How therapy helps

Watershed Wellbeing is a professional and respectful space to explore the issues that are holding you back from being your best self.

There are many issues you might want to discuss with a therapist, including:

  • Anxiety, worry and the many, many permutations of the ‘I’m not good enough’ story

  • Depression

  • Stress and burnout

  • Loss of connection with sense of self, drive and enjoyment of life

  • Guilt and shame

  • Difficulties adjusting to life changes and shifts in relationships

  • Grief and loss

  • Issues impacting your work and career progression

  • Emotional difficulties and heightened reactivity

  • Workplace conflict and communication difficulties

  • Workplace change and career coaching

  • Sexuality and Gender Identity

Watershed Wellbeing is a space for people with diverse gender identities and orientations, diverse relationships (poly-friendly), diverse sexual practices (kink-friendly), diverse ethnicities and belief systems and diverse family structures (poly, rainbow and blended families). 

Treatment Approaches

Noah uses a variety of evidence-based approaches, including:

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. ACT helps people who are experiencing difficult and unwanted emotions to bring out more of the person they’d like to be.

  • Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. Some CBT tools mesh really productively with ACT-based treatment plans. See above.

  • Mindfulness practices, including for people who don’t think mindfulness is for them.

  • Narrative Therapy. NT works with the stories we use to understand the world and our place in it. Working with underlying narratives can be a fruitful way of shifting mental habits that may have become fixed or unhelpful.

  • Interpersonal psychotherapy for depressed adolescents. IPT-A helps teenagers recognise their feelings and think about how events or conflicts with others affect their mood.

  • Dialectical Behaviour Therapy. DBT helps people cope with patterns of intense emotional turmoil to improve their sense of connection with self and others.

  • Contemporary attachment theory is a useful framework to understand patterns of connection and disconnection within intimate relationships.

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Noah Ariel

I am an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker providing compassionate, evidence-based support to build resilience and rediscover wellbeing.

Whether it is in the workplace or our personal relationships, finding firm footing is always critical to our sense of wellbeing.  Acceptance Commitment Therapy provides a guiding light towards this firm footing, and a jumping off point for the internal and behavioural changes that bring us the resilience and calm to bring our best selves to all of the challenges that we face.

Watershed Wellbeing offers a space to explore your thoughts, emotions & behaviours. Bringing your choices front and centre and equipping you with effective tools and practices that allow you to build momentum for change.

Twelve years of multidisciplinary therapeutic experience at Headspace (youth mental health) and as a therapist in private practice have equipped me to provide a client-centred and thoroughly realistic approach to supporting my clients.