My Connection Statement

Hi I’m Lisa Amalfi-Chiera from eCounselling Australia, I provide a variety of caring online counselling, and coaching services to woman and/or their families who want to regain control over their lifestyle, finding contentment and positive wellbeing.

About Me - My Biography

When it came to achieving her dream of building an online private counselling practice “Though she be but little, she be fierce!” …William Shakespeare,  is the best description of how Lisa Amalfi-Chiera, overcome a lot of adversity to open eCounselling Australia.

Her career began in Residential Youth, Drug and Alcohol Worker, while training Lisa discovered she inherited Hashimiotos Thyroiditis (Hashi’s), an autoimmune disease. Though she struggled with chronic fatigue caused by Hashi’s, Lisa completed her training, and during the process became a wife and mother.

Widowed on 2005 with a toddler and baby, Lisa changed her career pathway and began training as a Counsellor. Towards the end of her Bachelors degree majoring in both psychology and counselling Lisa made the discovery that she had developed Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) a second autoimmune disease.

Very ill with both the Hashi’s and MCS Lisa knew she could no longer work the normal 9 to 5 hours. Nor could she work out in the field with clients. With stubborn determination, a little help from a fantastic medical team practicing both traditional and modern medicine, 21st century technology, friend, family and her geeky second husband Lisa found a management program. Her personal management program allowed her to gain control of her life and career once more, while living with both invisible illnesses.

By the end of 2017 Lisa put her management program for her invisible illness’s to test. She volunteered for the Excutive of  Parents Victoria (PV), and also became a volunteer Board Member for State Schools Relief (SSR). Both of these opportunities led to a scholarship in 2019 with Women in Leadership Australia (WLA), in the Excutive Ready Program. It was during this scholarship that Lisa discovered her passion for coaching woman. Woman who due to life’s circumstances had to become innovative to create an income for themselves.

At the beginning of 2020 prior to the Coronavirus pandemic beginning in Australia Lisa began her journey as a solopreneur and opened eCounselling Australia for both counselling and coaching services. Lisa Amalfi-Chiera is a member of:
– ARCAP: Australian Register of Counsellors and Psychotherapists
– ACA: Australian Counselling Association
– CV: Counsellors Victoria

Lisa enjoys the support and wisdom HerBusiness network offers. The HerBusiness community also assists Lisa in running eCounselling Australia offering new ideas and goal targets for her business, while she studies her Masters of Counselling at Torrens University.

My Expertise

Lisa’s areas of expertise are:

  • individual counselling
  • couples counselling
  •  family therapy
  • telehealth counselling and coaching
  • coaching
  • greif
  •  trauma
  • depression
  • anxiety
  • supporting clients with invisible illness
  • supporting family members of loved ones living with invisible illness or autoimmune disease
  • creating a life story/history to pass onto future generations

 

My Passions

Lisa has a passion for graphic design and is exploring how to make quality counselling resources with this creative passion and outlet.

My Interests

Lisa has many interests from spending time with her family, friends and fur-babies to keeping current in mental health and wellbeing practices.  She enjoys taking walks, the gym, Body Grove, cooking, craft, music, and sewing Entering the  Frankston Open Arts Competition with her geeky husband Cosi has become a challenge of creativity between the couple.

Slightly traditional Lisa also enjoys looking after her home and, truely sparkles during the Christmas, Easter and other celebrations and holidays within her family, with a few little luxuries. Lisa finds the little luxuries life such as enjoying a trashy romance novel with a hot chocolate are the best things to support mindfulness and being present.

How I Can Help Other Members

Areas in which Lisa can support other HerBusiness members are:

  • brainstorming ideas for innovation and content
  • provide support in running a creative workshop
  • testing new ideas, content, software and providing feedback
  • can refer members to other counsellors in my network outside of HerBusiness
  • discovering how you are resilient or build resilience
  • using journalling for mindfulness and personal growth
  • creating vision boards

 

Why I Became a HerBusiness Member

As a solopreneur with an extrovert personality Lisa discovered her qualifications in counselling, psychology and welfare did not prepare her for the solitude or the skills required to run a private counselling practice.  Joining HerBusiness and becoming a member offered Lisa and her business eCounselling Australia, the support, encouragement, and accountability to keep her practice on track. to grow.  Her membership with HerBusiness has supported Lisa in building the professional relationships and friendships that are needed for outsourcing,  growth and development as a women in business.

 

 

 

My Member to Member Offer(s)

Member Offer One – Flat Rate! 

HerBusiness Members who provide a letter from their General Practitioner (GP) to Lisa from eCounselling Australia which state the name of their illness, invisible illness, autoimmune disease or state they are experiencing pre or post natal depression will be charged a flat rate of $60.00 per counselling/coaching session.

Member Offer Two – Recording Your Life Story!

Many people plan to pass their life story onto the future generations. However sometimes telling your story can be challenging, traumatic or you may just wish to have therapeutic support as you recored details and events. Lisa at eCounselling Australia offers clients the opportunity to tell their life story in a safe caring online environment. Lisa helps clients find ways to record details of their life story that can be passed onto the next generation while supporting the client  through challenging memories.

All HerBusiness members receive a 10% discount for this work.

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