About Gregg
Gregg Palmer is an experienced counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, intimacy concerns and low self-esteem. He draws on 17 years of practice to support adults working through painful life events and sudden periods of emotional distress. Gregg often helps when feelings of emptiness, shame or loss of meaning make daily life harder.
Gregg uses a relational and embodied way of working that pays attention to feelings and how they show up in the body.
How Gregg works
He also brings a psychospiritual perspective and notices how unconscious patterns, transference and countertransference can shape relationships in therapy and beyond. Sessions aim to make these patterns clearer so people can choose different responses.
He has particular experience with grief, addiction, family of origin problems, attachment and abandonment issues, and a range of sexuality and intimacy concerns including kink and alternative sex culture. He also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, blended family challenges, body image and communication problems.
Gregg trained in psychosynthesis and holds a Master of Arts in Psychotherapy and a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychosynthesis Counselling. He is a Level 3 member of the Australian Counselling Association, ACA, and works according to that professional code of ethics. His background includes time as a clinical director of a counselling placement service and involvement in psychosynthesis training programmes.
People who choose to work with him can expect thoughtful, depth-oriented sessions that focus on what matters most to them.
What Gregg works with
The areas below are the ones Gregg selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | ACA |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Gregg works from a relational approach that centres on the quality of the therapeutic relationship. This method focuses on how connection and interaction in the room mirror relationship patterns outside therapy and helps people change repeated ways of relating.He also uses embodied and psychospiritual perspectives. The embodied work pays attention to sensations and movement in the body to access emotional material. The psychospiritual side explores meaning, values and existential concerns that often arise with grief, emptiness or identity questions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Gregg will listen to your goals and preferences and suggest ways of working that suit your needs. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as therapy progresses.
Confirm current online session options before booking, as formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into busy routines, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people keep continuity of care if living further from a therapist or when schedules change. Appropriately qualified therapists can adapt these approaches so that depth-oriented and embodied work remain useful even when not in the same room.
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