Meet Antigone Foster
“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in”
— Leonard Cohen
General Information
Counsellor
Days: Monday
Cost: $185 (No Medicare) NDIS consumers welcome.
Adult individuals
Older teens (16+)
Queer identities
Anxiety, depression, stress, trauma, grief and loss, childhood abuse, sexual abuse or assault, family relationship difficulties, Intimate relationship difficulties, workplace pressure, substance abuse issues self image, self esteem, relationship breakups.
Style of Therapy
Humanistic, Trauma-informed, Somatic, Feminist, Strengths-based, Biopsychosocial, Culturally sensitive, Intersectional.
Person-centred, Psychodynamic, Trauma-informed, Feminist, Narrative, Polyvagal, ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), Family Systems. Fierce Queer ally.
Things You & Antigone Might Address:
Family-of-origin impacts and recovery.
Relationship difficulties. Recovery from CSA (childhood sexual abuse). Support for family members or loved ones who have experienced CSA.
Childhood trauma
Overcoming performance anxiety, for example, public speaking, or live performance
Perimenopausal and menopausal mental health difficulties
Neurodivergence including intellectual disability
Infidelity.
Workplace pressures
Counsellor
Antigone is a person-centred, trauma-informed counsellor who holds space for you with non-judgemental and non-pathologising warmth and safety. She is an integrative counsellor, applying a range of modalities and approaches, including trauma-focused, somatic, family systems, ACT, narrative, and feminist, openly and collaboratively.
Antigone’s creative skills acquired within the context of music foster spontaneous and imaginative sessions, encouraging you to participate actively on your path to positive change. Antigone is passionate about sharing resources so you can contemplate other ways of thinking about your challenges. She believes advocacy is essential to being a therapist, but empowering you to self-advocate is even more critical.
What Antigone’s About
Antigone is the primary provider at Antigone Foster Counselling. She collaborates with fellow Here Completely therapist Samantha Forbes in group work for Women Identified Survivors of CSA and will run further groups in 2024
Antigone, or Tiggy for short, comes to the therapeutic relationship after a successful career in the music industry as a singer/songwriter, years in the corporate world, and mother of two children. She still performs in fabulous outfits, records the occasional session, and dreams of leading a client choir.
Tiggy grew up in a blended hippy family in the country with parents who took the less travelled path and grew (almost all) their food. Her mother inspired her to enter the mental health field through 39-year career working with offenders in the justice system.
Credentials
Graduate Diploma in Counselling
Bachelor of Arts (Hons)
ACA Level 1
