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Soul Counselling · Trauma Support · Brisbane
If an old wound, a sudden shock, or hurt inside a relationship still lives in your body, you are not broken. Your nervous system learned to survive. From anywhere in Brisbane, we work gently online and by phone, in your time, never faster than you feel ready for.
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Research suggests around three in four Australians live through a traumatic event at some point, and close to eleven per cent will experience post-traumatic stress, though most people do not go on to carry a lasting disorder. In the 2020 to 2022 National Study of Mental Health and Wellbeing, about 23.7 per cent of Queenslanders aged 16 to 85, roughly 954,400 people, experienced a mental disorder in a single year, so if you are struggling you are far from alone.
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 a city as large and fast-moving as Brisbane it is easy to carry all of this privately, smiling through the day while quietly holding a lot on your own.
How Christina works
You do not have to recount every detail, relive the worst of it, or force any big emotional release. That is not how safe trauma work happens. Instead we move at the pace of what your nervous system can genuinely settle with, guided by your consent at every step. You stay in choice about what we look at and when. Nothing is dragged out before you are ready.
Before we go anywhere near the hard material, we build a felt sense of steadiness. That means simple grounding, understanding your own responses without judgement, and knowing you can slow down or pause at any moment. Safety is the ground everything else stands on, and we do not rush it.
Trauma is held in the nervous system, not only in the story you tell about it. We gently notice what happens in the body, the tightening, the numbing, the bracing, and work with those survival patterns kindly, so your system can begin to learn that the danger has passed and it is allowed to soften.
Rather than only managing symptoms, we make room to meet the deeper roots when you feel ready. As old protective patterns ease, many people find more space to breathe, steadier relationships, and a quiet return of trust in themselves and in life.
Go deeper
Sometimes it helps to understand what is happening inside you before you speak to anyone. Our writing explores trauma, the nervous system, and safe, paced healing in plain and compassionate language, so you can take in as much or as little as feels right.
Read the trauma counselling blogThere is no pressure to be ready. Reading quietly is a valid first step.
What we can work through
Trauma wears many faces, and none of them are a weakness. Whatever brought you here, you can bring it at your own pace. These are some of the areas people in Brisbane reach out about.
When early years felt unsafe, unpredictable, or emotionally absent, the patterns can quietly shape adult life. We work gently with these deep roots, helping you understand the survival responses you learned young and slowly offer yourself the safety you did not have then.
A sudden event, a crash, an assault, a medical emergency, a frightening loss, can leave the body stuck in alarm long after the danger is over. We help your nervous system complete what it could not finish in the moment, without asking you to relive it in graphic detail.
Hurt inside close relationships, betrayal, coercion, or ongoing emotional harm can leave you doubting your own perceptions. Together we rebuild trust, boundaries, and a clearer sense of what is truly yours to carry and what is not.
For those in healthcare, emergency services, and other demanding roles, distress can build quietly across years rather than from one event. We make room for that accumulated strain gently, honouring how much you have witnessed and carried.
About Christina
Soul Counselling was founded in 2016 by Christina Feyes, a counsellor with more than ten years of experience and training across psychology, social work, and human services. She works with people right across Australia by video and phone, and while her only physical base is in Southport on the Gold Coast, distance is no barrier to the care she offers Brisbane clients.
Christina brings together grounded clinical knowledge and steady, practical counselling with an intuitive sensitivity to what sits beneath the words. This means you get support that helps with the day to day, and also gently reaches the deeper layers where trauma tends to live, always at a pace you set.
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. Soul Counselling offers a free 15-minute assessment with no card required and no obligation, so you can get a genuine feel for how it might be to work together before deciding anything. There is nothing to lose in simply having that first conversation, and no pressure to continue if it does not feel right for you.
No referral is needed. You are welcome to reach out directly and book your free 15-minute assessment whenever you feel ready. Christina is a counsellor, not a doctor or psychologist, so there is no diagnosis or medical gatekeeping involved, just a warm, human conversation about what you are carrying and whether this feels like the right kind of support for you.
There is no Brisbane clinic. Christina’s only physical base is in Southport on the Gold Coast, and all Brisbane work is done online by video and phone. Many people find this easier, as you can meet from home without a cross-city drive. Wherever you are, from the CBD to Logan, Ipswich, or the bayside, you can access the same gentle, paced support.
No. Safe trauma work does not require you to recount every detail or relive the worst moments. You share only what you choose, when you choose, and we often work with how trauma sits in your body rather than with the story itself. You stay in choice the whole way through, and nothing is pushed before your nervous system feels ready.
A good first step is the free 15-minute assessment. It is a short, no-pressure conversation where you can ask questions, get a sense of Christina, and notice whether she feels safe enough for you. There is no obligation to continue and nothing to prepare. You simply arrive as you are and see how it feels from there.
There is no fixed number, because trauma healing is not a race and everyone moves differently. Some people come for a focused period, others prefer longer, steadier support. We go at the pace your nervous system can genuinely settle with, and you remain in control of how often you meet and for how long. Your needs guide the journey, not a set formula.
Yes. Sessions are held privately over secure video or phone, and many people feel safer opening up from their own familiar space. Working online does not lessen the depth or the care, and for trauma in particular the comfort of your own environment can help your nervous system feel steadier. What matters most is the safe, trusting relationship, and that carries fully across a screen.
Soul Counselling is not a crisis or emergency service. If you are in immediate danger, please call 000. For urgent support any time, Lifeline is on 13 11 14 and Beyond Blue is on 1300 22 4636. For trauma-specific help, the Blue Knot Helpline is on 1300 657 380. Please reach out to these services first if you need someone right now, and consider counselling for the gentler, ongoing work once you feel safe.
You are welcome to begin with a free 15-minute assessment. There is no card required and no obligation, simply a chance to feel whether Christina seems safe enough for you to take a next step. You have nothing to lose, and you stay in choice the whole way through.
Book your free 15-minute assessment →Trauma support across Brisbane
Brisbane is big, subtropical, and growing fast, and its size can cut both ways. The anonymity of a large city lets people carry trauma privately, yet many also feel isolated, especially after relocating for work and finding themselves far from familiar support. Across the CBD, South Bank, West End, Chermside, Carindale, and out to Logan, Ipswich, Redlands, Moreton Bay, and the bayside, a large healthcare and frontline workforce quietly absorbs cumulative strain shift after shift. Long commutes and cost-of-living pressure only add weight to older wounds. Online counselling meets you where you already are.
Sessions are held online and by phone across Brisbane and all of Australia, so support fits around your life. You can also explore all Brisbane counselling services.
Safe enough to do the work
Reaching out is hard enough without a long trip across Brisbane traffic to sit in an unfamiliar waiting room. Working online removes that hurdle and lets you begin from a place where you already feel a measure of safety.
You meet with a qualified counsellor for trauma-aware, paced sessions from wherever feels most settled, your own lounge room, a quiet corner, or on the phone. You stay in control of what we explore and how quickly. Nothing is pushed before you are ready, and there is no requirement to disclose anything you would rather keep for later. The aim is simply steady, respectful progress that your nervous system can trust.