Gabrielle Asprey
Gabrielle Asprey is a counsellor and psychotherapist who specialises in supporting people affected by cancer and those who are bereaved. She runs a private counselling practice, An Open Door Counselling, and is a senior counsellor at Ovarian Cancer Australia. Gabrielle previously worked for fifteen years at Cancer Council NSW. She is a clinical member of the Australian Counselling Association and currently serves as President of Cancer Counselling Professionals Inc, an association of counsellors and health care professionals providing therapeutic support to people affected by cancer.
Gabrielle is also a trained end of life Doula, an accredited Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ally, a member of the Welcome Here Project (ACON), and serves on the Reconciliation Action Plan working group at Ovarian Cancer Australia, reflecting her commitment to inclusion and equity for all people.
Her support spans the entire cancer trajectory, from diagnosis to end of life and bereavement. Gabrielle is particularly interested in enabling conversations around end of life issues, believing that opening up these discussions can make planning and facing end of life easier and more compassionate.
Within her private practice, Gabrielle focuses on supporting people through some of the most difficult times in their lives. She creates a safe space grounded in compassion and care, enabling exploration of vulnerability and working towards what is possible.
Gabrielle provides professional supervision to staff of several national organisations involved in direct client support, encouraging critical self-reflection, examination of values and beliefs, and insight into balancing personal and work life.
Additional Interests and Experience: Gabrielle has a strong interest in Existential philosophy, which informs her therapeutic approach and her work around meaning, mortality, and personal growth. She has also undertaken information resources reviews for several organisations, contributing her expertise to the development and evaluation of support materials and resources in the health and counselling sectors.
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