Services
Play Therapy Sessions (No referrals required)
​
Medium to long term support through weekly sessions. The number of sessions recommended depends on the history and nature of a child's behavioural problems.
However, a minimum of 12-16 sessions is recommended combined with some parenting support sessions. Intensive play therapy (2 days a week) and long-term therapy are also available, based on the child’s needs.
​
Teen Counselling
Teens often struggle with intense emotions that they may not fully understand or know how to manage yet. Therapy provides a safe and supportive environment for them to explore their complex inner world.
​
***NDIS plan managed or self-managed clients are billed in line with the current NDIS price guide with no extra cost.
Parenting Support / Adult Counselling
​
Parenting Support
Supporting a child with big behaviours can be incredibly stressful to us parents. Many of my parents arrive at my clinic feeling exhausted, burnt out and feeling hopeless and helpless after tried out different parenting methods or other therapies and finding out nothing had worked.
Children are not good at articulating and verbalizing their inner world, instead they communicate through their behaviours. It is important for us to know about children’s behaviours and what they mean, so we can understand their needs and feel more confident supporting them at home. The parenting advice I provide is attachment-based, simple and easy to follow, and it is aimed at bringing the family closer.
Parents play a very important role in the child’s life and their healing process, so please be a part of the healing circle!
​
Adult Counselling for Parents
There’s nobody like our own children who’d push our buttons and activate us. Us parents often get triggered by our children’s big behaviours and we end up in a big fight or a constant power struggle. Or you may have realized that you are becoming your parents and repeating what they used to say or do? Generally, those feelings or responses come from our own family history that we experienced as a child, which often gets in the way of you feeling close to your child and building healthy relationships. Starting with your own therapy helps us to understand our family of origin and why we parent our children the way we do. The insights you gain from your therapy will help you to expand your parental capacity and increase your ability to be more attunement to your children’s needs.
​
Adult Counselling
​
Internal family systems therapy (IFS):
IFS therapy is an evidence-based therapy method that encourages healing emotional
wounds (that often causes our psychological struggles) by bringing compassion and
curiosity into exploring your inner world.
​
IFS therapy can look like traditional talk therapy but it is particularly focused on exploring
our internal world through feelings, thoughts, images, bodily sensations or a general awareness of “parts”. It is based on the idea that we all have different “parts” of ourselves.
For example, have you ever attempted to explain yourself by saying something like “a part of me says go to the gym to stay healthy, but the other part of me says stay home and relax and be nice to myself…” after making the decision to stay home and relax, it may be followed by a critical voice/thought that harshly criticize you or shame you for being lazy? Often our psyche is full of this type of mind chatter, which can be stressful, overwhelming and confusing at times.
​
In IFS therapy, there are no ‘bad parts’, even the critical thought has a positive intention. IFS therapy helps us to identify and understand our parts (our inner world) better. As we gain access to our inner world, we gain insights, clarity, confidence, courage and feel the expansion of calmness within.
​
***Adult counselling is open to any client who's experiencing psychological distress, not limited to parents.
