Services

Family-inclusive session

My family-inclusive approach supports young people to include family member and/or carer in assessments, planning and treatment when accessing support and therapy. There is growing evidence shows that when family is included meaningfully in a young person’s care planning and treatment, it can lead to positive outcomes for service users and their families (1,2,3,4,5).

When young people are supported to include their family, it can lead to a higher likelihood of continued treatment, reduced rates of relapse, reduced anxiety, improved satisfaction with care and increased overall wellbeing (1,2,3).

Including family will look different for each young person and there may be instances when it is not appropriate to directly include family members for varying reasons

Parent Coaching via Tuning in to Teens™

Training from Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, enables me to facilitate the Tuning in to Teens program. This program focuses on the emotional connection between parents and children, by teaching parents and carers skills in recognising, understanding and managing their own and their child’s emotions.

Make contact if you’d like to learn how to:

• be better at talking with your teen?

• be better at understanding your teen?

• help your teen learn to manage their emotions?

• help to prevent behaviour problems in your teen?

• teach your teen to deal with conflict?

Delivered as a group of up to eight parents/carers, this program runs for six weeks, for two hours per week. I foster an atmosphere of fun, safety and confidentiality. If unsure, please get in touch to discuss the program and your participation in it.

This program shows you how to help your teen develop emotional intelligence.

Research suggests that teens with higher emotional intelligence:

• Are more aware, assertive and strong in situations of peer pressure

• Are more able to cope when upset or angry 

• Have more stable and satisfying relationships as adults

• Have greater career success

• Have greater success with making friends and are more able to manage conflict with peers

• Have fewer mental health and substance abuse difficulties

• Emotional intelligence may be a better predictor of academic and career success than IQ!

Professional Supervision

• A safe, non-judgmental & compassionate debriefing space

• Emotional support 

• Case conceptualisation and case discussion 

• Discuss ethical dilemmas and organisational challenge

• Linking with relevant specialist service providers

• Reflective practice

• Shared knowledge and experience relevant to practice

• Skills based learning , supporting workers to identify skills that they wish to focus on (similar to a training workshop format)

• Linking theory to practice

• Opportunities to debrief critical incidents, support to deal with traumatic issues in the workplace

• Space to explore professional issues such as career direction, expansion of your skill base, further study possibilities, current training opportunities, etc.

Outdoor Counselling

Not all counselling needs to occur within four walls. There are significant health and wellbeing benefits in taking therapy outdoors. Constructive conversation can be prompted by being in nature and provides opportunities to explore the world more broadly. Outdoor counselling can be accessible to people of all physical abilities. We can chat about the most appropriate place for this to occur, which might include:

• Tasmanian Botanical Gardens

• Queens Domain

• beach, rivulet

• other accessible location.

  NDIS funding and MHTP can still be used to access outdoor counselling.