{"id":74,"date":"2025-12-28T13:57:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagingloom.com\/chaunceysjostedt\/services\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T13:57:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:57:34","slug":"services","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stagingloom.com\/chaunceysjostedt\/services\/","title":{"rendered":"Services"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"74\" class=\"elementor elementor-74\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-35a46fa e-con e-atomic-element e-flexbox-base e-4ed3618 \" data-id=\"35a46fa\" data-element_type=\"e-flexbox\" data-e-type=\"e-flexbox\" data-interaction-id=\"35a46fa\" data-e-type=\"e-flexbox\" data-id=\"35a46fa\">\n    \t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4fbd9c6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"4fbd9c6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- WEB_CONTENT_START -->\n<!--\n  ============================================================================\n  CHAUNCEY SJOSTEDT - COUNSELLING SERVICES SYDNEY  (page body only)\n  ============================================================================\n  Scope used in this file: #csj-serv\n  Every selector begins with #csj-serv. 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These are the twelve areas that come up most often\n            in my practice, offered to individual adults at the Surry Hills and Glebe rooms, or over\n            encrypted video to anyone in the country. All of it is Gestalt based, body aware and\n            trauma informed.\n          <\/p>\n          <div class=\"btns\">\n            <a class=\"btn b1\" href=\"\/contact\/\">\n              Book a session\n              <svg viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M5 12h13M12 5l7 7-7 7\"\/><\/svg>\n            <\/a>\n            <a class=\"btn b2\" href=\"\/counselling-sydney\/\">How counselling works<\/a>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <figure class=\"hfig\">\n          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/stagingloom.com\/chaunceysjostedt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Chauncey-035.jpg\"\n               width=\"1024\" height=\"1536\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\"\n               alt=\"Chauncey Sjostedt, counselling services Sydney, seated in an armchair by a window\">\n        <\/figure>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <!-- 2 SCOPE STRIP -->\n  <section class=\"strip\" aria-label=\"Scope of practice\">\n    <div class=\"w\">\n      <div class=\"sgrid\">\n        <div><b>Format<\/b><span>One to one, never joint sessions<\/span><\/div>\n        <div><b>Ages<\/b><span>Adults from 18 upwards<\/span><\/div>\n        <div><b>Length<\/b><span>Fifty minutes per appointment<\/span><\/div>\n        <div><b>Access<\/b><span>No referral, no diagnosis, no waitlist<\/span><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <!-- 3 THE TWELVE -->\n  <section>\n    <div class=\"w\">\n      <div class=\"nar\">\n        <span class=\"eye\">What I work with<\/span>\n        <h2>Which counselling services do I offer?<\/h2>\n        <p class=\"sub\">\n          Twelve areas, described properly rather than in a sentence each. Most people recognise\n          themselves in two or three of them at once, which is normal and not a problem to solve\n          before booking.\n        <\/p>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <nav class=\"jump\" aria-label=\"Jump to a service\">\n        <a href=\"#anxiety\">Anxiety and burnout<\/a>\n        <a href=\"#grief\">Grief and loss<\/a>\n        <a href=\"#birth\">Birth trauma<\/a>\n        <a href=\"#gender\">Gender identity<\/a>\n        <a href=\"#lgbtq\">LGBTQ+ affirming<\/a>\n        <a href=\"#relating\">Relating to others<\/a>\n        <a href=\"#esteem\">Self-esteem and body<\/a>\n        <a href=\"#emotions\">Overwhelming emotions<\/a>\n        <a href=\"#growth\">Personal growth<\/a>\n        <a href=\"#family\">Family history<\/a>\n        <a href=\"#trauma\">Trauma<\/a>\n        <a href=\"#somatic\">Somatic work<\/a>\n      <\/nav>\n\n      <div style=\"margin-top:40px\">\n\n        <article class=\"svc\" id=\"anxiety\">\n          <div class=\"svcgrid\">\n            <div>\n              <svg class=\"ic\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M12 3a5 5 0 0 0-5 5c0 3-2 4-2 7a7 7 0 0 0 14 0c0-3-2-4-2-7a5 5 0 0 0-5-5Z\"\/><path d=\"M9 15a3 3 0 0 0 6 0\"\/><\/svg>\n              <h3>Anxiety, stress and burnout<\/h3>\n              <span class=\"tag\">Very common<\/span>\n            <\/div>\n            <div>\n              <p>\n                Worry that runs on whether or not there is anything to worry about. Sleep that will\n                not come. A job you used to care about that now produces nothing but a low hum of\n                dread. Burnout in particular tends to be treated as a scheduling problem, which is\n                why rest alone so rarely fixes it. We look instead at what has been asked of you,\n                what you have been unable to refuse, and what your body has been doing about it while\n                you carried on. Practical enough to be useful in the week you are actually having.\n              <\/p>\n              <p>\n                People often want to know whether this is the same as being taught coping\n                strategies. It is not, though useful things do get worked out along the way. The\n                difference is that we are after the driver rather than the symptom.