Child, Teen and Adult Psychotherapy
and Counselling Services
“Life doesn’t make any sense without interdependence. We need each other,
and the sooner we learn this the better for us all”
Erik Erikson
Many adults loose themselves in the busyness and rush of their lives. There is often little time for reflection and self insight. This tends to give power to their internal feelings, thoughts, perceptions and behaviours.
Distress, anxiety and depression then develop and if unresolved tend to keep them stuck.
Our life situations and experiences change so rapidly and unexpectedly.
It is no surprise that Australia currently shows 1 in 4 adults and 1 in 6 children confirming they regularly experience anxiety and depression.
We only have today to ensure that tomorrow we can be our best.
Take the time to invest in yourself or your family or your children, so everyone might be their best tomorrow.
Psychotherapy & Counselling for Adults, Teens and Children
Click on your topic of interest relating to Individual adult, child or teen support to find out more
Many adults loose themselves in the busyness and rush of their lives. There appears to be too little time for reflection and self insight. This tends to give power to our feelings, thoughts, perceptions and behaviours. Our habits seem all too powerful.
Distress, anxiety and depression result when we think or feel stuck and unable to change.
Psychologists and therapists help you to discover how your own mental processes contribute to keeping you feeling stuck in your situation.
Psychotherapists help you to understand what triggers your thoughts, feelings and therefore your actions.
Therapy helps you to:
- Feel more confident in your own abilities to find solutions that work for you
- Understand how to think differently so you can see solutions and options
- identify and either learn or improve some skills which give you a better chance to be healthy
- improve your own robust mental health – which leads to calm, peaceful thinking and wellness.
So is NOW the time to take action for yourself.
Domestic and Family Violence is not acceptable for anyone.
Being issued with a Family Intervention Order, which limits or removes any interaction with family members creates a range of emotions which often overwhelms us.
When we ignore these feelings, they build on our experiences and emotions from the past, leaving us feeling like an unexploded volcanoe.
This is not good for the family, nor is it good for the person with the FIVO.
We have specialised in perpetrator support and therapy.
Contact us today so you can deal with your unexpressed emotional reaction to receiving and living with a FIVO.
Teenagers find it distressing and stressful when things in their lives do not go their way, or the way they think it should.
They struggle to create a calm and peaceful place for themselves in their lives, – which tends to set them on a path of constant distress and pain as they become adults.
They need to learn different coping skills, life skills, emotional regulation skills if they are to avoid future anxiety and depression as an adult.
It can be stopped now.
All children need love, support and stability in their lives. Children younger than 10 years particularly need stable relationships around them to develop trust and learn how to be in their own relationships.
“Bad” behaviour is often an expression of their feelings which are overwhelming.
Learning how to manage, understand and express their feelings without resorting to control and anger is a life long skills children must learn for robust mental health as adults.
Children who experience domestic abuse or see it being given to their other parent have a 78% chance of becoming aggressive, turning into The Bully and then using violence in their relations as adults.
Parents can do something to help – Now
When a new baby is expected, the social expectation is that it is a time of joy, happiness, and beautiful feelings for both men and women.
When the felt reality does not reflect this, it can lead to “Baby blues”, “Pre or Post Natal Anxiety”, or even “Pre or Post Natal Depression”.
This is true for men and for women, although research shows it tends to be predominently experienced by women.
Either way, both parents and the new baby need their early relationship to be based on trust, comfort, confidence and lots of joy.
It is best to do something about it now.
Capacity Building involves helping ourselves to learn the skills and confidence to take part in community, social, work and recreational activities.
We all learn differently. What is important is we learn the skills and approaches which help us live our lives as independently as we wish.
This service is available mainly for NDIS members, although it also applies to children and teenagers.
Going into new social settings is scary and unsettling – for everyone. Grow your confidence through learning the skills and approaches which make it better for you.
This service is mainly for NDIS members, although many teens benefit from a few sessions.
Couple Therapy and Family Therapy
Click on your topic of interest regarding Couple and Family Separation, Divorce, Custody Battles and Domestic Violence to find out more
Separation, and divorce is seldom an easy path for anyone in the family. Domestic Violence, Custody battle and revengeful actions make this path even more difficult.
Families are kept together through relationships, and unfortunately they are also disconnected through relationships. Legal intervention is required only for the legal status of the separation, – it NEVER provides a solution for the relationships.
Discover how to help everyone get through this period – Sooner rather than later, and without deep scars and long lasting trauma.
It is never too late to do something about settling your conflict laden divorce, custody battle, or supporting your merging families.
Make the decision to help your family emotionally- then Action it now
Domestic and Family Violence has reached significantly disturbing levels in Australia.
It costs men, women and children deeply due to the emotional, physical, financial, social, personal and developmental scars which result from all forms of family violence and abuse.
Men need to learn different coping and emotional regulation skills and insights if they are to rescue their relationship with themselves, their partners and their kids.
Boys need to learn there are different more effective ways to show respect and care whilst being angry.
Women need to learn they can expect to be treated with respect, support and care: – and how to respond when this does not occur or if they get angry and feel out of control.
