About Giorgio
Giorgio Salmistraro is a counsellor with 14 years of professional experience in Australia. He focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, grief, relationship strain or life changes. Giorgio aims to make the first step feel manageable and offers steady support along the way.
He works to create an open, non-judgemental space where clients can talk about thoughts and feelings honestly. Sessions are practical and conversational, with an emphasis on real-world changes people can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Giorgio listens for what matters most and helps break big problems into smaller steps. Clients come to him for many reasons including relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stress, addiction and coping with bereavement. He also assists people facing work stress, low self-esteem, bipolar mood challenges, depression and ADHD related difficulties.
Giorgio has experience with multicultural issues, polyamory and concerns linked to HIV and end-of-life care. His approach is collaborative. Giorgio and the client decide together which goals to work on and which strategies to try.
He explains options plainly and checks in about what is or is not helping. Over time the work focuses on building skills to manage anxiety, improve communication and restore a sense of control. Giorgio holds PACFA credentials and offers sessions in English across a range of formats.
He supports people who want steady, straightforward help to move forward from a difficult period.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Giorgio uses evidence-based techniques that focus on building practical skills and clearer thinking. One common approach is cognitive-based work that helps people notice unhelpful thought patterns and try different ways of thinking; this often helps with anxiety, low mood and worry. He also draws on behavioural strategies that encourage gradual exposure to feared situations and the development of new routines to reduce avoidance and increase confidence.Figuring out which approach fits best is a collaborative process. Giorgio will talk through goals, try methods that suit the person's needs, and adjust the plan if something is not working. He aims to help clients feel involved in decisions about their own care and to choose strategies that match their daily life.
Online therapy can make regular sessions easier to attend. Giorgio offers video calls for face-to-face style conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for shorter check-ins and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options help people fit therapy around work, family and other commitments and provide flexible ways to keep progress moving.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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