River Counselling

Assistance with daily personal activities

River has an experienced team of kind and caring support workers who will walk alongside you to maintain your independence in supporting your everyday needs and assisting with everyday activities. This can be in your home, or across supported independent living or in the community.

Assistance with travel/transport arrangements

River has a team of experienced and skilled drivers who can assist with all your transport and travel needs to support you for your unique transport needs.

Specialised Behaviour Supports

River specialises in providing specialised behaviour support. River has a team of expert and highly experienced behaviour support practitioners who are able to partner with you to develop plans and training to you and your holistic care team to ensure that your needs are understood and met, and your voice and independence are central to the support you receive.

Innovative Community Participation

River has a team of skilled support workers and clinicians to work alongside you to support community engagement and participation, which includes work preparation and readiness, upskilling of skills to engage more in community and increase quality of life.

Development of daily living and life skills

River has a team of experienced and highly trained clinicians that are ready to work alongside you to understand your goals for living and life skills, and partner together to develop your skills to achieve your goals.

Participation in community, social and civic activities

River team is always available to provide supports to you to support your engagement in community events, activities and social outings, which includes sporting events, community events, work events, or access to training or education.

Therapeutic Supports

River has a team of expert clinicians ready to provide clinical supports, assessment and therapeutic care to assist you in meeting your goals and needs to help you thrive into the future.

River has a team of occupational therapists, speech pathologists, psychologists, and behavioural therapists.

Social Work Individual Supervision and Coaching

We are committed to our future generation of social workers across Australia. We provide independent supervision and coaching to social workers through our own integrated, evidence based supervision framework. We have a range of social workers that provide individual supervision and coaching to match you with the right supervisor and to benefit you well into the future.

COACHING

Coaching is a therapeutic relationship which is a blend between counselling and mentoring. It provides a therapeutic space to discuss your goals, and work through any challenges you may be having, whilst also being a space where our clinicians can provide practical support, advice and guidance. 

This service is particularly useful for parents or carers who may be looking for further support in their parenting journey, including parents or carers that are looking at restoration of their children to their care. This service is also good for young people looking for guidance as they transition into adulthood. 

MENTORING

Sometimes counselling isn’t for you at this moment in time. That is perfectly okay. We pride ourselves on delivering services that work for you and are catered to your individual needs. We offer mentoring services where we partner you up with a professional mentor who can provide advice, support and guidance in a safe, consistent and stable space moving forward. 

We have mentors available from all walks of life, including sports people, professionals from diverse sectors, parents, foster carers and Aboriginal Elders that can provide in person or over technology mentoring services. 

COUNSELLING SERVICES

Our counselling service is focussed on providing evidence-based therapeutic models of care to support you in any challenges that you may be experiencing. Prior to engaging in our counselling services, we use the HEADSS psychosocial assessment tool to best understand your needs and goals for engaging in our counselling services. 

We make sure that all of our therapeutic services are delivered in a way that works best for you and include you in this process the entire journey!

Psychology/ Counselling

River has a team of qualified and experienced clinicians ready to support you to meet your goals through psychology support.

Family Therapy

We partner with you to understand the needs of your individual family unit, and work together to set goals and achieve these goals for your family to thrive in the future. 

Marriage/Couples Counselling

Relationships are what makes life interesting! We have a team of experts ready to understand your unique relationship or marriage, and then work together to ensure your relationship or marriage can thrive into the future. Our clinicians are also qualified couples therapists and are trained in conflict resolution.

Drug and Alcohol Counselling

River provides a guilt and shame free space to explore the impact of drug and alcohol use in your life, then through using evidence informed approaches, support you in achieving your goals around drug and alcohol use in your life.

Trauma Counselling

River specialises in supporting individuals who have experienced significant trauma. This includes specialising in supporting children and families who have experienced significant or complex trauma. Our team of highly qualified and skilled clinicians support you in understanding, processing, and moving through trauma to support you in your future journey.

Play Therapy

River has an experienced play therapist that specialises in supporting children and young people develop positive and healthy psychological functioning and emotional regulation.

Family Group Conferencing

We have an experienced team of accredited Family Group Conference facilitators that service our communities across NSW. For more information on Family Group Conferencing please click here.

Aboriginal Cultural Plans

We understand the importance of the highest quality Aboriginal cultural plans for children in the child protection and out-of-home-care systems. We respect that any cultural plan must be developed in collaboration with family and community. River Counselling and Community Services are experts in partnering with family and community to develop meaningful cultural plans that keep children connected to their culture, family and heritage, and also provide lifelong information about their history, culture and community that they can pass down in the future.

We have Aboriginal Elders that we consult with across Australia when developing cultural plans to ensure that they are of the highest standard, and led by family and community. 

Step by Step Foster Care Assessments

We hold many years experience in the foster care system, including members of our team having led national foster care organisations. 
We are authorised to complete Step by Step foster care assessments on carers or family members looking to become foster carers. We pride ourselves on developing quality assessments to assist your decision making on the authorisation of foster carers for children in out-of-home-care. This includes Shared Lives training, trauma training, and the completion of references and home inspections where required. 

Our current timeframe goals are 6 weeks for a carer assessment, and 4 weeks for a carer review.

Restoration Support

As experts in the Child Protection sector, we recognise the importance of reunification when safe for children. We also understand that to support restoration, parents often need increased education, practical support and guidance in their journey towards restoration. 

We provide ongoing therapeutic and practical support to parents going through the restoration space. This includes report writing for the Children’s Court on updates to the progress of parents towards the restoration plan or the implementation of the summary of proposed plan. 

We are also able to provide a wrap around support service, where we partner with both the parents and the children to form individual therapeutic spaces to support restoration and ensure that they have all the support needed for a successful and permanent restoration.

Parent/ Carer Programs

We specialise in supporting parents and carers in their parenting journey. We understand that there are many challenges and opportunities of parenting our children in the current world. We have over 15 years experience as a team in supporting parents and carers in their parenting, which has ongoing benefits for the rest of your life, and the relationship you hold with your children. 

We provide individual and group parenting programs. We are authorised facilitators of Tuning into Kids, Tuning into Teens, and Emotion Coaching, as well as trauma informed care training.

Critical Incident Debriefs

River Community Services is an accredited and experienced provided of critical incidents debriefs to organisations and individuals. This includes deaths or injury in the workplace, traumatic experience, retriggering of past trauma, or highly stressful incidents.

EAP Services

River Community Services is an accredited and licensed Employee Assistance Program provider (EAPS). Reach out to hear more about how we can partner with your business to provide ongoing support to your employees.