Ronika Martin, ACA

ACA counsellor Ronika Martin has seven years of experience working across community, custodial and private settings in Australia. She has worked in schools, community organisations, prisons including drug treatment units, NGOs, and private practice. Ronika supports people facing addictions, relationship conflict, trauma and emotional distress. Sessions are described in her terms as helping people identify unhelpful patterns and develop more useful ways of responding.

Ronika has supported people with stress, anxiety, depression, grief and loss, low self-esteem and difficulties with motivation or confidence. She has also worked with clients experiencing homelessness and has run group therapy in addition to one-to-one counselling. Her background includes supporting people through parenting concerns, intimacy-related issues, anger, career problems, bipolar and coping with life changes.

She draws on a selection of evidence-informed methods including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), together with Attachment-Based and Client-Centred approaches. Ronika also names Existential ideas and Motivational Interviewing among her methods. She explains that many difficult behaviours began as coping strategies shaped by trauma or early experiences.

In sessions she aims to help people identify those patterns, name what they do now, and practice different responses that better fit present goals. She uses straightforward conversation, reflective listening and practical exercises from the approaches above. Ronika notes that her own lived experience informs how she works alongside people.

Sessions are offered in English and Hindi. For booking, people are asked to use the online counselling options button, complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a first session. Costs vary with location and use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.

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