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Professional Profile

• Bio
  Carolien van Geloven is a Somatic (body-oriented) psychotherapist, Health Coach, Counsellor as well as a Credentialed Diabetes Educator with nearly 20 years experience. She currently sees patients privately in Abbotsford, Glebe, Maroubra and Sutherland as well as publicly through her work at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.
  
  This is what Carolien has to say about her services: "I have worked with people with diabetes for many, many years and I understand how difficult it can be to have to live with this disease. It is easy enough for your doctor or healthcare practitioner to tell you to “follow a diet and do regular exercise”, but let’s face it: life throws us some dodgy curve balls from time to time, which makes this very challenging. We may not always have access to “healthy food” and working long hours means that finding the time to exercise is not always high on the agenda. I sometimes wonder how well your doctor or healthcare provider would cope without any real support if they were diagnosed with diabetes, I too would struggle without the right support."
  
  Carolien provides short or long term counselling, coaching or psychotherapy along with diabetes education services.
  
  Psychotherapy is a form of counselling or therapy that involves talking with a trained mental health professional. Therapy is about having a particular type of conversation. This type of conversation helps you to increase your sense of well-being. Being in the presence of someone who accepts you begins to make you aware of how un-accepting you are of yourself and possibly of others. Psychotherapy is used to help you solve problems, achieve goals, and better manage your life and can be carried out one-on-one, in groups, or with couples or families.
  
  As your psychotherapist I make use of a range of techniques based on experiential relationship building, dialogue, communication and behaviour change that can help with a wide range of emotional and behavioural concerns including problems with family, friends or partners, and issues such as depression, anxiety or phobias.
  
  Somatic psychotherapy is a form of psychotherapy which includes the body and the mind. This may or may not include breath work, massage or other forms of physical touch, but this is entirely up to you; you set the pace.
  
  The aim of counselling and psychotherapy is to help you sort out the details of your life and empower you to make choices that are best for you. I aim to help you to explore and manage whatever is happening in your life. Maybe you have some worries or concerns that you need to think through, or possibly some difficult decisions to make. I can help you through difficult situations and provide you with an opportunity to move towards a more satisfying and resourceful experience of life. The combination of the varying therapeutic techniques helps you to go beyond symptom relief and achieve long-lasting change.
  
  If you have been diagnosed with diabetes, or you have a family member with diabetes, you probably want to find out more about the disease. I can teach you all you like to know about diabetes, but also about related health issues such as hypertension (high blood pressure) and cholesterol. I can help you with weight management issues and in dealing with addictions such as smoking or alcohol…
  When you are diagnosed with diabetes you will find yourself facing a multitude of questions; I can help answer most of them.
  
  Together we can work on increasing your inner strength, your sense of self, and improve your chance of success. A session allows a space to express feelings, thoughts and behaviours; together we explore ways of making a change and enhancing your quality of life.
  
  Contact Carolien for more information or call her now for a free 10 minute telephone consultation in which you can discuss how she can help you take control of your life again.
  Phone: 0402 126 212 or email: [email protected] 
• Hospital Affiliations
  I continue my work (part time) at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Diabetes Centre, Camperdown NSW
• Registration Numbers and Professional Memberships
  Registered with APHRA (Nursing and Midwifery)
  Clinical Member of the Australian Somatic Psychotherapist Association (ASPA)
  Provisional Member of PACFA
  Credentialed Diabetes Educator (CDE-RN) with the Australian Diabetes Educators Association (ADEA) and member of the Australian Diabetes in Pregnancy Society (ADiPS)
• Qualifications
  Feb. 2004 – Dec. 2006       
  Diploma of Contemporary Somatic Psychotherapy
  Australian College of Contemporary Somatic Psychotherapy
  Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
   
  June 1994 – June 1995    
  Post Graduate Certificate Diabetes Education
  SSSV Academy for Specialised Nursing
  Bunnik, The Netherlands
   
  April 1993 – April 1994      
  Post Graduate Certificate Oncology Nursing
  St Clara Hospital
  Rotterdam, The Netherlands
   
  Sept. 1989 – June 1993    
  Diploma of Nursing (A-Verpleegkundige)
  St Franciscus Hospital
  Rotterdam, The Netherlands
   
  Sept. 1983 – June 1989    
  General Secondary Education, Higher Level (HAVO)
  Scholengemeenschap Spieringshoek
  Schiedam, The Netherlands
• Areas Of Interest Ageing Well Obesity Stress Management Weight Management Anxiety Depression Panic Attacks Bullying Physical, Emotional and Sexual Abuse Type 1 Diabetes Type 2 Diabetes Gestational Diabetes Anger Management Bereavement Bipolar Disorder Phobia Postnatal Depression Relationships Schizophrenia Suicide Prevention