ASL Counselling Collective exists to provide talking therapy and mental health support to children, families, couples and individuals.

Our team of qualified counsellors and professionals will work with you to ensure that you get the support, care and assistance needed to help build resilience and overcome the challenges you may be currently facing. 

The cost of counselling sessions will be discussed at the time of initial contact.

If you or your family are needing support … there is hope!

Our services provide support in the following areas:

  • Relationship / Marriage

  • Anxiety and depression

  • Grief and loss

  • Family and parenting counselling

  • Addictions

  • Anger management

  • Trauma

  • General counselling concerns

  • Faith-based counselling

  • Pastoral counselling

IMMEDIATE HELP IN CASE OF EMERGENCY

If you are having thoughts of suicide and feel you are at risk, please contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or ‘000’ to get immediate support.

Meet the incredible team:

Janice Law has been working in the health sector as a counsellor for over 15 years, and more recently in private practice assisting people in their recovery from substance abuse, and many other complex issues that impact living a healthy, meaningful life.

Through her own journey passion grew to see others experience the same lasting transformation and freedom that’s available with the right kind of care and support.

Janice offers a safe, confidential, and supportive space where you are encouraged to express yourself in your own time, and work together in a unique and personal way to bring understanding to those issues that life throws at us. Meeting with Janice will help you make sense of past and present experiences which enable you to feel more empowered and that bring lasting changes that improve your sense of wellbeing.

Her services cover a range of areas including, but not limited to:

  • Drug and alcohol use

  • Addictions

  • Relationship concerns

  • Anxiety and depression

  • Loss and grief

  • Trauma

  • Low self-esteem/self-worth

  • General counselling

  • Supports both individuals and couples

Janice has a Grad. Dip in Counselling, Post Grad. Diploma in Health Science (AOD), and is currently studying Masters in Counselling.

Dina McMaster has worked for numerous years as a certified trainer and lifestyle coach, specialising in women's health needs (including eating disorders), family & marriage Counselling, Pastoral Care and healing ministry. Dina is a qualified Counsellor and advanced Bethel Sozo practitioner and is passionate about providing a place where individuals can find balance and positive change through being heard safely, helped kindly and understood wisely.

Dina has travelled across Australia and the United States of America as a Minister of the Gospel with her husband of 27 years and has two adult children and one beautiful grandson.

Dina’s areas of interest include:

  • Marriage

  • Parenting

  • Young women

  • Family and relationships

  • Grief and loss

  • Women’s health

John Buckley is a married father of three adult children and grandfather of eleven. He has varied and unique experience in workshops, training and education in areas including marriage counselling, drug and alcohol rehabilitation and fitness including sport and athlete support. His area of interest in the mental health arena involves mentoring and walking with those struggling with addictions.

John's passion for helping others started with a counselling diploma in 2013 and now also includes pastoral care, counselling, training and chaplaincy. Working closely with individuals, couples and families, John assists others to manage and overcome mental and emotional issues, helping to navigate and develop a persons own effective strategies.

John has a Diploma in Fitness and Athlete Support and Cert IV in Training and Assessing and is a member of the Certified Practicing Counsellors of Australia.

Anita Hosie has been a qualified counsellor since 2011, she is also a trained nurse and has a background working in nutrition, environmental medicine, addiction and rehabilitation. She is warm hearted with a deep desire to serve her local community and is based in South East Queensland.

Anita has navigated her own journey through many difficult and complex health and life challenges. She is passionate about assisting other women to find freedom and transformation in the present, empowering them to live life to their fullest, free from the pains of the past and the anxieties that rob them of their future.

Working together through a unique process of integration and acceptance, Anita is committed to assisting you find your path to wholeness in an authentic, deeply personal and meaningful way.

Anita's particular areas of interest include:

  • Anxiety

  • Self Image and Self Esteem

  • Compulsive behaviour relating to food and addictions

  • Health challenges and adjustments

  • Generalised Counselling

Mel Clemmans has helped countless families and particularly women over the past 20 years deal with significant life changing events including family separations, life relocations, depression, trauma and anxiety.

Mel has developed a passion helping children with special needs deal with social skills and anxiety related disorders through her work in supporting a local Christian School for a number of years. Mel specialises in counselling children, adolescents and women.

A born-again believer since 1981, Mel's approach enables Christian values to be the framework in people’s journeys towards wholeness and fulfilment. Mel and her husband recently celebrated 25 years of marriage and have three adult children.

Mel has a Bachelor of Social Science, holds certificates in Education Support and Individual Support (Disability) as well as a Diploma of Counselling. Mel is currently completing a Grad. Diploma of Counselling.

Jayne Gray - For over 10 years Jayne has worked within the mental health and addiction field and graduated with a Bachelor of Addiction studies in 2019, subsequently becoming a registered addiction practitioner. Recently Jayne has led teams of mental health and addiction support workers to go out into local communities and provide exceptional support to people from all walks of life.

Jayne has had a personal lived experience of mental health and addiction recovery and knew that the complex life issues she went through would give her the skills, knowledge and passion to support others. A lived experience, coupled with academic learning, has given Jayne therapeutic models to use with people and a unique insight into how to connect with others in a genuine, empathic, hope-filled, non-judgemental way.

Jayne is the proud mum of five amazing children.

Areas of expertise include:

  • Alcohol and drug use

  • Non-substance addiction issues

  • Mental health support

  • Solo parenting

  • Relationship grief and loss

We’d love to hear from you! Clicking on the link below and completing our form will help us gain a better idea of how our team can best support you. One of our team members will be in touch to chat about the next steps. Our services are available through face to face, via phone or online. We look forward to speaking with you soon.