About Pamela
Pamela Varas is an ACA counsellor who brings warmth and steady support to people facing anxiety and life stress. She draws on hands-on experience from community roles and her independent practice to offer clear, practical help for day-to-day worries. Pamela completed a Bachelor of Counselling at the Australian College of Applied Psychology in 2022.
Soon after she provided counselling to women affected by domestic violence and then worked at Dementia Australia, giving brief solution-focused support to carers and people living with dementia.
Background and approach
She has logged over 911 client contact hours and around 75 hours of clinical supervision, both individual and group. Pamela runs Rebuild Together Counselling, where she focuses on depression, anxiety and healing childhood trauma in adults. She also supports people dealing with grief, relationship strain, sleep problems, compassion fatigue and issues linked to identity and immigration.
Pamela uses everyday language and practical steps in sessions so people can try new strategies between meetings. Her approach is person-centred and trauma-informed, with a mix of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy techniques as needed. She also uses brief, goal-focused methods to address specific problems and relationship work informed by the Gottman Method.
Pamela is about to begin a Masters in Psychotherapy and Counselling and continues to work with a clinical supervisor. She aims to offer ethical, respectful care and to help people find manageable ways forward.
Approaches for online support and practical coping
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and working at your pace. The therapist encourages self-direction and helps people name their priorities and choices. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions link together and teaches simple tools to reduce anxiety or low mood. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, or DBT, provides skills for emotion regulation and handling intense moments, useful for strong anxiety, overwhelm or relationship strain.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Pamela will talk through goals and preferences and suggest methods that fit each person's needs. The plan can change as progress is made, and choices are made collaboratively rather than imposed.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging can fit into a busy day. These options help people attend sessions around work, caregiving or other commitments and allow different ways of engaging with the therapy process.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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