Background: Bec is an ACA registered Counsellor offering online counselling as well as limited walk and talk sessions on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. She works with adolescents (16+ years) and adults, and has experience supporting LGBTQIA+ people, people living with chronic illness or disability, sex workers, and culturally and linguistically diverse clients.
Specialty: Bec specialises in supporting people experiencing depression, anxiety and stress; neurodivergence; grief and loss; and parenting challenges. She is particularly passionate about working with neurodivergent adolescents (16+ years) and adults navigating identity, overwhelm, burnout, relationships, life transitions and the experience of feeling like they don’t quite fit. Bec focuses on understanding each person within the context of their experiences, relationships and environment rather than treating challenges as separate or unrelated.
Approach: Bec’s approach is to be curious about what could be sitting underneath your overwhelm, burnout, anxiety or feeling stuck, as a way of helping you understand what might be happening deeper down. She wants you to be yourself in session, without any pressure to have the right words or communicate in a particular way. She helps you to identify unhelpful patterns you may not have noticed, while making sure this is a collaborative experience for you – not something you’re doing “incorrectly”.
Her approach adapts to you rather than applying the same counselling ideas or methods to everyone, and she draws on a broad toolkit built through her training and experience. She has a particular interest in working with neurodivergent people, and pays attention to different ways of thinking, communicating and experiencing the world, rather than treating one way as the “correct” standard to measure against.
Perspective: Bec works from the idea that emotional responses usually make sense once you understand the experiences behind them, and she looks for that context before anything else.
She works at your pace, and focuses on building self-understanding and confidence in what’s already there, starting from what you bring rather than what the world may have implied is “wrong” with you. Sessions with Bec aim to feel unpressured, a space where you’re heard and can work out what actually matters to you.
More About Bec
Bec Stannage is an ACA registered Counsellor offering online counselling and walk and talk sessions on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. She supports adolescents and adults navigating neurodivergence, anxiety, depression and stress, grief and loss, parenting, overwhelm, burnout, relationships and life transitions.
She is particularly passionate about working with neurodivergent young people and adults who may be exploring identity, experiencing burnout or overwhelm, navigating relationships and change, or feeling like they don’t quite fit. Bec also has experience working with LGBTQIA+ people, people living with chronic illness or disability, sex workers, and culturally and linguistically diverse clients.
Bec draws on Narrative Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Internal Family Systems, family and systems approaches, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Her practice is neurodiversity-affirming, strengths-based and trauma-informed, choosing approaches based on the individual rather than applying one method to everyone.
Working with Bec is collaborative and client-led. She believes you are the expert in your own life and aims to create a warm, down-to-earth space where you can better understand your experiences, recognise your strengths and find strategies that genuinely work for you.
Booking With Bec:
Availability: Bec sees clients on Wednesday evenings, Thursday evenings, Friday daytime and Saturday daytime.
Timezone: Melbourne (AEST/AEDT)
Where: Online counselling; limited walk and talk sessions on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria.
Offers couples counselling? No
Offers counselling to under 18’s? Yes, 16 and above only.
Cost: $70-$160 – check our sliding scale here
Specialties:
How to Book
- Think about your goals for counselling, and which counsellor might be a good match
- Send an email to the counsellor you’d like to work with requesting an appointment
- In the rare event you don’t hear from your counsellor within 24 hours, please contact us
Not sure who might be the right fit for you? Contact us and we’re happy to make a recommendation
Intake Process
- Initial appointments are $70 for individuals, or $80 for couples
- Due to our counsellor’s busy schedules, they cannot do intakes over the phone
- Your intake session will include discussing what supports you need, your goals for counselling, and to decide whether your counsellor is a good match for you
- If you decide that the fit isn’t right, you can ask to be referred to someone else – no offence will be taken!
Important Notice
There are some people that our counsellors can’t work with – not because we don’t want to, but because we want you to have the best possible care.
If you currently experience domestic violence, are having a mental health crisis, are experiencing severe substance dependency issues, or other acute crises, we can’t provide you with the level of support you deserve. However, we will use your initial appointment to connect you with places that specialise in these issues, so you can get the best possible care.
