Relationship Counsellor · Canberra
Understanding what you are experiencing — within yourself, your relationships, and the wider context of your life.
I work with individuals, couples, and families from a relational and attachment-informed perspective. That means beginning with what is actually happening for you, while remaining curious about the relationships, experiences, history, and wider circumstances that may be relevant.
Some difficulties are deeply relational. Others are not. The work does not assume the explanation in advance.
Prakash K C
PACFA Clinical Counsellor
I am a relationship counsellor and PACFA Clinical Counsellor based in Belconnen, Canberra. I work with individuals, couples, and families experiencing relationship and family difficulties, recurring patterns, anxiety, depression, grief, stress, workplace difficulties, and significant life transitions.
My approach is relational and attachment-informed, drawing primarily on Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), attachment theory, family systems thinking, relational psychotherapy, and trauma-informed practice.
“I would highly recommend Prakash. He was amazing at creating a safe, supportive and non-judgemental space. He is very genuine and helped immensely. I couldn’t speak more highly of him.” — Client review, Google
The person behind the work
I am not outside this.
The experiences people bring to counselling are part of ordinary human life. I know what it is to care deeply about relationships and still find them difficult at times. I know what it is to understand something clearly and discover that understanding alone does not always change how you feel or respond when the moment arrives.
I am also a partner, a son, a brother, a friend, and a member of a family. Those experiences do not make me an expert on another person’s life, but they do shape the way I approach this work — with curiosity, humility, and respect for how complicated people and relationships can be.
The clinical frameworks I use matter, but I do not want them to become explanations imposed on someone’s experience. My role is to bring knowledge and clinical judgement to the work while remaining open to what is actually true for the person, couple, or family in front of me.
I do not approach this work as an observer standing outside the realities I ask other people to explore.
Why this work
How I found my way here.
I came to Australia from Nepal in 2016 as an international student to study Engineering Management. Over time, however, I found myself increasingly drawn to questions about the mind, mental health, and human experience.
At one point, I began asking myself a simple question: if time were limited, what kind of work would feel genuinely worth doing? The answer kept bringing me back to people — to understanding psychological suffering and helping people find ways through it.
That question eventually changed the direction of my professional life. I went on to complete a Master of Psychotherapy and Counselling at Western Sydney University and began working across mental health, alcohol and other drug services, youth work, trauma-informed practice, and family and relationship counselling.
My interest in relationships developed through both lived and clinical experience. Building a life in a new country brought opportunity and growth, but also uncertainty, financial pressure, distance from family, and some of the losses that can accompany migration. Through much of that, relationships were an important source of support — my wife beside me, relatives here looking out for me, and family remaining close despite being thousands of kilometres away.
Professionally, working with young people experiencing mental health and substance-use difficulties made me increasingly interested in the protective and preventative role that secure, supportive relationships and strong family connections can play in wellbeing. I became curious about what could be achieved by working not only with the individual but, where appropriate, with the relationships and family systems around them.
As my work expanded to individuals, couples, and families, that interest deepened and led me further into attachment science, Emotionally Focused Therapy, family systems thinking, and relationship and family counselling.
I began this career wanting to understand psychological suffering. Along the way, I discovered how important relationships can be in protecting wellbeing, reducing vulnerability, making sense of distress, and supporting recovery and change.
The cultural dimension
Living across cultures has shaped how I listen.
I grew up in Nepal and have lived in Australia since 2016. Moving between these cultural contexts has shaped how I think about family, relationships, identity, belonging, and the different expectations people can carry about each of them.
I have experienced personally how ideas about independence, family responsibility, emotional expression, commitment, and what people owe one another can differ across families, generations, and cultures. Migration can add another layer — creating new possibilities while also bringing distance, loss, adaptation, and questions about where and how we belong.
At the same time, I do not assume that someone’s cultural background tells me what they believe or how they experience their relationships. Two people from the same culture, family, or generation can understand these things very differently.
That experience has taught me to listen for cultural meaning rather than presume it — what family means to you, which expectations you have inherited, which ones you have chosen, where different values may be in tension, and what fits the life you are trying to build.
For individuals, couples, and families navigating migration, cultural difference, bicultural identity, or intergenerational expectations, these dimensions can become an important part of counselling when they are relevant.
Sessions are available in English, Hindi, and Nepali.
Training and registration
Professional foundations for the work.
I am a PACFA Clinical Counsellor and hold a Master of Psychotherapy and Counselling from Western Sydney University.
My postgraduate education and ongoing professional development include training in relationship and family counselling, attachment, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), family therapy, trauma, suicide intervention, and work with children, young people, adults, couples, and families. I undertake ongoing professional development and clinical supervision as part of maintaining and developing my practice.
Professional Registration
Registered Clinical Counsellor
Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia
Clinical Registrant
Australian Register of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (ARCAP)
Professional Memberships
Clinical Member
PACFA College of Counselling
Member
International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT)
Qualification
Master of Psychotherapy and Counselling
Western Sydney University
Selected training
Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT) Externship
Key Skills in Family Therapy
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
Circle of Security Parenting
Trauma-informed and family violence professional development
In the room
How I work with you matters as much as the ideas I bring.
I tend to be warm, curious, and engaged in the room. I listen carefully, but I am not a therapist who simply sits back and says very little. I will ask questions, slow things down when something important is happening, offer observations, and sometimes gently challenge what may be keeping you or a relationship stuck.
I pay attention not only to the story being told, but also to what is happening as we talk — an emotion that appears and quickly disappears, a change in tone, something that becomes difficult to say, or an interaction between partners or family members that begins to unfold in the room.
There is room for seriousness and difficult emotion, but also for warmth and humour when they arise naturally. Counselling does not need to feel clinical or distant for the work to be thoughtful and purposeful.
I do not assume that I understand your experience simply because I recognise a familiar pattern. My role is to bring clinical knowledge, curiosity, and perspective while we work together to understand what is actually happening for you.
The aim is for counselling to be a place where you feel understood enough to explore what is difficult — and supported enough to try something different when the time is right.
Begin
You do not need to know exactly where to start.
You may already have a clear sense of what you want help with, or you may simply know that something has become difficult.
Either is enough to begin.
The first conversation is an opportunity for me to understand what is happening, for you to get a sense of how I work, and for us to consider whether working together feels like the right fit.
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