Sonja Baram
Mrs Sonja Bar-Am
Phone
0468 830 881
Mobile
0468 830 881
Email
[email protected]
Website
www.adelaidenarrative.com

Professional Profile

Qualification(s)
Masters in Social Science (Counselling Studies)
Registration Number
24203
Registration category
Clinical
Additional PACFA credentials

College of Counselling


Accredited Supervisor
Accredited PACFA Registrant
Private health rebate/NDIS provider
Offers Private Health Fund Rebates
Offers telehealth
Yes

* Certified Practicing PACFA members have studied at AQF Level 7 (Bachelor degree) or above, with a minimum of 400 hours instruction in counselling or psychotherapy subjects, plus have a minimum of 40 hours client contact, and 10 hours of supervision.

Clinical PACFA members have met the education standards above and have accrued a minimum of 750 client contact hours, including 75 hours of supervision.

About me

My practice
Sonja Baram is a narrative therapist and counsellor with 20 years experience in community Adult and Family Relationship counselling. Sessions can be focussed on a particular issue to explore from a Narrative Invitational and Trauma and Gender responsive approach. Alternatively therapy may be long termed focused on respectful relationships and understanding identity or the self in relation to one's own preferences for living and others. She has a strong interest in Relationship & Couple work, particularly informed by understandings of the politics of power, relationships and social culture - "its where the Magic Happens!"


Sonja also works with folk from a Trauma & Gendered Informed Approach to people affected by Childhood Sexual Abuse, Sexual Trauma and Domestic Violence, looking at the effects of power and objectification on both Men & Women. And takes a Family Therapy & Open Dialogue approach to Mental Health presentations. Always with foundations in rigorous Narrative and Invitational Therapies that have developmental origins in Adelaide and now have international reach and influence.

Family Law Counselling
Sonja works in her capacity as a private Registered Clinical Counsellor as an expert witness to the Family Law Court of Australia in matters of family separation. Lawyers can refer for reportable and non-reportable family therapy and counselling in legal matters.

Sonja provides accredited supervision and teaching, specialising in narrative and collaborative therapies, therapy and listening as activism, and in non-violence work.

Sonja is an associate editor with the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy
Practice opening hours
9 am - 8 pm
Issues I can help with
Anger, Anxiety, Communication issues, Conflict resolution, Family or parenting, Grief and loss, Life transitions, Low self-esteem, Mental health issues, Relationship issues, Stress, Trauma recovery, Violence
Type of therapy offered
Acceptance Commitment Therapy, Brief therapy, Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy, Couples therapy, Family therapy, Integrative therapy, Narrative therapy, Person-centred counselling, Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy, Systemic therapy

Practice addresses

Practice NamePractice AddressSuburbStatePostcode
Adelaide Narrative Therapy Collective4/79 Pennington TerraceNorth AdelaideSA5006