Simone Domingues, ACA

Simone Ferreira Domingues is a compassionate psychotherapist and counsellor whose work spans more than two decades in both Brazil and Australia. She holds an Honour Degree in Psychology and has undertaken training in Gestalt therapy, alongside certifications in a range of evidence-based approaches. Her practice blends a holistic, client-centred perspective with practical techniques drawn from Gestalt, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness to address each person’s unique concerns.

Simone tailors her sessions to the individual, focusing on creating an empathic and empowering environment where clients can explore issues such as stress, anxiety, grief, sleep difficulties, self-esteem and depression. She also supports people with relationship and family concerns, intimacy-related matters, eating and parenting challenges, anger and bipolar-related coping, and broader life transitions including ageing, chronic illness and caregiver stress. Additional areas of focus include abandonment, body image, fertility and communication difficulties.

She offers online counselling via Telehealth and provides sessions by video call, phone, live chat or in-app messaging to increase accessibility and convenience. Her practice is supervised and follows the ethical guidelines of the Australian Counselling Association (ACA). Simone aims to work collaboratively with clients to promote practical change and personal growth, and she welcomes enquiries about beginning therapy.

Therapeutic approaches for online counselling

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being driven by them, and encourages action guided by personal values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, chronic pain and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns, offering practical strategies for issues like anxiety, depression, sleep problems, low self-esteem and eating-related concerns. Client-Centred Therapy emphasises empathic listening and the counsellor’s genuine, non-judgemental presence to support self-exploration and relationship or grief-related work.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Simone will work collaboratively with each person to explore which methods fit their needs, goals and preferences, and will adapt techniques as therapy progresses. Appropriately qualified or registered professionals and therapists commonly combine approaches to match the individual.

Online therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging offers flexibility for busy schedules, allows people to attend from familiar settings, and can make it easier to maintain regular sessions. These options also allow different styles of work - from longer conversations by video or phone to shorter check-ins by messaging - so clients and therapists can choose what suits them best.