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Reflect Renew Counselling
Sunbury-based Australia-wide Telehealth No referral needed

When life changes and you're not sure what comes next.

Online counselling for big life changes — the ones you chose, and the ones you didn't.

Book a free Fit Call

Counselling sessions also available.

Deborah Haywood
ACA Registered Counsellor (Level 2)

Change is often harder than it looks

Not every change is a crisis. But even a change you wanted can leave you unsettled — the old life doesn't fit any more, and the new one hasn't taken shape yet.

Sometimes transitions arrive by choice: a career shift, a move, a decision to leave a relationship. Sometimes they're handed to you: a redundancy, a health change, the end of a caring role, a child leaving home. Either way, not knowing quite who you are now, or what you want next, is hard to sit with on your own.

Counselling is a place to make sense of what's changing, work out what matters to you now, and think about what to do next.

How I work with change

Deborah Haywood, counsellor at Reflect Renew Counselling

I'm Deborah Haywood, and I hold a Master of Counselling (University of Canberra) and a Bachelor of Psychological Sciences (Swinburne University). I'm a Level 2 member of the Australian Counselling Association. Based in Sunbury, Victoria, I work with clients across Australia via telehealth. My approach is collaborative and person-centred: we look at what matters to you, what's changed, and what a realistic way forward looks like from where you are now.

We make room for what's been lost, and we also look at what still matters to you and how to move towards it — even if the way ahead isn't clear yet. You set the direction; I help you think it through.

You don't need to have it all figured out. The aim is a bit more clarity about what's next.

Transitions people often bring to counselling

Change takes many forms. These are some of the life transitions I commonly work with.

Career change, redundancy, or a growing sense that the work you're doing no longer fits
Relationship endings — separation, divorce, or the quiet drifting apart that precedes them
The end of a caring role, and the identity shift that follows
Children leaving home — or the change in relationship that comes when they do
Retirement, and the loss of structure, purpose or identity it can bring
Relocating to a new place — and the unexpected loneliness or dislocation that can follow
A health diagnosis that changes how you understand your life
A big birthday or milestone that has you asking what you want from the years ahead

You don't need to be in crisis. If you're somewhere between the life you had and the one you want, that's reason enough to get in touch.

How sessions work

All sessions are held online via video call — no commute, no waiting rooms. You can talk from home or anywhere that feels private.

1

Choose your starting point

You don't need to know exactly what you're looking for before you begin. A free 15-minute Fit Call is a good starting point — or you can book a Standard Session directly if you're ready.

2

Meet online, from wherever you are

Sessions are online, so you can talk from home or anywhere private. You pick the time that fits your life.

3

Work out what's next

Sessions focus on what matters to you, what's changed, and where you want to go from here.

You don't have to figure it out alone

The free Fit Call is 15 minutes, with no obligation — a chance to ask questions and see whether it feels right.

Book a free Fit Call

Counselling sessions also available.

One-to-one counselling for all ages · $90 standard session (60 min) · Seven days a week

Prefer to call or email first? Call (03) 8007 3516 (leave a message if Deborah's in a session) or email deborah@reflectrenew.com.au.

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