Counselling · Sydney & online
When the search for answers takes over.
Space to think without a fight over who is right.
Counselling when conspiracy-related claims or communities are affecting your life and relationships. Explore pressure, uncertainty and room for your own judgement.
You do not have to accept a label for your beliefs to seek support.
Start with what is happening in your life.
You may be spending more time following claims, feeling pressure to warn others, or finding that conversations with people you care about repeatedly end in conflict. You may also be reconsidering a community you previously trusted.
These experiences do not settle whether a claim is true, establish a diagnosis or show why the situation developed. We can explore the difficulties without beginning with a demand that you admit you were wrong.
How can an explanation be checked or reconsidered?
A useful conversation can examine the sources you rely on, what counts as evidence, how disagreement is handled and whether an explanation could change in response to new information. We apply that openness to our own interpretation too.
We can also consider what a community provides: friendship, safety, purpose or a place where your concerns are heard. Changing involvement may be harder where those needs have few other sources of support.
What we can work on together.
Reduce pressure around the question
Make room for uncertainty and your own priorities rather than trying to win an argument.
Understand the effects
Look at sleep, how you manage daily life, relationships and practical commitments in your circumstances.
Broaden your options
Consider other ways to access information, connection and support while making changes you can evaluate and revise.
Beliefs are not a mental-health assessment.
We do not diagnose psychosis, a personality disorder or any other condition from what someone believes. If acute distress, severe difficulty functioning or a risk of harm needs medical or specialist mental-health care, that assessment takes priority.
This is not a fact-checking service or a way to change someone else’s beliefs. When the concern is about a relative or friend, family consultation focuses on your communication, boundaries and support needs.
Common questions.
Will counselling be a debate about evidence?
We may consider how you evaluate information, but the goal is not to defeat your argument. The starting point is the difficulty you want help with.
Can you make a relative stop believing something?
No. Consultation can support your own response but cannot assess or direct someone who is not participating.
What if I am frightened or struggling to manage everyday life?
Seek appropriate health or crisis support when needed rather than waiting for an enquiry response. TEC will clarify whether counselling here is suitable.
Further information.
- eSafety Commissioner — echo chambers and your feed
An explanation of how algorithms select what appears in your feed and how to think about the information you see.
- Step Together — support and advice
A specialist starting point for concerns about involvement in violent extremism; not an emergency service.
Service information from The Exit Clinic. These pages are not an assessment of you, another person or a group. External resources offer other perspectives; they do not establish the facts of your situation.
The Exit Clinic
Founded by JT Kua, Counsellor, and Isabel Pham, Social Worker.