Child / Adolescent Counselling
We help your child / adolescent manage challenging situations, build self-esteem, and acquire coping skills. We assist your child deal with anxious feelings, anger, family conflicts, friendships and bullying, loss and grief, suicidal thoughts, self-harm and school-related issues. We also work with you and help you understand your child/adolescent’s needs.
Find out how we can help you – Call us at 03 9018 2386
Child / Adolescent Counselling and Therapy
At Meaningful Health, we offer child/adolescent counselling services, with both individual therapy and family therapy for young people.
We also work with you to help you tune into your child/adolescent’s needs, increase confidence in your parenting skills, and create fresh opportunities to improve communication and build positive family relationships.
We provide counselling and therapy for a wide range of psychological, emotional or behavioural issues in a safe, non-judgmental, facilitated space. These issues may include:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Problems at school
- Bullying
- Difficulty forming friends
- Self-esteem and body image issues
- Eating disorders
- Behavioural issues
- Impulse control
- Grief and loss
- Child abuse and neglect
- Trauma
- Learning disorders
- Autism
- ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder)
- Issues with life transitions
- Parents separating or divorcing
- Family relationship issues
We can help your child or adolescent explore their emotions and work through a whole spectrum of issues stemming from anxiety in a safe, ethical and non-judgmental manner. These include:
- Stress
- Social anxiety
- School anxiety
- Avoidant behaviours
- Adjustment difficulties
- Difficulties with school transitions
- Self-esteem issues
- Panic attacks
- Phobias
- Night time fears and anxiety
- Performance anxiety
- Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Perfectionism
Our counsellors and therapists are highly experienced and trained professionals who strive for empathy, genuineness, respect and a positive working alliance during child counselling and therapy appointments. You can rest assured that your child will or adolescent will get the opportunity to explore their emotions and find resolution to their problems by achieving healthy solutions for their conflicts and issues.
Call us at 03 9018 2386
Given the current COVID-19 situation, we are providing face-to-face and video/phone consultations as needed. We have arrangements in place to maintain social distancing and cleaning standards during COVID-19.