THE RECOVERY SERIES FOR COUNSELLORS WORKING WITH FAMILY TRAUMA
Restore the space between action and reaction.
A counsellors’ guide and a companion client workbook for working through the effects of family trauma - together, at your clients’ pace.
Working through this for yourself? This series is designed to be worked through with a counsellor, not alone. You don’t have to do this by yourself.
How to bring it to your counsellor -
ONE SYSTEM, TWO BOOKS
A guide for you. A workbook for your client
FOR COUNSELLORS
The Six Elements - A Comprehensive Approach to Family Dependence Trauma
Therapist Edition
Your guide to the four shifts and six elements: the thinking behind each, how to introduce it in session, and how to hold a safe, non-judgmental space while your client explores.
Modular – choose the elements your client needs
Guidance for each worksheet
Prompts for when a client freezes or stalls
NZ$65
FOR COUNSELLORS
The Six Elements - A Comprehensive Approach to Family Dependence Trauma
Worksheet Edition
Their own space to write, draw and reflect, worked through alongside you. Reflections are strongest in written form – and this book is theirs to keep, private, on their own terms.
Worksheets for all six elements
Room for words, pictures or symbols
Made to return to as perspectives shift
NZ$35
Practice starter bundle
The counsellor book plus 3 client workbooks, so you can start with clients straight away. Save $21.
NZ$149
Grounded in experience, backed by training
I’ve walked the path of recovery myself and combined that lived experience with years of study and practice.
What I share is practical, human and tested - tools that actually work in real life
📚 Published Author
Two companion books on co-dependence and recovery.
🎭 Workshop Facilitator
Experienced in leading action based groups and creative therapy workshops.
🎓 Certified Training
Certificate in Creative Therapies and extensive trauma recovery study.
💡 Lived Experience
Third-generation survivor of alcohol dependency, now breaking cycles.
What members often notice
When people join, they often discover that support like this can make a real difference in big ways and small ways
Feeling less alone and more understood
Finding momentum when life feels stuck
Having encouragement without pressure or comparison
Learning practical tools that fit into everyday life
Feeling supported between therapy sessions or other care
Gaining confidence in navigating personal growth at their own pace
Everyone moves at their own speed and there’s no ‘right’ way to do it. What matters is that you’re taking steps forward, however small, and finding a space that helps you do it safely.
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Choose how you participate - access free areas of support, join optional paid programmes or connect in our tightly moderated social spaces. You’re always in control of your pace and privacy
Built around safety, respect and real support
Support spaces are carefully designed to feel safe, constructive and welcoming, whether you’re joining a group, a programme or our online social community.
Guided and facilitated environments
Clear group boundaries and expectations
Tightly moderated social spaces for safe peer connection
Evidence-informed approaches to growth and recovery
Focus on support without overwhelm or dependency
Respect for privacy, autonomy, and individual pace
This is a space where progress is encouraged, never forced.
This space may be right for you if…
You’re an adult child of alcoholics or dysfunctional family environments
You want support beyond crisis or one-to-one sessions
You’re looking for structured emotional growth
You want connection with people who understand your experiences
You want to build lasting change in a sustainable, realistic way
You don’t have to figure everything out alone
Growth doesn’t happen overnight. It happens through support, structure and steady momentum.
You deserve access to support that fits into your life - not the other way around.
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