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.

Counselling

Individual Therapy

Working together to reconnect your values to how you engage with the choices you face. Supporting you to rediscover your psychological resilience using practices and tools that develop insight, improve communication skills and help shift your relationship with yourself, your mind and your emotions.

Child-focused Parent Work

Support for parents and carers to help young people to move through the transition into adulthood. Drawing on over a decade’s experience working with adolescents and their parents to rebuild trust, repair relationships and help each family to negotiate new ways of establishing and maintaining respectful boundaries.

Relationship Counselling (Couples and Individuals)

Creating a safe, nurturing environment in which to unpack and address issues that may be preventing couples from rebuilding trust, deepening emotional and physical intimacy and allowing each partner to connect with more opportunities to be their best self.

Rebates

Noah Ariel an AASW accredited Mental Health Social Worker and is registered with Medicare under the Better Outcomes in Mental Health Scheme. This allows clients with a Mental Health Care Plan (essentially a specialist referral from your GP) to receive a Medicare rebate for up to 10 counselling sessions in a calendar year.