About Adrian
Adrian Workman is a counsellor with PACFA accreditation and ten years of clinical experience. He brings a direct, practical style that helps people manage stress and anxiety. Adrian aims to make conversations straightforward and useful from the first session.
He focuses on common pressures such as grief, parenting challenges, anger, and big life changes. Adrian also helps with issues tied to attachment, abandonment, fatherhood, blended family adjustments and feelings of emptiness or isolation.
Background and approach
He often works with people seeking clearer life purpose or coping strategies in midlife or during separation. Adrian uses an integrated, evidence-based approach that blends techniques to suit each person's needs. Sessions tend to centre on clear goals, practical tools and straightforward reflection.
He draws on curiosity and real-world strategies to help people try new ways of coping between sessions. People find his manner approachable and masculine, which some clients say helps them open up more quickly. Adrian pays attention to how family of origin and cultural background shape current patterns and choices.
He supports men’s issues and fatherhood topics alongside broader multicultural concerns. Adrian offers sessions in English across Australia. He provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to fit different schedules.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then arrange sessions according to availability.
How Adrian uses evidence-based approaches online
Adrian draws on evidence-based techniques focused on practical change. One common approach is goal-focused behavioural work, which breaks problems into small steps and builds new habits to reduce anxiety and improve day-to-day coping. Another key strand is attachment-informed exploration, which looks at relationship patterns and helps people change unhelpful responses to loss, separation or intimacy challenges.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Adrian collaborates with each person to decide which techniques fit their goals and preferences. Together they set clear, achievable aims and review progress as therapy continues.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let you use visual cues and longer conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or you need a hands-free option. Live chat and text messaging suit quick check-ins, brief reflections or when written expression feels easier. These options help people fit therapy around work, parenting and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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