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Gretta Daley – counselling for insight, growth, and wellbeing

Accredited Mental Health Social Worker | Compassionate Inquiry Certified Practitioner

Empathetic, trauma-informed counselling to support your wellbeing

Change is hard—but you don’t have to face it alone. I offer a safe, supportive, and confidential space to explore whatever you’re going through.

My counselling approach is grounded in emotional validation and personal agency. Together, we can work toward meaningful change at a pace that feels right for you.

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About Gretta

Gretta is a registered mental health social worker, with Medicare rebates. She’s worked with individuals, couples and families in health and community settings since 2007. 

Gretta is dedicated to fostering a warm, judgment-free space where authentic connection can thrive. She enjoys working with people with a diverse range of issues, seeing the person in front of her rather than any kind of label. Gretta resonates deeply with Gabor Mate’s key message that ‘normal’ is a myth. She believes that life challenges, including mental health, addictions, and relationship issues, are all understandable outcomes of multi-generational pain and disconnection. 

Gretta gently nurtures clients to connect with self-compassion, while increasing self-awareness and a sense of empowerment to create change. Gretta’s approachable, empathetic nature supports clients to openly face life’s challenges in a way that grows a greater connection to choices and ultimately, improved wellbeing, relationships, satisfaction and vitality.

Areas I can support you with

Emotional support

Feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or constantly on edge? Therapy can help you make sense of what’s happening and move forward—calmly, and with clarity.

Key areas I support:

  • Anxiety and panic

  • Depression

  • Emotional overwhelm

  • Grief and loss

  • Burnout and life transitions

Trauma-informed care

You may notice recurring emotional patterns, body-based stress responses, or inner criticism that feels hard to shift. Together, we can explore how your past may be influencing your present—and gently begin the process of healing.

Key areas I support:

  • complex trauma

  • addiction

  • childhood wounds

  • Compassionate Inquiry

  • somatic awareness and regulation

Relationships and daily life

You might be navigating relationship conflict, parenting challenges, identity questions, or feeling disconnected from yourself. Therapy offers space to reflect, build insight, and strengthen your sense of agency.

Key areas I support:

  • relationship and family stress

  • parenting support

  • LGBTQIA+ affirming care

  • ADHD and emotional regulation

  • identity, self-worth and confidence

Frequently asked questions

I use a relational, client-focused approach. I combine empathy with structure, helping you explore emotions, patterns, and possibilities for change. I draw from:

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

  • Mindfulness-Based Therapy

  • Compassionate Inquiry (a body-based approach developed by Dr. Gabor Maté)

  • Trauma-informed and attachment-based frameworks

  • Neuroscience-informed techniques for regulation and awareness

I work with a wide range of concerns, including:

  • Anxiety and stress

  • Depression and low mood

  • Trauma and PTSD

  • ADHD and emotional regulation

  • Relationship and family issues

  • Parenting support

  • Grief and loss

  • Addiction and recovery

  • LGBTQIA+ affirming support

  • Life transitions and identity concerns

  • Anger and emotional expression

  • General wellbeing

  • Master of Social Work – RMIT University

  • Bachelor of Speech Pathology – La Trobe University

  • Specialist Course in Couples Therapy – Relationships Australia Victoria

  • Accredited Mental Health Social Worker – AASW

  • Certified Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner

Compassionate Inquiry is a therapeutic approach that helps uncover and release suppressed emotions and patterns held in the body. It’s especially effective for people with trauma, anxiety, and long-standing emotional challenges.

I’ve completed both the year-long training and mentorship program with Dr. Gabor Maté and am a certified Compassionate Inquiry practitioner.

Yes, I offer counselling for:

  • Couples working on communication, intimacy, or conflict

  • Parents navigating parenting stress or behavioural challenges

  • Families wanting to improve dynamics or process shared experiences

Yes. I offer secure Telehealth sessions via Zoom or phone. You’ll need:

  • A quiet, private space

  • A phone, tablet, or computer with a camera and microphone

  • A reliable internet connection

Telehealth sessions offer flexibility and privacy, especially if you live outside Melbourne or prefer therapy from home.

While I’ve offered in-person sessions in the past, I’m now working exclusively online. This gives you the flexibility to connect with me from anywhere, through video or phone—your choice.

  • Yes! So long as you have a Mental Health Care Plan from your GP, you will get $82 rebate each session.

  • Standard 50-minute session: $165

  • NDIS (plan-or self-managed): $185

  • Medicare rebate: $82 (with Mental Health Care Plan from your GP)

A cancellation fee applies for less than 48 hours’ notice.

Client Stories

Real experiences shared by clients who’ve found healing, growth, and strength.

I came to Gretta struggling with feelings of shame and guilt. After working with Gretta and Compassionate Inquiry, I very quickly felt much lighter. I learnt how to show myself more compassion and understanding. I felt totally safe and accepted by Gretta.

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When I reached out to Gretta I was in a really dark place and sought her guidance. Gretta listened to everything I had to say and never judged me in any way, even though some of the beliefs I have may not be consistent with that of the norm. Gretta knowing how I think posed many questions to get me to self-reflect and analyse my situation so that I could find a way out of the mental anguish I was experiencing. I owe a lot to Gretta for getting me through a really tough time and the skills she passed on to me. Even something as simple as downloading an app and meditating daily has been so helpful.

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After struggling to cope with my long standing anxiety issues, I was majorly relieved to happen upon Gretta’s therapeutic counselling. Working with Gretta over the past 12 months has really helped me work through a number of major anxiety complexes I was lacking the insight to deal with. Each session gives me the opportunity to express the concerns I feel and have them assessed in a productive and empathetic way. The encouraging space of accountability & understanding Gretta fosters has been incredibly important in my return to better stability.

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I’ve been in Australia 11 years and have never seen someone so respectful and helpful as Gretta. I can be angry sometimes, I upset people. But Gretta is always patient. She understands me. Because of Gretta, my daughter is safe with me. With other workers I feel more depressed after I talk to them, but when I talk to Gretta, she gives me hope and I want to have more of a plan for my life.

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I have seen a number of counsellors in my life, but the difference with Gretta is that i look forward to my sessions, rather than have anxiety leading up to them. She has a fantastic knack of recognising when i need to be kinder to myself; to challenge me when needed, and is a great listener. I’ve had the best outcomes with Gretta compared to any counsellor i’ve seen by far.

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My work with Gretta has been of great benefit. It has allowed me to identify the root cause of my destructive behaviours, and map out a more constructive path forward. Whilst I was confronted to reflect deeply at times, I am grateful that Gretta held me to account in a structured manner, focused on my specific issues.

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Gretta is a counsellor of such subtle and helpful tools to share, that my life has blossomed into a state of self compassion and understanding of daily life. Gretta enables me to find the ways of living a more fulfilled life, moving gently to the life I desire. In all my years of therapy, I have never had so many breakthroughs, in such a loving gentle manner.

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Choosing the right counsellor matters. I offer a brief, no-cost phone call so you can ask questions and see if we’re a good fit.

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Operating Hours

Wednesday: 5pm – 9pm
Thursday: 5pm – 9pm
Friday: 9am – 5pm

Acknowledgment of country

I acknowledge the Bunurong people of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land and sea where I live and work. I pay my respects to Elders past and present and to emerging leaders. I recognise that sovereignty was never ceded—this always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land