\n              <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/article>\n\n        <article class=\"svc\" id=\"grief\">\n          <div class=\"svcgrid\">\n            <div>\n              <svg class=\"ic\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M4 20s2-8 8-8 8 8 8 8\"\/><path d=\"M12 12V4\"\/><path d=\"M9 7h6\"\/><\/svg>\n              <h3>Grief, loss and life changes<\/h3>\n              <span class=\"tag\">Death and everything else<\/span>\n            <\/div>\n            <div>\n              <p>\n                Death is the obvious one, and it is far from the only one. People grieve separations,\n                miscarriages, careers, migrations, diagnoses, friendships that quietly stopped, and\n                versions of a life that were never going to happen. Grief without a funeral attached\n                gets very little social permission, which is exactly why it tends to go unspoken for\n                years. There is no timetable here and no expectation that you should be further along\n                than you are.\n              <\/p>\n              <p>\n                Anniversaries, the second year rather than the first, and grief that surfaces\n                decades late are all completely ordinary. Nothing about arriving long after the\n                event makes this a strange thing to bring.\n              <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/article>\n\n        <article class=\"svc\" id=\"birth\">\n          <div class=\"svcgrid\">\n            <div>\n              <svg class=\"ic\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><circle cx=\"12\" cy=\"8\" r=\"4\"\/><path d=\"M5 21c0-4 3-6 7-6s7 2 7 6\"\/><\/svg>\n              <h3>Birth trauma and the perinatal year<\/h3>\n              <span class=\"tag\">Midwifery background<\/span>\n            <\/div>\n            <div>\n              <p>\n                I spent thirteen years as a registered midwife before I trained as a therapist, which\n                makes this the area where my background does the most work. You will not have to\n                describe an emergency caesarean, a haemorrhage or a special care admission from\n                scratch, because I already know what those rooms are like. Open to birthing parents,\n                partners and anyone else who was there. A birth that everyone else called fine can\n                still be the reason you are here.\n              <\/p>\n              <p>\n                This also covers the wider perinatal picture: fertility treatment, pregnancy after\n                loss, the first year of parenthood, and the identity shift that arrives with it and\n                catches most people off guard.\n              <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/article>\n\n        <article class=\"svc\" id=\"gender\">\n          <div class=\"svcgrid\">\n            <div>\n              <svg class=\"ic\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><circle cx=\"12\" cy=\"12\" r=\"4.5\"\/><path d=\"M12 2v3M12 19v3M2 12h3M19 12h3M5 5l2 2M17 17l2 2M19 5l-2 2M7 17l-2 2\"\/><\/svg>\n              <h3>Gender identity and gender diversity<\/h3>\n              <span class=\"tag\">No gatekeeping<\/span>\n            <\/div>\n            <div>\n              <p>\n                For people who are questioning, people who are certain, people mid transition and\n                people who worked it out years ago and simply want a therapist who will not make it\n                the topic. I am not here to assess whether you have got it right, and I hold an\n                undergraduate background in gender studies alongside the clinical training, so the\n                basics do not need covering. Support people and partners working out their own\n                response are also welcome.\n              <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/article>\n\n        <article class=\"svc\" id=\"lgbtq\">\n          <div class=\"svcgrid\">\n            <div>\n              <svg class=\"ic\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M12 20s-7-4.3-7-9a4 4 0 0 1 7-2.6A4 4 0 0 1 19 11c0 4.7-7 9-7 9Z\"\/><\/svg>\n              <h3>LGBTQ+ affirming therapy<\/h3>\n              <span class=\"tag\">Community member<\/span>\n            <\/div>\n            <div>\n              <p>\n                I am a queer woman, and part of my week goes to volunteer counselling work at ACON.\n                What that buys you is time: you will not spend the first three appointments explaining\n                terminology, correcting assumptions or working out whether it is safe to mention your\n                partner. Coming out at any age, chosen family, minority stress, the specific\n                exhaustion of always assessing a room, and everything else that has nothing to do\n                with being queer at all.\n              <\/p>\n              <p>\n                Plenty of queer clients come to me about a job, a bereavement or a parent. Being\n                affirming is not about making your identity the subject, it is about removing it as\n                an obstacle to discussing anything else.