About Nepean Cottage
Hi, I’m Alison Howarth.
Over the past 30 years, I’ve had the privilege of walking alongside hundreds of people through some of their most difficult moments and complex challenges. My practice provides dedicated support for private clients, Victim Services clients, and professional group clinical supervision.
For me, therapy is grounded in compassion, curiosity, and deep care. I bring a trauma-informed and person-centred approach to our work together, ensuring you feel genuinely safe, heard, and respected from day one. I believe that true healing begins in a space free of judgment, where the lasting impacts of difficult life experiences are understood and met with kindness.
Counselling isn’t just about solving immediate problems, it is about giving yourself dedicated space to reflect, heal, and grow. Whether you are navigating stress, the impacts of crime, relationship challenges, grief, or trauma, therapy can help bring clarity, reduce overwhelm, and help you build meaningful ways of coping. Together, we will focus on rediscovering your strengths and moving toward a life that feels genuinely your own.
I offer sessions in person via the secure online platform Microsoft Teams, making professional support accessible wherever you are located.
Services
Individual Counselling
Coming to therapy is a beautiful act of self-care and courage. In a dedicated, confidential, safe space you can process life’s challenges, uncover your inner strengths, and cultivate lasting resilience to carry you forward on your life journey.
Our sessions will move at a pace that feels safe and sustainable for you. There is no right or wrong way to show up, and you don’t have to have it all figured out before we begin.
Working with complex trauma means honouring complex experiences like grief, fear and injustice. I hold this healing space with compassion, and offer practical, evidence-based support to navigate what’s next.
I work with the whole person: body, mind, emotions, and history. With mindfulness, nervous system regulation, empowerment and practical tools, we can work together to help you move from surviving to feeling more present, steady, and alive.
Whether you’re feeling anxious, disconnected, or unsure where to start, support is here: ready to meet you with warmth, steadiness, and care.
If you live in NSW and you or a family member have been impacted by a crime, you may be eligible for Victims Services Counselling.
The NSW Department of Communities and Justice will pay for 22 counselling sessions, so there is no cost to you. The sessions are tailored to your needs, whether you are seeking help for the first time or have been living with trauma for many years. Call the Victims Access Line 1800 633 063 or the Aboriginal Contact Line 1800 019 123 in business hours to find out if you are eligible.
Group Supervision
Group clinical supervision offers a safe, collaborative environment where we can share diverse perspectives, deepen our clinical reflection, and help us to escape the isolation often felt in private practice.
We explore the parallel process, transference and countertransference, and case conceptualisation with clinical rigor and deep compassion, helping you stay grounded, resourced, and inspired.
Our sessions focus on fostering trauma-informed insights, ethical problem solving, and mutual professional support. If you are looking to join a regular cohort, please reach out to enquire about our current schedules and available times.
Current Clinical Supervision Group vacancies:
~ 1st Thursday of the month: 5pm – 6:30pm
~ 2nd Wednesday of the month: 5pm – 6:30pm
For enquiries: please call or text 0497 443 799, or send an email to nepeancottage@gmail.com
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