WHOLEHEARTED APPROACH
Counselling Services, Birkenhead, Auckland
At The Connected Center, as well as being a Yoga Studio, we offer Counselling with a WholeHearted Approach. We are passionate about reconnecting people with their truth and empowering them to design lives that are joyful.
The Connected Center offers general counselling services in Birkenhead, North Shore. Araluen works from an integrative and multi-disciplinary approach including cognitive behavioural therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy and stress management.
Looking for a holistic multi-disciplinary programme to improve your life?
Please contact me to make an appointment.
At The Connected Center, we are passionate about reconnecting people with their truth and empowering them to design lives they are joyful to be living.
What if you could nurture yourself through these hard times? What if you could align yourself with what is important to you and enable yourself to live your fullest life?
Through the development of self-compassion, you can.
Read more about What is Self Compassion and The Self Compassion Project for learning how to improve self-compassion.
When we connect to our present moment and are willing to acknowledge our thoughts and emotions in order to treat them with kindness, we are practising mindfulness.
At The Connected Center, Araluen is passionate about reconnecting people with their truth and empowering them to design lives that are joyful.
Read more about the Mindfulness Project where you can develop a mindfulness practice of your own.
SPECIAL EVENTS
MINI COMPASSIONATE RETREATS
At regular intervals throughout the year, we host self-compassion retreats. Join us for gentle yoga practice, talks on how to invite self-compassion into your life, through nutrition and mindfulness.
These are mini-retreats - a few hours just for you, coming together with other beautiful women to mindfully slow down and nurture yourself.
We also offer Addiction Treatment
The Connected Center is a high-quality private clinic offering alcohol and drug counselling in Birkenhead in a non-judgmental, relaxed and safe environment. Araluen is an addiction recovery specialist.
Addiction affects the whole family. Recovery and wellness come sooner when everyone that is affected is involved. My training in the addictions field means I can work with families on communication, self-care, developing boundaries and mindfulness. By helping yourself, you are helping your loved one.
My Approach to Addiction Treatment
The first step is to talk with me and share your story. This is an incredibly powerful way to start your treatment and gives us a strong platform to work from. From there we design a treatment programme tailored to you. I work from an integrative and multi-disciplinary approach. I will only use therapies that are evidence-based, well researched and proven to be effective.
Therapy options can include:
- Cognitive behavioural therapy: This helps you to understand the thoughts, feelings and behaviour that underly your addiction. You learn alternative strategies to counter the negative behaviours.
- Acceptance and commitment therapy: This helps to realign with your core values and purpose, building a life you are proud of and excited to live.
- Stress management: Addiction and mental health issues often go hand in hand. Consequently, I help you learn techniques to manage stress, anxiety and depression for example yoga.
Looking for a holistic multi-disciplinary treatment programme for addiction recovery?
Please contact me to make an appointment.
Addiction Recovery is complex, confusing and overwhelming, but with Araluen's help, you can create your own path back to wellness. Drug and Alchohol Abuse Help and Substance Abuse Treatment are important. You do need support education and understanding to begin to recover from addiction.
Araluen a fully trained and registered counsellor and an Addiction Recovery Specialist. I offer Addiction Counselling Services to both those with substance abuse and also to their family members.
Affected by a loved one with an addiction
Addiction affects the whole family. Recovery and wellness come sooner when everyone that is affected is involved. My training in the addictions field means I can work with families on communication, self-care, developing boundaries and mindfulness. By helping yourself, you are helping your loved one.
At The Connected Center, we use yoga for practising self- compassion. We also practice Yoga for Addiction Recovery. Yoga as part of our holistic multi-disciplinary approach to Wellness.
Araluen incorporates yoga into her counselling sessions.
Yoga can reduce feelings of stress and anxiety, improve concentration, happiness as well improve your general health. Araluen will give you a yoga programme to follow at home. This enables you to continue to develop your practice.
Make a New Start Today
Read how The Connected Center has helped...
Learning to have self compassion
Thanks so much Araluen.
Jess
I'm in a much happier place now!
It feels great to know how far I have come. A lot has happened in my life in the last year, some things I am still adjusting to. I am in a much happier place now.
Thank you so much for the role you played in getting me back on track, I am always thinking of the things we talked about and am always thinking, identifying triggers that could potentially derail me. I have a lot of confidence now, and know that I don't need drugs in my life.