Bernadette Welham, AASW
5 years in practice
Bernadette Welham is an AASW counsellor with five years of professional experience.
License and registration
- AASW
- 505977 · expires June 2026
- Years in practice
- 5
- Languages
- English
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About Bernadette
Bernadette Welham is an AASW counsellor with five years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and parenting concerns. She encourages clients to notice their own strengths and to take small steps forward.
Taking the first step into therapy can feel hard and she acknowledges that courage. Bernadette works in a collaborative, down-to-earth way. She listens first and helps people clarify what matters most to them.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and conversational rather than full of clinical jargon. Techniques are selected to match the person’s goals and situation. Her approach draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people understand their feelings and the patterns that keep them stuck.
She also uses Attachment-Based and Client-Centred ideas to build a trusting working relationship and to explore how early connections shape current responses. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and mindfulness strategies are brought in when they fit the problem and the person’s preferences.
People come to Bernadette for a wide range of concerns beyond mood and anxiety, including relationship strain, grief, compulsive behaviours, sleep and eating issues, anger and low self-worth. She also supports those navigating identity, adoption and caregiving challenges. Her style suits people who want straightforward, empathetic guidance and practical tools.
Sessions can include goal-setting, skills practice and reflective conversation. Bernadette encourages clients to try approaches and then adapt them if something does not fit. She aims to make therapy useful and manageable for everyday life.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Bernadette lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Bernadette names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How Bernadette’s approaches work online
Bernadette uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people recognise and work with strong emotions that drive their behaviour. This approach is useful when patterns of feeling and reacting keep someone stuck or repeating painful cycles. Attachment-Based Therapy is used to look at how early connections shape current responses and to build more supported ways of relating. Client-Centred Therapy keeps the focus on the person’s experience, with the counsellor offering acceptance and gentle guidance.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The counsellor will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then try methods that seem most helpful. Clients and the counsellor make adjustments together if something does not fit or needs to change over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules, reduce travel time and keep momentum between appointments.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Bernadette help with?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and parenting issues. Other areas include grief, relationship and intimacy matters, addictions, sleep and eating concerns, anger and self-esteem.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is collaborative and conversational. Sessions are practical, with listening, skills practice and everyday language rather than technical terms.
What experience does she bring to therapy?
She has five years of professional experience working with a broad range of concerns. That background informs practical tools and ways to talk through difficult problems.
What credentials and location apply to this counsellor?
She holds AASW and practises in Australia. The profile lists AASW as the credential provided.
Can I work with her if I live overseas or need another language?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not accepted at this time.
Which session formats are available?
Sessions can be conducted by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging depending on client preference.
How does payment and cost work?
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