Specialist areas

We offer a range of services to practitioners, managers and service leaders to support them working more systemically within their teams and organisations, and to help them engage more effectively with families.

Our consultants have expertise in a wide variety of practice approaches, from client-centred family involvement to trauma-informed care, working with same-sex parented families and single session therapy.

Read about our expertise and the projects we have delivered in these areas .

Families where a Parent has a Mental Illness (FaPMI)

Families where a Parent has a Mental Illness (FaPMI)

This program aims to improve outcomes for clients who are parents, their children and their families by reducing the impact of parental mental illness on all family members.

Family inclusion in mental health and related areas

Family inclusion in mental health and related areas

We develop family practice resources, training, family models and implementation methods to support mental health, alcohol and drug and related services to deliver family inclusive practices.

Family violence

Family violence

We work with organisations in training and implementing practice approaches to support families in the aftermath of family violence.

Single Session Thinking

Single Session Thinking

Single Session Thinking is a process that assists workers to make the most of the first, and what may be the only, session for clients.

Supervision

Supervision

We work together with services to facilitate and implement effective reflective practice and supervision processes.

Trauma informed relational practice

Trauma informed relational practice

We offer guidelines for applying a trauma informed family sensitive lens in dealing with trauma in family work.

Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Families

Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Families

Our team offers reflective practice consultations to, and facilitate these for, workers working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families.

Working with LGBTIQ+ families

Working with LGBTIQ+ families

We offer guidelines for services offered to families where a parent is same-sex attracted or gender diverse.

No Bullshit Therapy

No Bullshit Therapy

No Bullshit Therapy has been developed to engage clients who are cynical, suspicious or unsure of what to expect from counselling and reluctant to seek counselling.