Child and Family Counselling
Short term family Counselling is available to children/youth and their family members to assist and maintain family functioning. Therapeutic practices might include using interpersonal communication skills to assist family members explore options, make choices and manage issues they may be experiencing.
This service is available to minors under eighteen years of age and parents /carers of.
The Palm Beach Neighbourhood Centre is funded to provide an initial consultation and six counselling sessions thereafter. On conclusion of the sixth session, if you request ongoing counselling you may be refered to an alternate practitioner or agency, or you maybe elligible to access one of our support courses or workshops.
The Palm Beach Neighbourhood Centre offers a range of services and programs designed to assist families to improve relationships, communicate better and develop positive parenting strategies. All services are apointment based.
At PBNC we use a family-centred and strengths based approach and take into account cultural considerations of the clients often working towards individual and/or family goals.
Children & Youth may be given support to:
- Have their perspective acknowledged, feelings validated and be given the opportunity to self reflect.
- Report instances of harm/ self harm/bullying
- Increase their social/emotional competence
- Understand positive socialisation
- Receive information in relation to other agencies that may be able to assist.
Parents/Carers may be given support to:
- Increase parental knowledge
- Improve the parent -child/youth relationship
- Increase parenting confidence
- Increase perceptiveness and responsiveness to child/youths needs
- Develop flexibility in meeting child/youths needs
- Improve communication skills and problem solving skills
- Increase awareness of resources in the community
- Understand more about child/youth development
- Reduce risk of harm to child/youth
- Improve positive socialisation with child/ youth
- Develop boundaries/house rules E.g., limits with TV, social media etc
- Recognise the child’s positive attributes
- Identify other sources of formal or informal support.
Current Parenting based programs offered through the centre include:
- Happy Parents, Happy Kids (Basic and Advanced) see courses.
- Parenting Teens