with Kevin Scott
GESTALT & FAMILY THERAPIST
About
Kevin Scott
Gestalt Therapy ~ Family Therapy
Kevin came to Psychotherapy / Counselling later in life after varied career starts in industries including Banking, State and Federal Government Departments, Road Construction, Sports Ground Maintenance, Automotive, Hospitality and Accounting. Kevin felt he wanted to make more of a positive difference in life and transitioned to study Gestalt Therapy, Family Therapy and Social Work.
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After graduating from Gestalt Therapy Australia in 2001, Kevin has worked in Community Health as Men’s Health Counsellor, Generalist Counsellor and the past 14 years as Alcohol and Other Drugs / Mental Health Practitioner. Kevin has a broad knowledge and understanding of issues that impact men and women from all walks of life as they grow and deal with life challenges.
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Growing up Kevin found competitive team sports very beneficial for emotional expression, physical release and developing rapport and connection skills. Kevin has been involved as a football player and coach of over 4 decades and also continues to participate in the annual Lorne Pier to Pub swim having completed over 30 swims.
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Kevin’s goal is to provide a safe and supportive space for anyone to explore their issues and acknowledges that it takes courage to reach out for help with another person.
Service Provisions
Kevin holds qualifications of Advanced Diploma of Gestalt Therapy through Gestalt Therapy Australia, Graduate Certificate Family Therapy through Latrobe University, Sportsmind Practitioner with Sportsmind International Institute For Human Performance Research.
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Clinical Registrant - Psychotherapy & Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA).
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Kevin provides individual and couples short, medium and long term psychotherapy and counselling and offers face to face and Telehealth options subject to client’s needs. Kevin works from the Gestalt Therapy Experiential and Phenomenological perspectives which bring awareness and understanding of the barriers to the change we want in ourselves from a relational context. Therapy helps develop deeper understanding of the impacts on our psychological and emotional wellbeing that leads to more satisfactory intimate relationships with our selves and others.
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Kevin has worked in community health services as a Generalist Counsellor, Men’s Health Counsellor and as an Alcohol and Other Drugs/ Mental Health Advanced Practitioner and in private practice since 2001. Kevin works with adolescents (16+) and adults across a very broad range of issues and the purposeful intent to provide a responsive, safe, collaborative and compassionate space that celebrates the uniqueness and strengths of each individual in the here and now.
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Counselling can contribute to successful resolution of many issues including Anxiety and Depression, Grief and Loss, Family of Origin impacts, Trauma, Addictions, Life Stage Changes, Life Coaching and Personal Development. Kevin also has an interest in giftedness and the struggle to fit in and informed by Internal Family Systems Therapy for trauma resolution.
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Clients can self refer and do not require a mental health care plan.
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From $100 per session. Medicare rebates do not apply. Health Care Card Holders from $80 per session.
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Kevin prefers to work with clients over the longer term, which often exceeds the sessions available under a mental health care plan and some clients appreciate that their mental health records are not reported to government departments or insurance companies.
What is Gestalt?
Translated from German, the word ‘Gestalt’ implies ‘wholeness’, and as a verb, ‘to make whole’.
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Gestalt psychotherapy provides a space for a holistic exploration of the client’s experience in the moment, authentic living, and human relating.
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Gestalt psychotherapy has a ‘here and now’ focus on the clients’ awareness of their world and relationships with others. Simultaneously, Gestalt psychotherapy is sensitive to a person’s whole life experience, the physical, psychological, intellectual, emotional, interpersonal and spiritual and that each of these interconnected aspects of living is considered inseparable from the client’s environment, history and culture.
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Gestalt psychotherapy promotes self-awareness and holds that therapeutic change occurs through an authentic meeting with another with a focus on describing and understanding the unique experience of client’s rather than interpreting and generalizing about their experience. Gestalt psychotherapy also offers a delicate balance of support and challenge in addressing the hopes and dreams of clients.
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Gestalt psychotherapy offers the opportunity for a healing experience through a meeting and a dialogue between the client and the therapist and is grounded in the ideas of phenomenology (awareness and subjectivity), field theory (context), dialogic existentialism (relationship), contact (process), holism (connectedness), present centredness (here and now) and creative adjustment (experiment).
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Source: Gestalt Therapy Australia
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0414 792 605 | kevinjscott@optusnet.com.au
46 Phillips St Coburg, Victoria 3058