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Counselling & Holistic Therapy — Melbourne

A space to slow down
and find your ground

Counselling and holistic therapy for the whole person — supporting the mind, body, nervous system, relationships, and the deeper parts of you that are ready to be met.

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A Different Kind of Conversation

Therapy that meets you where you are

Many of us arrive at therapy carrying more than words can easily hold — anxiety, grief, relational pain, emotional overwhelm, old patterns, or a quiet sense that something within us is asking to change.

Here, there is room for all of it.

Andrew Gurman Counselling offers a thoughtful, embodied approach to therapy — one that honours both the cognitive and the somatic, the story and the sensation, the nervous system and the deeper movement of becoming.

Sessions are available in person in St Kilda and Altona, and online across Australia.

Areas of Support

What brings people here

This space may support you with:

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Anxiety, stress and emotional overwhelm

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Depression, low mood or disconnection

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Relationship and family challenges

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Grief, loss and life transitions

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Trauma, old patterns and nervous system dysregulation

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Self-worth, identity and meaning

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Parenting, family dynamics and adolescent wellbeing

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A deeper longing to reconnect with yourself

Andrew Gurman, counsellor and holistic therapist

About Andrew

Grounded in presence, trained in depth

Andrew Gurman is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker and counsellor with over 20 years of experience supporting adults, couples, families and adolescents.

His work is grounded in evidence-based therapeutic practice and shaped by a deep respect for the whole person — their history, nervous system, relationships, body, inner life and capacity for change.

Andrew draws from approaches including CBT, ACT, mindfulness-based practice, trauma-informed care, attachment theory, somatic awareness, grief counselling, relational work and person-centred therapy.

He brings warmth, steadiness and genuine curiosity to every session — informed by the belief that healing happens in relationship, and that the therapeutic space itself can become a place of safety, aliveness and meaningful encounter.

How we might work together

Every person arrives with their own rhythm, their own language, their own way of knowing. The work is not to impose a framework onto that — but to listen carefully enough that something new can emerge from within it.

Good therapy, in Andrew's experience, is less about techniques and more about what becomes possible when someone feels genuinely met. What matters most is that you feel safe enough to be honest, curious enough to stay with what arises, and supported enough to let something shift.

Your pace, your language

There is no agenda to fix or resolve. Sessions follow what is most alive for you — a feeling, a pattern, a memory, a sensation — and hold it with care.

Nothing left at the door

Thoughts, feelings, the body, relationships, history — all of it belongs. The whole of you is welcome here, not just the parts that are easy to name.

Something new can emerge

Change rarely arrives as a single insight. More often it settles in quietly — in the moments when you feel truly met, and something long held begins to loosen.

Fees & Access

Practical information

$180
Individual session — 60 minutes

Medicare Rebates

Medicare rebates are available with a valid Mental Health Care Plan from your GP.

In Person & Online

Sessions are offered in person in St Kilda and Altona, and via secure video for clients across Australia. Both formats carry the same quality of attention and care.

Ready to begin?

A first session is a gentle place to begin — a chance to share what has been happening, ask questions, and sense whether the space feels right for you.

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In person — St Kilda & Altona  ·  Online — Australia-wide