- Person-centred approach
- Somatic practices
- Mindfulness methods
About Brigitte
Brigitte House is a PACFA counsellor with 10 years working directly in psychotherapy and counselling in Australia. She works with stress, anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, grief and self esteem, and helps people carrying guilt and shame find ways to live with those feelings. Brigitte uses plain language and steady attention in sessions so clients can make practical sense of what they are feeling.
Before moving into counselling she spent many years in community services and the not-for-profit sector, initially in social work. That background influences how she approaches practical problems and supports people through life changes. She has experience working in agency and private practice settings and has used face-to-face and tele-health modes during her career.
Her way of working is person-centred and trauma-informed, with somatic elements and process-experiential methods. That means the focus is on what a person notices in their body and relationships, and on understanding how past events shape current patterns. Sessions often include grounding practices and simple mindfulness exercises.
She also uses elements from Internal Family Systems to help people recognise inner parts that hold shame or guilt. The therapist aims to help clients put words to painful feelings and to experiment with different ways of relating to them. Practical communication skills are included when relationship or codependency issues come up.
Brigitte speaks English and works with adults in Australia. Her experience covers attachment issues, forgiveness, life purpose concerns, and specific situations such as fertility, cancer, disaster recovery and first responder stress. To start, readers are invited to check online therapy options and complete the short matching questionnaire.
How Brigitte uses approaches online
Brigitte combines person-centred work with mindfulness and somatic practices in online sessions. Person-centred therapy focuses on the client's experience and aims to make space for their thoughts and feelings so they can be explored. Mindfulness involves simple attention exercises to help calm reactivity and notice patterns of thinking that feed guilt or shame.Somatic therapy attends to the body and to physical sensations that often accompany trauma and shame. In practice this can mean tracking breath, noticing tension and using small grounding exercises to interrupt intense emotions. These approaches are commonly used when people bring trauma histories, relationship harm or long-standing self-criticism into sessions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively with the client to choose methods that suit their needs, goals and preferences, and will adjust the work over time as things change.
The biography indicates experience with tele-health, but does not list specific formats here, so confirm the current online session options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a workday, avoid travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Appropriately qualified therapists can often use these methods effectively across video or phone sessions, depending on what suits the person.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
10+ years
Listed in
Australia
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of guilt or shame does she help with?
She works with guilt and shame tied to relationships, past trauma, family of origin issues and life transitions.
How does she approach shame in sessions?
She uses person-centred, trauma-informed and somatic methods to help people notice where shame appears in the body and in relationships.
How much experience does she have?
She has 10 years of experience in psychotherapy and counselling, following a longer career in community services and social work.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is listed with PACFA and practises in Australia.
Does she offer sessions in other languages?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats does she use?
Her biography mentions face-to-face and tele-health experience; confirm current session options before booking.
How are costs and bookings handled?
Costs vary with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time; start by completing the short matching questionnaire to schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.