The Trauma & Well-Being Centre
A boutique trauma and well-being centre employing effective, cutting-edge, & out-of-the-box holistic psychotherapeutic, coaching and educational approaches to integrate trauma and enliven well-being.
Headquartered across the road from Westfield Woden Plaza, The Trauma and Well-Being Centre supports people from all walks of life.
We specialise in supporting you to move from trauma to well-being – wherever you may be along this continuum.
Whether you’re suffering from trauma of any kind, intermittent or chronic pain, difficulty sleeping or wish to get more direction in your life, we will not only help you metabolise what you experience, but we’ll also help you to thrive in the world.
We bring authentic human connection, extensive experience and a wide skillset to every session and customise our support to your uniquely individual needs and concerns.
We work both in person and online.
Contact Us
Centre Address:
Gadal Chambers, Level 1
48 Corinna Street
Phillip ACT 2606
Postal Address:
PO Box 697
Queanbeyan NSW 2620
Sandy Farac:
Dr Amar Dhall:
What People Are Saying
"Sandy is amazing. She does not judge. She lets you be you. Sandy has a soothing voice that assists you to enter deeply into visualisations.
Sandy helped me understand things about myself that I never knew existed. It was confronting, releasing and helped me positively change My life."
"Amar Dhall is intelligent, insightful, compassionate and articulate.
Amar possesses great communication skills and has a remarkable way of recognising underlying issues hidden in simple conversation, getting to the core and bringing them to the surface.
He is a gifted psychotherapist.
Thank you Amar."
"I entered this course with no expectations and an open mind.
I came out with significant growth in self-awareness and with the tools to recognise the inner critic and saboteur 'voice', in myself and in the words of others.
I have gained experience and knowledge in how to process these moments as they arise.
Feeling much gratitude to my friend who recommended this course and to the compassionate and skilled facilitators, Sandy & Amar, for bringing light to us all so that we can pass this on to our loved ones and greater community.
Thank you!"
— Course Participant
Online Courses at Your Own Pace
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This short course was prepared by the Directors of the Trauma & Well-Being Centre, Dr Amar Dhall and Sandy Farac. They are registered psychotherapists, counsellors and coaches. This course is to support people who have experienced discombobulation during Covid times. It is offered to the world with love and without financial cost to you.
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The number one reason that most New Years' resolutions don't stick is not a defect of character or lack of discipline; it is a misunderstanding of the nature of personal growth and transformation.
Dr Amar Dhall and Sandy Farac harnessed the power of cutting-edge work in the fields of neuroscience, post-traumatic growth, and coaching methodology to create a simple and powerful journey to ensure your life becomes an upward spiral of progress.
Areas of Practice
Trauma
“Trauma” is an umbrella term that covers your physical, mental and emotional responses to many different parts of your human experience.
Whilst it is often easy to identify traumatic events (e.g. relationship breakdown, deaths, abuse, attack, accident, bullying, car accidents and the list goes on), defining “trauma” can be difficult (which we do a bit later).
More important than defining it is knowing the ways trauma impacts your life.
In essence trauma is known first by its signs, at the extreme end are diagnoses such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (a term which we dislike) and Complex PTSD, but also includes anxiety and panic attacks, phobias, depression, weight loss or gain, hyper or no sex drive, feelings of guilt or shame, feeling numb.
We have a more complete list on the What is Trauma? page.
Well-Being
“Well-Being” is orienting yourself toward living a meaning-filled life that is grounded in a pragmatic perspective of both yourself and life itself.
A well-being-based perspective means embracing all the different parts of your being; body, mind, soul and Spirit as well as addressing the ‘external’ parts of life, such as a making a living, having good relationships.
There are different ideas of what is covered by the term well-being, some people have 7-domains (e.g. physical, emotional, intellectual, social, environmental, occupational and spiritual), some add an 8th (e.g. financial), and some have 12 (such as the originator of the modern well-being movement Jack Travis), but break it down differently identifying categories like self-responsibility and love, breathing, sensing, eating, moving, feeling, thinking, playing and working, communicating, intimacy, finding meaning and transcending.
The point is that well-being is about proactively building a healthy, fulfilling and engaging life that is holistic.
Most people mistakenly believe that their trauma responses are their personalities… but they aren’t.
What was learned (i.e. trauma responses) can be unlearned.
When you are no longer steered by your trauma “well-being” is a great paradigm to orient your choices.
Chronic Pain & Body Symptoms
Usually sentences like:
“It’s all in your head.”
