Services

Content Counselling can provide their services:

face to face in our consulting room
online via Zoom
telephone
home visits within Maitland LGA (please contact as extra fees may apply)

Individual Counselling

Individual counselling is a service provided by mental health professionals to help individuals address and overcome various personal challenges and mental health issues. It typically involves one-on-one sessions where you can discuss your concerns, thoughts, and emotions in a safe and confidential environment. I offer person-centred counselling, supporting you in a process of growth and self-discovery and during the sessions, I promote behavioural transformation by encouraging a positive outlook and the embracing of new attitudes and reactions. From my experience counselling needs to be an individual experience for everyone not a universal approach. I have the strategies and professional experience to help you find contentment.

Sessions are 50 minutes.

Fee: $90.00

If you have any specific questions or would like more information about individual counselling services, please contact me on
0493 751 604 or Email: [email protected]

50 minute sessions from $90

Couples/Relationship Counselling

Couples / Relationship counselling is a form of therapy designed to help partners improve their relationship by addressing communication issues, resolving conflicts, and rebuilding trust. Through guided discussions with a trained counsellor, couples gain insights into their behaviours and emotions, learn effective communication techniques, and develop strategies to strengthen their connection. Therapy provides a safe space for partners to express their feelings, work through challenges, and enhance their understanding of each other. Whether dealing with specific problems or seeking to improve overall relationship satisfaction, couples therapy promotes growth and deeper intimacy, helping partners build a healthier, more resilient relationship.
Angela has completed Level 1 Training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy and uses Gottman Method Couples Therapy in her work.

Sessions are 50 minutes.

Fee: $120

If you have any specific questions or would like more information about couples/relationship counselling services, please contact me on
0493 751 604 or Email: [email protected]

50 minute sessions from $120

Family/Relationship Counselling

Relationship and family counselling are forms of therapy aimed at improving dynamics within relationships and families. Family counselling involves working with families to address issues affecting the entire family unit, such as communication breakdowns, behavioural problems, or life transitions. It aims to improve family interactions, promote understanding, and develop strategies for resolving conflicts. Through therapy, families can strengthen their bonds, address dysfunctional patterns, and support each other more effectively.
Relationship and family counselling provides a safe space for open dialogue and personal growth, guided by a trained counsellor who facilitates productive discussions and helps identify underlying issues. Whether addressing specific problems or seeking to enhance overall relational health, these therapies offer valuable tools for creating healthier, more supportive relationships within the family.
$120 for two participants, $150 for more than two participants.

Sessions are 50 minutes.

Fee: $120 for two participants, $150 for more than 2 participants.

If you have any specific questions or would like more information about family/relationship counselling services, please contact me on
0493 751 604 or Email: [email protected]

50 minute sessions from $120

Play Therapy

Child-centred play therapy and Interplay therapy (attachment based). Play therapy is a therapeutic approach primarily used with children to help them express their thoughts, emotions, and experiences through play. It allows children to communicate and explore their feelings in a safe and supportive environment. The play therapy offered by Content Counselling supports the child and their parent / carer to heal past experiences within a secure attachment relationship, reorganising their nervous system and rewriting their early attachment relationship.
During play therapy sessions, children and their parents / carer are provided with various toys, games, and art materials that allow them to engage in different forms of play. The therapist observes and interacts with the child and parent, using play as a means of understanding their experiences and facilitating emotional healing and growth. Through play, children can work through trauma, improve their social skills, develop problem-solving abilities, and enhance their self-esteem.

Sessions are 50 minutes. (A 50 minute session with parent / carer before play therapy begins is preferred).

Fee: $110

If you have any specific questions or would like more information about play therapy services, please contact me on
0493 751 604 or Email: [email protected]

50 minute sessions from $110

Parenting Programs

Sometimes we just need a little extra support as a parent. Parenting programs can and do help. These programs offer a solid underpinning to support you to build on the relationship that you have with your child. Angela is able to run parenting programs one on one or in a group format (dependant on numbers). Please contact Angela for a price regarding parenting programs. Angela can facilitate the following parenting programs:

Please contact for fees

Tuning in to Kids® is an evidence-based emotion-focused parenting program. Parents and carers will learn the skills of emotion coaching – a way of responding to emotions that can help children understand, regulate and work with them so they can manage their behaviour and respond in a socially appropriate way. In particular, the program teaches parents to notice children’s emotions, especially before they have become overwhelming for the child. Parents and carers learn how to support their children to reflect upon or name the emotions being experienced and if necessary, work through it.

Dads Tuning in to Kids™ (DTIK) is a further evidence-based adaptation of the original Tuning in to Kids® (TIK) parenting program. The program focuses on the father-child emotional connection. It teaches fathers the skills in emotion coaching that are taught in Tuning in to Kids^®, but provides additional content particularly relevant to fathers, and suggests modifications to some program activities and processes.

The Circle of Security® Parenting™ program is based on decades of research about how secure parent-child relationships can be supported and strengthened. Parents and carers will learn to understand their child’s emotional world by reading emotional needs, support their child to successfully manage emotions, enhance the development of their child’s self-esteem, and respect the desire for the child to be secure.

The 1-2-3 Magic® & Emotion Coaching program supports parents and carers to develop strategies to promote positive behaviour in their children aged 2 to 12 years. The program focuses on parents and carers strengthening their relationship with their child and providing consistent responses that works with a child’s developing brain.

The Black Box Parenting group program is a non-blaming parenting program, particularly for parents and carers who have experienced domestic and family violence. The group focuses on how a parent can both support the healing of their children while managing their own recovery. It is primarily for biological parents and kinship carers but foster carers with their own history of family violence may also find it helpful. The program combines five fortnightly group or individual sessions with individual phone calls and play coaching in the alternate weeks.

Keeping Kids in Mind is a program for separated parents who want to develop understanding and strategies to support their children following parental separation. The program recognises that parents love their children and want the best for them but that parenting can also be much tougher after separation. The program supports parents to see the separation through their children’s eyes and covers the following topics:

• Loss and grief after separation

• The hidden world of children

• Rebuilding resilience

• Bridging the gap

• Looking back and moving forward.

The Seasons for Growth Parent Program provides an opportunity for parents to better understand the experience of death, separation and divorce from a child’s perspective. The program draws on evidence about what children experience and need to help them transition well through family change. The Seasons for Growth Parent Program has two separate components, supporting your child following separation/divorce and supporting your child following the death of someone they love. The distinctive child-centred approach provides emotional space and a non-judgemental environment for parents to share, discuss and learn ideas and strategies to support their children.

Childrens Programs

Sometimes our children have emotional support needs that could improve with some extra guidance. In small groups children learn new skills and thought processes to better manage stressful times. Content Counselling employs child-friendly activities so children can feel safe and engaged and may learn how to approach their circumstances with improved self-regulation strategies.

Seasons for Growth® Children and Young People’s Program is a peer-support, companion-led psychoeducational group for children 6 to 18 years who have experienced family loss or change. Age-appropriate activities such as drawing, music, stories and journaling illustrate the concept of the four ‘seasons’ of grief and loss. Children will learn to understand their feelings as they develop skills to cope and restore their self-confidence. The program is underpinned by evidence about resilience, emotional competence and identity

Please contact for fees

Women's Programs

The Shark Cage® is an evidence-based program for groups or individual women that explores the common types of abuse that women experience and how this abuse related to violations in human rights. It is relevant for women who have experienced more than one instance of abuse in their lives and may have begun to internalise social messages of victim blaming against girls and women. Women learn how to recognise their feelings, develop skills in assertive communication and heal from the impacts and trauma of their experiences.