Pamela Varas, ACA

Pamela Varas is a certified counsellor registered with the Australia Counselling Association (ACA), bringing warmth, compassion, and a natural aptitude for building trusting therapeutic relationships. After completing a Bachelor of Counselling in 2022 at the Australian College of Applied Psychology (ACAP), she continued working with women who had experienced domestic violence and later joined Dementia Australia in October 2022, where she provided Brief Solution-Focused Therapy and emotional support to carers and people living with dementia.

Across her clinical work Pamela has accumulated more than 911 client contact hours and nearly 75 hours of clinic supervision, including both individual and group supervision. In late 2022 she opened Rebuild Together Counselling, a private practice that aligns with her passion for offering emotional support to the community. Pamela specializes in supporting people with depression, anxiety, stress, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, sleeping difficulties, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and LGBT issues, while also addressing themes such as abandonment, caregiver stress, communication problems, isolation, and life purpose.

Her therapeutic style blends client-centered principles with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy, alongside elements of Internal Family Systems and Gestalt, always guided by trauma-informed and person-centered values. Pamela has undertaken focused training in trauma treatment, depression, anxiety, and grief and loss techniques, and she works closely with a clinician supervisor who specializes in psychotherapy. She is about to commence a Masters in Psychotherapy and Counselling to further deepen her clinical expertise and ethical practice.