Services

Counselling is crucial to understanding how a person got to where they are, but also to assist them in breaking down strongly ingrained beliefs. Counselling will allow a person to address their behaviors and speak with a qualified therapist about the critical things. We use various modalities because therapy is not a one-size-fits-all solution.

Our team supports people to build skills around choice and control in their lives. We provide education and trauma-informed support to develop an understanding of behaviors and the social and environmental factors that contribute to their current situation. As a team, we build a plan focusing on whole-person recovery, not just the clutter.

The in-home intervention will intensely focus on trauma-informed care with other therapies to help a person achieve their recovery goals.

It will be vital to learn strategies to unpack their beliefs. In doing so, we hope that a person knows to challenge their thoughts and behaviours, aiding them in making better decisions about their life and possessions.

Our team is experienced in the following counselling areas

• Anxiety

• Trauma

• Hoarding Disorder/Behaviours

• Marriage & Relationships

• Addictions

• Pregnancy Loss or Miscarriage

• Domestic Violence

• Complex childhood trauma

• Grief & Loss

• Living with Dementia

• Suicidal Ideation

• Neurodivergence (including ADHD and ASD)

• Depression

• Gender and Sexuality

• Family Systems

• Life Coaching

• PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)

• Complex PTSD

• Chronic Pain

• Stress

• Eating Disorders

• Parenting Challenges

• CBT

• DBT

• Ageing

• Migrant & Refugee Challenges

• LGBTQI+

• Youth Counselling

• Interpersonal Therapy

• Family Functioning

• Psychoeducation

Trauma Informed Practice

Trauma Informed Practice is a strength-based framework founded on five core principles — safety, trustworthiness, choice, collaboration, empowerment, and respect for diversity. Trauma-informed care means that we will endeavour to do no harm. All staff have had extensive training in trauma informed care and our mission is to work with you to support you in managing your responses. We embrace a message of hope and optimism that recovery is possible.

Strength-Based Therapy

Strength-based therapy is a type of positive support and counseling that focuses on a person’s internal strengths and resourcefulness rather than on weaknesses, failures, or shortcomings. The tenet is that this focus sets up a positive mindset that helps build on a person’s best qualities, find strengths, improve their resilience, and change their worldview to one that is more positive. Our team believes that the main reason to discuss a person’s problems is to discover their inner strengths, which can be tapped into to build solutions and work toward recovery.

Narrative Therapy

Narrative Therapy assists people in building separation from their challenges. With this new perspective, individuals feel more empowered to change their thought patterns and behaviour for a future that reflects what they are capable of, their purpose, and who they are, separate from their problems.

Solution-Focused Therapy

Solution-Focused Therapy focuses on how a person can create solutions to their situations in the present and explore a person's hope for the future to find a quick and pragmatic resolution to challenges. This method takes the approach that we know what we need to do to improve our life experiences and, with the appropriate coaching and questioning, are capable of finding the best solutions.

Family Systems Therapy

Family Systems Therapy helps individuals resolve their problems in the context of their family unit. One of the essential premises of Family Systems Therapy is that what happens to one family member happens to everyone in the family. Each family member works together to understand better their family dynamic and how their actions affect each other and the family unit.

Coaching

Coaching is a process that aims to help people achieve a concrete goal, identify and overcome obstacles to well-being and performance, and build skills that may be interfering with their success. Coaching is specific, goal-oriented, and can be conducted one-on-one or in a group.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people resolve present-day challenges like depression or anxiety, relationship challenges, anger issues, or other common concerns that negatively affect mental health and quality of life. The goal of treatment is to help people identify, challenge, and change maladaptive thought patterns to change their responses to challenging situations.

Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT)

Dialectical Behavioural Therapy is a modified type of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). Its main goals are teaching people how to live in the moment, develop healthy ways to cope with stress, regulate emotions, and improve relationships.