\n              <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/article>\n\n        <article class=\"svc\" id=\"relating\">\n          <div class=\"svcgrid\">\n            <div>\n              <svg class=\"ic\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><circle cx=\"8\" cy=\"9\" r=\"3.2\"\/><circle cx=\"16\" cy=\"9\" r=\"3.2\"\/><path d=\"M2.5 19c0-3 2.5-4.6 5.5-4.6s5.5 1.6 5.5 4.6\"\/><path d=\"M14 14.6c2.7.2 4.8 1.8 4.8 4.4\"\/><\/svg>\n              <h3>Relationship and interpersonal work<\/h3>\n              <span class=\"tag\">Individual only<\/span>\n            <\/div>\n            <div>\n              <p>\n                This is one person in the room working on how they relate, not couples therapy, which\n                I do not provide in any form. We look at what keeps recurring across different people\n                and different years: who you become around conflict, what you agree to when you mean\n                no, how quickly you go quiet. Changing your half of a dynamic changes the dynamic more\n                often than people expect it to.\n              <\/p>\n              <p>\n                Useful whether you are partnered, single, recently out of something, or noticing the\n                same pattern at work and with friends as well as at home. Non-monogamous and\n                relationship diverse arrangements are held without comment.\n              <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/article>\n\n        <article class=\"svc\" id=\"esteem\">\n          <div class=\"svcgrid\">\n            <div>\n              <svg class=\"ic\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><rect x=\"4\" y=\"3\" width=\"16\" height=\"18\" rx=\"3\"\/><path d=\"M9 9h6M9 13h6M9 17h3\"\/><\/svg>\n              <h3>Self-esteem, body image and identity<\/h3>\n              <span class=\"tag\">Often invisible<\/span>\n            <\/div>\n            <div>\n              <p>\n                The running internal commentary that nobody else can hear, and the long negotiation\n                with a body that has been measured and remarked upon since childhood. Plenty of the\n                people who bring this are outwardly capable, which is part of what makes it so hard\n                to raise. We get curious about where that voice came from and what it was originally\n                protecting, rather than trying to argue it into silence with affirmations.\n              <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/article>\n\n        <article class=\"svc\" id=\"emotions\">\n          <div class=\"svcgrid\">\n            <div>\n              <svg class=\"ic\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M3 13c3-6 6 6 9 0s6-6 9 0\"\/><\/svg>\n              <h3>Managing overwhelming emotions<\/h3>\n              <span class=\"tag\">Both directions<\/span>\n            <\/div>\n            <div>\n              <p>\n                Some people arrive because feeling comes too fast and too loud and costs them\n                relationships. Others arrive because nothing comes at all and they cannot work out\n                why. Both are nervous system patterns rather than character defects, and both respond\n                to the same slow widening of what you can hold. The aim is not tighter control. It is\n                more room, so that fewer things tip you over.\n              <\/p>\n              <p>\n                Expect this one to move slowly at first and then noticeably. Capacity is built\n                rather than switched on, and the early sessions often feel like they are doing less\n                than they are.\n              <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/article>\n\n        <article class=\"svc\" id=\"growth\">\n          <div class=\"svcgrid\">\n            <div>\n              <svg class=\"ic\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M12 21V9\"\/><path d=\"M12 9c0-3 2-5 5-5 0 3-2 5-5 5Z\"\/><path d=\"M12 13c0-3-2-5-5-5 0 3 2 5 5 5Z\"\/><\/svg>\n              <h3>Personal growth and self-understanding<\/h3>\n              <span class=\"tag\">No crisis required<\/span>\n            <\/div>\n            <div>\n              <p>\n                A fair number of the people I see are not unwell and not in trouble. They are\n                functioning, often impressively, and they have arrived at a point where they want to\n                understand what drives them before another decade goes past on autopilot. This work\n                is open ended by nature and tends to be the most enjoyable, because there is no\n                emergency setting the pace.\n              <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/article>\n\n        <article class=\"svc\" id=\"family\">\n          <div class=\"svcgrid\">\n            <div>\n              <svg class=\"ic\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M12 3v6M12 9 7 13M12 9l5 4M7 13v8M17 13v8\"\/><\/svg>\n              <h3>Complex family dynamics<\/h3>\n              <span class=\"tag\">Without them present<\/span>\n            <\/div>\n            <div>\n              <p>\n                The job you were given in your family before you could refuse it. The subject nobody\n                names at dinner. Estrangement, and the guilt that arrives alongside the relief.\n                Because this is individual work, none of it depends on your relatives agreeing,\n                participating or even knowing you are doing it, which for many people is precisely\n                what makes it possible.\n              <\/p>\n              <p>\n                Intergenerational patterns come up here too: the things that were done to the people\n                who raised you and were passed down without anyone deciding to pass them on.