With the peaceful, natural surrounds of Sunshine Cove as the backdrop, Sunshine Coast therapist Kinga Westwood teaches her clients strategies to cope with the stress, pain, and challenges in their lives.  

Kinga provides experienced support to individuals, couples and families, facing difficulties related to: Anxiety Disorders; Trauma; PTSD, Depression; Bipolar disorder; Stress management; Self Esteem; Social skills; Parenting; Relationship counselling; Grief and loss; Life adjustment difficulties; Anger management; Self Harm; and Workplace issues.

Children in particular benefit from Kinga’s warmth, experience and compassion. Her willingness to engage them through gentle play in a natural environment allows them to express themselves with confidence, and experience powerful breakthroughs. 

Kinga meets her clients ‘where they are’ and assists them to develop habits that create psychologically healthy and fulfilling lifestyles.

At Psychology Cove, Psychodynamic Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and Mindfulness are used to treat and manage a range of issues such as relationship difficulties, anxiety, depression, low-self esteem, social anxiety, and anger. 

Kinga Westwood offers face-to-face and telephone or Zoom sessions. In her experience, there are no limitations to  providing treatment in this way. In practice, these platforms can allow clients to really focus on the content of the sessions without any visual distractions and this can consequently help people retain information from their sessions. In addition, telephone sessions remove the need for travel, which is particularly valuable for time poor clients.

Kinga also offers psychological health retreats with daily individual face-to-face sessions. Please enquire for more details.

What to expect

Initially, you’ll be invited to have a somewhat informal chat with Kinga on the phone. It is designed to provide you with an opportunity to discuss your concerns and motivation for seeking professional help. There is no charge for this discussion.

During the discussion, Kinga will offer some useful insights, they will afford you a better understanding of where your challenges have likely come from and some understanding around the how and the why they are being sustained.

You will then be provided with recommendations for treatment and information about what the treatment involves. This assessment and any recommendations will be based on actual cases with the same or similar issues and have helped previous clients get real results, adapted to be the best ‘fit’ for you personally and your specific circumstances.

There is no obligation what so ever, to continue beyond this initial consultation.

If you do decide to continue into a therapeutic relationship with Kinga, sessions are typically scheduled on a weekly basis and structured around a one hour time frame.