Living Well Counselling Toowoomba

Welcome to Living Well Counselling Toowoomba , offering compassionate face to face therapy for individuals, couples and families in Toowoomba and surrounding regions, and on -line therapy Australia wide.

I love to see people live well!

Many of my clients are navigating anxiety and depression, neurodivergent, healing from complex trauma or looking for support with relationship challenges. I also work with Christians seeking therapy that integrates with their faith.

Specialisations:

Marriage and Couples
Narcissistic Abuse Recovery
Trauma Recovery
Anxiety and Depression

I am committed to ethical and evidence-based practice and to ongoing professional development, working with you to identify the roadblocks to experiencing a flourishing life. With a belief that even small changes can bring about lasting improvement, I will work with you to implement effective strategies for change.

I believe that each person’s situation offers unique challenges and requires a response that is tailored to you. I use a solution-oriented framework focussing on supporting you to move closer to your individual goals, drawing upon a range of techniques and counselling modalities to offer a truly integrated experience. These include compassion-focused therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy, solution-focused brief therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, dialectical behaviour therapy, internal family systems therapy, person-centred therapy, trauma – informed therapy, schema therapy and Gottman Method Couples therapy. I hold hope for change and a commitment to support you in a safe, compassionate and empowering environment.

Be heard… Find Hope… Begin healing….

Testimonials

Penne had great insight into the impact of life issues on my well-being. She could pull it all together and summarise this clearly. I was amazed at how she could relate Biblical truths to my situation and clarify the next steps from a Godly perspective.

Being a Chaplain, we are required to attend professional counselling on a regular basis. Seeing Penne Willner has enabled me to continue my work in this area effectively. Penne has given me great strategies on self-care, as well as having insight into areas of my work that I can improve and manage better (things that I haven’t seen). I find Penne to be gentle in spirit, wise and kind, and I highly recommend her.

Thanks for your help - I was in a very bad place and didn't know how to escape - the only absolute was that I knew God loved me, so I sought help. It was great to talk to a counsellor from a Christian viewpoint - to have cemented in my mind that I matter to God - I am who Jesus says I am, not all those negative thoughts that bombarded my mind. I appreciated learning how to retrain my brain to think positively and see hope. Thank you for your patience on the days that I just didn't care - where hope seemed lost, to see reality vs feelings, to feel like a human again. Learning to accept God's love as it is and to like myself again has given me a freedom to enjoy life and not be crushed by the negative strongholds that were in my mind.