Counselling & Coaching in Sydney
Counselling involves understanding and resolving issues, changing beliefs and getting you out of your shame, blame, and guilt.
My job is to get you out of the story and into the coaching zone. Coaching gives you the vision and forward action to overcome challenges and those past issues.
Hi, I'm Kerryn Martorana, a qualified Sydney Counsellor & Coach.
With counselling, I use techniques and therapeutic approaches to meet your needs. With coaching and a Socratic line of questioning, I help you reach your personal and professional potential. As a qualified Sydney psychologist and counsellor, our sessions involve open discussions about your life, your challenges and your goals so you can feel more comfortable about your future, today.
Let’s address every situation in your life to help you uncover the best version of yourself.
As your Sydney Counsellor, I help you find strategies in your own way to come out on the other side a more confident and positive human. Let’s help you show up as your best self, whether as a young adult, partner, parent or employee.Initial Discovery Chat
What is Counselling?
The Australian Psychology Society (APS) defines counselling psychologists as those who provide a variety of techniques and therapeutic approaches to meet specific client needs and circumstances.For me, counselling involves carefully listening and asking questions that allow you to consider new perspectives and work through concerns. It is a safe space where I listen deeply, ask thoughtful questions and explore the baggage, beliefs and emotional dynamics you carry. This is an effective counselling and coaching method for helping clients move from “being stuck in their story” to understanding their situation and taking steps forward. My approach creates a safe, non-judgemental and emotionally empathic environment that blends insight with strategy.
It is about understanding how you make meaning and interpret the world around you, so you can make more informed and confident choices.
What is Coaching?
The International Coaching Federation (ICF) defines coaching as partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximise their personal and professional potential.
Coaching helps people think differently, act purposefully, and become who they want to be. The main benefit of my coaching is that we have open dialogues to get you to think differently about your circumstances and act upon it. Coaching empowers you to find your own answers to any issue you want to work through.
My coaching style involves a strong emphasis on self-awareness, mindset shift, and clarity of goals. In two years, what will you see? Thinking? Work backwards: what do you have to do to make that happen?
In coaching, you already have the “gold” inside of you. My job is to help you find it and then act on it.
How I apply Counselling & Coaching to help you.
Get out of your long-held story and into real awareness of your potential.
What does your future self look like? Let’s discuss how to get you there.
Let’s get you to break your thinking patterns, think differently, and then act upon it.
As a Counsellor & Expert Coach in Sydney, I help you get out of your current story and into positive action.
Are you accepting the uniqueness of yourself? Are you aware of your requirements, needs and wants? Together, we help you think differently about your situation, we discuss your frustrations, turn them into requests, de-escalate conflicts, and assist you in discovering actions for a different response to become the best version of yourself. How do you get there? That’s what we’ll explore in my Sydney Counselling sessions.Initial Discovery Chat
The Types of Counselling & Coaching I Offer
Behaviour Modification
Our Counselling and Coaching helps shift unhelpful habits and behaviours using mindset therapy and behavioural and emotional techniques.
Personal growth and development
I provide personal development coaching that helps clients achieve meaningful growth through counselling and coaching.
Counselling and coaching help you hear and understand yourself more clearly.
Mindset and preparation
Future-focused counselling helps clients build a resilient mindset to prepare for life transitions, challenges and personal growth opportunities.Performance and Potential
I offer personal development strategies and coaching for young adults and professionals seeking to unlock their full performance potential.Dispute resolution
I guide clients through respectful, solution-oriented dispute & conflict resolution using future-focused listening coaching strategies and techniques.
Changing your story
Lifeology Family’s mindset strategies helps clients reframe limiting beliefs and rewrite their personal story to support lasting behaviour change.
Move from feeling stuck to finding clarity with personalised counselling and coaching.
Family and group dynamics
With a focus on emotional intelligence and relationship support, I help families and groups improve communication, reduce tension and resolve conflict.Emotional intelligence
This is the heart of my approach, guiding clients to understand, manage and express emotions with greater clarity through self-awareness, and awareness of others.Resilience and Stress
Through mindset therapy and future-focused counselling, I help individuals build emotional resilience and develop stress management tools.De-escalating conflict
Our sessions include practical techniques for de-escalating conflict and fostering emotional intelligence in high-stakes situations.
You already have the answers. Let’s work together to bring them to the surface.
Relationships Counselling
Counselling for relationship support helps individuals and couples to build stronger connections, navigate challenges and improve & foster trust and safety.Couples and troubled marriages
I provide counselling for couples, combining emotional intelligence with honest communication, listening and curiosity to rebuild connection, resilience and accept difference.Taking the high road in difficult situations
Through changing mindset and personal development, clients learn to take the high road and lead with honouring self, deep listening, understanding and emotional intelligence.Let’s turn emotional overwhelm into action with calm,
curious, future-focused guidance.
I provide the support that meets you where you are, and helps you grow from there.Initial Discovery Chat
Young Adults into Adulthood and Seniors
Future and solution-focused
My future-focused counselling equips clients to break through uncertainty and create purposeful, emotionally intelligent outcomes.
Thinking differently, acting upon it
Sydney Coaching for young adults and adults at Lifeology Family empowers you to think differently and take clear, strategic action aligned with your goals.
Moving from unsatisfactory results to new thinking opportunities
Future-focused coaching helps you shift perspective and unlock new thinking to create better outcomes.
Personal Development
From early adulthood to later life, personal development coaching helps clients strengthen emotional wellbeing, confidence and resilience.
The client is the expert on their needs, goals and outcomes
In my Sydney counselling and coaching, I treat each client as the expert in their own life. My role is to unlock clarity and support change.
Personal awareness, growth and change
With a personalised counselling and coaching approach, I guide clients through a journey of emotional intelligence, personal growth and positive transformation.
Communication & Empathy
My coaching for young adults and couples builds deep connections through intentional communication and empathic concern that fosters deeper meaningful relationships.Experience the difference of my
Sydney Counselling & Coaching services.
I’m here to support your goals and be here for you.Initial Discovery Chat
Frequently Asked Questions
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I offer individual counselling & coaching by focusing on strategies that can help you think differently. To live your best life, you must be in the present moment and have goals for the future. I focus on future-based solutions to help you live your best life.
