Teen and Family Counselling

When things feel hard, connection can make all the difference

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Let’s be honest—while parenting is deeply rewarding, it can also leave you feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, and isolated. Whether you are dealing with constant misunderstandings, walking on eggshells, or navigating a major life transition, you don’t have to figure it out alone.

Teen and family therapy provides a warm, safe, and compassionate space where both you and your teen can feel genuinely heard and validated. Together we look beneath the surface behaviours to understand the emotions and patterns causing conflict or distance. By working as a team, we will discuss ways and strategies to resolve disagreements, rebuild mutual trust, and increase closeness.

Family therapy

Adolescent therapy

Parent/carer counselling

Adult individual therapy

Meet Meisha Clark

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Family therapy

Family therapy provides a safe and supportive space for family members to feel heard, understood and supported. It can provide a space for some of the following challanges to be addressed:

Ongoing conflict or tension

Communication difficulties

Constant misunderstandings

Disconnection or feeling like you’re “walking on eggshells”

Changes within the family

Adjusting to a new diagnosis

Rebuilding trust and connection

Difficulties understanding or responding to your childs emotions or behaviour

Adolescent therapy

Interventions and counselling to support children and adolescents who are facing emotional, behavioural, social or relationship difficulties.

Counselling provides young people with a space to understand their emotions, relationships, mental health and experiences while developing greater self awareness and practical ways of managing life’s challenges.

Low mood

Anxiety

Family conflict

New diagnosis

Neurodiversity experiences

School or peer challenges

Emotional regulation

Parent / carer counselling

Parent counselling provides a supportive, non-judgemental space to pause, reflect and make sense of what’s happening for you and your family. Together, we can explore the challenges you’re experiencing, better understand your child/teen’s emotions and behaviour, and find ways for you to respond that stregthen connection and build confidence.

Sessions may explore:

Understanding your own nervous system and emotional responses

Understanding the emotions and needs behind behaviour

Ways to reduce conflict and increase closeness

Emotional coaching approaches to parenting

Building confidence in your parenting responses

Setting clear, respecful and consistent boundaries

Adult individual therapy

While family therapy is a central part of my practice, I provide individual therapy for adults experiencing:

Relationship and family difficulties

Overwhelm, low mood or emotional challenges

Grief and loss

Trauma and difficult life experiences

Low self-esteem

Major life transitions and adjustment

Meet Meisha Clark

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I am a qualified and registered Social Worker and Family Therapist with over 20 years of experience counselling children, adolescents, parents, and families through challenging times.

My background includes roles in the government and community health sectors, including the Royal Children’s Hospital, Early Intervention Services, and the Out-of-Home Care Sector. I also facilitate Shared Lives Training for prospective foster carers and am trained in Tuning In To Kids and Tuning In To Teens.

For over 13 years, my primary focus has been family therapy, providing therapeutic interventions to support parents and teenagers navigate adolescence, conflict, mental health challenges, disconnection, and difficult life transitions. My role is not to take sides or assign blame, but to create a safe space where everyone can feel heard and understood.

I draw on a range of evidence-based approaches tailored to your family's needs, including:

Attachment-Based Family Therapy
Emotion-Focused Therapy
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Family of Origin work
Nervous system regulation
EMDR (Level 1)
Brain development principles

Therapy is a place to slow down, make sense of what is happening, and find a confident way forward together. I take a warm, collaborative, and strengths-based approach because you are the expert in your own life and family.

I look forward to getting to know you.

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Alfie has big dreams of becoming a therapy dog, but his current schedule is completely booked solid with sleeping, eating, and chewing on TV remotes.