Rise and Shine Counselling & Play Therapy

Rise and Shine Counselling & Play Therapy Adults & Children3-13
EMDR,CBT,DBT,ACT
Play Therapy
Interplay Parent & Child Play Therapy
Supervision You are the experts, we a merely the anchor.

At this practice, you will receive a caring, confidential and professional counselling service from an experienced therapist with 10 years counselling experience. Treatment provides you with understanding, knowledge and new skills to help you manage your presenting life issues. At the heart of our therapy is authenticity and unconditional, positive regard. A strong, secure, empathetic therapeutic relationship will foster healing, recovering and rebuilding. We hold space and grace for you to be able to process, gain insights, try skills and strategies, and where we compassionately support your integration and reauthoring of your life, goals and wishes. Progress is progress, there's no time or speed limit here. Our passion is to help you to move towards peace and wellbeing. Whilst we provide the traditional evidence based talk therapies eg Acceptance and Commitment (ACT), Cognitive and Behavioural (CBT), Dialectical and Behavioural (DBT), and Solution Focused, we are more than these! We also appreciate many people are unable or not ready to dive deeply into, and talk about their huge experiences or traumas. This is why we also offer these precious counselling gems:

Eye Movement Desensitation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Sandplay Therapy
Expressives Therapies
Guided Drawing
Mindfulness
Progressive Muscle Relaxation

Some of the issues we can help with include:

* Anxiety
* Anger
* Depression
* Stress & Tension
* Self esteem
* Trauma
* Attachment/Relationship disruptions between parent
and child

Our piece de resistance is our children's services - play therapy, parent and child play therapy, and children's counselling. Diana is the heart and soul of Rise and Shine. With her ten consecutive years of full-time counselling, she has become one of Albury Wodonga's highly sought after child centred play therapists, children's counsellor, and
parent and child family play therapist (Interplay Therapy). Diana is qualified in these modalities, and is very competent, passionate and experienced in working with children as young as three, and in providing parenting support and in-home strategies. Very shortly Diana will become an accredited supervisor for Interplay therapists. Additionally, by mid year, Diana will also become an accredited clinical supervisor receiving her qualifications from The Bouverie Centre. All enquiries welcome. Rise and Shine provides one free, initial 20 minute consultation.

25/03/2026

Man oh Man, Manosphere is (bleep)!
It's a shocking and disturbing watch.
Unfortunately I've added to it's views count, and bumped it's algorithm.

https://youtu.be/0T57GA7XXRE?si=Jipz1f2fUgVgl4tLSOURCE Brene Brown
25/03/2026

https://youtu.be/0T57GA7XXRE?si=Jipz1f2fUgVgl4tL
SOURCE Brene Brown

Not every relationship ends with closure. Sometimes, reconciliation is impossible — but that doesn’t mean peace is out of reach.In this Brené Brown–inspired ...

18/03/2026

Wangaratta Performing Arts Centre

18/03/2026
12/03/2026

Learn practical ways to reduce tension and support your child through separation with Family Transitions Triple P Online.

04/03/2026

Part of our exit support plan to transition clients out of our service is to explain Kids Helpline, an Australian mental health resource, to our young clients. It is free and available 24/7. Not only does it give our clients peace of mind that there is support after us, it also gives clients a sense of agency and control. We highly recommend it. Please start chatting to your children about it so that it becomes common knowledge for them - a support not only for them if they should need it one day but they can also tell their friends who might be struggling.

It is hard as parents, grandparents,and educators seeing our little ones crying. We want to rush in and fix it, or even ...
27/02/2026

It is hard as parents, grandparents,and educators seeing our little ones crying. We want to rush in and fix it, or even stop it. Asking/telling anyone to stop crying is seriously a big no-no!
Ideally we would start with warm connection and emotionally affirming statements. This tool, from our emotional first aid kit conveys the message:
I see you
I hear you
I understand you
I believe you
You are not alone in your pain 🩵

Credit DBT

https://www.facebook.com/share/1DVniaUpEG/

DBT Skills. Mindfulness/Interpersonal Effectiveness Modules.
Mindful responses.
Interpersonal Effectiveness - effective communication.

Prince William ❤️ Thankyou Dr Becky for your reflection; helping us to understand the importance of deep listening to ou...
22/02/2026

Prince William ❤️
Thankyou Dr Becky for your reflection; helping us to understand the importance of deep listening to our kids' feelings and the other golden tip, to not rush in to fix it.

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Wodonga, VIC
3690

Opening Hours

Monday 12:30pm - 6pm
Tuesday 9am - 6pm
Wednesday 9am - 6pm
Thursday 9am - 6pm
Friday 9am - 3pm

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