Young Hearts Child Counselling Service

What is Young Hearts?

Young Hearts' offer counselling sessions to children and young people up to (and including) 18 years of age. Sessions take place in a neutral and secure space to enable children to explore their feelings. We address behaviour which may be the result of being exposed to violence or experiencing abuse.

Sessions aim to be positive, supportive and informative. There are no expectations for participants to tell their story. We encourage participants to develop a strong sense of self and provide an avenue to release emotions in a safe and protected environment.

Our rooms are equipped with toys, art and craft materials, storybooks and other essentials to enable us to use different styles of therapy including play, narrative, art and behavioural therapy.

Young Hearts is free of charge and takes place over six to eight weeks.

Who can Young Hearts help?

Young Hearts is for children and young people up to and including 18 years old.

• Exposed to family and domestic violence (even if they are in another room when the violence occurs)
• Experienced physical or verbal violence
• Experienced emotional abuse and neglect
• Exposed to or experienced some or all of the above and are beginning to show signs of imitating violent or submissive behaviour

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Acknowledgements 

Young Hearts is kindly supported by Austal and the Channel 7 Telethon Trust.