If you’re looking for professional counselling for children in Wyndham Vale, Better Place Australia is right here for you. Our counselling rooms are located at IPC Health, 510 Ballan Road, Wyndham Vale. It’s easily accessible through South Werribee via the Princes Highway and then taking Ballan Road. We’re on the opposite side of the road to Hungry Jacks and Manor Lakes, with plenty of parking on-site.
If you need child counselling and you’re not in the Wyndham Vale area, Better Place Australia child counselling in Melbourne has other locations spread out across Greater Melbourne.
These are:
Better Place Australia counselling for children in Wyndham Vale helps improve well-being
It’s important for a child to maintain optimal health and well-being at all stages of growth. If a child is struggling with challenging life issues, seek the services of Better Place Australia counselling for children in Wyndham Vale. Child counselling sessions empower the child to face challenges and manage them in a positive manner.
Some challenges could be:
- a change of school
- family conflict
- loss and grief
- peer pressure
- puberty
- any other issue that may be having a negative effect on the child’s mental health and well-being.
By seeking child counselling early for your child, it can help prevent issues from escalating.
What happens during a child counselling session?
Child counselling at Better Place Australia is conducted one-on-one with a caring, qualified child counsellor. It is a safe space for the child to express feelings.
It starts with the counsellor assessing the child’s needs, and incorporating an age-related technique to explore the issues. There are several techniques that can be used, including cognitive behaviour therapy, narrative or play therapy.
These techniques can help the child to:
- use coping skills
- express their feelings in a safe place
- manage strong emotions such as blame, guilt and anger
- learn how to express themselves and relate positively to others
- understand their family and friend relationships as they are now and how they change
- develop resilience and improve emotional stability.
It is also important for parents to be proactive in their child’s life.
Why should parents be proactive?
Everyone faces issues in life. Sometimes it’s easy for parents to forget that when a child is exposed to parental conflict, it can cause more harm to the child than actual separation or divorce. Parental conflict is just one of the many challenges a child can face. The home should be the child’s haven, so we encourage parents to be proactive in protecting their child.
Proactive steps include:
- listening to how the child feels about things
- putting the interests of the child first during decision-making
- ensuring both parents have meaningful involvement in their child’s life
- keeping parental conflict away from the child as much as possible.
A better outcome through Better Place Australia child counselling
Every child deals with issues and challenges in different ways. Some cope better than others. The aim of Better Place Australia counselling for children in Wyndham Vale is for all children to be equipped with tools to become resilient and manage challenges in a way that is safe and positive.
Better Place Australia child counselling imparts the following skills:
- an increased ability to better understand and manage feelings
- decreased levels of distress and challenging behaviours
- improved communication and problem solving
- increased ability to trust and form healthy relationships.
If you’re looking for child counselling in Melbourne and are able to get to Wyndham Vale or one of our other child counselling locations, please contact Better Place Australia.
Learn more about the mental health and well-being of your child
If you’d like to learn more about mental health and well-being in children and family units, visit the Centre for Better Relationships website.
Centre for Better Relationships is the research and advocacy arm of Better Place Australia, with resources for you to learn more.
Read sector news articles such as: Understanding Child Development; and Highlighting the Imperative of Investing in Children and Young People’s Safety.
There are also learning videos you can watch, such as: Preventing Emotional Abuse of Children; Supporting Children Who Have Disclosed Trauma; The Whole Child; and The Role of Parents Preventing Emotional Abuse of Children.
By learning more, you will be better equipped to protect your children and support them during tough times.
