Our program aims to educate and support parents in managing stress, frustration, anxiety, and relationship difficulties that may arise from these challenges.
Caring for a child with autism brings unique opportunities and challenges for families. Aruma’s family counselling program is designed to empower parents, carers, and siblings by focusing on strengths, improving relationships, and fostering resilience.
Our family counselling program aims to educate and support parents in managing stress, frustration, anxiety, and relationship difficulties that may arise from these challenges. Our program is tailored to the needs and goals of each family, with flexible session structures and approaches. The aim is to build effective coping strategies, enhance communication, and improve overall health and wellbeing for everyone involved.
Through counselling, families gain tools to:
We’re here to support your family in creating a nurturing environment where everyone can thrive.
Our program structure is flexible and tailored specifically to the goals of each family, including both session frequency and the number of sessions. We have different approaches to counselling to suit your specific situation.
For parents and carers, this focuses on personal wellbeing, time management, and building strategies to manage the additional stresses of caregiving.
Supporting parents as partners, this service promotes empathy, shared responsibilities, and effective communication to maintain a healthy relationship while caring for their child.
Couples counselling is centred on the caregivers as a couple and maintaining a healthy relationship through empathy, perspective-taking, and effective communication. In caring for a child with autism, particular emphasis is placed on understanding the stressors and responsibilities of each individual parent and how that may affect the partnership.
Focused on the whole family, including siblings, this approach explores the roles, responsibilities, and dynamics within the household. The goal is to ensure each family member feels supported and valued while contributing to a cohesive family environment.
Our family counselling program is available face-to-face at our Bayswater centre or via telehealth.
Counselling sessions are available face to face or online and consist of 50 minute sessions with frequency determined collaboratively with your counsellor.
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