FAMILY COUNSELLING SUPPORTING YOUR RELATIONSHIPS & WELLBEING
Toowoomba – North Lakes – Darwin
ARE YOU LOOKING FOR PROFESSIONAL FAMILY COUNSELLING?
Connect with GO-TO Counsellor Rohan Watson and his team of highly trained and qualified counsellors
Create positive change and find real solutions for improving relationships and wellbeing within your family. Get help from our professional counselling services. In-person appointments available at convenient locations in Toowoomba Qld, North Lakes Qld, and Darwin NT. Easy-access sessions are also available nationwide by phone or virtual face-to-face web-consults.
Family Therapy
Feel Supported | Discover Solutions | Responsive Counsellors
Family Counselling supports families in discovering solutions that strengthen the wellbeing of adults, adolescents, and children. Family Therapy can help improve communication, resolve relationship issues, and create healthier and more positive family connectedness.
We aim to provide a safe, nurturing and empowering environment to help family members to flourish. Gain greater self-awareness, develop interpersonal skills, and learn valuable coping strategies for handling life’s challenges.
Family Therapy can help equip you to better manage your emotions and behaviours, and to respond well to the different attitudes and expectations of others. As family life becomes more stable, stronger and caring, you’re more likely to feel happier and enjoy a better quality of health and wellbeing.
Family Unit Diversity
Acceptance | Respect| Confidentiality
Families are diverse in their make-up. All family units also experience changes over time which adds to their complexity and unpredictability. Access to a professional family counsellor offers an opportunity to get the right help and support for family needs.
Our qualified and experienced counsellors have the training, resources, and skills to offer confidential expert help based on modern research-informed approaches. Our aim is to offer clients an affordable and positive family therapy experience within a respectful and accepting setting that’s private and professional. We focus on helping you find the solutions that you feel are right for you and your situation, and which best supports you in enjoying healthy relationships and a more fulfilling family life.
Take a Positive Step Forward and Talk to Us!
Reaching out for counselling support is your positive step towards finding real solutions for enhancing relationships and resolving other family life challenges.
We’re committed to helping people improve relationships, outlook on life, and overall wellbeing, within a setting that is accepting, caring, safe and private.
We offer modern evidence-based approaches to tailoring therapy that best meets the unique needs of each individual, couple, or family unit.
Contact us online using the “Get in Touch” section on this page or text or call 0400 854 553.
Suite 1, Business Central, 136-140 Russell Street, Toowoomba QLD 4350.
Suite 4, Level 1, Norwin Centre, 15 Discovery Drive, North Lakes QLD 4509.
Suite 3, Raffles Plaza, 1 Buffalo Court Darwin NT 0800.
Rohan Watson MACA MIAAN
Registered Counsellor & Psychotherapist
Move Your Life Forward and Flourish with Family Therapy
When family-life begins to falter or crumble from any of life’s stressors, getting support early is important to prevent a snowball effect that might further negatively impact the wellbeing of yourself or others.
Our family counselling practitioners are qualified and skilled in helping people facing difficult and complex circumstances. That includes conflicts in blended families, bereavement, relationship breakdown, sibling rivalry, separation and divorce, family member illness or disability, aggression or anger issues, and other challenging emotional and behavioural patterns.
Family therapy is an effective way for members of a family unit to come together and communicate and collaborate in a safe and confidential space.
A professional counsellor is independent and accepting, offers guidance, presents fresh perspectives, and provides support to help conquer barriers, problems or challenges to make it easier to pursue a positive path forward.
Your counsellor will listen carefully to understand what has brought you to this present point, and will explore with you, the goal or outcome from therapy that you believe is important to you.
In our Practice, we will make your wellbeing our professional priority while helping equip and empower you to heal, resolve and renew, to positively move your life forward, and to more smoothly navigate life’s challenges and opportunities.
How to Get the Best Help from Counselling
- Timing is Everything! Get help early.
- Cooperate. Be responsive to your counsellor who will want to support you with the best therapy solutions for your need.
- Really Listen. Come willing to listen and gain new insights. Your counsellor will seek to work in agreement with you to help achieve your goals.
- Openness. Be open to learning. Embrace counselling, don’t begrudge it. For change to happen, it first requires a deeper understanding of what it is that needs to change.
- Honesty. Be honest and authentic. Own your attitudes and actions.
- Find Positives. Acknowledge positives. Seek to find a silver-lining even when life isn’t easy.
- Continue as long as it takes. Resolutions may come quickly. Sometimes it takes longer. Your self-care is about the most important investment you ever make, so make it your foundation for healthy wellbeing and a brighter future.
Family Counselling — 4 Relationship Therapy Tips
To get the best from family counselling sessions, when fixing a relationship is a priority, here are 4 tips to consider mindfully putting into practice:
- OPENNESS — Come to therapy with an open mind to receive support and guidance. Have a willingness to genuinely connect, communicate, collaborate for the common good of all. That’s vital for enabling a process of relationship repair and renewal. Clutching to your own agenda or having a closed mindset to embracing different perspectives, skills, and strategies, will only scuttle any real chance for success in improving and strengthening relationships.
- OWNERSHIP — Take responsibility and own your part in any missteps, mistakes or mess-ups in your family relationships. Keep yourself from blame-shifting and fault-finding. Instead, focus on what you can change to contribute to positive transformation in your relationship with your partner or other family members.
