Jason Donaldson - Men's Counsellor

Figured it was about time I did one of these, so here you go - who TF am I?

I was born and bred in the best city in the world, Perth, and spent the first 5-years of my life living in a Police Station. Naturally I followed my old man into the Police as a very young whipper snapper.

I trained in emergency management and response, negotiations, covert surveillance, prosecuting and many other areas.

Lots of violence, death and mayhem later, plus the births of my kids and a divorce, I got the fck out of policing because I’d had a gut full of the hierarchy and office politics, and went full time in my then 6-year old strength & conditioning facility.

A couple of years later, life threw some curveballs, which led to me closing my business to care for my then partner who’d nearly been killed in a car crash. I also lost my mum to lung cancer at the same time.

I started working full time for my mate and was fortunate enough to work alongside and be influenced by some great minds in human performance like , , , and many others.

As a result of my work around human performance, breath science, stress, fear management… I looked to undertake some tertiary education in coaching. That somehow led me to counselling. A diploma, a Bachelors and now a Masters later, here we are - the evolution from cop, to coach, to counsellor.

Along the way I’ve also become an educator in su***de crisis support and mental health, and a lecturer in community services, legal, ethical and advocacy matters.

I’ve had my own mental health challenges, relationship ups and downs, successes and failures. All of which I draw on in helping blokes (and a number of ladies) manage this roller coaster called life.

There you have it… a little glimpse into me. Thanks for reading and if I can help you in any way, shoot me a DM 🤙🏽

𝐵𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒, 𝑑𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘, 𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑣𝑒𝑔𝑔𝑖𝑒𝑠, 𝑔𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑐𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑝, ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑓𝑢𝑛, 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑑.