Hearing and responding to the client’s story
Mapping the possibilities and goal setting
Action planning and closure.
Her approach is gentle, compassionate, curious, gently challenging, and attuned to the client’s present moment. Kobie’s extensive experience in psychology has enabled her to help clients develop a stronger understanding of themselves and others.
Kobie has worked as a counsellor in a variety of settings, including:
Therapy for children and parents experiencing grief, loss, and anxiety-related difficulties.
Support for children and adult survivors of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse.
Specialized focus on complex trauma and family therapy.
Kobie finds therapeutic work invigorating and is continually inspired by the bravery of her clients.
Kobie’s therapeutic approach is predominantly psychodynamic, influenced by Self Psychology or ‘the Psychology of the Self.’ This approach helps clients develop a clear and cohesive sense of self, explore their ambitions and ideals, and grow to fulfill their potential. Disruptions to self-development are often the foundation of many emotional, psychological, and interpersonal difficulties.
Kobie is also the founder of Modern Minds, where she works alongside a range of dedicated and compassionate health practitioners ranging from Acupuncturists, Naturopaths, Social Workers and Nutritionists and Dieticians.
“Self psychology sees man as born strong, not weak, because it takes account of the fact that he is born into the psychological matrix of responsive self-objects, just as he is born into the physiological matrix of an atmosphere that contains oxygen. To examine the baby psychologically in isolation from the self-objects (who indeed are a part of him and of whom he is a part, from the beginning) would be just as absurd as it would be to examine it physiologically in a vacuum, i.e., without oxygen (which indeed is simultaneously ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ of him physically, as are the self-objects simultaneously ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ of him psychologically). Being reflected by the self-objects (mirroring), being able to merge with their calmness and power (idealization), sensing the silent presence of their essential alikeness (twin-ship), the baby is strong, healthy, and vigorous.”
By Heinz Kohut from (1984), How Does Analysis Cure?. Ed. A. Goldberg & P. Stepansky. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (p.478).
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I’m based on the Sunshine Coast, QLD but work with clients around Australia via Telehealth.
E: hello@modernminds.com.au
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