Our Services

Our experienced therapists provide individual, family, and group counselling sessions to explore your life and relationships.

Counselling services to support relationships, separation, co-parenting, family therapy and concerns about relationship stress, anger, conflict and antagonism, mental health & the self.

We help think about the self as men and women being psychologically shaped from context, lived experience and relational power, including trauma. We find in our experience that collaborative dialogue is supportive of stepping toward greater understanding of your life and relationships. We apply therapy as activism to seek restorative justice where possible.

We accept recommendations stated in Court Orders from the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia and/or referrals from Family Lawyers and practitioners for counselling to address co-parenting, and other post-separation concerns including family violence.

• •After 6–8 sessions counsellors can reasonably report to the court on progress; you may opt for more.
• •Therapeutic focus: Counsellors invite you into an ethical and accountable change process for your parenting hopes. We are looking to understand you and your particular story.
• •Legal focus: Counsellors take a detailed focus on legal matters to help you make sense and context of separation.
• •Letters and Reports can be requested, as required by Court Order.
• •Fees are discussed with your counsellor. Legal Aid clients accepted.
• •Private health insurance rebates are available. Medicare does not offer rebates for Family Law Counselling.

Therapy helps find ways to understand the self and navigate our lives within powerful contexts of experiences, including trauma, and complex intersections of relationships, families, and communities. Therapists become talking-partners for reflection and understanding.

Regardless of how many people and who is in the room, everyone is welcome. Counsellors are responsible to managing space and time so that full meaning and expression of intentions can be communicated.

Our work has grown from a long legacy of counselling and family therapy responses developed in Adelaide, Australia, to violence in our communities; in the many forms it manifests and the many destructive effects it has on people's lives and communities. We continue theory and practice in restorative justice, informed by research as much as unbiased statistical evidence represents the socio-cultural forces, trends and realities in our communities.

Worries, anxieties and flat, stuck feelings can arise as a response to difficulties and stress. Our minds can take obsessive and seemingly uncontrollable paths in patterns of thinking. Conversations about the relationship with ourselves can involve those questions we may not be aware to ask. These are supported conversations for when you feel ready to have them.

Adelaide Narrative Therapy Collective supports the Australian Government's commitment to mental health care by providing accessible, high-quality counselling services that complement the broader national mental health system. Our therapists work collaboratively with GPs, psychiatrists, and other health professionals to ensure integrated, person-centred care for individuals experiencing mental health challenges.

We recognise that mental health is shaped by the social, relational, and cultural contexts of people's lives. Our narrative, dialogical and relational approaches offer a meaningful complement to clinical mental health services — attending to the stories, relationships, and meanings that underpin wellbeing and recovery. We also have experience in understanding Open Dialogue informed approaches (from Finland) for Family Therapy in psychiatric responses to mental strife.

Adelaide Narrative accepts clients where violence has been alleged in family and couple separation matters. Counselling invites clients to take full personal responsibility for their actions and the effects of their actions on the child/ren and other parent. Invitational accountability helps clients consider ways in which they would like to improve all relationships in their lives.

Counselling sessions can accompany any legal process: conflict, separation, divorce, mediation, financial and property mediation, parenting, and children's wellbeing. We seek to apply restorative justice principles where possible.

We do consult with the Independent Children's Lawyers and we will request the legal documentation to support the counselling and subsequent report process.

We have continued the work of Alan Jenkins, Rob Hall, Terry Callahan and colleagues at NADA in Adelaide's West, as well as Narrative and Just Therapy in providing expert witness court reports to the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia. Our experience in this work comes from decades of individual, family and men's group counselling. We accept all cases where allegations become sticking points, including those difficult cases referred to the Evatt List and the Lighthouse pathway.

We understand that parents can be characterised and judged along gender lines, and therefore have bias and assumptions attached to them. We take the principle of Fairness in restorative justice practices to hear each man and each woman's story, and identify their hopes and aspirations for themselves and their children within action each one is taking toward safety and respectful coparenting. We strive to communicate this to the Family Court.