Coastal Children's Contact Services

21/09/2025

Child & Family Counselling, Family Reunification

01/12/2023

Integrative Counselling for Children and Adults

20/01/2022

Northern Rivers Counselling in an emotionally safe therapeutic environment that encourages communication, emotional regulation, attachment, self-expression and problem resolution for children and families.

19/01/2022

Counselling | Sandplay | Animal Assisted Therapy

19/01/2022

Assisting children to develop attachment, confidence, self-esteem & resilience

31/10/2020

Taking bookings for the Christmas Holiday's

17/05/2020

Childhood Trauma

It was not until the 1990s that the the US government did its first major study on the impact of trauma.

We are still operating under the paradigm that trauma is “big” events while not understanding that it isn’t the event at all. It’s how the event is processed. As much as we’d love to have a “scale” of trauma— a simple measure, it’s this belief that causes so much shame + suffering.

Trauma is not just severe neglect + abuse. At its core trauma is just a word to describe any experience where the emotional response was too “big” to process. If these events happened chronically (usually they do) we develop coping mechanisms + behaviors to survive.

As “mental illness” continues to rise, so will our awareness that maybe we aren’t mentally ill after all. Maybe we have having normal reactions to trauma.

Trauma is the experience of not been seen, heard, and authentically expressed. It’s the disconnect from self that inevitably becomes disconnect from everyone around us. We then operate in survival mode, desperately seeking the next thing to distract us from our pain.

Just as trauma creates a disconnect from our core self, it also can be the path to finding our way home. Trauma can lead us to awakening, to reclaiming ourselves, + to finding purpose.

It’s what unites us in our human experience, + can gently push us to access our healing