Providing Help in Challenging Times
Counselling
A caring, safe and supportive space to talk through any difficulties or challenges in your relationships. For individuals, families, and couples.
Mediation
Also known as Family Dispute Resolution. Professional support to help with decision-making or communication if you're separating or divorcing.
Tailored Services
Services for specific challenges and individuals, from resilience training to trauma-specific support services and adoption support.
Online Courses
Self-guided online learning that you can access anytime, and anywhere. Build your skills at your own pace.
- Face-to-face
- Online
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Couples Counselling
Relationships can be tough, and sometimes we all need some extra support and guidance to help us move forward. Couples Counselling at RANSW offers a supportive environment where you can discuss concerns, overcome tensions and strengthen your partnership.
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Family Dispute Resolution and Mediation
Going through separation or divorce is often emotional and difficult, and it’s normal to feel overwhelmed. To help you through, we offer affordable Family Dispute Resolution services, also known as family mediation, throughout NSW.
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Family Counselling
Our trained and compassionate family therapists provide Family Counselling services online and in-person throughout NSW. Family Counselling provides a safe space to address problems, hear each other’s perspectives, overcome difficulties, improve communication, and restore and strengthen relationships.
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Individual Counselling
Life can be full of ups and downs. While we may be able to overcome most challenges by ourselves, sometimes we need some extra support. Individual Counselling offers a supportive environment to identify and manage problems and concerns.
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Adolescent Family Counselling
The teenage years can feel like an emotional minefield – and knowing how to support an adolescent can seem equally as daunting. Adolescent Family Counselling aims to restore and repair relationships by providing strategies to support teens and their families through significant life changes.
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Domestic Violence Counselling
We all have the right to feel safe. Taking the first steps to speak to someone about domestic and family violence can be conflicting and overwhelming. At Relationships Australia NSW, we provide compassionate, understanding, and confidential domestic violence support for victims.
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Children’s Contact Service
The Children’s Contact Service provides a safe, neutral and child-focused environment for families to build and maintain meaningful relationships while staff supervise and monitor interactions.
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Supported Connections Playgroup
A fortnightly playgroup for single parents and carers who don't currently live with their children. The group offers support in transitioning to independent parenting in a friendly and inclusive setting.
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Taking Responsibility – Men’s Behaviour Change Program
An intensive program involving casework support and an 18-week group program to help men make choices that match their values and intentions to develop safe and respectful relationships.
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Family Advocacy and Support Service
The Family Advocacy and Support Service (FASS) is a free service which supports men going through the Family Court system in cases of domestic and family violence. By offering aid to both perpetrators and victims, we aim to encourage long term positive behaviour change.
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Let’s Talk Elder Support and Mediation
Let’s Talk helps older people and their families address age-related issues and disagreements, and make decisions that protect the rights and safety of everyone involved.
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Access Family Mediation Service
Adapting to change during separation and divorce is challenging. This service provides flexible support, online or over the phone, to help manage relationship breakdowns, including resolving disputes for parenting and property arrangements.
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Disaster Resilience Leadership Program
A free training program designed to help community leaders in regional NSW develop skills to build resilience in their communities, and support people during natural disasters.
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Parenting Orders Program
Separation and divorce can be one of the most stressful and significant life changes for anyone to go through – Stay focused on your children's needs with support from our Parenting Orders Program.
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Find and Connect
A free service for those who spent time in institutional or foster care before 1990. Funded by the Australian Government Department of Social Services and delivered by Relationships Australia NSW’s Wattle Place centre.
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Wattle Place
Wattle Place offers inclusive support for adults who experienced institutional or foster care as children, were impacted by forced adoption practices, or experienced institutional child sexual abuse. Our services provide assistance personalised to your individual needs and experiences.
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Community Builders
Community Builders delivers free programs to community, multicultural and faith groups and local schools throughout Northern Sydney, to help build resilience, connection and growth.
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Care Finder
A free support service for Care Leavers and Forgotten Australians in central and eastern Sydney to support transitions into aged care services.
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Care and Connect – Domestic, Family, and Sexual Violence Linker Program
Free, safe and confidential support to people who are experiencing domestic, family, or sexual violence, including child sexual abuse, in the Blue Mountains, Hawkesbury, Lithgow and Penrith Regions. Referrals via local GP or health professionals.
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Building Healthy Relationships for Teens
An educational seminar to support high school students in their understanding of healthy relationships within their families and communities.
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Forgotten Australians Support Service
A free service for people 26 or over, who were in out-of-home care in NSW. Funded by the NSW Department of Communities and Justice, and delivered by Relationships Australia NSW’s Wattle Place centre.
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Forced Adoptions Support Service
A free support service for people impacted by past forced adoptions. Funded by the Australian Government Department of Social Services and delivered by Relationships Australia NSW’s Wattle Place centre.
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Caber-ra Nanga Engage
A free service which works to improve mental health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. Caber-ra nanga is a Gaimariagal word meaning ‘resting the mind’.
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National Redress Support Service
A free and confidential support to people who are applying, or thinking of applying, to the National Redress Scheme. Funded by the Australian Government Department of Social Services and delivered by Relationships Australia NSW’s Wattle Place centre.
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Aftercare Resource Centre
Transitioning from out-of-home care into independent living can come with challenges. Our Aftercare Resource Centre provides customised resources, information and support for care leavers to help navigate the process.
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Kids in Focus
When parents separate, it can significantly impact their children. Kids in Focus is a practical, online course developed for separating families to navigate and support their children through these challenges.
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Couple Connect
In relationships, communication is key. This online course helps you develop skills to repair, strengthen, and improve your relationship, using common scenarios and tailored activities.
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Prepare and Enrich
It’s normal to experience mixed emotions when embarking on the next phase of a relationship. Whether you’re excited, anxious or somewhere in between, Prepare and Enrich will help empower and strengthen your partnership into the future.
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Intercountry Adoptee and Family Support Service
Adoption can be an exciting change for a family, but it’s crucial to have the tools to manage its unique set of challenges and complexities. The free Intercountry Adoptee and Family Support Service (ICAFSS) supports intercountry adoptees and their families.
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Family Dispute Resolution and Mediation Bathurst
Going through separation or divorce is often emotional and difficult, and it’s normal to feel overwhelmed. To help you through, we offer affordable Family Dispute Resolution services, also known as family mediation, throughout NSW.
Group Workshops
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Parenting After Separation
Managing a difficult relationship with a former partner can be difficult, especially when kids are involved. This group offers tools to improve communication, reduce conflict and make decisions in the best interests of your kids.
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Supported Connections Playgroup
A fortnightly playgroup for single parents and carers who don't currently live with their children. The group offers support in transitioning to independent parenting in a friendly and inclusive setting.
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Women’s Choice and Change
This program is a free domestic violence support group for women. Our family therapists provide a safe and caring space to share and learn from others who understand your experiences. Skills and strategies are provided to help you move forward with your life.
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“Our family would not be in the shape we are now had we not had this experience and support. The Taking Responsibility course has changed the lives of our family for the better. It provided a positive, proactive pathway for us all to recover and rebuild our lives after horrific trauma.”
Taking Responsibility Participant
“The best thing was having a great counsellor who was able to help us navigate the difficulties we were facing as a family, and allow us to listen to each other and feel heard.”
Family Counselling Client
“Working with the Child Consultant gave us a deeper understanding of what was happening for Samuel. He’s now seeing his dad again and communication between us is much less fraught. We’re shifting what we do and how we act so that things can be better for our son.”
Family Dispute Resolution Client