Salome Mbenjele, ACA

Salome Mbenjele is an ACA counsellor in Australia with more than 20 years' professional experience. She works with people dealing with stress, anxiety, family conflict, trauma and abuse, low self‑esteem and depression. Salome speaks English, Ndebele South, Ndebele North and Shona, and supports adults navigating early and later life challenges.

Salome focuses on practical conversation and clear goals. Sessions concentrate on what is happening now and on steps that feel manageable. She avoids judgement and works to create a straightforward space where people can talk about difficult feelings and decisions.

Her approach blends cognitive-behavioural ideas with client-centred and attachment-based thinking. That means she helps people notice patterns of thought and behaviour, and also pays attention to how relationships shape feelings. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy techniques when they fit the work.

In sessions Salome uses discussion, skills practice and reflective exercises. She helps clients break problems into smaller parts and try new ways of responding. Conversations are practical and paced to the person's comfort.

Salome has worked across a wide range of concerns over two decades. That experience informs how she helps people with life transitions, relationship strain, and the lingering effects of trauma. To begin, she asks about current worries and what the person hopes to change, then they plan simple steps to try between meetings.

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