We provide specialist mental health care, comprehensive assessment, and therapeutic support for children, adolescents, and families.
Services
Comprehensive Psychiatric Assessment
Provides a thoughtful understanding of a young person’s emotional, behavioural, developmental, and relational needs to help guide meaningful support and care.
Neurodevelopmental Assessment
Assessment and diagnosis of ADHD, autism, and other neurodevelopmental presentations.
Cognitive & Learning Assessments
Comprehensive intellectual and educational assessments to better understand learning, cognitive strengths/challenges, and support needs.
Play Based Assessment and Therapy
Gentle, child-led assessment and therapy that uses play to understand a child's experiences, strengths, and support needs while fostering connection, confidence, and growth.
Parent Support and Family Therapy
Working alongside parents and the whole family to build confidence, strengthen communication, deepen understanding, and develop practical strategies that support healthier relationships and help children and young people thrive.
Parent-Child Therapy
Supporting parents and children to better understand one another, strengthen their relationship, and build the skills needed to navigate emotions, behaviour, and everyday challenges together.
Child & Family Services Support
Supporting children, families, carers, and professionals involved with child protection and family services organisations through assessment, consultation, advocacy, and therapeutic care.
Recommended Programs
Tuning into Kids- Tuning in to Kids® is a suite of parenting programs that focus on the emotional connection between parents/carers and their children, from pre-schoolers to teens. The evidence-based programs have proven success in improving parenting, parent-child relationships and children’s emotional competence and behaviour. Both Dan and Holly have completed the Tuning into Kids Facilitator Training.
Online Program: https://tuningintokids.org.au/parents/subscribe-to-tikol/
Confident Parent Group at Relational Minds - A clinician-guided 4-week parent program to help you understand your child’s behaviour, support regulation, and respond with more calm and confidence.
Relational Minds is a wonderful child & family mental health service with clinics in Sunbury, Bendigo & Mildura. Relational Minds is a multidisciplinary service that aims to create a supportive space for parents who want calmer, more connected ways to respond when family life feels hard.
Dr Dan provides ongoing psychiatric care to clients at Relational Minds as well.
Helpful Resources & Information
A guide to mental health problems and support available
Children and Parents with Mental Illness
Resources and information to children, parents, family and friends and health professionals on how to respond to the needs of parents with mental illness
Assisting young people and families to find the right help for problems affecting wellbeing
Alfred Infant Child Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing Service
Public mental health service for infants to young adults.
Mental health information and phone counselling
eheadspace provides a confidential online and telephone support service seven days a week
LGBTIQA+ information and resources
Multicultural Mental Health Information - available in multiple languages
An organisation helping all Australians affected by mental illness with an emphasis on information and lived experience support
Provides free, reliable, up-to-date information to help your family grow and thrive together
A website for getting young people through tough times with resources for young people and parents
Representing family and friends supporting people living with mental health issues, Tandem provides information, advocacy, research and community awareness about caring for people experiencing mental ill-health.
Providing referral and information support to families including child and family services and family violence support. P: 1800 319 353
The Young Carers Network (YCN) is a nationally coordinated online resource to raise young carer awareness, provide information, and direct young carers to appropriate pathways for support.
Bunurong Aboriginal Health Service
Bunurong Aboriginal Health Service offers a wide range of Health programs to help meet the needs of the local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
13YARN (13 92 176): 24/7 confidential crisis support run by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Lifeline supporters.
Lives in the Balance
Lives in the Balance provides practical resources and training in Dr Ross Greene’s Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS) approach, helping parents, educators and professionals understand challenging behaviour as a sign of lagging skills and work collaboratively with children to solve the problems underlying it.
https://livesinthebalance.org/