Convenient Location & Telehealth
Easily accessible in-person consultations at neighboring Turner rooms, plus secure nationwide
telehealth options for Belconnen residents.
Professional Counsellor & Psychotherapist Inner North and City, ACT
Elmarie Bekker Counselling is proud to serve Inner North and City-residents with warm, professional, and personalized mental health counselling, psychotherapy, and relationship support. The Inner North and City-district of Canberra’s residents benefit from convenient access to Elmarie’s Turner private practice—located in the heart of the district—or flexible telehealth sessions designed to fit around busy study, work, and family schedules. Whether you live or work in the city or study at ACU, or reside in surrounding Dickson, O’Connor, Lyneham, Watson, Ainslie or others, Elmarie provides an accessible safe retreat where you can just be you, tell your story and master your challenges by developing new strategies.
The Inner North and City is one of Canberra’s most vibrant and diverse communities, home to secondary and tertiary students, young families, working professionals, and downsizing older people. The unique stresses from managing hectic everyday lives in and around the busy inner northern and city suburbs often results in emotional overwhelm, burn-out, relationship conflict, grief and loss or trauma, and many more unique challenges. Elmarie combines person-centred counselling with proven therapeutic models to tailor any psychotherapeutic support to your specific lived experience.
For the Inner North and City
Individual Therapy
Tailored one-on-one sessions supporting adults and adolescents (aged 12+) to process emotional pain, improve self-awareness, and overcome anxiety, depression, or self-doubt.
Couple & Family Counselling
Focusing on strengthening communication, rebuilding trust, resolving conflict patterns, and creating a safe emotional environment for couples and families.
Anxiety & Depression
Stress Management
Trauma & PTSD
Self-Esteem & Confidence
Relationships
Grief & Loss
Local Counselling & Therapy Experience in the Inner North and City, ACT
The Inner North and City-district’s unique demographic mix means mental health needs vary widely across the district. Life around Braddon, O’Connor, Dickson, Lyneham, and the City Centre comes with different challenges. University students at the Australian National University often face high anxiety, identity exploration, and social isolation, while local couples, families and parents frequently struggle with relationship challenges like communication barriers, work-life balance, or parenting/career stress.
Elmarie’s extensive background as both counsellor, and social worker enables her to address these local challenges with deep empathy and practical strategies. By understanding the social landscape of the City and Inner North Canberra and human psychology, she delivers grounded guidance that fosters long-term emotional resilience, clarity, and stronger connections.
Why is a local counselling experience in Turner important for Inner North and City-residents?
Accessible mental health counselling on your doorstep tailored to your individual needs and lifestyle
Support Across Life Stages (12+)
Dedicated, age-appropriate mental health support for teens, adults, couples, and family units.
Qualified & ACA-Registered
Level 2 ACA-registered Counsellor holding a Bachelor of Social Work and a Master of Counselling
degree.
Safe & Inclusive Environment
Warm, empathetic care welcoming individuals of all cultures, genders, sexual orientations, faith
groups, and neurodivergent profiles.
Integrative Approaches
Tailored therapy drawing from Schema Therapy, Family Systems, CBT, Gestalt, and trauma-informed
nervous system regulation.
Complimentary Discovery Session
Free initial 15-minute telephone consultation to discuss your needs with zero pressure or commitment.
Understanding how the process to get Counselling will work for Inner North and City Clients:
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1. Request Discovery Call
Call 0426 761 877 or complete our online contact form to schedule a complimentary 15-minute phone consultation to discuss your situation.
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2. Plan & Schedule
Choose between in-person appointments at our Turner clinic or convenient online sessions from your home in Belconnen, setting a timeline that fits your routine.
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3. Therapeutic Journey
Engage in collaborative, confidential sessions where you explore emotional patterns, develop coping strategies, and work toward meaningful personal change.
Book a Free 15-Minute
Consultation in Belconnen
Contact Elmarie Bekker Counselling today for a confidential, no-obligation
discussion about your mental health goals. Initial discovery calls are
scheduled within 48 hours.
An individual session is 50 minutes long and cost $140. There is no medicare rebate available and EBC is a private practice where you will pay the counsellor in her room at the end of each session.
If it is a family or couple counselling session, it is 90 minutes long and cost $200. If any individuals of the family or couple needs individual counselling, the fee is $175 for 50 minutes.
No, Elmarie manages her diary herself, but she is very responsive to text messages or emails. If you want to make a booking, please send her a request on her mobile number 0426761877 or send an email to ebc@elmariebekker.com.au .
No referrals are needed. Counselling does not presently fall under Medicare-rebated mental health plans, and therefore no doctor’s referral is required. Despite no Medicare rebate, counselling is a cost-effective mental health service due to overall lower fees. There are indications that this might change in the near future.
Not only does North Canberra Counselling in Turner, the name of Elmarie’s office, have a parking spot dedicated to clients at the bottom of the driveway, second to the right, marked North Canberra Counselling, but there are also lots of paid street parking available around the Turner-office.