Why choicing Act Right Now Counselling Services? If you want to know, you are in the right place.
He was stepping into an unknown future. He knew it in both his body and his mind. For so long, he thought he knew what his life would look like, but now everything had changed. He thought he was comfortable with that unknown, but as embers under the ashes can restart bushfires, the unknown burned out his reassuring life.
A few months later, he left his position, ending twenty-plus years of a successful international academic career.
Meanwhile, the Grim Reaper was busy shortening COVID victims’ lives.
He struggled with dark thoughts, past and reactivated traumas, and severe depression. He needed to rebuild his life and close the open wounds of abuse, burnout and depression.
Like millions in Australia, he was a migrant distant from any family support; border restrictions prevented him from seeing those he loved. Like many others who had to leave the workplace, he faced isolation as colleagues and supposed friends went on with their lives made of office and home.
Isolation ripened its bitter fruits.
He had three choices:
- Continue the struggle with the monster called depression.
- Give up on life.
- Grow through the difficulties, much as a tree planted near a barbed-wire fence grows through and around the steel.
He chose the third option. He acted on his values and made them his goals.
The result: Act Right Now Counselling and Educational Hub, which grew out of that mental health journey, rediscovering process, retraining, and a desire to help others.
If you have still not guessed, “he” was me, Dr Gabriele Marranci.
I am a registered professional counsellor and psychotherapist with the Australian Counselling Association, and Act Right Now Counselling Services is the summit of my journey through the storm of mental health and life crises.
My story demonstrates how we humans can grow with psychological pain instead of struggling against it, ignoring it and succumbing to it.
Act Right Now Counselling Services and Act Right Now Educational Hub embody my skills and expertise in:
- counselling and psychotherapy
- applied neurosciences
- cognitive psychological anthropology
- 20+ years of academic research and teaching, fieldwork and learning from non-Western cultures.
All this is Act Right Now Counselling and Educational Hub, and it is here for you.
How Act Right Now Counselling Services can help you
Act Right Now Counselling developed out of my own growth, and is built on a foundation of personal experience and transformation.
I work to encourage my clients to explore their capacity for power, and the ability to redefine their life on their own terms and live according to their values rather than those of society.
My pilgrimage in rediscovering the power of neuroplasticity, and somatic healing skills, in a creative process of continuous learning, will sustain your own creative approach towards the changed outlook you wish to have. Act Right Now Counselling Services aims to catalyse your transformation as you envisage it.
We can learn to see the rainbows without the roadblocks distracting us from the colours of a fulfilling life.
As the founder, I do not make promises of easy fixing your discomfort, disappearing your pain or trauma through magic healing and reaching any form of elusive happiness; those are empty promises, albeit appealing fairytales.
So you may ask: what can I offer you through the experience, research, and learning accumulated in Act Right Now Counselling if not happiness?
Well, many things, including:
- Learning to trust your own inner resources
- Understanding your brain’s remarkable power to adapt
- Learning how to develop a healthy, flexible mindset.
Yes, there is something you can learn with us at Act Right Now Counselling. Something that will empower you to be you with the resources to fulfil your life at your best in each present moment.
Sound New-Agey?
It is all written in scientific journals, trials, peer-reviewed research, tested protocols and continued advancement in understanding how your mind (i.e. brain) works (often against yourself).
At Act Right Now Counselling Services, we will walk with you as a team to help you realise the benefit of psychological flexibility and find the deepest neuroplasticity resources you have in yourself.
We use different modalities and approaches and continue researching and discovering what can help our clients.
We tailor the therapy to your specific needs in a complete collaboration since you are the creative mind that finds the best way to be you.
Do you want to know more about Act Right Now Counselling Services?
Why not act right now? Book a 15-minute chat with us to start your creative healing process; healing is an art.
