Lourens Human, ACA

Lourens Human is an ACA counsellor with 29 years of professional experience. He practised as a Counselling Psychologist in South Africa from 1996 to 2017 and has worked as a counsellor in Australia since 2018. He supports people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, career concerns, depression and major life changes.

He trained and worked in higher education and clinical practice. At the University of Pretoria he taught undergraduate psychology and coordinated the MA in Counselling Psychology. He supervised postgraduate trainees and led research in career, counselling and sport psychology. He also maintained a part-time clinical practice focusing on career and counselling psychology.

After moving to Australia in 2017, he registered with the Australian Counselling Association as a Counsellor (Level 4). He has provided therapeutic counselling at a retreat in Victoria for people who experienced severe trauma, including veterans. Since 2020 he has worked with victims of crime in South Australia, including people affected by homicide, sexual assault, domestic violence and child sexual abuse.

In sessions he tends to work practically and directly. He listens to a person’s current difficulty and helps identify the next steps. That can include ways to manage anxiety, work through grief or think about career direction and life purpose.

He draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques and on decades of clinical and teaching experience. People who are looking for help with midlife changes, fatherhood issues, isolation, addiction concerns or mood problems may find his background relevant. Sessions are delivered in English and international clients are not accepted.

How his therapeutic approaches work online

He draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach involves structured conversations that identify unhelpful patterns and build new ways of coping; this can help with anxiety, low mood and day-to-day stress. Another approach emphasises working through traumatic memories in manageable steps, aiming to reduce the intensity of distressing reactions and improve everyday functioning.

Finding the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. He will discuss different methods and try them out together, adjusting the focus according to the client’s needs, goals and preferences. Sessions are designed so the therapist and client decide what feels most useful over time rather than committing to a single method from the start.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm current online options before booking. In general, online work can make it easier to fit counselling around work or family commitments, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also allow people to take part without needing to be on camera for the whole session, or to use phone calls when bandwidth is limited. Talk with the counsellor about practical arrangements so sessions fit into everyday life.