Services
Counselling
Calm Kids Counselling provides your child with a safe, warm empathetic space. Sharon uses a gentle combination of Play Based Therapy, Mindfulness, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy to provide your child with the tools to develop positive coping skills.
Walk and Talk Counselling is available for those children who may benefit from a more natural and soothing physical space. These sessions can be well suited to children who struggle with eye contact, sitting still or being in enclosed spaces. Being in nature helps our nervous system unwind and relax and can be meditative and grounding.
Counselling may include:
Anger management
Anxiety
Behaviour management
Depression
Emotional regulation
Self esteem
Social skills
Loss and Grief
Animal Assisted Therapy
Artemis (Arte) is a Certified Therapy Dog; she loves interacting with children in the sessions. Arte has completed her training and Certification at Lead the Way Institute.
Arte is used to complement and enhance group therapy and individual therapy.
Some benefits of Animal Assisted Therapy include:
Animals help teach empathy and appropriate interpersonal skills
The presence of animals can assist to build the therapeutic relationship with the children
Patting an animal has been demonstrated to lower blood pressure, lower anxiety and lessen stress.
Animal Assisted Therapy may include:
Social Skills
Anxiety
Emotional Regulation
Friendships and bullying
Dog Phobias
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Peaceful Kids
‘Peaceful Kids’ is a Mindfulness and Positive Psychology based program to lessen anxiety and stress and increase resilience in children. The program gives children the skills, practice and support to utilize coping strategies that lessen the symptoms of anxiety and stress and to build resilience. The program includes parental involvement and commitment to support the strategies at home.
Aims of the program
To minimise the symptoms of anxiety and stress
To build emotional resilience
To empower children to self-manage their anxiety
To teach children Mindfulness exercises they can use for life
To build a reservoir of strength to enable children to cope with life more effectively
To minimise anxiety symptoms occurring in the future
For children to use a range of effective coping strategies
Teaches children how to self-calm
To develop emotional intelligence skills
Teaches children life long skills to manage stress and prevent stress build up
Supports children so they know they are not alone with suffering from anxiety
Peaceful Kids is an 5-8 week educational program for children
Sessions are 60 mins each week
Peaceful Kids is a small group program (Max 6 kids)
Sessions include learning a range of mindfulness strategies, meditations and positive psychology exercises.
LEGO® Based Therapy
‘Brick Club’
LEGO® – Based Therapy was developed by neuropsychologist Dr LeGoff (2004). Initially aimed at children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), it has also been found to benefit many children with communication and social developmental difficulties (LeGoff, 2014).
Brick Club is a play-based approach to encourage the development of social skills and communication. It is a fun and motivating therapy program. The program helps support skills such as sharing, turn taking, collaboration, conflict resolution and verbal and non-verbal communication.
Benefits of LEGO® – Based Therapy:
Reduces frequency and intensity of maladaptive behaviours
Improves critical thinking
Improves and promotes social communication & interaction
Builds and helps to maintain friendships
Improves confidence and emotional wellbeing in the participant
Improves social competence
Increases sense of belonging
Improves teamwork
Improves adaptability and coping skills
Promotes collaborative problem solving
Develops fine motor skills
Develops memory skills
Improves concentration
Develops language concepts
Brick Club is an 8-10 week program for children
Sessions run for 60-90mins each week
Brick club is a small group program (2-4 kids)