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Counselling during Pregnancy & Transition to Parenthood

 

Are you feeling anxious, depressed or overwhelmed, dealing with past hurts, abuse or trauma resurfacing, facing challenges or changes to your relationships, struggling to cope, needing to make difficult decisions about your pregnancy, doubting your ability to parent or not bonding with your baby?

 

Make an appointment to invest in improving your emotional & mental wellbeing to be able to approach this special time of transition & change, in a more calm & self-assured manner.

Counselling & Social Work Services

Lisa Stark is an accredited Social Worker with 17+ years clinical & case management experience providing counselling, support, advocacy & education across a range of issues including:

 

Pregnancy

  • Calmbirth antenatal education (click here for more info)

  • Adoption

  • Antenatal support

  • IVF treatment impact on self

  • Birth Plans & Strategies for pain management during labour

  • Previous pregnancy loss 

  • Previous traumatic birth experience

  • Support around receiving diagnosis of not compatible for life/significant health complications for foetus

  • Support with pregnancy decision making

  • Conscious parenting during pregnancy

 

Parenting

  • Transition to parenthood/adjustment

  • Bonding & attachment

  • Conscious Parenting & positive parenting skills

  • Parenting challenges

  • Behaviour management

  • Family relationship issues

  • Child protection

 

Children & Teens

  • Anxiety (including separation anxiety & social anxiety)

  • Sensory processing difficulties

  • Challenging behaviour

  • Support through separation & divorce

  • Bullying

  • Self harm

  • Coping with overwhelm & transitions

  • Resilience building

(also see below)

 

Specific Issues & General Emotional & Mental Wellbeing

  • Depression, postnatal depression & mood disorders

  • Anxiety & phobias

  • Emotional & mental wellbeing

  • Grief and loss

  • Stress management

  • Abuse and trauma

  • Personal conflicts and challenges

  • Relationship changes & challenges

  • Domestic/family violence

  • Building & maintaining appropriate relationships

  • Separation, divorce & co-parenting

  • Conflict resolution & Mediation

  • Self-esteem, self-confidence, self-development & motivational coaching

  • Body image

  • Support around diagnosis of allergies, significant food intolerances & severe eczema

  • Aggression and anger management

  • Assertiveness training

  • Life transition & adjustment

  • Social skills

  • Transferable life skills

  • Sleeping disorders

  • Decision making & problem solving

  • Mindfulness for children & adults

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Medicare rebates are available during pregnancy & the 1st year after a pregnancy (including miscarriage & stillbirth) when you have a referral from your GP.

Bulk billing may also be available for this service.

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Some private health funds may cover consultation fees.

Referral:

You can self refer or be referred to our services by your GP, obstetrician, midwife, child health nurse, paediatrician, psychiatrist, or other medical/professional/allied health worker.

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Appointments:

Therapeutic interventions are available via face to face appointments at:

Compassion Services

7/9 Sir John Overall Drive 
Helensvale QLD

To Make an appointment online ~ click here

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Upper Coomera Community Centre 

90 Reserve Road (parking & entry off Abraham Road) 
Upper Coomera. QLD

To Make an appointment online ~ click here

 

or Phone 0414 652 621

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Or appointments can be arranged via:

  • Phone

  • Skype or FaceTime 

all of which are available outside of the listed clinic hours on request.

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PLEASE NOTE: At least 24 hours notice is required if you’d like to cancel/reschedule your appointment. This allows people on our waitlist the opportunity to have an earlier appointment. Please provide as much notice as possible to avoid being charged a fee.

For more information please:

Lisa is a registered with Medicare Australia. Provider No: 5144892J

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Lisa is proudly a member of:

  • Australia Association of Social Workers

  • Calmbirth® Australia

 

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Lisa adheres to the AASW ethics and code.

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