Marie-Pierre Cleret
 

Marie-Pierre Cleret

MSW, MAASW, MASCH
Psychotherapist
Social Worker
Human Relations Consultant

ABN 96 085 279 054

     
     

 

Located

Sydney Inner West

 

Appointment times

Monday - Friday

8:45 am - 6 pm

 

Contact details

Phone

61 2 9557 5038

Fax

61 2 9557 5038

Email

mplceret_office2412@optus.net.au

Post

PO Box 158

Erskineville NSW 2043 

 

When you know it’s time…

At some point in many people’s lives, we arrive at a point when we know it’s time to do something about a situation we find ourselves in that’s causing us pain, holding us back, or where we feel unable to be who we want to be, have the kind of quality of life we want to have.

The day of reckoning is here. Reluctantly, we see that taking more pills, consuming more alcohol, more party drugs, making excuses, complaining, blaming, drowning ourselves more in work or other brain-numbing distracting activities, no longer helps to dim the intensity of our discomfort, and most likely compounds it. Here, we admit we can't go on doing more of what we've always done and yet continue to expect to get a different result.

We realise that no-one and nothing else can get us out of our predicament. Truth Time: we face the fact that we are the only person we can count on to get us out of and through our situation. However, we also know we’ve run out of ideas and solutions trying to go it alone.

At this point, it’s time to take our courage in both hands, take the plunge, and risk calling someone. It's time to forge a relationship with someone who will act as your ally in your quest to turn things around, working on the situation with their support and input in a focused, committed and honest way. It's time to choose to work with someone who will challenge and support you, who will refuse to accept your excuses, your lies, who will challenge your attachments to your limitations, who will help you break free of the limitations of your history and help you carve out a future that's not determined by your past pain, who will remind you of the strengths and resources you hardly know are yours or that you've forgotten to draw on, who will teach you new ways of looking at things, new ways of living. Who will truly hold you accountable for your vision of where you say you want to go. It's time to show up, take the challenge to make choices and take risks we have never dreamed of taking, never thought we would have the courage to take. For our own sake.

If this describes where you are now, and you know it’s really time for change, then I am the person for you to call.