Zara Matthews

Welcome to Zara Matthews

Counselling, psychotherapy, yoga therapy and yoga classes can assist you identify and overcome unhelpful behavioural patterns that impact the quality of your life. The benefits from these enquiries will enhance awareness, develop self-acceptance and enrich significant relationships.

Experience and remember your human perfection and infinite potential. The catalytic effects of surrender, relaxation, breath awareness and meditation supports our access to the reality of our abundant perfection.

Counselling

Zara integrates her knowledge of modern psychotherapy and mental health with the expansive ancient wisdom of yoga. From this platform Zara offers private counselling and mentorship services in Bowral, Sydney and nationally. Her diversely extensive skills and experience as a facilitator are applied in a range of capacities within public and private hospitals, community-based agencies and specialist counselling services. Zara also provides coaching and educational services for small and medium businesses.

Zara believes in the intrinsic value and enormous potential of every individual, despite their immediate achievements. This philosophy underpins her work. She aims to support individual resilience and impart skills to create the changes you seek in life.

Her holistic approach incorporates a range of models, which include:

• Person Centered approach


• Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)


• Psychotherapy for groups or individuals


• Relaxation Therapy


• Mindfulness and Body awareness practices


• Yoga, Yoga Therapy and Movement


• Family Systems model


• Solution Focused Therapy


• Sand Play

Yoga

Zara is a Yoga Australia recognised level 2 teacher; senior teacher with Donna Farhi; [Internationally Certified] Yoga Therapist and an iRest Yoga Nidra® Level II, teacher in training with the Integrative Restorative Institute.

Zara offers regular private and public yoga classes for beginners and intermediate yoga students in Bowral, Southern Highlands and Sydney.

Zara combines her rich understanding of yoga with a long professional history within the mental health arena as a psychotherapist, counsellor and registered nurse.

Her classes incorporate the development of concentration skills, mindfulness, breath awareness, philosophy, meditation, relaxation, yoga nidra and yoga postures. These classes are both active and restorative. Yoga calms the mind, opens and lifts the heart. It is suitable for all individuals, despite their age and physical or emotional condition. Yoga is not just for the fit, young and flexible.

Zara provides a mentorship service for Yoga Teacher Trainees embarking on their journey of teaching yoga and for Yoga therapists providing a supportive environment to discuss client treatment programs and gain fresh insights to assist your clients more effectively.

Contact Zara today for more information.