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Soul Counselling · Trauma Support · Adelaide
If an old wound, a sudden shock or a painful relationship still lives in your body, you are not broken. Those survival patterns once kept you safe. Christina offers gentle, paced trauma counselling online and by phone across Adelaide, so healing can happen slowly and on your terms.
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An estimated 75 percent of Australians live through a traumatic event at some point, and around 11 percent will experience PTSD, though most people never develop a lasting disorder. In South Australia, the ABS 2020 to 2022 study found about 21.6 percent of people aged 16 to 85 had a mental disorder in the past year, so if you are struggling you are in very ordinary company.
Sources: ABS National Study of Mental Health and Wellbeing, 2020 to 2022; AIHW.
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One conversation in, most clients say they’ve finally been understood.
“I truly felt heard for the first time in all my life and deeply understood.”
“When I came to Christina I was drowning in darkness… now I’m finally thriving again.”
“Due to her mediumship I was able to see core issues that I wasn’t able to recognise before.”
In Adelaide, where good trauma-informed help can be hard to reach and slow to arrive, having a safe online space of your own can make a real difference.
How Christina works
Trauma counselling with Christina is not about forcing you to relive anything. It is about building enough safety that your nervous system can begin to settle, and letting the deeper work unfold only as fast as you feel ready. You stay in choice at every step.
Nothing meaningful happens until you feel safe enough. Early sessions focus on steadiness, calm and small moments of control, so your body learns it can lower its guard a little. There is no retelling required and no pressure to disclose more than you choose to.
Trauma lives in the nervous system, not only in memory, so we pay attention to what your body is doing as much as what you think. Gently noticing tension, shutdown and the signs of overwhelm helps you stay within a window you can manage, rather than tipping into distress.
When you feel ready, and only then, we gently look at the patterns underneath, the beliefs and reactions the trauma left behind. The aim is not to erase the past but to loosen its grip, so it stops quietly running your present.
Go deeper
Sometimes it helps to understand what is happening in your body before you talk it through with anyone. Christina shares gentle, plain-language writing on trauma, the nervous system and steady ways to feel more grounded day to day.
Read the trauma counselling blogRead at your own pace. There is nothing here you have to act on.
What we can work through
People come to Soul Counselling carrying many different kinds of trauma. You do not need the right words for yours, and you do not need to be sure it counts. If it still weighs on you, it matters.
Early experiences of neglect, fear, criticism or instability can shape how safe the world feels for years afterwards. We work gently with the patterns those years left behind, at a pace that protects the younger part of you still carrying them.
A crash, a medical emergency, a sudden loss or another frightening event can leave your system stuck on high alert. Together we help your body recognise that the danger has passed, without ever pushing you to relive the moment in detail.
Being hurt by someone you trusted can quietly reshape how you relate to everyone else. We make room for the grief and the guardedness, and slowly rebuild a sense that closeness can feel safe again.
Years of shift work, high-pressure roles or repeated stress can wear down your nervous system just as surely as one big event. We treat that accumulated load as real trauma, and give it the gentle, unhurried attention it deserves.
About Christina
Christina Feyes founded Soul Counselling in 2016 and has more than ten years of experience supporting people through trauma and hard seasons of life. She is a counsellor, with training across psychology, social work and human services, and she works with clients right across Australia by video and phone. She is not a psychologist and does not diagnose, prescribe or treat.
What Christina offers is a blend of grounded, practical counselling and genuine intuitive insight. She holds the everyday, workable side of change, the coping tools and the steady structure, while also listening for the deeper layers that ordinary talking sometimes misses. Many clients say they feel met on both levels at once.
Common questions
If your question is not here, the free 15-minute assessment is the easiest way to ask it.
You can start without spending anything. Christina offers a free 15-minute assessment with no card and no obligation, so you can get a feel for how she works before deciding anything. There is nothing to lose by having that first conversation, and no pressure to continue afterwards. It is simply a gentle, no-cost way to find out whether this feels like the right fit for you right now.
No referral is needed. You do not have to see a GP first or arrange any paperwork before reaching out. You can contact Soul Counselling directly and book your free 15-minute assessment whenever you feel ready. Because Christina is a counsellor rather than a psychologist, there is no formal referral pathway to navigate, which often means you can begin far sooner than the usual system allows.
There is no Adelaide clinic. Christina’s only physical base is in Southport on the Gold Coast, and all Adelaide support is provided online by video and phone. This means you can work with her from anywhere in South Australia, from the CBD to the northern suburbs, Port Adelaide, the south or the Adelaide Hills, without travelling or sitting in a waiting room.
Usually much sooner than the local waitlists allow. Because sessions are online and there is no referral to organise, many people begin within days rather than waiting months for a scarce trauma-informed appointment. You can reach out today, book your free 15-minute assessment and take it from there, all at a pace that feels manageable rather than rushed.
No. You never have to recount your trauma in detail, and you will not be pushed to disclose anything before you are ready. Trauma counselling with Christina is about building safety first, not forcing catharsis. You choose how much to share and when. Sometimes meaningful work happens without going back over the events at all, and that is completely okay.
There is no fixed number, because everyone’s path is different. Some people come for a short season around a specific event, while others prefer steady, longer-term support. Christina will never push you to book more than feels right. You stay in choice throughout, reviewing as you go and continuing only for as long as it genuinely helps you.
Yes. Sessions are held over a secure video connection or by phone, and you join from wherever feels safe and private to you. Many people find that being in their own space actually helps them feel more grounded and in control during trauma work. Online counselling has become a well-established, effective way to access gentle, paced support, especially where local specialists are hard to reach.
Soul Counselling is not a crisis or emergency service. If you are in immediate danger or thinking about harming yourself, please call 000 now. For urgent support you can reach Lifeline on 13 11 14, Beyond Blue on 1300 22 4636, or the Blue Knot Helpline, which specialises in trauma, on 1300 657 380. These services are available when you need someone straight away, and Christina is here for the steadier work once you are safe.
You do not have to commit to anything today. Book a free 15-minute assessment with Christina and simply see how it feels. It costs nothing, there is no card and no obligation, and it gives you a chance to decide whether she feels safe enough for you to take a next step. There is genuinely nothing to lose.
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Adelaide’s public mental health services are stretched, and trauma-informed specialists are scarce and often booked out well in advance, so many people wait a long time for the right kind of help. Online counselling can open a door much sooner. The city also carries a heavy load of workplace and cumulative strain, from shift work and healthcare to defence and shipbuilding at Osborne, where high-pressure roles quietly add up over years. In the northern suburbs, the aftershock of car-manufacturing closures around Elizabeth left lasting stress running through whole communities. Yet Adelaide’s slower, steadier pace can be a real asset, giving healing the unhurried room it needs.
Sessions are held online and by phone across Adelaide and all of Australia, so support fits around your life. You can also explore all Adelaide counselling services.
Safe enough to do the work
Whether you are in the CBD, out in Salisbury or Noarlunga, over at Port Adelaide or up in the Adelaide Hills, trauma work should never feel rushed or forced. It should feel like something you are choosing, each session, on your own terms.
Christina is a qualified counsellor who works in a trauma-aware, paced way. You join from wherever feels safe, your own lounge room, a quiet corner, anywhere you can breathe. You set the direction, you decide how much to share, and nothing is pushed before you are ready. If a session starts to feel like too much, we slow down. You stay in control the whole way through.