Welcome! My name is Helen, and I am a child and family psychotherapist, registered play therapist & supervisor, and accredited mental health social worker. I am also the Founder and CEO of The Family Systems Hub.
My life’s purpose is to support the healing, growth, and transformation of children, parents, and families affected by childhood and intergenerational trauma. I guide children (2-1o years old) in embracing their wholeness, helping them to love and express all parts of themselves and build emotional resilience so they have every chance of thriving. My work also involves supporting parents who are navigating relationship struggles, family dynamics and relationship to themselves to parent from a place of self compassion, inner strength, vitality and gratitude.
In addition to my therapeutic work, I run parent group programs on strengthening and enhancing parent child relationships as well as teach child and family professionals across Australia in Filial Family Therapy and Integrated Play Therapy principles. These trainings are informed by child development, play therapy, family systems, attachment theory, neuroscience, and mindfulness. I also offer both group and individual supervision online.
I have a family practice in Inverloch, South Gippsland and Thornbury, Melbourne. If you’d like to learn more about other wonderful offerings such as workshops, courses or parent programs that we provide in person and online, please visit our service, The Family Systems Hub at www.thefamilysystemshub.com
Play Therapy
Play Therapy provides a safe psychological distance from a child’s problems and allows expression of thoughts and feelings appropriate to their development.
By confronting problems in the therapeutic play therapy setting, children find healthier solutions.
Filial Family Therapy
Filial Therapy is a well established evidence – based therapeutic method that combines non-directive play therapy and family therapy to strengthen relationships, create healthy attachments and prevent family disruption. It can be a more direct and faster way of addressing challenging child-parent dynamics and associated behavioural and emotional difficulties.
Parent Psychotherapy & Coaching
Parent psychotherapy and coaching is for any parent who feels burnt out, stuck, or at a loss in their parent-child relationship and wants to do the inner work to create profound shifts perspective shifts, healing inner child wounds, and understanding and addressing repeated and no longer serving patterns and triggers.
