Counselling in Logan, by video and by phone

Change starts when you know what sets you off.

Phil Onasu has spent more than 15 years counselling people through anxiety, depression, trauma, alcohol and drugs, and family violence. Together you work out what triggers you, then change what happens next.

0458 948 650

In person, by video or by phone. Weekdays, and Saturdays by appointment.

CEABA is said “see bar”. The name is the method.

Pull one moment apart.

This is what a session does with the moments that go wrong. Pick one, or let them play.

CWhat you want

Read it, and still have a good afternoon.

EThe emotion you go to first

Anger, before you’ve finished the first line.

AThe attitude underneath

“They never rate anything I do.”

BWhat you do

A reply you regret by three o’clock.

AWhat you do instead

Close the laptop, walk the block, answer in the morning.

Where are you starting from?

Some people come to Phil on their own and some are sent. Every path starts with the same free 10-minute call.

Phil also offers recovery coaching for NDIS participants.

The first ten minutes are on Phil.

A short call before anything is booked or paid for. By phone or video, whenever suits you.

0:00What’s going on for you
3:00What you’d like to be different
6:00Whether Phil is the right person
9:00Your next step, if you want one

After the call

One first session, a plan you work through letter by letter, and a month of check-ins once you’re done.

Your first session

Fifty-five minutes to build the full picture: your health, your history and the people around you.

A plan, letter by letter

Goals you set together. Progress gets celebrated, and so do the tries that didn’t work. Both count.

A month after you finish

Phil keeps checking in for a month, until you’re ready to go on alone.

In person in Logan
By video
By phone
At home or in the community, for a call-out fee

“If you have pulled yourself out of a bad situation, teach others how you did it, so they too can pull themselves out of their own.”
What Phil’s dad always told him

Phil Onasu

Accredited Mental Health Social Worker (AMHSW)
Clinical Mental Health Therapist
CEABA Health Service

Phil founded CEABA in 2016. Much of his work has been alongside the Queensland Domestic and Family Violence Court, Queensland Corrective Services and the Department of Veterans’ Affairs. He has also counselled Australian Federal Police officers, young people in youth justice and families in child safety. Outside the counselling room, Phil founded Anutucare, which helps get hospital equipment to Papua New Guinea and Fiji.

Studied: Master of Social Work and an MBA at Southern Cross University. Bachelor of Human Services at the University of Otago, New Zealand.
Draws on: Dialectical behaviour therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy, mindfulness and the biopsychosocial model.

More about Phil

Phil presenting to a room of workers at a mental health training day — A mental health training day Phil ran in Perth.

For workplaces and referrers

Clinical supervision: For mental health social workers, case managers, youth and NDIS workers, probation and parole officers, and students on placement.
Training days: DBT skills, trauma-informed practice, family violence informed practice and vicarious trauma care, run on site.
Employee assistance: Confidential assessment, short-term counselling and follow-up for your staff.

Referring someone? All referrals are welcome. How it works

Email a referral 0458 948 650

Change starts with a ten-minute call.

0458 948 650