About Simone
Simone Domingues offers calm, practical support for adults facing stress, anxiety, grief and life changes. She helps people manage sleep problems, low self-esteem, relationship and intimacy concerns, eating issues and the ups and downs of mood. Simone is an ACA counsellor with 25 years of experience and speaks English and Portuguese.
Simone draws on approaches that focus on what matters to each person. Sessions are respectful and down-to-earth. She asks about your priorities and helps you try new ways of responding to difficult thoughts and feelings.
How Simone works
Her work has been developed over many years in both Brazil and Australia. Simone uses elements of cognitive behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and mindfulness to build calm and clearer focus. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas support people to act in line with their values even when emotions are strong.
Simone adapts sessions to practical needs. That can mean short check-ins by text, a phone call, or deeper work over video. She explains options clearly and helps people choose what will fit their life and goals.
People come for help with specific problems like ADHD-related coping, chronic illness, caregiver stress, or fertility and fatherhood worries. Simone also supports those facing bereavement, compassion fatigue and issues around body image and eating. Sessions follow the Australian Counselling Association's ethical guidelines and are offered from Australia.
Simone aims to create an empathic space where adults feel heard and can work toward realistic change.
Simone lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Simone works with
The areas below are the ones Simone selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | ACA |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English, Portuguese |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
How Simone's approaches translate to online therapy
Simone commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Client-Centred Therapy in her work. ACT helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values, which can be useful for anxiety, depression and life transitions. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding so people feel accepted and can explore their concerns at their own pace.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Simone will work with each person to identify what feels most useful based on their goals and preferences, and adjust methods over time. That collaborative decision-making helps make online sessions feel tailored and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits short check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing brief contact between sessions. These choices let people fit therapy around work, caregiving or other commitments while still doing meaningful therapeutic work.
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