Guillaume Walters-du Plooy

Guillaume Walters-du Plooy is an AHPRA-registered clinician with more than 15 years' experience in mental health counselling. He works with people dealing with addictions, trauma and abuse, eating concerns, depression and life coaching questions. He speaks English and Afrikaans and practises in Australia.

Guillaume's background includes work in hospital, outpatient and community settings. He has supported adolescents and adults across the age spectrum and has practical experience with first responder issues and fatherhood concerns. His PhD research examined complex and treatment-resistant eating disorders, which informs his ongoing interest in eating and food-related problems.

He uses Client-Centred Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Existential Therapy approaches. Guillaume favours techniques that have a strong research basis while keeping sessions focused on the client's immediate needs. Conversations are intended to be practical and oriented toward clearer thinking about choices and patterns of behaviour.

In sessions he will help people talk through control issues, codependency, guilt and shame, and problems with communication. He also works with drug and alcohol addiction, body image worries and feelings of emptiness. The emphasis is on making sense of current struggles and testing small changes in day-to-day life.

Guillaume describes counselling as a collaborative process. He aims to offer a straightforward professional relationship where clients can speak openly about divorce and separation, dependent personality traits, co-morbidity and forgiveness questions. To begin, clients are invited to follow the booking steps on the site and complete the short matching questionnaire.

How his approaches fit with online sessions

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and following what matters to the client. In practice this means the therapist reflects back concerns, checks understanding, and helps people find their own priorities and next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and uses practical exercises to test new responses and reduce unhelpful habits. Existential Therapy examines meaning, responsibility and choices when life feels uncertain, and can help when someone questions purpose after a big change.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Guillaume will discuss options with each person and decide together what to try first based on needs, goals and preferences. The process is collaborative and can shift as issues become clearer.

The site biography does not list specific online session formats, so please confirm the available session types before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit counselling into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins if needed, and remove travel time. It can also let someone use sessions while managing appointments, shift work or family commitments, helping therapy to slot into everyday life rather than replace it.