Bo Tree Counselling: Your Path to Better Relationships & Well-being in Corio
Are you in Corio and looking for a helping hand with your relationships or for yourself? At Bo Tree Counselling, we're here to offer understanding and real support for individuals, couples, and families.
Life can throw us curveballs, and sometimes our relationships feel the strain. We're dedicated to helping you work through challenges, understand each other better, and build stronger, happier connections right here, close to home.
Welcome to Bo Tree Counselling
Hi, I'm Mrs. Dee Kumbukage, your Principal Counsellor. My journey to becoming a counsellor comes from a deep understanding of life's struggles, especially in relationships. I've been there, navigated challenges myself, and truly believe that healing and growth are possible with the right support. My approach is founded on kindness, understanding, and a strong commitment to helping you achieve meaningful, lasting changes.
Our Counselling Services
We provide a range of specialised services designed to support your unique needs, with a strong emphasis on relationship dynamics.
Relationship & Couples Counselling Corio
Strengthening Your Connections. Dealing with relationship struggles can feel incredibly heavy. We offer comprehensive relationship and couples counselling for all types of connections – partners, parents, siblings, and friends. Whether it's communication breakdowns, trust issues, feeling disconnected, or simply wanting to deepen your bond, we provide a supportive and clear space to explore issues, rebuild trust, and foster closeness. We understand the search for relationship counselling can be challenging, and we aim to be your trusted, expert resource.
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For Couples: Our couples counselling helps you address communication issues, feelings of distance, intimacy concerns, and navigate big life changes. We provide a structured process to build understanding, empathy, and healthier ways of interacting.
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Initial Session: Explore your relationship story and start to gain immediate insights and tools.
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Individual Sessions: Each partner has a confidential space to explore personal thoughts and feelings relevant to the relationship.
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Ongoing Couples Sessions: Deepen communication, rebuild trust, develop new patterns of interaction, and find new ways to connect meaningfully.
Individual Counselling Corio
Your Space for Personal Growth & Healing. Feeling lost, anxious, or stuck with personal challenges? Our adult counselling sessions in Corio provide a safe, non-judgmental space to explore difficulties like anxiety, low moods, burnout, grief, or individual relationship struggles. We help you reconnect with yourself, gain clarity, and implement effective strategies, such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), to shift unhelpful patterns and cultivate resilience. Improve your relationship with yourself, and often, everything else follows.
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Session Length: 50 minutes (In-person at Highton or via TeleHealth
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Starting Out: Most clients find benefit in beginning with 2-3 sessions.
Why Choose Bo Tree Counselling?
Local & Easy Access
Conveniently located near Corio, we offer both in-person sessions (a short drive to Highton) and flexible TeleHealth appointments, ensuring easy access couples counselling and other services from your home.
Our Relationship Focus
Whether you're seeking help as a couple, looking for family relationship support, or wanting to improve your relational patterns, our core strength is helping you build healthier, more fulfilling connections.
Experienced & Caring Hands
Led by Mrs. Dee Kumbukage, a dedicated member of both the Australian Counselling Association (ACA) and the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA). With a Master's in Counselling and diverse life experience, you're ensured a truly understanding, professional, and highly qualified approach.
Clear & Supportive Steps
We guide you clearly through our counselling process, from your first chat to ongoing support, ensuring you feel seen, heard, and empowered every step of the way.
Support Tailored to You
While we offer support for individuals and families, our main focus is on relationship counselling. We carefully apply proven methods, such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), ensuring they fit your unique needs perfectly.
NDIS Friendly
We warmly welcome self-managed and plan-managed NDIS participants, providing gentle, personalised, and effective care.
Family Counselling Corio
Healing & Harmonising Family Dynamics. If you're searching for family counselling or family relationship counselling in Corio, we are here to provide expert support. Family dynamics can be incredibly complex. We offer a calm, supportive, and objective space for families to address conflict, improve communication, work through generational patterns, and foster stronger, more emotionally safe relationships. We help you explore underlying patterns, process hurtful moments, and collaboratively create new, healthier ways of relating.
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Initial Session: Understand family dynamics and collaboratively set meaningful goals
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Individual Sessions (if needed): Provide a private space for individual family members to express themselves within the broader family context.
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Ongoing Family Sessions: Build better communication, establish healthy boundaries, foster empathy, and strengthen familial bonds.
NDIS Counselling Sessions Corio
Support for Self & Plan-Managed NDIS Participants. If you're an NDIS participant in Corio seeking gentle, supportive, and personalised counselling, Mrs. Dee Kumbukage and Bo Tree Counselling are here for you. We offer tailored care for self-managed and plan-managed clients, available in person at Symetri in Highton or conveniently via Telehealth.
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Getting Started: To understand how we can best support you, please send us your NDIS Plan and details of your specific support needs.
Accessing Our Services:
● Private Health Insurance: Please check with your private health fund for eligible rebates.
● Self-Referral: You can book directly with us; no formal referral is needed.
● Third-Party Funded: We work with EAP (Employee Assistance Programs), WorkSafe / WorkCover, and NDIS (self-managed and plan-managed participants only).
Referrals
We are currently accepting referrals for adult appointments with Mrs. Dee Kumbukage.
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Individual Counselling (50 mins): $180.00 (In-Person or Telehealth
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Relationship Counselling:
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Initial / Extended (80 mins): $280.00
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Relationship Counselling: Initial (80 mins) Returning (50 mins): $220.00
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Our Fees:
Contact Us
53 Barrabool Rd, Highton VIC 3216 (Within Symetri - Allied Health, near Highton Village). Parking available on-site and street.