Welcome to The Positive Side
Counseling Service

Life often presents challenges at the most unpredictable times, and in the most random ways. This counselling service has an abundance of experience in trauma, human suffering, toxic relationships and in healthy, successful, visionary growth.  We have a passion to empower people to handle whatever life dishes up to them. 

Often the process comes through learning and practicing new skills/new ways to think/new ways to be, often through deep revelation about yourself, enriched with positive self-direction.

Our People

Stuart Hall, Senior Counsellor

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Stuart has extensive experience working as a counsellor with individuals and families over a broad range of issues. Stuart’s expertise in counselling families through the Family Law pathway has given him insight into building relationships and coaching individuals through highly conflictual times in their lives

Stuart has a style that is deeply caring and authentic. He empowers his clients to manage their life situations and maintain positive changes in their lives through his down-to-earth style.

“As a senior counsellor, I am also committed to empowering a new generation of counsellors to success, through reflective supervision.”
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FAQ’s

The Practice

  • You will be provided with a Client Intake Form at your first appointment with your counselor. Please read and sign the Client Intake Form

  • Your first session is a chance for us to get to know you and take time to connect and understand what brought you to this point and what you want to achieve. Towards the end of the session, we may set some goals for our time together and start creating a plan for positive change.

  • Our sessions run for 60 minutes

  • Yes - for members of the community, as well as other professionals!  

    Group Supervision: Stuart carries more than twenty years of experience in NGO’s from frontline worker to team leading through the restraints of funding.

    ‘Working with difficult people’ After understanding the need this activity becomes measured to  your specific needs

    ‘Building resiliency’ in your teams, your children, your workplace,

    ‘Mentoring to empower not to control’

    ‘Managing the Family Law System’

  • Life can get complicated, so to help people who want to work through their issues cancellations should be made more than 24 hours in advance. Within the day of your appointment, rescheduling your appointment takes minutes and will not cost you otherwise cancellations made within 24 hours of the scheduled appointment time will be charged the full session rate.

  • These will be set mutually as you discuss your issues with the counselor.  Our goal is to empower you not to make you dependant on our service. Each individual has their capacity and motivation.  We will work with you to help you achieve positive change and maintain it.

  • Counselors are legally required to keep everything discussed in therapy completely confidential.

    We will only disclose what you discuss if:

    • You give us permission.

    • We suspect you may cause harm to yourself or someone else.

    • A court subpoenas your file.

    • The Counsellor is subpoenaed to give evidence in court

    Rest assured that we take your privacy very seriously and will keep all of your personal information safe.

  • Fee for services

    Individual Session — $100.00

    Couples Session — $120.00

    Professional Supervision - $150:00

    EAP - $150:00

    Group Supervision - $200:00

    Group Training – $150/hr * $800/day

    Assistance discount 33% (discuss with your counsellor)

    All training bookings will have transport and accommodation added as required.