Freya Browne
Practical, person-centred counselling and support
ACA Australia
- Experience
- 21 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Trauma and abuse
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Client-Centred Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Freya
Freya Browne is an ACA counsellor with more than 21 years' experience. She works in a warm, down-to-earth way and focuses on helping people make practical changes.
Background and approach
She aims to help clients feel steadier, more confident and better able to handle day-to-day stress. Freya uses a person-centred style that puts the client’s goals first.
She listens closely and helps people build on the strengths they already have. Sessions are structured so goals are broken into small, achievable steps rather than big, overwhelming tasks.
Her experience includes work with stress, anxiety and depression as well as relationship and family problems. She has a background supporting people affected by domestic violence and sexual assault and has worked with separation and divorce issues.
Freya also helps with attachment and abandonment concerns, communication problems and confidence after trauma. Therapeutic tools may include cognitive behavioural ideas and mindfulness practices to manage difficult thoughts and feelings.
She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy and the Gottman Method in ways that fit each person’s needs. The focus is on practical skills that make everyday life easier.
People who come to Freya usually want a steady, compassionate counsellor who encourages independence. She aims to make the first step manageable and supports people as they try new ways of coping.
If someone wants clearer thinking and calmer reactions, she can help map out a plan.
How Freya adapts therapeutic approaches for online care
Freya commonly draws on the Gottman Method to help people improve communication and manage conflict, using straightforward exercises that build better patterns of interaction. She also uses Client-Centred Therapy to keep the focus on the person’s priorities, offering empathic listening and collaborative goal setting. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, including simple thought records and behavioural experiments, is used to reduce anxiety and lift mood by changing unhelpful thinking and routine behaviours.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the early work. Freya will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then suggest an approach or combination that fits. She treats the choice as a collaboration and adjusts methods over time based on what is helping.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people see non-verbal cues and run skill-based exercises together. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter updates, ongoing reflection between sessions or people who prefer writing. These options increase flexibility so therapy can fit around work, study and family commitments.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
21+ years
Registered with
ACA
Languages
English