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Soul Counselling · Trauma Support · Melbourne
If old wounds, a sudden emotional shock or relationship trauma still live in your body as survival patterns you cannot think your way out of, you are not broken. From Southport on the Gold Coast, Christina works with people across Melbourne online and by phone, slowly and safely, only ever at a pace you set.
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An estimated 75 percent of Australians live through a traumatic event at some point, and around 11 percent will experience post traumatic stress, though most people never go on to carry a lasting disorder. In Victoria, the 2020 to 2022 national study found close to 21.4 percent of people met criteria for a mental disorder in a single year, a reminder that carrying a heavy load here is far more common than it can feel.
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 Melbourne’s long grey winters and short dark days, old wounds can feel heavier and slower to shift, and that too is understandable.
How Christina works
There is no forced disclosure here and no pressure to relive anything. You will never be pushed toward catharsis or made to retell your story to prove it mattered. Everything is paced around safety, consent and what your system can genuinely process today, so you stay in choice from the first minute to the last.
Before anything else, we build enough steadiness and trust that your body can begin to settle. You decide what to share, what to leave for another day and when to slow down, and that choice is always honoured.
Trauma is a nervous system survival response, not a weakness of will. We gently notice how it shows up in your body and reactions, working with those patterns kindly rather than forcing you to analyse or explain them.
As safety grows, we can slowly meet the deeper roots of old wounds. Christina blends grounded counselling with quiet intuitive insight, so change reaches beneath the surface without ever outrunning what feels manageable.
Go deeper
If you are still weighing things up, it can help to understand how trauma settles into the body and why gentle, paced support tends to work better than pushing hard. Learning what to expect often takes some of the fear out of reaching out.
Read the trauma counselling blogNo pressure to book anything, reading first is a completely valid first step.
What we can work through
People come to Soul Counselling carrying many different kinds of hurt. You do not need the right label or a formal diagnosis to begin, only a sense that something still weighs on you. Here are some of the themes we gently work with.
When early experiences taught you the world was not safe, those lessons can linger in adult life as anxiety, people pleasing or a quiet sense of never being enough. We meet those younger parts of you with patience and care.
A crash, a medical emergency, an assault or a sudden loss can leave your body stuck in alarm long after the event has passed. We work to help your nervous system understand that the danger is over.
Harm inside a close relationship can leave deep marks on trust, boundaries and self worth. Together we make gentle room to rebuild a sense of safety in yourself and with others, at your pace.
Melbourne carries a large healthcare and frontline workforce, and repeated exposure to distress adds up. If you hold others all day, this is a space where someone quietly holds you.
About Christina
Christina Feyes founded Soul Counselling in 2016 and works as a counsellor, not a psychologist, with training across psychology, social work and human services and more than ten years supporting people through hard seasons. Her only physical base is in Southport on the Gold Coast, and she works with clients right across Melbourne and the rest of Australia by video and phone.
Her approach weaves solid clinical understanding with warm, grounded counselling and a thread of intuitive insight. That means sessions can stay practical and steady while also reaching the deeper layers where trauma tends to live, without ever pushing past what feels safe for you.
Common questions
If your question is not here, the free 15-minute assessment is the easiest way to ask it.
Money should not be the reason you keep struggling alone. You are welcome to begin with a free 15 minute assessment, with no card details and no obligation, so you can get a real sense of how it feels before deciding anything. There is genuinely nothing to lose by having that first gentle conversation, and no pressure to continue if it does not feel right for you.
No. You do not need a referral, a formal diagnosis or the right words for what happened. If something still weighs on you, that is reason enough to reach out. You can simply book the free 15 minute assessment and talk it through, and together we can work out whether this kind of paced, gentle support feels like a good fit for you right now.
There is no Melbourne clinic. Christina’s only physical base is in Southport on the Gold Coast, and all Melbourne work happens online by video and phone across the city and wider Victoria. Many people find that meeting from their own home, whether in the inner north, bayside or the outer suburbs, actually feels safer and calmer than sitting in an unfamiliar waiting room.
No. You are never required to relive or recount your experiences to be helped here. There is no forced disclosure and no push toward catharsis. You decide what to share and what to leave, and we work at a pace your nervous system can handle. Trauma work can move gently and safely without you having to walk back through the worst moments in detail.
You start with one small, low pressure step, the free 15 minute assessment. It is simply a chance to talk, ask questions and notice how Christina feels to you, with no obligation to book anything further. You do not need to have your story organised or know what to say. Turning up as you are, unsure and all, is a completely valid place to begin.
There is no set number, because trauma heals at its own pace and yours is unique to you. Some people come for a short season of support, others for longer, deeper work, and both are welcome. Nothing is locked in. We regularly check in on how things feel, and you stay in choice about continuing, pausing or slowing down at any point along the way.
Yes. Sessions are held privately by secure video or phone, so what you share stays confidential. Meeting from a space you already trust often helps your body settle more easily, which can make the work feel safer, not less real. For many people across Melbourne, paced online trauma counselling reaches just as deeply as sitting in a room, without the added stress of travelling across the city.
Soul Counselling is not a crisis service and cannot provide emergency support. If you are in immediate danger, please call 000. For support right now you can reach Lifeline on 13 11 14 or Beyond Blue on 1300 22 4636, both available around the clock. For trauma specific help, the Blue Knot Helpline on 1300 657 380 is there for adults affected by complex trauma. Please reach out to them if you need someone tonight.
You can begin with a free 15 minute assessment, with no card details, no obligation and genuinely nothing to lose. It is simply a chance to talk, to ask questions and to notice whether Christina feels safe enough for you to take the next step, whenever and if ever you are ready.
Book your free 15-minute assessment →Trauma support across Melbourne
Melbourne carries a particular weight when it comes to old wounds. The long dark winters and short days can make grief and trauma feel heavier and harder to move through. Many people here still hold the collective strain of the world’s longest lockdowns, cumulatively over 260 days, which for some reactivated or deepened trauma that had felt settled. A large healthcare and frontline workforce absorbs distress daily, while refugee and migration journeys leave many carrying trauma from far beyond these shores. Add the sprawl and long commutes from the outer growth suburbs, and there is often little room left to process any of it.
Sessions are held online and by phone across Melbourne and all of Australia, so support fits around your life. You can also explore all Melbourne counselling services.
Safe enough to do the work
When the days are short and the drive across town feels like too much, having to leave home for help can be a barrier in itself. Working online removes that hurdle, so you can begin from wherever already feels safe.
You will work with a qualified counsellor in trauma aware, paced sessions where you stay in control the whole way through. From your own lounge room in Dandenong, Frankston or the inner city, you choose what to share and what to hold back, and nothing is ever pushed before you are ready. If a session ever moves too fast, we slow down, and that is always allowed.