About Gabrielle Gawne-Kelnar

Sydney counsellor and psychotherapist

I’m a fully qualified counsellor and psychotherapist with accredited training and extensive counselling experience.

I believe that you are the expert on your life, so I tailor a range of counselling and psychotherapy styles to meet your needs.

These therapies and strategies can offer you emotional relief and a safe place to explore the issues you face. They’ll create an island of time just for you, so you can draw breath, and shed some light on the answers you already carry inside you.

In case you’re interested in the names of these therapies, they include person-centred therapy, narrative therapy, existential psychotherapy, family systems therapy, solution-focused therapy as well as aspects of mindfulness, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and art therapy. Basically, all that means is that I can help you find your way out of pain and back to a life that’s meaningful and fulfilling for you.

It’s all about drawing on your life experiences and building a life that’s truly enriching and satisfying for you: enhancing your relationships, growing your self-esteem, removing the obstacles of old habits or thought patterns that might be letting you down, and learning more about who you are, what you want from life, and how to set all of that in motion.

So if you’re ready to step out of pain and into a richer life,

Gabrielle’s work

• Psychotherapist / counsellor in private practice in Sydney
• Author of The Therapist Within blog at Psych Central
• Facilitator of telephone support groups at Cancer Council NSW
• Former Editor of The CAPA Quarterly, the journal of the Counsellors and Psychotherapists Association of NSW (CAPA)

Counselling / psychotherapy qualifications

• Graduate Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy (Dux) (JNI)
• Certificate in Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
• Accreditation as a Lifeline Telephone Counsellor (+over 2 years’ experience)
• Statement of Attainment in Narrative Therapy (JNI)
• Knowing and Not Knowing: Spirituality, Intimacy and Psychotherapy (JNI)
• BA Fine Arts (Honours, Class 1, Dean’s Medal)
• BA Communications Studies

Ongoing professional development in counselling & psychotherapy

• Ongoing professional supervision (as per best practice therapy)
• E-therapy: Asynchronous Email/Web Board Therapy, Cyber-culture and Ethics (OTI)
• Legal & Ethical Considerations of Online Therapy Workshop (Online Therapy Inst)
• Narrative Therapy (Lifeline, 2-day training)
• Exercise the Mood: Exercise as a Treatment for Depression (Black Dog Inst)
• Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Dealing with Problem Gambling (CCWT)
• Working with Families where a Member has a Gambling Problem (CCWT)
• Dialogue with Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn: mindfulness and clinical applications (Westmead Hospital)
• Focusing and Gendlin’s Philosophy of the Implicit (Australian Existential Society)
• 11th Australian Palliative Care Conference
• Brief Work with Unconscious Processes (CAPA)
• Language and Experience: weaving together Focusing and Narrative ideas (CAPA)
• The New Neurobiology and What it Means to Psychotherapy (CAPA)
• Inside Emotionally Focused Therapy (CAPA)
• Sexual Trauma Counselling (CAPA)
• Trauma and the Family Emotional Process (CAPA)

Professional membership

• Member of the Australian Counselling Association (ACA)
• Member of the International Society for Mental Health Online (ISMHO)

Gabrielle in the media

Read about why Gabrielle became a therapist in this Sydney Morning Herald article.
Read Gabrielle’s published articles and interviews here.

About our logo

The ‘enso’ features in our logo. It is a powerful symbol embracing both the simple and the profound, the empty and the full. It represents one-ness and infinity – the connection of all things. It stems from a Zen Buddhist tradition.

Another ancient symbol echoing this shape is the ‘ouroboros’ or the snake eating its own tail. The ouroboros represents the cyclical nature of life, and appears in many cultures and traditions. Carl Jung felt it held an archetypal significance to the psyche.

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As a therapist, I draw inspiration from all these ideas – the cycles of beginnings, transitions and endings that we all inevitably travel. And how our overlapping, interlocking stories connect us all in some indefinable way to each other and to the stuff of life itself.

Step into a richer life today:

Contact me to see how counselling and psychotherapy can help, or

Are you in crisis?
Visit Befrienders Worldwide or International Association for Suicide Prevention for crisis services in your local area.
Latest blog posts:
- Lost And Found Love On Valentine’s Day
  I happened to spy this leaf on the path the other day. I was on my way to somewhere else and had my mind on other things, and could easily have walked right past it. Yet there it was. Torn. Battered. Lost. And now found. (And in the shape of a heart because of all […]
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- Mindfulness And Multitasking: Can You Do Both At Once?
  Well, how did that happen? It’s February already… So maybe you’re already right back into the swing of things, drawn back to the thousand appointments and meetings and obligations calling your name – just like all these little Post-it notes stuck to the window in the photo, above, practically obscuring the person who put them […]
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- If “Eternity Is Now” Then What Will You Do With It?
  I came across a little piece of eternity the other day (there it is in the photo, above). Or, more precisely, it came across me. Tumbling towards me on the footpath. Blowin’ in the wind*. Ok, so it was also just a loose page of a newspaper, blowing around the street, with an advertisement on […]
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- Is Perfection An Imperfect Idea? Lessons From The Natural World
  I was walking in the park this morning. Past the hundreds of thousands of millions of leaves, all applauding each other in the wind. Which one of them isn’t perfect? Which leaf hasn’t “lived up to its potential”? Which has “fallen short”? They seem like slightly ridiculous questions. (And yet, are there times that you […]
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- Living In The Small Moments – Mindfulness And Everyday Miracles
  This little duck (in the photo, above) was swimming in the clouds in my local park this morning, rippling the upside-down sky in the pond. It’s moments like these I want to remember to see. To live. To pause and breathe into in the midst of the day. That’s about as close to a New […]
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© One Life Counselling & Psychotherapy, Sydney, and Gabrielle Gawne-Kelnar 2010-2012. Gabrielle Gawne-Kelnar is a Sydney counsellor and psychotherapist, offering counselling and psychotherapy in Glebe, Sydney, and serving the Sydney CBD and inner west Sydney suburbs, including Alexandria, Balmain, Birchgrove, Broadway, Camperdown, Central, Darlinghurst, Double Bay, Edgecliff, Enmore, Erskineville, Glebe, Kings Cross, Leichhardt, Lilyfield, Marrickville, Newtown, North Sydney, Paddington, Petersham, Potts Point, Redfern, Rozelle, St Peters, Stanmore, Surry Hills, Woollahra, Zetland.

We acknowledge the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation, traditional owners of the land where the counselling and psychotherapy rooms are located (Glebe, Sydney).