Counselling for Young People

NDIS support available

For older children and adolescents enriching social experiences are central to achieving goals for a meaningful life. Sometimes this requires direct family involvement in the therapeutic process, and sometimes a less direct role by families is required. Our flexible approach enables young people to draw on their family, and broader social relationships, to set and achieve their meaningful life goals.

Our counselling for young people service provides therapeutic supports to help young people set and achieve goals such as:

• improving their mood

• improving relationships

• developing more complex social skills

• increasing emotion regulation

• experiencing enriching activities and social engagement with community

• managing anxiety

• coping with school

• modifying and changing behaviour, or breaking old habits

• developing new communication strategies

• coping with separation or divorce

• recovering from family violence

• managing workplace stress

• moving through grief and loss

• processing a once-off traumatic event

• resolving adjustment difficulties

• working through existential or spiritual crises

What to expect from our Counselling for Young People service

This service begins with a standard-length initial session with the young person. During this session needs, values, and goals will be discussed, and a counselling plan created. Individual sessions may involve expressive therapies such as working with art or sand, as well as mindfulness exercises, and/or thought based interventions. Homework may also form part of the counselling plan. The young person will be encouraged to draw from their relational support network, and the skills and capacities developed in session, to achieve their goals. Progress towards goal-achievement will be regularly reviewed by the young person and their counsellor. Evidence-based interventions are used throughout this process.