Consulting Counselling Coaching
Director Senta Sharp
Counselling & Consulting
With a Graduate Diploma of Counselling from the Australian College of Applied Psychology, Senta combines 20 years’ experience as a strategic communication specialist with professional training in counselling and psychotherapy to work therapeutically with clients.
Senta established Senta Sharp Counselling services in 2019, expanding her work with business clients to a therapeutic framework, having seen that many clients’ professional and business issues are often greatly intertwined with and influenced by personal and private challenges.
As a professional Counsellor, Senta is a Clinical Member of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA).
She works with clients throughout Australia, New Zealand, the South Pacific Islands and South East Asia privately and through Employee Assistance Programs.
She participates regularly in professional development activities to expand her knowledge on current research and clinical practice in counselling and psychotherapy, and undertakes professional supervision to ensure she maintains ethical practice and best practice guidelines for the benefit of clients.
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Professional Credentials
Graduate Diploma Counselling, ACAP
Bachelor of Business Communication (with Distinction), QUT
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PACFA Reg. Clinical 25456
Yellow Card Holder:
Disability Services Positive Notice 2018-27258-1
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Private Health Provider for
BUPA, Medibank Private, ahm, Australian Regional Health Group - including Police Health, St Luke's Health, Phoenix Health Fund, Emergency Services Health
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Work Cover Queensland Provider P0007210348 Registered Provider for work-related injury and illness
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Employee Assistance Program (EAP) Provider
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Modern Health Inc., San Francisco, USA
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The Maven Clinic, USA
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CiC, UK
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Director: Senta Sharp Counselling
Business Address: Suite 13, 1b/47 Park Rd, Milton, QLD 4064 Australia
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Professional Appointments
Member of the Global Inclusion Council
Modern Health Inc, USA 2021 - 2024
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I served with Modern Health’s Global Inclusion Council from its formation in 2021 coming together regularly with licenced therapists and coaches from around the world to share knowledge and insights to ensure mental health care in local regions is centred in diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging for the workplace and reviewing cultural nuances, gaining feedback on local trends around mental health, and guidance on what is needed for content, services, and products for specific communities.
Awards
Most Dedicated Mental Health Counsellor 2022 - Brisbane
in the Annual Health and Pharmaceutical Awards 2022 hosted by Global Health & Pharma
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Best Couples Counselling Service 2023 - Brisbane
in the Annual Social Care Awards 2023 hosted by Global Health & Pharma
On being a Counsellor
A connection and investment in you as a person
"I really enjoy the natural flow of the counselling process. Before counselling even starts, there has to be a connection. It comes from within – reaching out to a person on a very human level, the willingness to really see and invest in them, connect and tap into thoughts and feelings, hear what is said and not said, and search for what is just below the surface, hidden but wanting to emerge and be acknowledged."
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A real relationship that values you
"For me, the strength and realness of a therapeutic relationship is the absolute key to successful counselling and to healing. That’s why I bring all of myself to counselling relationships, drawing on my own lived experience of wanting to be heard, understood, regarded and valued for all that is in me, to be seen as I am, and good enough just to be."
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Trusting someone with your story
"It’s a really big step to trust another person with your own unique experiences, your view of the world, and hope that your counsellor will respect, value, empathise, understand, and support you as you explore your challenges and barriers, your hurts and disappointments, your fears, concerns and sorrow; as you share your story, perhaps for the first time, and try to heal or seek change.
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It is the journey that anyone who goes to see a counsellor is seeking."
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Being vulnerable and healing
"As your counsellor, I respect the position of trust and privilege I am being given to walk with you as you share what is most important and meaningful to you. I will give you an opportunity to be vulnerable, with dignity and safety, and to be heard and understood, without it compromising the rest of your world, and I will hold you through the process of change and healing."
A Welcome Video from Senta
Reflections on Counselling: An Interview with Senta
