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Home>Council Services>Family & Children>Family Counselling
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| Family Counselling is for all families to improve well being and communication between family members.
The family support program is free.
Family Life
All families go through different stages:
• New Parents
• Parenting young children
• Parenting school aged children
• Parenting an adolescent
Each stage has its marvels and challenges.
Family Counselling is about identifying strengths and overcoming the effects of problems such as:
• Relationship conflict
• Parenting issues
• Children with challenging behaviour
• Grief and loss
• Adolescent issues – drug use, sexuality and
depression
• Communication breakdown
• Domestic violence : Sexual Abuse
• Drug and Alcohol issues
• Living with a disability
The Counselling service seeks to work with families to:
• Clearly identify problems and examine the
effects of problems on the family.
• Discover the family’s strengths and resources
that can assist in overcoming the problem.
The Counselling can be offered in a variety of ways:
• Sessions with individual family members
• Sessions with children or a young person
• Sessions with parents
• Family sessions
• Group programs
All families are different. The Benalla Rural City counselling service values the uniqueness of all families. The Family Counselling Service is for:
• Families with two parents
• Families with one parent
• Step families
• Foster families
• Families for children with special needs
• Families where a parent may have mental health
issues
• Families from different cultural backgrounds
• Indigenous families
• Families with same sex partners
To find out more about the counselling service or to make a referral, please contact:
Reception at Benalla Community Care Centre (03) 5761 2200
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