Hello and welcome
Hello, I'm Julietta, a qualified, experienced counsellor and a member of the Australian Counselling Association. I began practicing as a qualified counsellor in 2013, but my journey to creating this space for healing began long before.
to Seeds of Healing, a safe and nurturing space for all who visit.
As a teenager I chose my first work experience placement in a community mental health service. It was the ‘80s and bringing mental health services out into the ‘community’ was a new idea. I knew immediately that ‘I’m in the right place!’ - this was the work I wanted to do. It resonated with experiences I'd already had by then, and lit a flame inside me that had been waiting for that first spark.
My journey to becoming a counsellor wove its way through studying many different subjects, working many different jobs, and battling through many life challenges including family violence, single parenting, unemployment, poverty, grief, and the impacts of addiction on those close to me. As I worked in admin and IT, raised my child, and learned from life’s twists and turns, I volunteered in many different roles: with refugees, asylum seekers, isolated elderly people, and people suffering through poverty, hunger, homelessness, grief, illness and disability, always driven by a passion to support people going through tough times. Whatever their circumstances, their inner experience - emotional, mental and spiritual - was always the centre of my focus.
After qualifying as a counsellor I trained intensively in Narrative Therapy, which focuses on people's strengths, what they believe in and stand up for, or stand up against, and their right to tell their story their way. I still love Narrative Therapy and still base my work on its foundations - its strong ethical stance, its careful consideration of the social, political and relational contexts of people’s lives, and its non-pathologising lens - the person is not the problem.
In the following years, I started learning about trauma and went on a journey of personal recovery, and also began my journey of in-depth specialist training to work with trauma, because I believe this is the most important problem the world faces today (because it drives every other problem, and our responses too). I now work as a trauma counsellor in one of Adelaide's largest and most respected community service providers, as well as in this private practice. I’m continuously training, reading and doing supervision to update and hone my skills and recharge my energy for this work.
More recently I’ve trained in Parts work, using IFS (Internal Family Systems therapy) and TIST (Trauma Informed Stabilisation Therapy). This way of working allows people to shift their understandings of themselves, gives them more choice over their responses, and more access to their own innate healing capacity, and it allows access to thoughts, feelings and memories that normally wouldn't be available in counselling.
I work with people of many different cultures, genders, ages and abilities. That includes Australian First Nations people and those who’ve lived through family violence, childhood histories of out-of-home care and abuse, have been to prison and/or have been victims of crime, people with different abilities, neurodiverse people and NDIS participants. My success in connecting with and supporting a wide range of people comes from seeing every one of them as a full, equal but unique human being. No two experiences are the same, but we all have the same brain and nervous system. If you’re human, you are welcome here.
I believe that everyone has the right and the ability to heal - but for that to happen, you need to be in the driving seat of your own life and make the choices that work for you in your own journey. I'm here to support you, believe in you, offer hope, provide information and guide you in gentle healing processes that help you get to where you want to go.
- Julietta Cerin, qualified counsellor & trauma therapist
Change is possible. Recovery is possible.
If this resonates with you, please feel free to get in touch for a free introductory chat
