The Nurture Space
A therapy space that nurtures
a transformational journey
to wellness
Counselling Services in Adelaide
HEAL • CONNECT • THRIVE
The Nurture Space provides a welcoming and nurturing sanctuary for people to work holistically toward mental, emotional and relational wellness.
Struggling with Emotional Distress, Mental Health, or Relationship Challenges?
Are you experiencing anxiety symptoms, panic attacks, depression, or feeling overwhelmed by chronic stress? These challenges can impact every aspect of your life, but healing and recovery are possible.
If you're facing relationship difficulties such as communication breakdowns, ongoing conflict, emotional disconnection, or the pain of infidelity, you don’t have to go through it alone.
At The Nurture Space, located in the eastern suburbs of Adelaide, Niki Gelekis offers holistic counselling and integrative psychotherapy designed to help you manage and overcome these struggles. Specialising in Trauma Therapy, Relationship Therapy, and Attachment-Based Therapy, Niki provides a safe, compassionate space to explore emotional pain, improve communication, and rebuild trust in relationships. By addressing the underlying emotional bonds that shape how we connect with others and understanding attachment styles and patterns, Niki helps clients deepen their connections, heal past relational wounds, and build more secure, fulfilling relationships.
With a focus on trauma recovery, stress management, and couples therapy, Niki helps clients achieve deeper emotional healing, build stronger relationships, and enhance their overall well-being. Whether you're looking to heal from past trauma, improve your mental health, or strengthen your relationship, Niki's relational approach will guide you through this transformative journey.
Start your healing journey today. Explore how The Nurture Space can support your mental health, emotional well-being, and relationship health with expert counselling services in Adelaide.
Meet Niki Gelekis
Niki Gelekis is the Therapist at The Nurture Space, with over 25 years of experience in the mental health and wellness field. She is passionate about providing a safe, respectful, and therapeutic experience for all her clients who are experiencing emotional distress, struggling with their mental stability, or struggling within their relationships.
Individual Counselling
The Nurture Space provides a safe place to explore personal issues and concerns affecting the quality of life, relationships, and well-being. A supportive environment is designed to help individuals navigate and address these challenges with professional guidance.
Trauma Therapy
The Nurture Space offers supportive and compassionate care to address the emotional wounds from individuals' previous traumatic experiences through trauma therapy, helping them manage their overwhelming capacity to cope. The Nurture Space is committed to providing a nurturing environment for healing and growth.
Relationship Therapy
The Nurture Space helps you improve the
attachment bond between you and your partner and helps you understand the change patterns that lead to feelings of hurt and disconnection through
relationship counselling.
Family Therapy
The Nurture Space creates a safe space for family members to express and explore difficult thoughts and emotions and make useful and impactful changes in their family relationships and within their
family dynamics.
Mental Health Naturopathy
Mental health naturopath is a comprehensive and integrative therapy approach for those who struggle with mental stability issues, chronic stress, fatigue, adrenal dysfunction, burnout, trauma or an overburdened nervous system.
Clinical Supervision
As a Clinical Supervisor for Counsellors, Niki Gelekis uses various supervision interventions and reflective practices to provide adequate evaluation and feedback and address the ethical and legal considerations of counselling practice.
Anxiety Therapy
Anxiety therapy is a crucial intervention for managing and alleviating signs of anxiety disorders.
It encompasses a range of therapeutic
strategies tailored to individual needs, focusing on reducing anxiety and improving overall
mental well-being.
Burnout Therapy
The Nurture Space offers burnout therapy that encompasses a wide range of interventions designed to alleviate the symptoms of first-experience burnout and prevent its recurrence. The primary goal of first-experience burnout-and-out management is to support individuals in regaining their energy, enthusiasm, and professional satisfaction.
Grief and Loss Counselling
Grief, a profound emotional response to loss, is as natural as inevitable, reflecting the depth of connections. The Nurture Space understands that the journey through grief is not only about coping with the immediate aftermath of loss and emotional wounds but also about healing and finding a new sense of normalcy.
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Self-Esteem Counselling
Self-esteem is foundational to how life is experienced, influencing relationships, careers,
and mental health.
The Nurture Space’s approach to self-esteem counselling is designed to empower individuals by nurturing relationships in your life that reinforce their intrinsic value and capabilities.
Depression Counselling
The Nurture Space offers depression counselling that plays a pivotal role in the field of mental stability and suicide tendencies. It is a form of therapy that involves intensive one-on-one sessions between a client and a licensed psychologist or therapist, aimed at tackling specific emotional and psychological issues related to depression.
Stress Management
Stress management is essential to maintaining overall well-being, particularly in a fast-paced modern world where stressful events are often unavoidable. Managing stress effectively not only enhances freedom from
mental illness but also supports physical health, helping to mitigate the adverse effects of
chronic stress.
EMDR Therapy
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a transformative psychotherapy technique designed to alleviate the distress associated with traumatic memories. Recognised for its effectiveness in treating Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), EMDR therapy helps individuals access and process traumatic memories, aiming to achieve an adaptive resolution.
Complex PTSD Therapy
Complex PTSD, a severe mental stability condition closely related to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), emerges from chronic trauma that continues or repeats over months or years. Unlike PTSD, which can result from a single traumatic event, this disorder of extreme stress is generally associated with long-term trauma, creating profound and lasting effects on emotional and mental well-being.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Attachment-based therapy is a therapeutic approach that leverages the principles of attachment theory to foster emotional healing and promote psychological health. At The Nurture Space, this therapy focuses primarily on strengthening the bonds between individuals and their key attachment figures, often addressing issues that arise from early attachment disruptions.
Emotionally Focused Therapy
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a structured approach to couples therapy that emphasises the development of emotional intelligence and recognising underexpressed feelings within intimate relationships. The main objective of EFT is to facilitate a deeper emotional connection between partners by encouraging them to express and understand their deepest, often unvoiced, emotions.
Gottman Method Couples Therapy
The Gottman Method, employed by The Nurture Space, aims to tackle conflicting verbal communication, boost intimacy, respect, and affection, and remove barriers contributing to feelings of stagnation. This approach fosters a greater sense of empathy and understanding within relationships.
Free Discovery Call
Book a free 15-minute Discovery Call with our Therapist, Niki Gelekis.
On this free call, a discussion on the experiences, feelings and what help you will need from Niki Gelekis.You will gain a better understanding of her therapy approaches and how this could be beneficial for supporting your emotional healing, improving your relationships, and supporting transformational change in your life.
Chatting with Niki will determine if you are the right fit for each other with no obligation.
