Next Steps Counselling and Psychology
CONNECTION - MOTIVATION - CHANGE
Therapy and Treatment for Individuals and Couples – In Person & Online
Welcome to NXCAP
Next Steps Counselling and Psychology
NXCAP is a therapy service for couples and individuals offering purposeful, meaningful change.
Sessions are provided by Simone Clare, a registered psychologist. People seek therapy with NXCAP if they are:
- Stuck in unhelpful patterns
- Seeking to connect and communicate
- Suffering trauma, separation or loss
- Overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, or stress
- Managing chronic illness - their own or a child's
- Dealing with infidelity, past hurts, or poor habits
- Flooded, drained, or confused by big emotion, or emotional conversation
- Looking for the spark - be it inner motivation or intimacy
Through the Looking Glass
Therapy at NXCAP brings your experience into focus.
You’ll connect THOUGHTS, EMOTIONS, and ACTIONS, creating a map to help decode some of the problems that you face.
We look for the stop switch on unhelpful patterns that are due for revision.
We take deliberate steps along a path to greater authenticity: to improved relationships, stronger connections and genuine calm.
At NXCAP, you will learn important cognitive, behavioural, mindfulness and emotion-centred techniques to help you combat challenges and realise potential.
Individual Mental Health
Individual treatment at NXCAP can assist with:
- Anxiety and compulsivity
- Depression including suicide risk
- Phobias, including social phobia
- Work related stress and adjustment difficulties
- Grief, loss and bereavement
- Bipolar disorder
- PTSD
- Eating disorders, including ARFID
- ASD and ADHD management
Treatment focuses on developing practical skills to manage symptoms and address complex challenges.
The work is aimed at strengthening insight, increasing adaptive coping and improving psychological flexibility.
Relationship Help
Targeted relationship therapy is available for anyone looking to address patterns of miscommunication or disconnection.
NXCAP helps navigate:
- Repeat arguments or communication breakdowns
- Feelings of frustration, distance or demoralisation
- Past difficulties and a desire to restore warmth
- How to find the right words for what we want to say
- How to re-engage
- How to reinstate vibrancy and intimacy
Meaningful Change
NXCAP’s relationship therapy is grounded in Emotionally Focused Therapy, an elegant and well‑researched model that helps partners disentangle distance and conflict, by unpacking the painful thoughts and spiky feelings that get in the way. Partners learn to step out of unfulfilling cycles and build clearer, more secure ways of communicating and connecting — predictable and supportive rather than reactive or absent.
With a focus on repair and real‑time practice, partners aren’t just given a road map; they’re guided to rehearse new moves and test what it feels like to reach for one another and be met. Developed by the late emeritus professor, Dr Sue Johnson of Ottawa University, and supported by over 40 years of research, EFT offers an simple and effective pathway toward meaningful relationship change.
Inclusive and Accessible
- Inclusive of all abilities, backgrounds & identities.
- Children, teens, adults of all ages.
- Supportive of neurodivergence.
- In-person: Noosa, Sunshine Coast.
- Online sessions: Australia & Overseas.
- Evidence-Based Theory and Practise
- Referrals accepted
- Medicare, Veterans Affairs & NDIS
- WorkCover & private health insurance.
NXCAP Services
Couples Therapy
An organised, supportive approach that helps you move beyond conflict to the emotions underneath. Together, we make sense of the patterns that keep you stuck so as to sidestep miscommunication and stay in tune. Couples therapy at NXCAP helps you understand each other more deeply - to build the kind of relationship you can return to with safety, certainty and trust. This is the soil from which connection and intimacy grow.
Individual Mental Health
At NXCAP, you'll learn approaches that help ease symptoms and make challenging experiences more manageable. You'll work through patterns that aren’t serving you and understand what’s driving them. Together, we'll build practical skills to respond to what’s difficult and develop steadier ways of coping, to strengthen and feel happier about how we relate to the world, ourselves, and others.
Early Years Parenting
NXCAP provides support for parents finding the early years a challenge. It provides a space to talk things through and to explore effective strategies grounded in attachment thinking and connection‑based approaches. It includes limit‑setting and how to build a relationship with your child they can turn to their whole life.
Have More Questions?
Get in touch to discuss how NXCAP can assist.
Next
Talking things through, can help make sense of what’s happening, whether your concerns are personal, relational or both. Get in touch when ready. NXCAP offers a targeted space to explore what’s needed and consider workable next steps.