Samantha McLaughlin

Accredited Gestalt Therapist

Perth Psychotherapist and Counsellor

Samantha is a counsellor and psychotherapist who specialises in:

• Relationship Counselling
• Self Esteem Counselling
• Childhood Attachment Disruptions
• Mother/Daughter Relationship Issues
• Postnatal Depression Counselling
• Family and Parenting Issues
• Adolescent Counselling
• Depression
• Childhood Trauma Counselling
• Sexual Abuse Counselling
• Post Traumatic Stress
• Anxiety

Samantha is a Psychotherapist, an accredited Gestalt Therapist, who gained her experience as a Relationship, Family and Adolescence Counsellor while working as a youth and family counsellor with the Perth YMCA Counselling Service. She is a Gestalt Therapist who respectfully supports her clients to explore their current difficulties in order to engage in personal change and to ultimately experience greater fulfillment in their lives.

Samantha is skilled in working with clients who experienced Early Childhood Attachment disruptions and the resulting feelings of low self esteem, depression and recurrent relationship issues. As a relationship counsellor she works with clients to define their personal boundaries and enhance the level of communication in their current relationships.

Samantha is skilled in providing counselling for women experiencing Postnatal Depression or experiencing difficulties in the transition to their new role as mothers. Samantha also co-facilitates a support group for women who are currently experiencing Postnatal Anxiety and Depression in Perth.

Samantha is married with two young children and she has a personal appreciation of the significant physical, emotional and social upheaval associated with becoming a parent.

Samantha has also written articles on the following:

• Becoming a parent
• Childhood Sexual Abuse
• Early Childhood Attachments - how they shape adult lives