Rise and Shine Counselling & Play Therapy

21/11/2025

Available now special summer rate for ️individual supervision throughtout this summer
🔶️ $80 per session between 1/11/25
to 28/2/26 for private paying, and
$120 for agency funded.
(From mid December '25 to mid
February '26 zoom or phone sessions
only).

️Once-off and irregular sessions accepted.

F2F, zoom, or phone sessions

After-hours appointments with surcharge.

Diana is an accredited mental health social worker registered with AASW. She has over 13 years of counselling experience mostly within the domestic violence and homelessness sector, with children and adults. In those years she outreached to schools, and has also run multiple group work programs. For the past 6 years she has worked as generalist counsellor, EAP contractor, play therapist and supervisor in her private practice.

KEY BENEFITS OF INDIVIDUAL SUPERVISION

🔸️An opportunity to be heard and guided
🔸️An opportunity to explore, identify, and
address countertransference and how it
may impact the client
🔸️Assistance with planning and prioritising
workloads
🔸️Opportumity to deeply reflect on practice
🔸️Understand macro and practice theories
🔸️Address ethical dilemmas
🔸️Strengthen client relationships
🔸️Faithfulness to professional boundaries
🔸️Navigate workplace stress and emotional
demands
🔸️Formulate training plans and
connecting with new training courses
🔸️️ .... and boosts confidence

️Enquiries welcome.

Please call for a free, no obligation chat to see if this support will be the right fit for you.
🔸️ Please quote "summer supervision"
Diana's bio leaflet is available upon request.

Please ring 0422 470 402 AEST
or email
riseandshinecounselling1@gmail.com

21/11/2025

Rise and Shine Counselling and Play Therapy
Supporting Adults Impacted by Domestic Violence

Have you or someone you care about been affected by domestic violence or family violence? You don’t have to face the healing journey alone.
At Rise and Shine Counselling and Play Therapy, we provide professional, safe, confidential, and compassionate therapeutic support tailored to help adults navigate the complex emotional aftermath of abuse.

What We Offer:
⭐Accredited Mental Health Social Worker
with over 13 years of DV and trauma-
Informed counselling experience
⭐A safe, non-judgmental space to heal
⭐Tools to rebuild confidence, safety,
self-worth and to decrease stress and
anxiety
⭐Flexible sessions to suit your needs -
In-person, online, and after-hours
( AH appoints inc surcharge )
⭐ mental health care plans accepted
⭐ agency and self referrals accepted
⭐ you may be eligible for funded sessions
with us, through Orange Door
https://www.orangedoor.vic.gov.au/contact-us

Every step forward matters. We’re here to walk with you. Reach out today to take the first step toward healing and empowerment.

You are not alone. You are worthy of healing. Let’s rise and shine together.

Please call 0422 470 402
Or email riseandshinecounselling1@gmail.com

20/11/2025

It can be anxiety-provoking deciding to start counselling, and equally as nerve-racking is deciding on who to see.
Allowing "a little distance" through telehealth can help minimise these feelings.
We also provide a 15-minute phone chat to answer questions and ease any concerns. It's free, confidential and non obligatory. Our chat will discover if this therapeutic support is the right fit for your needs. This is a warm, friendly, kind way to "warm up" with Diana.
Diana is our senior counsellor; qualified as an accredited mental health social worker with over 13 years counselling experience.

Phone and zoom sessions are extremely convenient, and very common nowadays.

10 Medicare subsidised sessions can be accessed for people who request their GP for a mental health care plan.

Additional sessions can be partially rebated for people who have extras through private health insurance with AHM, BUPA, GMHBA, HCF, LaTrobe Health, Medibank, Teachers Health Insurance.

20/11/2025

https://www.facebook.com/share/19MpVWauRp/

Now Free In Australia

19/11/2025

👑🌲🎶🔔🎁🎄🎄🔔🎄🎶🎁👑🎄🎁🎶🎄

Ho Ho Ho or No No No
Are Images of crying kids on Santa's lap
hilarious? or distressing?

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'Tis the season when parents, grandparents, doting aunties and uncles are planning their all-important-once-a-year magical "happy Santa snaps" as loving momentos and gifts.

Let's please pause, take a breath, and think ...

Does my child want this? Will my child enjoy this? Will this experience feel exciting and wondrous for my child? Will my child cherish the photo in years to come?

