About Cornelius
Cornelius "Corey" Human helps people who are feeling stressed, anxious, low or stuck. He is a counsellor with PACFA and brings 18 years of experience to sessions. He speaks English and Afrikaans and is based in Australia.
Corey uses straightforward, conversational methods in the room. He aims to make therapy practical and understandable. Sessions focus on what is happening now and what someone wants to change or accept.
Over nearly two decades he has supported people facing depression, anxiety, addiction and relationship difficulties.
How Cornelius works
He also works with issues such as grief, trauma and compassion fatigue. He helps clients manage life transitions and career-related stress as well. Corey draws on approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Attachment-Based work.
He matches techniques to each person's needs and preferences rather than using one fixed method. People can expect a calm, direct style that encourages honest conversation and small, testable steps. He offers video, phone, live chat and text-based sessions to fit different routines and schedules.
Cornelius lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Cornelius works with
The areas below are the ones Cornelius selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | PACFA |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English, Afrikaans |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviours to reduce symptoms such as worry or low mood; it suits stress, anxiety and addiction-related patterns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions and helps people build different, healthier ways of relating when emotional triggers arise.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The counsellor will discuss needs, goals and personal style, and then agree on methods together. That collaborative process means techniques can be adjusted as progress is made or new priorities appear.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be used with low bandwidth, live chat suits shorter check-ins and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make attending sessions more flexible and accessible for many people.
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