ABOUT
Kintsugi Counselling & Coaching is a holistic online counselling and career coaching service based in Perth, Western Australia, which uses a holistic and integrated approach to help early to mid-career working professionals who are experiencing career disillusionment, burnout or struggling to find fulfilment in their life, by helping them find Meaning and Purpose, and in making the necessary changes so that they're able to live a liberating, empowered and fulfilling life.
Through online counselling in Perth and across Australia, Kintsugi offers space for people looking for deeper understanding, change and growth in both their personal and working lives.
Kintsugi, translating to “golden joinery”, is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery using lacquer and silver or gold, resulting in a piece considered of greater value and beauty than before.
Kintsugi Counselling & Coaching is a call to embrace and integrate the ‘imperfections’ and scars in our lives, such that they are no longer ‘defects’, but parts of us that add to our beauty, our story, our wholeness and our uniqueness.
Vision
Kintsugi Counselling & Coaching aims to catalyse within you the journey of self-awareness, societal structural awareness, self-integration, and self-transcendence. Eventuating in you living in peace with yourself and in harmony with life, by living in alignment with your values, universal virtues, meaning and purpose.
This includes supporting people through midlife career change, identity shifts and major transitions, so that work and life begin to feel congruent rather than fragmented.
The vision is revolution, and revolution starts from within.
when your ‘why’ is bigger than yourself, your-self no longer limits you
Mission
Applying a combination of counselling and life coaching modalities, with a background understanding of philosophies such as Taoism, Stoicism and Buddhism, and consideration of socio-economics, political economy, the natural sciences, anthropology and development theory.
Kintsugi Counselling & Coaching delivers a holistic and bespoke service for individuals to not only achieve what they’re truly looking for, but also to broaden their awareness and understanding of themselves, the life they live, and their overall vision.
This includes anxiety and stress therapy, burnout counselling for professionals, and career transition coaching for those whose work life no longer matches who they are becoming.
About Akshay
Counsellor, Life Coach, Mechanical Engineer and a whole lot more
Hello!
I’m Akshay, the founder of Kintsugi Counselling & Coaching.
My ethos in life is about making the absolute most of my time here with what I’ve got.
Although it sounds dreamingly cliché, what I’ve learnt through everything I’ve experienced living this ethos is, everything has it’s time, and everything has both light and dark.
There have been times to make the most out of doing as much as I can, and there have been times to make the most out of doing nothing.
There have been times to focus on filling my cup, and times to focus on emptying it.
Making the most out of life has meant something different at each phase or time in my life.
But one thing I’ve learnt and that I'm certain of is, being able to let go, accept change and embrace it, is a profoundly necessary challenge if we are to make the most of life and be the most actualized versions of ourselves.
Had you told me in my mid 20’s, when I had completed my degree in mechanical engineering and was preparing to move to Germany in pursuit of a career in aerospace propulsion engineering, that in my mid 30’s I’ll be starting my own counselling & life coaching practice. I would have laughed out asking which universe you thought we were in?!
But life had other plans. One of the biggest turning points for me was my own midlife career change — from engineering into offering career transition coaching and counselling online for professionals, here in Perth and across Australia.
Looking back now, through all the ups and downs, burnt dreams and unexpected journeys. Making the most of life meant filling my cup, focusing on me and experiencing life in a way that allowed me to not just explore who I am, but also what I truly care about and how I want to contribute to the world.
Not too long ago my cup was full, but I had to empty it because I realised the tea in it wasn’t right for me, even if I had poured it in.
It wasn’t easy emptying the cup because the tea was sweet and I had made sweet memories drinking it. But sweetness only goes so far, and eventually it does more harm than good.
This new tea I’m pouring in is not as sweet, but it’s more nourishing, and I’m pouring it in not just to nourish myself, but to help others nourish themselves too.
In this stage of my life, the focus is less on me and more on what I can give with what I’ve learnt and experienced, and what my impact on the world is.
Looking at everything in retrospect, I like to say I didn’t choose to be a counsellor / life coach, it chose me (cheesy, I know, but true!)
I’ve got this life, here and now, and to me this is what it means to make the most of it.
Memento Mori. Memento Vivere. Capre Diem.