\n              <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/article>\n\n        <article class=\"svc\" id=\"trauma\">\n          <div class=\"svcgrid\">\n            <div>\n              <svg class=\"ic\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M12 3 4 6.5v5c0 5 3.4 8 8 9.5 4.6-1.5 8-4.5 8-9.5v-5Z\"\/><path d=\"M9.4 12.2l1.9 1.9 3.4-3.6\"\/><\/svg>\n              <h3>Trauma informed therapy<\/h3>\n              <span class=\"tag\">Underneath everything<\/span>\n            <\/div>\n            <div>\n              <p>\n                Less a separate service than the way I run every appointment. In practice it means\n                nothing gets opened before there is enough steadiness to hold it, we go at the speed\n                your system allows rather than the speed either of us would prefer, and you are never\n                required to narrate something in detail to make progress. I do not provide EMDR or\n                formal PTSD assessment, and I will say so early if that is what you need.\n              <\/p>\n              <p>\n                Developmental, relational, complex and single incident trauma are all within scope.\n                So is the kind that never had an obvious event attached, which is frequently the\n                hardest for people to give themselves permission to bring.\n              <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/article>\n\n        <article class=\"svc\" id=\"somatic\">\n          <div class=\"svcgrid\">\n            <div>\n              <svg class=\"ic\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><circle cx=\"12\" cy=\"12\" r=\"8.5\"\/><path d=\"M12 7.5v9M8.5 10.5c2.5 1.5 4.5 1.5 7 0\"\/><\/svg>\n              <h3>Somatic and body focused therapy<\/h3>\n              <span class=\"tag\">No touch involved<\/span>\n            <\/div>\n            <div>\n              <p>\n                For anyone who can explain their own patterns fluently and remains completely stuck\n                in them, which is more people than you would think. Drawing on Somatic Experiencing\n                and Polyvagal Theory, attention goes to breath, posture, tension and what shifts in\n                you as you speak. It is entirely verbal, there is no physical contact at any point,\n                and it is nothing like a massage.\n              <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/article>\n\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <!-- 4 APPROACH -->\n  <section class=\"alt\">\n    <figure class=\"band\">\n      <img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/stagingloom.com\/chaunceysjostedt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/artem-shuba-yd5ZyiRRpa8-unsplash.webp\"\n           width=\"2500\" height=\"1667\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\n           alt=\"A small fern growing from a split in a concrete slab\">\n    <\/figure>\n    <div class=\"w\" style=\"padding-top:56px\">\n      <div class=\"nar\">\n        <span class=\"eye\">The common thread<\/span>\n        <h2>What links all of these services together?<\/h2>\n        <p class=\"lede\">\n          One approach applied to twelve different starting points, rather than twelve different\n          techniques kept in a drawer and produced on request.\n        <\/p>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"a3\">\n        <div class=\"acard\">\n          <h3>Gestalt at the base<\/h3>\n          <p>\n            A present focused, relational psychotherapy. We attend to what happens as you speak, not\n            only to the account you give. It is the foundation under every area on this page.\n          <\/p>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"acard\">\n          <h3>The body included<\/h3>\n          <p>\n            Somatic Experiencing and Polyvagal Theory inform how sessions are paced and what gets\n            noticed. Feelings are physical events, and leaving that out loses half the information.\n          <\/p>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"acard\">\n          <h3>Parts and pace<\/h3>\n          <p>\n            Internal Family Systems for the conflicting bits of you that want opposite things, and a\n            trauma informed pace so nothing is opened faster than you can hold it.\n          <\/p>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"nar\" style=\"margin-top:32px\">\n        <p>\n          Which means you do not have to choose correctly at the start. People regularly book about\n          one thing and spend most of the first year on something adjacent that turned out to be\n          underneath it. That is not a wasted booking, it is how this tends to go.\n        <\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <!-- 5 NOT SURE -->\n  <section>\n    <figure class=\"band\">\n      <img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/stagingloom.com\/chaunceysjostedt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Flannel-flower-scaled-1.jpg\"\n           width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\n           alt=\"Flannel flowers on a sandstone ledge in late afternoon light\">\n    <\/figure>\n    <div class=\"w\" style=\"padding-top:56px\">\n      <div class=\"nar\">\n        <span class=\"eye\">If none of it fits<\/span>\n        <h2>What if you cannot tell which service you need?<\/h2>\n        <p class=\"lede\">\n          Then say that. It is a perfectly ordinary opening line and it costs you nothing.