Relationship and Family Counselling
Areas of Specialisation
Our marriage and family therapy cover these areas:
- Adolescents
- Affairs and betrayal - discovery and rebuilding trust
- Anger management
- Break ups, separation and divorce
- Building better relationships
- Child protection
- Commitment issues
- Communication issues
- Conflict resolution
- Couple counselling
- Dating
- Decision making and negotiation
- Domestic violence (perpetrators and victims)
- Emotional abuse
- Emotional and sexual intimacy
- Extended family and boundaries
- Family mediation and parenting plans
- Family roles, power and control issues
- Family therapy involving adult children
- Family therapy involving children and adolescents
- Family violence and abuse
- Individual counselling for children or adolescents
- Marriage counselling
- Parenting issues
- Premarital counselling and marriage preparation
- Relationship counselling
- Sex addictions
- Sexual issues
- Step family and extended family conflict
- Step family parenting issues
- Trust issues
Marriage and Relationship Counselling
Marriage counselling is very different from individual counselling. In our experience, couples counselling is highly effective and life changing.
A well qualified and objective couples counsellor will help you to:
- unpack and work through the complexities of your struggles in a safe and constructive way
- understand, manage and express your deeper feelings
- understand your partner
- restructure your interactions so they are healthy and authentic
- deal with your own individual issues
- gain perspective and find new insights
- find hope or resolution
As part of couples counselling, sometimes one or both partners may undertake their own individual therapy.
We also offer premarital counselling, which is a preparation for marriage focused on:
- education
- communication
- better understanding your partner and yourself
- better understanding differences in expectations and background
Who provides Relationship Counselling?
We specialise in relationship counselling (or marriage counselling). You have a choice from a range of specialist couples counsellors. All our relationship counsellors listed below, have:
- extensive specialised or postgraduate training
- experienced supervisors in these areas
Counsellors are listed below, in order of first name. Click on their name for a full profile.
David Bridges
- Masters degree in Counselling
- 16 years experience
Gillian Evans
- Bachelor degree in Counselling
- 20 years experience, 2 years with couples counselling
Jenny FitzGerald
- Voc Grad Dip Relationship Counselling, Grad Dip EFT
- 4 years experience
Kerrie Whitaker
- Masters degree in Counselling, Voc Grad Dip Relationship Counselling
- 1 years experience
Magdalena Liem
- Masters degree in Counselling (Hon)
- 16 years experience
William Fernandes
- Masters degree in Counselling
- 9 years experience
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Enquiries: 9683 1444
Ring us and we will recommend the best counsellor qualified and experienced for your situation.
Bridges Counselling is a team of ten counsellors based in North Parramatta, specialising in:
We are open weekday evenings and all Saturday. Our
5-room centre is midway between Parramatta and Carlingford, close to Baulkham Hills and Ermington. See Location page.
Family Therapy
We specialise in family therapy (or family counselling).
Family therapy involves working with groups of family members, either with or without a child or adolescent in the counselling room. The focus will be on understanding the family dynamics, defining the underlying issues, and negotiating agreement on restructuring the family dynamics.
Family therapy may involve the following:
- Counselling parents
- Counselling children or adolescents individually
- Family therapy involving children and/or adolescents
- Family therapy involving adult children
- Family mediation - parenting plans
- Step family parenting issues
Who provides Family Therapy?
All our family therapists listed below, have:
- extensive specialised or postgraduate training
- experienced supervisors in these areas
Our most experienced family therapists are listed below, in order of first name. Click on their name for a full profile.
Elise Olivier
- MAPS - 19 years experience
Faye Hansen
- MAPS - 25 years experience
Magdalena Liem
- Masters degree in Counselling (Hon)
- 16 years experience
Rochelle Dawson
- Masters degree in Counselling
- 9 years experience
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