Sally Henderson , ACA, PACFA

Sally Henderson is an ACA and PACFA counsellor with 15 years' experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, relationship strain or low self-esteem. Sally aims to create a calm space where thoughts and feelings can be said out loud without judgement. Her manner is steady and encouraging for people taking the first steps towards change.

Sally uses practical, talk-based methods to help people find what works for them day to day. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients notice painful thoughts while taking action on valued goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try different behaviours. Attachment-Based Therapy helps people understand how past relationships affect current trust and closeness.

Sessions are focused and collaborative. Sally listens, asks straightforward questions and suggests exercises to practise between sessions. She supports people working through issues such as adoption and foster care, blended family concerns, body image, caregiver stress, codependency, communication problems and family of origin patterns.

Sally has worked across a range of helping settings over her career, building experience with trauma, domestic and family violence, substance use and compulsive behaviours. She works in Australia and conducts sessions in English. The process is about small, steady steps towards clearer choices and more reliable coping.

People who prefer a direct but warm approach often find her way of working useful. She aims to empower clients to build practical routines, set manageable goals and reconnect with what matters to them.

How Sally’s approaches work online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being led by them, so they can take small steps towards what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour and introduces simple experiments to change how people respond day to day. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape current trust and closeness and helps people practise new ways of relating.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Sally will talk with each person about goals, preferences and what has helped or not helped in the past. This is a collaborative process and she adapts methods to suit the person's situation rather than following a fixed formula.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are useful when face-to-face interaction matters, phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth, live chat is handy for quick check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people access support from home or work and fit sessions around busy lives.