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Child and Family Counselling Services

Child-centered, professional, and at your own pace, our Child and Family Counselling service offers mental wellbeing support to children and adults, who may be experiencing challenges and complexities.

Our counselling service is guided by you and your family, alongside expertise by our qualified professionals. We aim to provide a safe space to discuss issues, express emotions, and build healthy and respectful relationships.

Who is it for?

Support is available for children (aged 3 to 17), young adults (aged 18 to 25), and adults of all ages.

We also provide counselling and joint sessions for families or couples who are experiencing challenges and complexities in their home life.

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Children and Young People

Our service provides a safe and age appropriate space for children and young people to express their thoughts and feelings.

Support may focus on emotional wellbeing, managing worries or low mood, developing coping and emotional regulation skills, building confidence, and strengthening positive relationships with parents, carers, and others in their lives.

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Parents and Carers

We support parents and carers to feel more confident and supported in meeting their children’s needs. This includes help with parenting stress, understanding children’s development and behaviour, strengthening emotional connection, and creating safe, predictable, and nurturing home environments.

Our service also specialises in providing tailored support for young parents.

Areas we can focus on including balancing parenting alongside education, employment, housing, or relationship changes. Counselling with young parents focuses on building confidence, strengthening attachment, and supporting positive parent-child relationships.

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Family Counselling

Family counselling helps families strengthen communication, understanding, and connection. Sessions support families to navigate relationship challenges, differing parenting approaches, and times of stress or transition, while keeping children’s needs, voices, and experiences at the centre of the work.

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Couples Counselling

Couples counselling focuses on strengthening communication, trust, and emotional connection, navigating life transitions, and building healthy and supportive relationship patterns.

For couples who are parents or carers, counselling also supports stronger teamwork in parenting roles to help create a stable, safe, and supportive environment for children.

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How it works

Make an enquiry by either submitting the below contact form or calling our team on 13 18 19 (open 9am to 5:30pm Monday to Fridays).

Our Child and Family Counselling team will be in touch with our enquiry over the next few business days. You will then organise your first appointment, either in-person at one of our sites, or via Telecare online.

If it’s a child that is attending, we will require consent of a parent and involve an initial session with the parents/carers and child.

In your appointment, you and your counsellor will discuss and arrange what the next steps would look like for you.

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Cost

Individual sessions are $80 per session. For couples, $120 per session. For children (aged 3 to 17) $10 per session. For families, $120 per session and additional $10 per child.

CatholicCare Sydney’s Child and Family Counselling service is funded by the Australian Government Department of Social Services. Fees are charged on a sliding scale based on household income to help ensure counselling remains affordable and accessible.

If you are experiencing financial hardship, please let us know so we can discuss available options.

Location

You can either attend in-person at our Bankstown, Sydney CBD, Lewisham or Liverpool office, or via Telecare online.

Lara (aged 14) was experiencing anxious thoughts and school-related stress, leading her to not be attending school and having issues with her friends. Her mum sought support by getting in touch with CatholicCare Sydney, who directed her to their Child and Family Counselling service. After meeting in-person with one of the counsellors, Lara and her mum felt comfortable and ready to proceed with the service, with Lara attending her first session online. Her counsellor ensured each session was a safe space for Lara to express how she was feeling and discuss issues to work through together. The counsellor provided Lara with different, age-appropriate coping strategies and ways to manage her anxiety and lower her stress levels. Lara’s counsellor made sure that each suggested coping exercise and resource was reflective of her strengths and what she’s passionate about. It’s been 8 months since Lara first session — she has since returned back to school and let us know she’s been experiencing less conflict with her peers. Lara feels she is able to manage her anxious thoughts by using the strategies taught to her.

Please note that the client’s name has been changed to protect their identity.

Contact Us

To contact CatholicCare Sydney, call our Client Care Team (8:30am - 5:30pm Mon-Fri) on 13 18 19 or complete the form below. CatholicCare is closed on NSW Public Holidays.

In emergencies please call 000 or Lifeline on 13 11 14.

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