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Life Transitions Counselling & Life Coaching in Melbourne
Some changes you choose. Some arrive anyway. Both can leave you without a map.
Counsellor-led life coaching for a career change, a move, retirement, an empty house, a diagnosis, or a stage of life you did not plan for.
50-minute sessionsCoaching and counselling combinedOnline, phone or in personNo referral
$198 per 50-minute session, GST included. Full fees are on the packages and pricing page. Sessions run online by secure video across Australia and New Zealand, by telephone, or in person in Melbourne by arrangement.
In short
Life transitions counselling is counsellor-led life coaching for a change you chose or one that arrived anyway — a career change, retirement, a move, an empty house. It handles both the plan and what the change cost you. Sessions are 50 minutes at $198, GST included, typically six to eight of them.
A life coach helps you build the plan. A counsellor helps with what the change costs you — the identity that went with the old job, the grief inside a good decision, the fear that arrives once the plan is made. This work does both, which is why it suits people who have already tried one and found half the problem untouched.
There is no programme to buy and no personality framework to fit into. We start with where you actually are, name what the change has taken and what it has opened, and build the next step from there.
Common transitions
- A career change, redundancy or a return to work
- Retirement, or the year before it
- Children leaving, or a house that has gone quiet
- A move, a migration, or a marriage ending
- A diagnosis that reorganises everything
What we work on together
Name the cost
Most transitions involve a loss, including the good ones. Naming it is what stops it leaking into everything else.
Build the next step
Concrete and small enough to actually take. Direction, not a five-year vision statement.
How the work unfolds
Solution-focusedValues workGrief-awarePractical goal setting
01
Where you actually are
An honest account of the change, what it has altered, and what you have been telling other people instead.
02
What it took
The part coaching usually skips. Identity, status, routine, relationships, certainty — whatever went with the old arrangement.
03
What matters now
Values before goals. A plan built on the wrong values is abandoned within a month.
04
The next step
One step, sized to be taken this fortnight, with a way to review it that is not self-punishment.
A plan without footing does not get followed. We build the footing first, then the next step.
Anne Evans · Counsellor & Psychotherapist
Common questions
Is this life coaching or counselling?+
Both, and you do not have to decide which you need. The difference matters less than whether the work addresses the plan and the cost of the change at the same time. Anne is a registered counsellor, so the emotional side is handled properly rather than pushed past.
How is this different from a life coach?+
Most coaching starts from the assumption that you are well and need a strategy. That is often true, and sometimes the strategy keeps failing because something underneath has not been dealt with. Counsellor-led coaching can go to either place without a referral.
How many sessions does it take?+
Transition work tends to be shorter than open-ended therapy, though there is no set number of sessions. We agree a plan at the start and review it as you go.
More answers in the general FAQs, or ask Anne directly.
Often works alongside
Individual Counselling
One-to-one work to understand what is going on and decide what to do about it.
Stress & Burnout
Burnout is not a personality flaw. It is a load problem with a solvable shape.
Grief Counselling
Any loss, at your own pace — including the losses inside a good decision.
Ready to start life transitions work?
Book online in under a minute, or send a question first — Anne answers her own enquiries.