Georg Atanassoff

Counsellor/Life Coaching Practitioner/Psychotherapist

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My Programmes

Life Coaching is a relationship with a life coach (effectiveness coach) that is designed to facilitate
the establishment of long range and short range goals and the achievement of those goals.

Life Coaching is designed to be a long-term (multi-year) relationship where the life coach is assisting
to improve the quality of life.

Life Coaching is comprehensive in that it deals with almost all areas of life, including work, finances,
education,health,relationships, entertainment.

Life Coaching is for people who are already basically successful, well-adjusted,
and emotionally healthy.

The My Coach™ Programme aims to achieve these outcomes through a
mutually negotiated GAME PLAN/LIFE PLAN.

As in the Professional Mates™ Programme this will involve one-on-one sessions*.

COSTS: Fees are individually negotiated.

 Concession rates are available for students & welfare recipients.

Your appointed Professional Mate™ will work with you in resolving emotional and
behavioral issues that are impacting on your life.

Methodology:

A pluralistic counselling & psychotherapy perspective, which incorporates elements of Person-Centered,
CBT (cognitive behavior therapy) and Existential approaches.

Together with your Professional Mate™ you will be assisted in clearing the blockages between
the intellectual, emotional & experiential aspects of your life that may be causing emotional distress, anger,
depression, anxieties & self-esteem issues.

The work will focus on building a therapeutic relationship to effect change & includes a
LIFE PLAN/GAME PLAN
similar to the My Coach™ Programme.

Typically, this will involve one-on-one sessions* with your Professional Mates™ Therapist against a
back drop of client based focused outcomes.
The endeavor is to work collaboratively with clients to help them identify what they want from the therapy.

COSTS: Fees are individually negotiated.

 Concession rates are available for students & welfare recipients.

Inter-Agency:

Case management on a daily or weekly basis is also available for complex & high needs clients in
collaboration with third party agencies, i.e. NGO's, NSW Health, etc.

About Georg

I have recently returned to my home town of Newcastle, after two decades of working in Canberra & Regional N.S.W.

Following a corporate career, I returned to University undertaking an Applied Psychology degree with a major in Counselling, (B.App.Soc.Sc.).

An internship with a high profile Canberra NGO provided me with the necessary clinical hours & training for professional accreditation &  I was then involved as a Case Manager over a period of 6 years in a Programme that supported clients who were at risk of homelessness due to mental health issues, social isolation, drug & alcohol addiction.

This experience gave me valuable insights into the Community/ Disability Sector's “managed care” system, where under a medical (sickness) model, the primary considerations were medicated treatment plans.

In working with this client portfolio I soon discovered that in developing a therapeutic relationship through the Counselling process, sustainable positive outcomes were possible with less reliance on medication particularly issues around anxiety, depression and anger.

It was through this exposure that I subsequently developed the My Coach™ & Professional Mates™ Programmes, which are the foundation of my Counselling & Life Coaching practice.

Additional post-grad training in Psychotherapy has added to my skill set in delivering a range of therapeutic modalities, to enhance emotional & mental health.

In the 15 years of doing this work, I remain passionate about helping people to achieve their full potential in life.