\n        <\/p>\n        <p>\n          The twelve headings above exist so you can find yourself somewhere on the page, not so you\n          can fill in a form correctly before you are allowed to book. Nobody is going to hold you to\n          the category you named in your first email. If you write two sentences describing what is\n          actually happening, that is more than enough for me to tell you whether I am the right\n          person, and to say so plainly if I am not.\n        <\/p>\n        <p>\n          There is also a free introductory call if you would rather hear how somebody sounds before\n          committing money to it. Ask for it when you\n          <a href=\"\/contact\/\">get in touch<\/a>, or read more about\n          <a href=\"\/\">how I work<\/a> first.\n        <\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <!-- 6 FAQ -->\n  <section class=\"sage\">\n    <div class=\"w\">\n      <div style=\"text-align:center\">\n        <span class=\"eye\" style=\"justify-content:center\">Questions<\/span>\n        <h2 style=\"margin-inline:auto\">What else do people ask?<\/h2>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"faq\">\n        <details>\n          <summary>Do you charge different rates for different services?<span class=\"ico\"><\/span><\/summary>\n          <div class=\"ans\"><p>No. Every area on this page is the same appointment at the same rate, because it is the same fifty minutes with the same person. Birth trauma work is not billed differently to personal growth work. Email me for the current rate and I will send it through.<\/p><\/div>\n        <\/details>\n        <details>\n          <summary>Can I work on more than one of these at once?<span class=\"ico\"><\/span><\/summary>\n          <div class=\"ans\"><p>Almost everybody does, whether or not they planned to. Burnout usually turns out to be attached to something about worth, family history threads through relationships, grief and identity arrive together after a big change. They are separated on this page for navigation, not because they occur separately in real lives.<\/p><\/div>\n        <\/details>\n        <details>\n          <summary>Is there anything on this list you refer out for?<span class=\"ico\"><\/span><\/summary>\n          <div class=\"ans\"><p>Yes, and I would rather tell you at the enquiry stage than three appointments in. I do not provide EMDR, formal psychological assessment, written diagnoses, medication reviews, eating disorder treatment or urgent risk support. I also see nobody under 18 and never two people at once. When something falls outside what I do, I say so and suggest where else to look.<\/p><\/div>\n        <\/details>\n        <details>\n          <summary>Do these services work over video as well as in person?<span class=\"ico\"><\/span><\/summary>\n          <div class=\"ans\"><p>All of them, yes, including the somatic and body focused work, which surprises people. Noticing your own breath and posture does not require me to be in the room. Video appointments run on secure encrypted software and are open to anyone in Australia.<\/p><\/div>\n        <\/details>\n        <details>\n          <summary>How do I know which of these to book for?<span class=\"ico\"><\/span><\/summary>\n          <div class=\"ans\"><p>You do not book for one. There is a single type of appointment and you bring whatever you bring to it. The headings on this page are a map of the territory, not a menu you order from, and nobody will hold you to whichever one you mentioned first.<\/p><\/div>\n        <\/details>\n\n        <details>\n          <summary>Are any of these services available as a one off?<span class=\"ico\"><\/span><\/summary>\n          <div class=\"ans\"><p>You are welcome to come once and not come back, and some people do exactly that, particularly for a birth debrief or to think something through out loud. What I cannot honestly promise is that a single appointment will resolve a long standing pattern. Where more time would genuinely help, I will say so, and where it would not, I will say that too.<\/p><\/div>\n        <\/details>\n\n        <details>\n          <summary>Will you give me a treatment plan?<span class=\"ico\"><\/span><\/summary>\n          <div class=\"ans\"><p>Not in the formal sense of a documented protocol with session numbers attached, because that is not how this modality works and I would only be guessing. What you will get is a direct conversation early on about what you want out of it, and regular checks on whether it is going anywhere useful. 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I answer everything within\n            two days, and there is no waiting list to join.\n          <\/p>\n          <div class=\"btns\">\n            <a class=\"btn b3\" href=\"\/contact\/\">\n              Send an enquiry\n              <svg viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M5 12h13M12 5l7 7-7 7\"\/><\/svg>\n            <\/a>\n            <a class=\"btn b1\" href=\"\/about\/\">About Chauncey<\/a>\n          <\/div>\n          <p class=\"cmeta\">\n            One to one &middot; Fifty minute appointments &middot; Nothing needed to get started<br>\n            Rooms in Surry Hills and Glebe, plus video Australia wide &middot;\n            <a href=\"mailto:hello@chaunceysjostedt.com\">hello@chaunceysjostedt.com<\/a>\n          <\/p>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n<\/main>\n\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n  \"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n  \"@graph\": [\n    {\n      \"@type\": \"Person\",\n      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