Here's some articles which help to explain the counter productive (and long term psychological) impacts of forcing scared, distressed, crying children (who's already experiencing sensory overload from the crowds, bright lights, loud music etc) to sit on a stranger's lap in an itchy suit whilst their parent/primary carer stands idly by ... not helping, possibly laughing? possibly scolding?possibly shaming them?

https://www.todaysparent.com/family/parenting/what-i-learned-after-forcing-my-baby-to-sit-on-santas-lap/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6490685/Expert-explains-putting-crying-child-Santas-lap-photo-never-okay.html

https://www.kidspot.com.au/parenting/primary-school/forcing-your-kid-to-sit-on-santas-lap-is-downright-dangerous/news-story/40026ab2d68347c592eda55cd6418b03

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/should-crying-children-sit-on-santas-lap-for-photos-some-parents-say-no/2018/12/22/69be1a0e-02d1-11e9-b5df-5d3874f1ac36_story.html

19/11/2025

Most of us are somewhat familiar with Fight Flight Freeze responses. What about fawn?

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1FnyKmN4HS/ source Ingrid Clayton

Fawning is a hybrid response, activating the sympathetic (hyperarousal) and parasympathetic (hypoarousal) branches of the autonomic nervous system at the same time.

• The hyperarousal aspect of fawning has us instinctively managing the moods and states of those “in charge.” We lean into the very relationships that are causing us harm, appeasing our perpetrators while taking personal responsibility for all relational difficulties. Fawning can be incredibly active.

• But at the same time, we are detaching from ourselves. The hypoarousal of fawning numbs our connection to self, our broader sense of agency, and often, our ability to feel the effects of the abuse at all.

We are threading a fine needle when we fawn, neither risking greater harm through fight or flight, nor shutting down completely. This highly adaptive response is moving beyond playing dead to playing LIFE. We are playing pretend, and we don’t even know it. We are playing house, playing the game (to survive or escape our situation), playing a part—sometimes as many parts as there are people in our lives.

🌟Click the link in my bio to get a Free PDF on the Fawning Trauma Response and to order FAWNING: Why the need to please makes us lose ourselves – and how to find our way back. AVAILABLE NOW 🤗

19/11/2025

18/11/2025

It's the little things that matter most ...

In the past month we have been revealing our little gems; the things, the moments, the values, the efforts that we go to to make R&S sparkle above and beyond 💛

We're also quite privileged at R&S to be able to hold space for lifes' most precious of all gifts - children.
To all parents, grandparents, and carers we extend our gratitude for entrusting your children into our care.

We do our best to tenderly sit with them, honour their play, share in their stories, process their experiences, explore their feelings, unwrap their hopes and dreams, highlight their strengths, investigate solutions, practice calming strategies, and nurture their potential. When children finish, they leave with a sense of "I'm capable" "I'm worthy" "I'm clever" "I'm brave" "I'm safe" or whatever it is that they needed to fulfil their void 💛

Likewise, we begin building relational safety, peace, stability, and coziness from the get-go
for adults. And we keep re-establishing these states in every session. We deeply respect everyones sense of vulnerability.

Thanks everyone for your feedback and enquiries during this campain "It's the little things that matter most".

18/11/2025

Available now special summer rate for individual supervision throught this summer ️
🔶️ $80 per session between 1/11/25
to 28/2/26 for private paying, and
$120 for agency funded.
(From mid December '25 to mid
February '26 zoom or phone sessions
only).

️Once-off and irregular sessions accepted.

F2F, zoom, or phone sessions

After-hours appointments with surcharge.

Diana is an accredited mental health social worker registered with AASW. She has over 13 years of counselling experience mostly within the domestic violence and homelessness sector, with children and adults. In those years she outreached to schools, and has also run multiple group work programs. For the past 6 years she has worked as generalist counsellor, EAP contractor, play therapist and supervisor in her private practice.

KEY BENEFITS OF INDIVIDUAL SUPERVISION

🔸️An opportunity to be heard and guided
🔸️An opportunity to explore, identify, and
address countertransference and how it
may impact the client
🔸️Assistance with planning and prioritising
workloads
🔸️Opportumity to deeply reflect on practice
🔸️Understand macro and practice theories
🔸️Address ethical dilemmas
🔸️Strengthen client relationships
🔸️Faithfulness to professional boundaries
🔸️Navigate workplace stress and emotional
demands
🔸️Formulate training plans and
connecting with new training courses
🔸️️ .... and boosts confidence

Supervision makes a pivitol contribution toward:
"Enhancing the professional skills and competence of social work practitioners and thereby strengthening the capacities of social workers to achieve positive outcomes for the people with whom they work ..." (AASW)

️Enquiries welcome.

Please call for a free, no obligation chat to see if this service is the right fit.
🔸️ Please quote "summer supervision"
Diana's bio leaflet is available upon request.

Please ring 0422 470 402 AEST
or email
riseandshinecounselling1@gmail.com

17/11/2025

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