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Accredited social work counselling  ·  Telehealth Australia wide

You hold it together everywhere else. You do not have to in here.

Accredited social work counselling that works with both words and the body, for adults who carry more than they let on. Neurodivergence, trauma, complex mental health, women's health, and relationships. Twenty years of clinical depth, and a steady space where the difficult parts can be met without judgement or surprise.

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60-minute phone, secure video or chat sessions. No referral needed to start.

A different kind of therapy

Good therapy uses words. It should not stop there.

Talking helps. Being understood, making sense of things, saying the unsayable out loud, that work is real and it sits at the centre of every session. But talk on its own assumes you can always find the words and think your way out. If the feeling lands in your body long before it reaches language, words alone leave a great deal on the floor.

So MEB Counselling works with both. You talk, and the session stays attentive to what your nervous system is doing underneath the talking. Some sessions are mostly words. Some are mostly body. The work follows what the moment actually needs, at the pace your system allows.

You will not have to translate what it is like to be you before the work can begin. Two decades of clinical practice means very little turns up that has not been met before, and you will never need to make it neat for anyone.

Is this you

You might recognise some of this.

If any of that landed, you are in the right place.

Why social work counselling

A social worker sees the whole picture, not just the symptom.

Social work counselling looks at you in context. Not only what is happening inside you, but the relationships, pressures, and systems around you that shape how you feel. It is practical as well as emotional, strengths-based rather than pathologising, and held to professional accreditation and a code of ethics.

The whole of you

You are more than a diagnosis. The work holds your inner world and your real circumstances at the same time.

Practical and emotional

Insight matters. So does the form you cannot face filling in and the system you cannot navigate. Both belong in the room.

Accredited and accountable

Accredited social work counselling means real training, professional standards, and ethical accountability behind every session.

At home in the grey

Social work is built on whole systems and messy reality. Families, relationships, and the parts that do not reduce to a single diagnosis. Complexity is the starting point, not a problem to tidy away.

Why work with MEB Counselling

You cannot compare this to a directory of interchangeable names.

Twenty years, and the hard end too

From everyday overwhelm to bipolar, clinical depression, and addiction. MEB Counselling works alongside your GP or psychiatrist where that is right, and does not hand the difficult presentations straight back to the waitlist.

Words and the body, not one or the other

Plenty of practitioners do talk therapy. Fewer are also trained to work somatically. At MEB Counselling you get both, used in whatever balance the session calls for.

Properly qualified

Accredited social work counselling, not a coach or an app. Real training, real accountability, and real clinical depth behind every session.

The diagnosis maze, mapped

Assessments, labels, second opinions, and the systems people get lost inside. MEB Counselling helps you make sense of what a diagnosis means for your life, not just your file.

Meg Bonetti, accredited social worker

About

Meg Bonetti

Accredited social work counselling  ·  AASW member 685030  ·  Telehealth Australia wide

Meg has spent more than twenty years in social work, across community programs, senior leadership, and clinical practice, before building MEB Counselling from a small island in the Torres Strait. She works with people right across Australia by telehealth, so distance is never the reason someone goes without good support.

Her approach is warm, direct, and very hard to shock. There is clinical depth for the serious end of things, and steadiness for the ordinary, exhausting, human middle. Expect plain language, no jargon, and no pretending life is tidier than it is.

“She uplifts you through hard conversations…”MEB Counselling client

Areas of focus

Where the work goes deepest.

Whoever you are, and however you love or identify, you are welcome here as a starting point, not something to explain. These are the areas MEB Counselling works in most.

Neurodivergence and diagnosis

ADHD and autism, and the work of making sense of a late or complex diagnosis. Support that works with how you are wired, not against it.

Trauma and the nervous system

Trauma does not only live in the story you can tell. The work is somatic, holding the body and the nervous system as much as the words.

Complex and serious mental health

Depression, bipolar, and the diagnoses that need more than reassurance. MEB Counselling works alongside your other care, not instead of it, offering a steady space where difficult things can be held without shock or judgement.

Women's health across life

Perinatal support, PMDD, perimenopause, and menopause. The hormonal shifts that change everything and that no one seems to warn you about.

Relationships, couples, and family

Relationship breakdown, couples work, and the family patterns underneath. Sometimes the work is the system, not just the person.

Alcohol, other drugs, and coping

Addiction, and the coping that once worked and then stopped. Honest, non-judgmental, and paced for a real life.

Ways to work together

Counselling first. Two other doors as well.

Counselling

Individuals, couples, and families

Australia-wide telehealth counselling for individuals, couples and whole families. Choose phone with no camera or masking, secure video, or chat when speaking feels like too much. Social work training means working with the system, not just the person.

Supervision

For practitioners

Clinical supervision for social workers and allied health professionals who want a thinking space that holds them, not just their caseload.

Consultancy

For organisations

Program design, evaluation, and trauma-informed consultancy, drawing on two decades of community and cross-cultural practice.

Choose your way in

You do not have to show up the same way every time.

Every counselling session is a full 60 minutes. Choose the format that asks the least of you that day—you can change it from one session to the next.

01 · PHONE

No camera. No managing your face.

Walk, lie down, stare out a window—whatever helps you stay present without having to perform being okay.

02 · SECURE VIDEO

Face-to-face, when that helps.

Join from wherever feels private and steady, with the warmth of seeing one another and none of the travel.

03 · CHAT

When speaking feels inaccessible.

We can work in writing during your booked session, without making you justify why words are easier typed that day.

Starting is meant to be easy

The hardest part is booking. MEB Counselling keeps it simple.

Frequently asked questions

Telehealth counselling, without the guesswork.

What is telehealth counselling?

Telehealth counselling is professional counselling delivered remotely. At MEB Counselling you can meet with Meg by phone, secure video or chat from anywhere in Australia.

How long is a counselling session?

Sessions are 60 minutes. You can choose phone, secure video or chat depending on what feels most accessible for you.

Do I have to use video?

No. Phone sessions are available if you do not want to be on camera, and chat can be an option when speaking feels like too much. You do not need to perform or mask in order to attend.

Can I book from anywhere in Australia?

Yes. MEB Counselling provides telehealth counselling Australia wide, so you can attend from a private place where you feel settled enough to talk.

Do I need a referral?

No referral is needed to book. You can choose a suitable appointment online through the secure booking page.

Is Meg a qualified counsellor or therapist?

Meg Bonetti is an accredited social worker with more than 20 years of experience. Her counselling is trauma-informed, body-aware and grounded in professional social work standards.

Before you go

A hum, from Meg.

Humming is one of the oldest ways the body settles itself. Press play, let your shoulders drop, and breathe out slowly. Something small to take with you.

Or watch it on YouTube.

Ready when you are.

Booking takes a couple of minutes. If you are not sure whether it is the right fit, book anyway. The first session is exactly where you find that out.

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