Girls need to learn they can have a life which contains respect, love and care, – they do not need to repeat their parents choices in managing their feelings.
It can be stopped now…whether an Intervention order is in place or not.
Domestic and Family Violence is not acceptable for anyone.
Being issued with a Family Intervention Order, which limits or removes any interaction with family members creates a range of emotions which often overwhelms us.
When we ignore these feelings, they build on our experiences and emotions from the past, leaving us feeling like an unexploded volcanoes.
This is not good for the family, nor is it good for the person with the FIVO.
We have specialised in perpetrator support and therapy.
Contact us today so you can deal with your unexpressed emotional reaction to receiving a FIVO.
It is difficult when being faced down by a bully.
Their emotional state is frightening, and if others are watching it feels even worse.
Teaching our children, and our teens how to deal with their own feelings and experiences when being bullied is critical. Teaching them how to deal with the bully – and watchers – is an important life skill to learn and practice.
What about THE Bully?
The bully is the child, teen or adult who does the bullying of others. We seem to overlook the bully, or hide behind some form of punishment, hoping it will stop him or her.
It does not work – if it did there would be much less bullying amongst adults.
THE Bully uses others, whom they see as weaker, in order to meet their own unmet needs. When we ignore these needs in the child or teen, they remain unmet and unmanaged in their adulthood. And so violence as a tactic in relationships become established.
Helping your child or teen to express their needs and meeting them will go along way to helping them now and as adults.
There is no time to waste – Do something different to help The Bully today
Separation, and divorce is seldom an easy path for anyone in the family. Domestic Violence, Custody battle and revengeful actions make this path even more difficult.
Families are kept together through relationships, and unfortunately they are also disconnected through relationships. Legal intervention is required only for the legal status of the separation, – it NEVER provides a solution for the relationships.
Discover how to help everyone get through this period – Sooner rather than later, and without deep scars and long lasting trauma.
It is never to late to do something about conflicting divorce, custody battles, merging families.
Make the decision to help your family emotionally- then Action it now
Workplace Counselling & Coaching
Click on your topic of interest dealing with Workplace Conflict, Bullying and Political Infighting to find out more
Being a leader – of a business, a team or even a Board is personally taxing, often isolating and most often stressful.
The demands of Leadership today need us to be accessible, open, knowledgeable, always on call and authentic – what ever that means!
What about you – what are you doing to support and replenish yourself?
What are you doing to adapt to the changing demands of leadership?
Our discussions are focused, insight driven and always intend to reduce any feelings of overwhelm, improve relations at work and increase your ability to leave “work stress” at work when you leave for home.
We have over 20 years working in executive and Board positions in both for profit and not for profit organizations.
Our conversations are focused on how you best mange and respond to uncertainty, stress, ever increasing pressures – all within the reality of your business today.
Give us a call for a confidential discussion about how we might help you be the leader your aspire to be.
Performance of a Senior Team has always been difficult to quantify. The stress and extended pressure of being a member of a Senior Team on the other hand has always been easy to notice and experience
Given the added dimension of working from home, having a workforce which is away from the traditional workplace, not to mention performance pressures becoming huge.
What does this mean for Senior Team members, and Senior leaders?
What does it mean for performance and value add discussions with members of the team, and the Board?
There is no point in trying to handle these issues in the same way you have in the past. After all that is how they were created in the first place!
Give us a call for a confidential discussion about how we might help you enable your Team to deliver the results your business needs.
Conflict is one of the most often overlooked threats in business today.
When conflict remains unresolved, it impacts on innovation, creativity in the workplace, reduces decision making, and destroys relationships.
Quite often, it enables bullying to emerge and remain.
Bullying in the workplace is not an isolated experience – those who bully in the workplace often bully in other areas of their lives as well.
Bullies in your business deliver the same results as unresolved conflict – including the people who are being bullied decide to remain emotionally distant from your business. Poor decisions get made, mistakes get overlooked and awful behaviour diminishes your company culture- reducing your investment value.
Dealing with the bullies and conflict is the best business decision you can make today.
I keep 4 sessions per week available for clients who might struggle with fees.
Please discuss this with me, it is not a problem.
First Session and Intake
For adult, teen and child-
Double Session for Intake, Assessment and treatment
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Focused Assessment
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Jointly confirm Treatment Plan
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Begin initial treatment
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Includes $50 Appointment booking fee payable on booking
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50% Refund available if we jointly decide we cannot progress to a suitable Treatment Plan. Refund immediately.
Adult Package
5 Session Package-
Available after Intake Session
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Discounted Session fee
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Paid in Advance OR
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Single Payment or in 2 Installments within 3 weeks of Intake Appointment
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No Financial Surprises, or needing to stop therapy due to financial constraints
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Includes $50 Appointment booking fee for all 5 sessions
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Secure Days and Times up to 3 months in advance
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Available for both In Person and Telehealth Appointments
Individual Sessions
Treatment Session-
Treatment Sessions based on your agreed Treatment Plan
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Progress and course correcting as you grow
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Most treatment plans need 5 - 6 sessions to ensure improvement
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Includes $50 Appointment booking fee payable on booking
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