Anthony Lekkas

Northside Counselling Solutions -Anthony Lekkas

Thornbury, VIC, Australia

Specialities
Relationship and Couple Therapy, Anxiety, Depression and other mental health, LGBTIQ health and wellbeing.

Patient Focus
Individuals, couples and people in all types of relationships and family structures, including non-monogamous, polyamorous relationships and step-blended families.

Service Types
Attachment based Therapy
Emotion-Focused Couple Therapy
CBT
Queer Affirmative Therapy

About Northside Counselling Solutions Founder - Anthony

Anthony Lekkas (he/ him) is a family violence consultant, trainer, relationship counsellor and accredited mental health social worker and his work spans over 18 years of working in the LGBTIQ and mainstream not-for-profit community health sector and in private practice at Northside Counselling Solutions.

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His clinical work experience involves working with victim survivors and perpetrators in ‘hetero’ and queer men’s behaviour change programs and in private practice he provides relationship counselling to LGBTIQ and straight people in monogamous, non-monogamous and polyamorous relationships.

Get to know Anthony

Why did you become a therapist?
I grew up experiencing a range of family life struggles and was fortunate to have a long and meaningful relationship with a therapist who was caring and empowering of me at very sensitive times in my life.

As a passionate and dedicated therapist, I believe in the importance of self-healing and growth both personally and professionally, therefore I participate in ongoing personal and professional development processes to enhance my work with those who seek my support.

What’s the one thing you wish all clients knew about you?
I aim to create a confidential space where you and your partner can expect to be treated with compassion, respect and understanding in order for you to feel safe enough to work through delicate and painful relationship tensions. My work with you will involve advocating for positive change in your relationships, working with you to build a greater sense of self-awareness, identify areas that you feel need change, and support you to restore emotional safety, security and intimacy in your relationships.

I use a multidisciplinary approach to work with a range of life’s challenges and relationship struggles and to nurture emotional bonding experiences. I aim to be respectful of your relationship type and how you and your partner or partners decide to negotiate the type of relationship that works for you. This includes non-monogamous and polyamorous relationships.

What inspires you?
Watching people make transformative changes to their families and relationships where they had once lost hope.

What can clients expect in their first session with you?
I aim to create a confidential space where you and your partner can expect to be treated with compassion, respect and understanding in order for you to feel safe enough to work through delicate and painful relationship tensions.

 

Other areas of focus

Focus Areas:
Relationship and Couple Therapy.

Approaches
Attachment based Therapy
Emotion-Focused Couple Therapy
CBT
Queer Affirmative Therapy

Education and training

Years in Practice: 18 years

Degrees:
Accredited Mental Health Social Worker 
B.A. (Psychology and Sociology) 
M.A. Social Work 
M.A. Counselling 
M.A. Couple & Relationship Counselling 
Grad. Cert. Social Science (Male Family Violence)

Work Experience:
I am family violence consultant, trainer, relationship counsellor and accredited mental health social worker with the AASW

Fees & Insurance

Australian Bulk Billing Available
Accepts Mental Health Care Plan
Accepts Private Health Fund

Additional details

Languages Spoken
English

Greek

Practice location

Address: Preston, Victoria

Email-info@northsidecounsellingsolutions.com

Website: northsidecounsellingsolutions.com

Phone Number: +61 (0) 406827772