Thomas Burnside
Wellness-Coach.
Counsellor.
Meditation Teacher.
Digital Consultant.
About Me
Recently, I was journalling about how I see myself fitting into the world. Suprisingly, the answer was that I was somewhat of an misfit – an outcast on a solo journey of figuring things out for myself. Hopefully, the way the story ends is that I return to society with “treasures” – self-realisation developed from years of doing things my own way and frameworks about how other people can get similar results.
Latest Blog Posts
Feeling Lighter as the Goal of Therapy?
One thing that I find particularly interesting about psychotherapy is that there are different schools of thought about what a person should strive to become. For example, to name a few: Aristotelians say it's happiness Buddhists say it's enlightenment Yogis say it's self-realisation Humanists say it's self-acualisation Psychoanalysts say it's integration of the unconscious mind Adlerians say it's moving from inferiority to superiority Jungians say it's individuation Christians say it's moving...
Early Childhood Recollections in the Adlerian Approach
One of the interesting things about Adlerian therapy is the idea of early-childhood recollections. In Theory and Practice of Counselling and Psychotherapy Gerald Corey states that most people have only 6-12 recollections of their life before the age of 10 - this number would be roughly accurate for me. Adler believed that the memories we hold onto from early childhood are significant for our personal growth because they are the ones that are particularly significant in shaping the lens through...
First Contact with Adlerian Therapy
I have been reading a chapter on Adlerian therapy from the textbook "Theory and Practice of Counselling and Psychotherapy" by Gerald Corey. Even though Adler was Freud's psychoanalysis protege, they eventually went their separate ways. Adlerian therapy became wildly different to psychoanalysis. I found it helpful to simply read about Adlerian therapy. For example it made me think for the first time about how which number sibling someone is can mean they have a very different experience growing...
Contact
I have a studio in Hawthorn East where I can see patients. It’s essentially a consulting room (I live upstairs). Please don’t show up unannounced – give me a call, email or make an appointment ahead of time.
Phone: +61 430 443 795
Email: tomburnsideco@gmail.com