxious/avoidant dynamic, and how to manage it

• How to identify healthy relationships and partners

• Social anxiety and building self-confidence

• Queer / LGBTQIA+ affirming counselling

 

The Enneagram

Gina’s work is informed by an understanding of Enneatypes and the Enneagram as a tool for understanding deeper personality structures — both within therapy and as a standalone enquiry.

 

Who does Gina work with?

Gina works with a full range of people, including all ages and genders. She works with individuals, couples and groups. Her client list includes people who identify across the spectrum from neurotypical to neurodivergent and more.

Creativity, performance and professional development

 

Gina has a particular interest in working with creative artists and performers — people for whom the inner life and the work are deeply entwined, and for whom conventional therapy can sometimes feel like it misses the point. She works with:

• Musicians, composers and people involved in music production and performance
• Visual artists, sculptors, textile artists
• Film-makers and editors
• Actors
• Singers, vocalists and dancers (across a range of dance modalities)
• Writers, editors and poets
• Curators, arts executives and administrators
• Academics, PhD students and researchers

Ready to begin? Get in touch.

 

To make an appointment with Kind Counselling online via Zoom — please contact Gina directly on 0404 093 865 or send an email enquiry.