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Coastal Children's Contact Services Child & Family Counselling, Supervised Contact & Family Reunification

21/09/2025

Child & Family Counselling, Family Reunification

01/12/2023

Integrative Counselling for Children and Adults

Northern Rivers Counselling in an emotionally safe therapeutic environment that encourages communication, emotional regu...
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.

Counselling | Sandplay | Animal Assisted Therapy
19/01/2022

Counselling | Sandplay | Animal Assisted Therapy

Assisting children to develop attachment, confidence, self-esteem & resilience
19/01/2022

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

Taking bookings for the Christmas Holiday's
31/10/2020

Taking bookings for the Christmas Holiday's

Childhood Trauma
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

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Counselling for Children

Coastal Children’s Contact Services offers Specialist Counselling in Ballina for Children & Adults who have experienced Trauma. Other services include:- Supervised Contact (outreach and Ballina centre based), Interactive Supervised Contact, Handover and Reports. Lisa also provides strategies & tools to separated or divorcing families to assist them to navigate their situation. Lisa’s gentle, caring and non-judgmental approach creates a safe and supportive counselling space for children & adults to work through issues. Lisa uses Sandplay Therapy and Counselling to help children & adults resolve and explores issues such as trauma, family separation, anxiety, behavioural problems, grief & loss and PTSD. It allows them to express their feelings and emotions without the need to verbalise them. Children & Adults use creativity to express feelings, release anti-anxiety chemicals in the brain. These chemicals are opioids and oxytocins which create the feeling of being safe. They reduce that of anger and aggression. Children & Adults thus begin to feel calm, and psychologically safe. They progressively gain a deep sense of well-being, resulting in their immune system becoming stronger. Furthermore, they progressively sense that there is meaning in life. Learning capacity too increases.

Lisa is a qualified Counsellor and Sandplay Therapist located in the Northern Rivers of NSW. She is an integrative therapist and uses different approaches according to her client’s needs. These include solution focused, cognitive behavioural therapy, sandplay therapy, expressive therapies and symbol work. These counselling methods support emotional healing of children & adults. A sandplay therapist undergoes many years of training and supervision. To qualify, they must do their own Sandplay therapy and training and supervision is ongoing.

What is Sandplay Therapy?

Sandplay is a non-directive play therapy which is child-centred, evidence based practise.