About Janice

Welcome to Strengthening Solutions!  I'm Janice Florent.  Psychotherapy & Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA) is my professional body.  I have been a Registered Clinical Counsellor since 2007 and a Certified Clinical Supervisor since 2015.

My career so far has predominantly been within community health in Melbourne, Australia.

A significant portion of that time has been as Counselling Practice Lead: providing clinical leadership, supervision, mentoring and governance.

Clinical supervision and leadership mentoring are my passions and I have been developing these specialities over the past 15 years. I am motivated by excellence and ongoing deep reflection and learning.  As such I have a drive to support clinicians and supervisors to reach their potential. I particularly enjoy group supervision as collegiate sharing of wisdoms enhances knowledge and skills. I have worked with alcohol & other drugs counsellors, general counsellors, child & family counsellors, and refugee health counsellors and family violence counsellors.

I have over 25 years experience in counselling, specialising in emotional and mental health and wellbeing, behaviour change, chronic disease, and addiction. I am a strengths-based and trauma-informed counsellor, working within solution focused, compassion focused and attachment-based frameworks. I see counselling as a privilege to walk alongside people and support their journey of recovery and discovery.  As a values-based clinician, what is important to you is important to me.

I also have over 15 years experience in developing and delivering workshops focusing on health, wellbeing, and behaviour change. 

I hold a Masters of Counselling from Swinburne University of Technology; Graduate Certificate of Alcohol & Other Drugs Work from Turning Point; Advanced Certificate in Supervision from Centre for Supervision; Diploma of Project Management from Gordon TAFE.

I am committed to highly ethical practice and I love what I do.  When we meet, I hope you will experience my passion for my profession; delivered with compassion and a healthy dose of humour.

I am so excited to be working now as a full-time private practitioner.  Welcome!

I have an eclectic approach and will tailor modalities according to what we are exploring at any given session, including:

• 7-eyed Proces Model of Supervision
• Solution Focused Therapy
• Motivational Interviewing
• Compassion Focused Therapy
• Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• Attachment Theory
• Systems Theory