Unpacking the Complexity of Hoarding Disorder and Severe Domestic Squalor

A 2-day training course, focusing on the complexity of both hoarding and squalor. It provides front line workers, psychologists, GPs, housing providers, NDIS LACS and planners, real estate agents, and others with an in-depth understanding of these disorders and how to support or diagnose the presence of hoarding and squalor.

Learning outcomes:

• Understand Hoarding Disorder (HD) and Severe Domestic Squalor (SDS) from a holistic framework.

• Understand the behaviours, psychology, and emotional attachments that underpin these disorders.

• Effectively identify the presence of Hoarding Disorder (HD) and Severe Domestic Squalor (SDS).

• Identify appropriate intervention strategies - what works and what doesn’t?

• Effectively use assessment tools to inform work practices.

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“The best two day training I have attended.” - Training attendee, 2021

“This has provided me with the skills, strategies, and confidence to know how to support my participants.” - Training attendee, 2021

The Window of Tolerance (WoT)

A 4-hour professional development workshop, aimed at providing a better understanding of how being outside of our WoT impacts our ability to function, thrive, and maintain our emotional regulation.

Learning outcomes:

• Understand the Window of Tolerance (WoT) and its relation to client work.

• Increased ability to identify when someone is outside their WoT.

• Understand the WoT connection to emotional dysregulation.

• Ability to use grounding techniques to help widen the WoT and increase a person’s ability to emotionally regulate.
  
  If you are interested in any of our training or would like training for your staff, please contact us or click here for more information

Trauma Informed Care (TIC)

This training can be delivered as a 2-hour, 4-hour or 6-hour workshop

Trauma informed care is critical when supporting someone with a lived experience of mental health. This training will provide the participant with an understanding of trauma, its impact on clients and how to support and build their capacity for change and acceptance

To book or enquire about this training for yourself or for your organisations staff call Debbie Graham Ph: 0499 326 192

Buried in Treasures (BIT) Facilitator Training

3 day BiT Facilitators training for front line workers and peers to enable them to deliver the 15 week program

Buried in Treasures (BIT)

A 15-week consumer program for people living in a hoarded or very cluttered environments that aims to increase someone’s understanding of hoarding. BIT explores barriers to sorting and discarding and provides strategies to equip people to do the work of decluttering.

How to Eat the Elephant
A 6-week consumer program that focuses on therapy in a group environment to increase understanding of how trauma impacts hoarding behaviors . It uses a combination of Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), helping a participant understand emotional regulation and the Window of Tolerance. The program aims to explore anxiety and provide opportunities for skill building to raise awareness of hoarding behaviors.

Recovery Coaching

Recovery coaches will support people with psychosocial disabilities to live a whole and contributing life. A Recovery Coach will assist people in taking more control of their lives and better manage complex daily living challenges. Through solid and respectful relationships and skilled coaching, a Recovery Coach will support people to build capacity, including strengths and resilience. Recovery coaches will work with people, their families, carers, and supports to design, implement and adjust a recovery plan. They will collaborate with the broader service system and assist with coordinating NDIS and other supports.

Psychosocial Declutter Coach

A Psychosocial Declutter Coach provides hands-on practical support to people living in very cluttered and or squalid environments. We will deliver a 'recovery' coach model to assist the person in developing skills and strategies for decluttering and help restore functionality, health and safety to their internal environment,

Community and Social Engagement Coach

Community and Social Engagement Coach supports people to build skills and confidence to engage with the person’s chosen community or social setting. Community and Social Engagement Coaches will support a person to address anxieties or concerns with practical strategies that a person can replicate when out without their coach.

Peer to Peer support groups are groups of individuals with personal experience of life-changing mental health challenges who use that experience to support the personal recovery of others and contribute to recovery-orientated, trauma-informed service and practice. Lived Experience work is complementary to both informal peer support and clinical services.

Support groups provide ongoing opportunities to meet with and learn from others in or with experience with a similar situation and to address barriers to sorting and discarding.

If you would like more information on our peer to peer groups please contact us