About Lourens
Lourens Human is an ACA counsellor with nearly three decades of experience in psychology and counselling. He worked for many years as a counselling psychologist and lecturer in South Africa and has practised as a counsellor in Australia since 2018. Lourens combines long-term clinical work with research and teaching experience to offer grounded, practical support.
He keeps sessions straightforward and focused. Lourens listens for what matters most and helps people sort priorities.
Background and approach
He offers calm guidance for stress, anxiety and mood concerns, and practical ways to cope with life changes and career uncertainty. His background includes extensive work with trauma and abuse survivors, and he has supported people affected by serious criminal victimisation. That experience informs how he helps others manage post-traumatic stress, grief and intense life disruption.
Lourens also helps people facing ageing and health challenges, relationship communication problems, addiction concerns and issues around fatherhood and men’s life stages. He uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts them to each person’s situation. People can expect clear, step-by-step conversations and strategies to try between sessions.
Lourens aims to make therapy feel manageable, with practical tools for coping, clearer decision-making and steadier day-to-day functioning.
Approaches that guide online counselling
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques are used in straightforward ways. One common approach focuses on building coping skills and behavioural strategies to reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning. This often involves setting small, achievable goals and practising specific techniques between sessions.A second approach concentrates on processing traumatic experiences in manageable steps. Sessions move at a pace the person finds comfortable, with attention to safety and grounding techniques to help reduce distress while memories are worked through.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options and tailor methods to fit each person’s needs, goals and preferences rather than insisting on a single method. Clients help shape the plan and raise concerns as they go.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different situations. Video calls work well for deeper conversations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat gives a quicker check-in and messaging supports brief updates or ongoing written reflection. These formats make therapy more flexible for people balancing work, family and recovery tasks.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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