Welcome
I'm Colleen Carolin
Registered Counsellor and Psychotherapist
(Master's-qualified, PACFA & ACA registered)
I work with people navigating a wide range of emotional and mental health challenges –
helping them understand what's happening
beneath the surface, and with a focus
on Preventive Mental Health,
aim to build resilience
and mental-emotional agility.
I offer private therapy sessions in Sydney's CBD,
in Manly on the Northern Beaches,
or via Telehealth.
No GP referral needed
Repeated dynamics with partners, family, or colleagues often have roots worth exploring. Understanding the pattern is the first step.
Relationship
Patterns
Trauma-informed work creates safety for exploration of past experiences that shape how we feel in the present, at your pace
Trauma
& Difficult History
Anxiety
& Overwhelm
Career change, relationship shifts, loss, relocation, identity — transitions that ask more of you than you expected.
Racing thoughts, chronic worry, physical tension. Therapy helps you understand your responses and what you can do about it
Major
Life Changes
Grief includes the end of relationships, the loss of who you thought you'd become, and the quiet grief of unfulfilled hopes. All of it is welcome here.
Grief
& Loss
You are not a problem to be solved.
You are a person with a history,and an inner life
that makes sense when we take the time
to understand it.
50% off 1st session*
What Brings People Here
What I Offer
COUNSELLING & PSYCHOTHERAPY
Short-term
solutions-focused counselling
(typically 4 - 8 sessions)
and longer-term, deeper psychotherapy available
(9 - 16 sessions + ongoing)
NERVOUS SYSTEM REGULATION
Safe & Sound Protocol™
Sound-based therapy to retune stress-reactivity & overwhelm, linked to trauma, anxiety, depression, ADHD & Autism
(6 week program)
RELATIONSHIP ASSESSMENT
Prepare / Enrich ®
A research-backed relationship assessment tool used by facilitators worldwide
Designed for couples at any stage — dating, engaged, married, or reconsidering their relationship
PREVENTIVE
MENTAL HEALTH
Building the mental-emotional resilience,
self-awareness and relational-skills that hold up under pressure
(3-month program,
12 sessions)
There is no wrong time to invest in your Mental Health
This is something nobody tells you
about therapy.
You don’t have to be falling apart to benefit from it.
Often the people who get the most out of it are often the ones who come in before the crisis — building the emotional resilience, self-awareness, and relational skills that mean they're not starting from zero when life gets hard (and it may).
50% off 1st session*
ABOUT ME
I’m Colleen Carolin, a Master’s-qualified counsellor and psychotherapist with a PACFA and ACA-registered private practice in Sydney.
I work integratively, which means I don't bring a fixed approach to every person. I bring curiosity, a well-stocked toolkit, and a genuine belief that you are not broken — you are responding, often very logically, to a life that has asked a great deal of you.
I work within a broad scope — from everyday stress and life transitions to grief, trauma, and deeper psychotherapeutic exploration. My practice is unhurried and grounded in genuine regard for the people I work with.
I work with individuals and couples who are ready to have an honest conversation — about their mental, emotional, and relational wellbeing, whether you're navigating a specific challenge or simply want to show up more fully in your life.
I believe Preventive Mental Health is an important evolution
in the way we think about and approach mental health.
Just like fitness and strength training, or having a healthy diet, investing in building your mental health fitness means that you have the tools,
supports and habits in place that cushion and strengthen you during life’s setbacks
Feeling mentally, emotionally and relationally fit to manage what life brings means
less floundering, faster recovery and better endurance.
50% off 1st session*
Colleen
Carolin
Registered Counsellor & Psychotherapist
WHAT CLIENTS SAY
KW
It was really great working with you and I really appreciate our time together. I want to thank you so much for your support and tell you that I am very grateful.
GN
I just wanted to say how grateful I am for your support. You are a very skilled counsellor and I will continue to use strategies, look over notes and move forward in my life even more fully due to what I've discovered and worked through with you
GP
Thank you so much, Colleen. All your help has been greatly appreciated
Contact
Connect
Phone: +61 400 157 185
Social: @soundminds.therapy
Opening Hours
Mondays Telehealth Only
Tuesdays Sydney CBD
Wednesdays Manly
Thursdays Sydney CBD
9:30 am – 4:00 pm
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
9:30 am – 4:30 pm
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Locations
Send a Message
If you're not sure whether you're in the right place
Get in touch. That uncertainty is often the place to start.
Sydney CBD ROOMS
Sound Minds Therapy
GATHR Space
Mezzanine/309 George Street
Sydney CBD, NSW, 2000
GATHR
Manly Rooms
Sound Minds Therapy
Village Chiropractic Manly
Suite 1/12 Sydney Rd
Manly, NSW, 2095