“Your pain is psychosomatic”
“Your pain has no medical cause.”
Can sound judgemental and leave you feeling frustrated, alone and confused.
The truth is that many types of pain and other body sensations can be traced to disturbances with your mental and emotional states.
This is a normal and natural part of human life and is not something that deserves harsh judgement.
Sandy specialises in supporting people who experience all kinds of pain and anguish and is especially good at resolving chronic and intermittent pain.
"Traumatised people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from their selves."
- Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Life Coaching
In the book Emotional Intelligence Coaching authors Stephen Neale, Lisa Spencer-Arnell and Liz Wilson define coaching as one of the most powerful ways of communicating that is like a laser on your thinking that cuts through procrastination and straight to the chase.
Life coaching is the practise of applying a coaching mindset to the art of living.
It’s about moving you forward and helping you to know where you want to go and breaking down how you are going to get there.
Perhaps you are interested in life coaching because you lack clarity of your goals or maybe you would like to build better tools for living.
Whatever the case we have experience in coaching people from all walks of life and at all stages of their journey.
By working with us (we are coaches and therapists) you get the best of both worlds – a safe and skilled professional who will not only help you to uncover what you really want, and also support you to really make the changes you need to make to bring your vision for life into reality.
Executive & Entrepreneurial Coaching
Sustainable high-performance is the key to living a life in which you unlock your potential, but where are your blind spots?
It’s your blind spots that trip you up and limit your achievement.
No one is brilliant by themselves in a vacuum.
Everyone needs advisors and support people to help them to really shine.
Add to that the fact that the World Business Council have ranked emotional intelligence as one of their top-10 skills for success in the 21st century and it begins to become clear why having a therapist and coach in one professional is not only desirable, but actually smart – it allows you to unblock your past while blasting forward.
Think of your intentions as GPS directions, a therapeutic skill set takes the brakes off while the coaching mindset allows you to accelerate forwards. All three working together are needed to get you to your destination in the quickest and safest manner.
Both Amar and Sandy have a wealth of experience, and broad skill sets to share.
With experience coaching top-performers in industries as diverse as aviation, politics, fashion, law, medicine, the construction and property and the community sector, few professionals will support your holistic excellence as well as we can.
Life 2.0: Experience Psychoeducation Embodied
When you are no longer steered by your trauma, who are you?
As part of our holistic approach to trauma work and well-being we developed our Life 2.0 Masterclass Series.
This program consists of six masterclasses (each between 5 and 7 weeks delivered on Wednesday nights (7-9/9:30pm Australian Eastern Time) delivered over 12-months to support you to fundamentally reshape your experience of life.
While we recommend that you start with Befriending Your Nervous System, there is no requirement that this is the case.
Awaken, Evolve & Transform is recommended to be last masterclass as this course supports integrating all that you will have learned over the course of your learning journey.
These courses are delivered live by Dr Amar Dhall and Sandy Farac over Zoom, so you can access them from anywhere in the world. They both support and are supported by the one-on-one and group sessions that we offer.
Masterclass 1: Befriending Your Nervous System (5-weeks)
Masterclass 2: Taming Your Inner Critic and Self-Saboteur (5-weeks)
Masterclass 3: Boundaries Level 1 (6-weeks)
Masterclass 4: Boundaries Level 2 (6-weeks)
Masterclass 5: Tackling Drama Dynamics (7-weeks)
Masterclass 6: Awaken, Evolve & Transform (5-weeks)
Meditation
One of the keys to freedom from trauma is establishing resources that support you to regulate your nervous system after having your trauma responses triggered.
Numerous robust peer-reviewed studies have now proven what has been known in Eastern cultures for millennia, namely that certain forms of meditation act as lifestyle medicine and rewire your nervous system to produce well-being.
Sandy offers online, evidence-based guided meditation sessions on most Tuesday evenings (8pm Australian Eastern Time) that will support you to find your peaceful centre that resides underneath the anxiety, pain or other troubling sensations.
These sessions support our clients work with us and are themselves a transformative experience.
These group sessions are only $25 for 60-minutes and are the most affordable way to experience our work.
The truth of healing and growth is that is requires effort to resolve.
Pills and medication can sometimes help, but they are not long term solutions.
Robust research has shown that for many people regular meditation brings about positive changes.
Couples / Relationship Therapy
There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.
– Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral's Kiss
Get in Touch
For Bookings please call or send and email on the Contact Us page.