Counselling & Therapy
Initial parent consultation
Parents and carers are initially invited to meet with the counsellor to discuss their concerns about their child. This can occur with the parent individually or with the child and parent together.
Child therapy and parent sessions
A child’s natural way of communicating and learning about the world is to play. For this reason, Lisa uses a play therapy approach to counselling children as well as working closely with parents and carers. Lisa is also skilled in providing parent-child counselling (dyadic therapy) where attachment and relationship difficulties are present.
Individual counselling for adults can also be provided in regards to the impact of trauma, postnatal depression, parenting challenges, and supporting children after separation & divorce. Lisa provides specialised counselling to children and their families in foster care, permanent care and adoption who have significant trauma and attachment difficulties. Lisa has also undertaken specialised advanced training in the USA in Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) with Dr Daniel Hughes (an attachment based family therapy approach to treating children who have trauma-attachment difficulties that actively involves the parent/carer in sessions). In addition, Lisa is also trained in Theraplay (Jernberg & Booth, 2001), an attachment based play therapy model. Theraplay has been used effectively for children with autism, with ADHD, with attachment difficulties, and for depressed as well as angry aggressive and controlling children. Please contact us to arrange an appointment.
Lisa has a special interest in working with children and their families from culturally diverse backgrounds. Lisa is experienced in providing culturally respectful counselling and consultation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, families and Communities. She also has extensive experience providing counselling with refugee and asylum seeker children and families from a variety of culturally backgrounds and is skilled in the use of interpreters.
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