- ACCEPTANCE — How you think and act is a matter for you. But how other people think and respond about life issues, is their responsibility. Accepting you cannot expect everyone else to think or behave in the same way as yourself, opens the door to embracing greater understanding and tolerance. Anger, resentment, and frustration fall away faster by genuinely accepting and valuing one another’s uniqueness and individuality.
- FORGIVENESS — Holding onto thoughts and feelings of negativity towards others keeps you stuck. Your wellbeing stays stifled and sabotaged. Forgiving others for hurt, pain or trauma caused, may seem a formidable thing to do. The idea of it alone, may grate against every fibre of your being. However, forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself. Forgiveness frees you from a hold or control that another person has over you. Choosing to forgive begins a letting-go process of unshackling from past hurt and pain, and pivoting to a forward-focus on healing, becoming more resilient, and finding a fresh purpose. The more you forgive, the more freed you become to easier love yourself and others.
How Couples Therapy Helps Rescue Relationships
Partnerships, especially long-term ones, can often be tough to sustain in the pressure-cooker of life. Couples Therapy is a way of getting support and real solutions for saving relationships. What’s important, is seeking help early before your relationship winds up in serious trouble, and before potentially impacting other family members, friends, finances, housing arrangements, or career.
Even when partners have the best of intentions of fixing a relationship, they usually lack the special skills necessary to work through the complexities of raw human emotions. It is extra hard too, when partners intricately know, and can leverage, each other’s weaknesses or vulnerabilities. So that’s where the expertise of a trained and experienced relationship therapist can step in and is able to confidentially and impartially offer the right support and guidance. Click here to learn more.
Rohan Watson — Relationship & Family Counselling Specialist
Rohan Watson is the owner and principal of counselling and coaching practices in Toowoomba Qld, North Lakes Qld, and Darwin NT. He is a member of the Australian Counselling Association and a general member of the International Association of Applied Neuroscience. He holds graduate and post-graduate qualifications in Psychology, Counselling and Education from Monash University and USQ, including a Master of Counselling (Advanced Practice) degree awarded with Distinction. Rohan is currently engaged in research in a PhD program with UniSC.
Across 3 practices, Rohan leads a team of highly qualified, client-centred professional counsellors. He is a skilled Family Therapist and Couples and Marriage Counselling Specialist. He has also facilitated and delivered mental health programs across rural and remote communities of Australia and provides professional psychotherapy to employees at all levels within organisations nationally through EAP based services.
As a Psychotherapist, Counsellor and Mental Health Researcher, Rohan is dedicated to helping unlock the potential in people to live healthier, happier and more purposeful.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Family counselling, also known as family therapy, can be beneficial when facing challenges such as communication breakdowns, conflicts, parenting dilemmas, major life transitions (like divorce or a sudden loss), or when assistance is needed for understanding and handling a family member’s mental health issues or concerning behavioural patterns.
This specialised type of therapy aims to address and resolve various family-related problems affecting the family unit as a whole and with a focus on enhancing communication and fostering healthier family dynamics. Engaging in professional counselling at the earliest opportunity potentially reduces the risk of issues escalating which in turn may prevent a detrimental flow-on impact to the health and wellbeing of family members.
Family counselling can be helpful for any family looking to proactively enhance communication, strengthen relationships, or navigate life changes in a healthier way. Therefore, family counselling isn’t limited to just families dealing with distressful situations.
Research-informed approach —
The family therapy services we offer are based on evidence-informed scientifically proven research approaches and techniques providing confidence in their effectiveness. The principles, skills, and strategies you may learn have been validated to work when applied.
Highly trained and accredited professionals —
Our counsellors are highly trained and qualified with most holding post-graduate specialisations and are accredited members of a key professional association such as the Australian Counselling Association (ACA) or the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA). They are held to high ethical standards and fulfill ongoing professional development and supervision requirements to apply best practice and contemporary approaches to therapeutic service delivery.
Friendly, Caring, Solutions-Oriented —
It is of genuine importance to us that all clients can engage with our friendly counsellors within a respectful and caring environment. Our therapists are empathetic, supportive, and passionate in pursuing the right help and solutions for families no matter how challenging the circumstances.
Families seek our help for many different reasons. Any support provided is therefore tailored to the specific family and that family’s own unique situation. You’ll be afforded an accepting, safe, and judgement-free space in which to explore thoughts, emotions, and behaviours, gaining insight, support, and effective coping strategies.
At the initial stage, your counsellor would listen and seek to gain an understanding of what has brought things to this particular point, and then explore with family member participants the priorities wanting to be resolved, improved, or changed for the better wellbeing of the family unit. Family counselling is designed to accommodate individual concerns within the context of the family, and the counsellor helps to integrate these discussions into the overall family dynamic.
It is a collaborative process. Once there is clarity around the need and priorities, your counsellor will then be able to provide appropriate resources, guidance, and support to best match your circumstances and outcome aspirations. Your counsellor is like a compass, there to help the family find solutions so that it can move forward in a direction that the family considers is right for their situation.
A standard session runs for approximately 50 minutes.
Our fees and booking policies can be found under the ‘bookings’ tab in the menu at the top of our website Homepage.
The duration of family counselling can vary. Some families may find resolution in just a handful of sessions, while others may benefit from longer-term therapy. The level of complexity in the family issues and the specific outcome or goals being sought, are key factors that influence the therapy engagement period.
Determined commitment and effort of participants to invest in the therapy is the best way to approach family counselling. What family counselling can do is equip you with support, valuable skillsets, special strategies, and insights to work on your family challenges and aspirations. Ultimately, the outcome will crucially depend on the willingness of all participants to actively engage and make changes for the betterment of the family unit.
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