Who We Are

Before you see a Counsellor or a Mediator, wouldn’t you like to know how good she or he is? Wouldn’t you like to know that your time and money is wisely spent?

At Mindful Relationships we pride ourselves on the fact that over the last 10 years “word of mouth” recommendation has been 100% of our referral base. We are growing and we want to offer our unique Counselling and Mediation services to more children, adults, couples and families who would benefit from our expertise in counselling and mediation.

Welcome my name is Arti Yagnik, I am the Principal at Mindful Relationships. We are a team of experienced and skilled Psychotherapists, Psychologists and Social Workers who are dedicated and committed to helping you find the key to solving your problems. We are passionate about strong and healthy relationships and we believe that your relationship with yourself and with others is the basis of happiness and health.

Our highly skilled team of therapists supports and assists children, adults, couples and families through many of life’s challenges, including:

  • Relationship difficulties

  • childhood and adult emotional, sexual and physical abuse

  • ADHD in children and adults

  • Divorce

  • step-family adjustment

  • Family dysfunction

  • Parenting

  • loss and grief

  • Alchohol and substance addiction

  • depression, stress and anxiety

  • mental health issues

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All our therapists and counsellors have at least a minimum of 15 years experience of direct work with children and adults. They are all registered with their respective Registration Boards and work within their code of ethics, policies and guidelines. Our team also has it’s own guideline for practise which includes understanding, respecting, valuing and not judging our clients. We believe that our services are client lead and sensitive to each client’s needs. If there is something about our service that you are unhappy about, we encourage you to let us know i.e. you have a right to complain. We take your comments seriously and, if appropriate, we will change the way we do things. We look forward to getting to know, understand and assist you.

Meet the Team

Our team of compassionate, skilled therapists is dedicated to walking alongside you through life’s challenges, big or small. We offer personalised care for a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, relationship issues, parenting struggles, depression, trauma, grief, and more. We also have therapists with specialised training in areas such as addiction, eating and sleeping difficulties, anger, family dynamics, self-esteem, LGBTQ+ matters, spiritual or religious concerns, and identity exploration. 

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  • Principal

    For more than 25 years Arti Yagnik has empowered children, adolescents and adults to positivelychange the way they think and feel about themselves and their relationships. Arti was the senior consultant pyschotherapist at the Family Relationship Service and is now the director of Mindful Relationships; a Counselling and Mediation service that helps people explore, address and resolve internal and external relationship difficulties. Arti is a sensitive and caring Mental Health Social Worker, Family Law Mediator and Systemic Psychotherapist; her approach is intense and fun. She has an uncanny ability to help children and adults explore the underlying cause of their distress and dysfunction and supports them to find long term permanent solutions.

    Arti is a highly knowledgeable, skilled and experienced Accredited Mental Health Social Worker and Systemic Psychotherapist, her clients benefit from her charismatic and confident approach. She helps individuals, couples and families move beyond problems such as divorce, family dysfunction, abuse,addiction and mental health issues including, bipolar, depression and anxiety. Arti uses a wide range of psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic theories and techniques when working with clients, enabling them to explore their emotions, thoughts and behaviours. Through continual feedback from her clients Arti is able to help them to develop and implement strategies and solutions that can resolve their problems.

    Arti’s ability to transfer her knowledge and experience of mental health issues and therapuetic counselling to working with parents who are separating has meant that she is a leading Family Law Mediator in Sydney, Her success in helping parents work out ways of co-parenting without litigation has been noteworthy.

    Arti does not believe in keeping children and adults in therapy any longer than necessary. Indeed, most of her clients are able to identify and appreciate positive changes in themselves and their situation within the first session and more long term solutions by six to 8 sessions. She is an enthusiastic Individual, Couple and Family Therapist who is able to view each of her clients as unique individuals who are experiencing patterns of thinking, feelings and behaviours that keep them stuck and unhappy. Only when these patterns are identified, explored and changed can they begin to experience positive sense of self and positive relationships.

    Throughout her career as a Social Worker and Psychotherapist Arti has been at the forefront of contributing to and implementing models of therapy that improve and enhance people’s lives, including Brief Therapy, The Post Sexual Abuse Project, Children and Self-Esteem, Child Informed Mediation and Radical Exposure Therapy. Arti has also taught and supervised Social Work and Family Therapy staff and students during the last 25 years.

    Qualifications

    • Social Work MSW (UK) 1993

    • Couple and Family Therapy MA (Aus) 2003

    Associations

    • Registered Social Worker 2001 (Aus)

    • Accredited Mental Health Social Worker 2006 (Aus)

    • AASW - Australian Association of Social Workers

  • Accredited Mental Health Social Worker

    Ali has over twenty years of therapeutic experience working alongside individuals of all ages and walks of life. Ali has honed her therapeutic skills over many years of work in government and non-government roles. She has had a range of experience in clinical work, and also in the University sector supporting Social Workers with their learning.

    Ali enjoys supporting individuals, couples and families who have a range of challenges. She is an accredited Mental Health Social Worker, and therefore she has both the knowledge and depth of experience in providing therapy for people with mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, and borderline personality disorder.

    Ali’s approach is informed by a range of therapeutic modalities, including Systemic Mental Health Social Work, Psychotherapy, Mentalisation Based Treatment, Narrative Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Radical Exposure Therapy.

    Ali has a warm, empathic, and respectful approach. She has a strong belief in the power of the therapeutic relationship as a vehicle for change. Ali’s approach is tailored to each individual, and she is skilled at assisting her clients to become aware of and harness their strengths. She is committed to supporting her clients to move towards development of a healthy sense of self and sustaining healthy relationships.

    Qualifications

    • Mental Health Social Worker Accreditation (AMHSW)

    • Bachelor of Social Work, Flinders University

    • Bachelor of Arts, Flinders University

    Associations

    • Australian Association of Social Workers

Why Should You Try Counselling?

Counselling is a positive way of exploring, addressing and resolving problems; it can help you understand your problems better, as well as giving you a better understanding of other person’s point of view. Counselling involves talking with one of our therapists in confidence about what you feel and  think about yourself and your situation. Counselling is often needed when challenges or crisis arise, such as, depression, divorce and family dysfunction. You are supported to discuss your problems honestly and openly in an informal and non-judgmental environment. Our clients are helped to explore the underlying cause of their problems; sometimes these are seen as arising from past experience, changes of environment and relationship problems. Clients often experience an “aha!” moment and this can help them to have further insight and appreciation of their own thoughts and feelings. This together with change in behaviour (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy) enables our clients to achieve lasting change.

We know our counselling services have made a positive difference to the lives of the people we have worked with. Our therapists provide a caring and supportive environment to help you find a way through the problems you are facing, including, relationship issues and depression, stress and anxiety. We are able to help our clients resolve their problems and move forward with their lives with less anxiety and more confidence and hope. We believe (and want to help you feel and believe) that there is hope despite the thoughts and feelings of helplessness and negativity that are easy to experience when you are feeling stuck or going around in circles with the same problems.

Contact us

If you have any questions or would simply like to know more, don’t hesitate to contact us via email, phone or through the form below.