Family and Child Consultants

20/06/2026

🌿 Wellbeing isn't created in one big moment.

It's built through small choices made consistently.

Today, wellbeing might look like:
☀ Taking a walk outside
☕ Having a coffee with a friend
📚 Reading a book
💬 Talking about how you're feeling
😴 Getting some extra rest
❤️ Being kind to yourself

We often focus on what we haven't done, rather than recognising the positive steps we've already taken.

Progress doesn't have to be perfect to be meaningful.

Small actions, repeated over time, create lasting change.

What's one small thing you can do for your wellbeing today?

19/06/2026

We're Hiring: Circle of Security Classroom Facilitator
Location: Australia-wide (Online) or Adelaide-based
Position Type: Contractor / Casual

Family & Child Consultants is seeking a qualified and passionate Circle of Security Classroom Facilitator to join our team.
This flexible opportunity is ideal for an educator, coach, consultant, or early childhood professional who is committed to strengthening educator-child relationships and supporting reflective practice within educational settings.

About the Role
As a Circle of Security Classroom Facilitator, you will deliver COS Classroom training and support to early childhood educators, schools, childcare services, and education professionals across Australia. Sessions may be delivered online or face-to-face from our Adelaide base.

About You
You will:
Be trained and endorsed in Circle of Security Classroom
Have experience working within early childhood education, schools, or child development settings
Be confident facilitating professional learning and reflective discussions with educators
Demonstrate a strong understanding of attachment, relationships, and social-emotional development
Be passionate about improving outcomes for children through relationship-based practice

What We Offer
Flexible work arrangements
Opportunities to work with services across Australia
A supportive and collaborative team environment
Meaningful work that creates lasting impact for children, educators, and families
Interested?

We would love to hear from experienced COS Classroom Facilitators who are looking to make a difference and be part of a growing national team.
To express your interest - get in touch!

Family & Child Consultants
Supporting children, strengthening families, empowering educators.

18/06/2026

💙 Safe. Child-focused. Professional.

When families experience separation, children deserve the opportunity to maintain meaningful relationships in a safe and supportive environment.

At Family and Child Consultants, our supervised access services focus on:

✔ Safety
✔ Connection
✔ Transparency

We provide supervised visits:
🏡 In family homes
🏢 At our supervised contact centre
🌳 In community and public settings

Our goal is to help children and families spend quality time together while reducing stress and supporting positive interactions.

Every family situation is unique. Our experienced team works to ensure visits are child-focused, professional and as natural as possible.

📞 1300 789 649
🌐 [www.familyandchildconsultants.com](http://www.familyandchildconsultants.com)

Supporting families. Strengthening connections.

17/06/2026

💙 Seeking support is not a sign that something is wrong with you.

Counselling isn't only for times of crisis.

Many people access counselling to:
🌱 Improve relationships
🌱 Build confidence
🌱 Manage stress and anxiety
🌱 Develop healthy coping strategies
🌱 Navigate life transitions
🌱 Improve communication

Sometimes having a safe, non-judgemental space to talk can help us see things more clearly and move forward with greater confidence.

Looking after your mental health is just as important as looking after your physical health.

Asking for support is a sign of courage, self-awareness and strength.

16/06/2026

💚 You don't have to carry it all alone.

Life can be overwhelming. Whether you're struggling with anxiety, stress, family conflict, relationship challenges, grief, trauma, or simply feeling stuck, support is available.

At Family and Child Consultants, we provide compassionate, professional counselling for children, young people, adults and families.

Our counselling services can help you:
✔ Manage anxiety and stress
✔ Improve relationships and communication
✔ Build resilience and confidence
✔ Navigate separation and family changes
✔ Heal from trauma and difficult experiences

Taking the first step can feel difficult, but reaching out for support is often the beginning of positive change.

📞 1300 789 649
🌐 [www.familyandchildconsultants.com](http://www.familyandchildconsultants.com)

Because your wellbeing matters.

15/06/2026

I'm going to say something that might make some people uncomfortable.

Not every family needs more services.

Some families need faster decisions.

Every week, professionals debate, assess, refer, review, reassess, and schedule another meeting.

Meanwhile, children wait.

Parents wait.

Families wait.

In some cases, families spend months—or years—moving between services, assessments, reports, and court processes while everyone agrees that the situation isn't good enough.

The community services sector has become very good at identifying problems.

But have we become too comfortable with managing them?

At what point do endless assessments and referrals stop helping and start becoming part of the problem?

I'm not suggesting we cut corners.

I'm suggesting that children don't get their childhood back while systems deliberate.

Sometimes the most trauma-informed thing we can do is make a decision.

What do you think?

Has our sector become too risk-averse to act quickly when families need certainty?

👇 I'd genuinely like to hear different perspectives from people working in child protection, family law, community services, education, and healthcare.

15/06/2026

**Not all Employee Assistance Programs are created equal.**

For organisations working in community services, child protection, family services, education, health, and human services, workplace wellbeing isn't just about offering counselling.

It's about understanding the realities of frontline work.

Vicarious trauma.
Critical incidents.
Workplace violence.
Complex client presentations.
Burnout.
Compassion fatigue.

At Family and Child Consultants, we currently provide EAP and critical incident support to **six national, medium and large organisations across Australia**.

What makes us different?

✅ **Specialists in the community services sector**
Our clinicians understand the environments your teams work in because we've worked alongside frontline practitioners for decades.

✅ **24/7 Critical Incident Response**
When something happens, support can't wait until Monday morning.

✅ **Flexible Service Models**
Every organisation is different. That's why we offer tailored EAP solutions including:
• Pay-as-you-go services
• Subscription-based programs
• Retainer arrangements
• Critical incident response packages
• Bespoke wellbeing programs

✅ **Individualised Support**
We don't believe in one-size-fits-all wellbeing solutions. We work with organisations to develop services that reflect their workforce, risks, culture and budget.

Whether you're supporting 20 staff or 2,000 staff, your people deserve access to responsive, specialised support from professionals who understand the sector.

If you're reviewing your EAP provider or looking for a more responsive solution, we'd love to have a conversation.

📩 Contact us to discuss a tailored EAP and wellbeing package for your organisation.

15/06/2026

After years of working in supervised family contact, there is one thing that continues to frustrate me.

It's not the parents.

It's not the children.

It's the time.

Every week, I see families waiting.

Waiting for assessments.
Waiting for reports.
Waiting for hearings.
Waiting for decisions.
Waiting for a system that is overwhelmed and struggling to keep pace with the complexity of modern family breakdown.

And while adults wait, children keep growing.

They don't pause their development while legal processes unfold.

Months can become years. Relationships change. Attachments weaken. Opportunities for repair become harder. Conflict becomes entrenched. Children are left carrying uncertainty they never asked for.

I understand that family law decisions are complex and that getting them right matters.

But from where I sit, supervising contact every week, I see the human cost of delay.

Children need safety.

Children need stability.

Children need timely decisions.

The vast majority of professionals working within the system care deeply and work incredibly hard. This isn't about blaming individuals.

It's about acknowledging that when systems become overloaded, children often pay the highest price.

Surely we can do better.

Surely we can build processes that protect both procedural fairness and children's need for timely, meaningful relationships.

Because childhood doesn't wait for court dates.

And children deserve more than a place in a queue.

15/06/2026

What if we've got resilience all wrong?

Every day, we tell children they need to be resilient.

To bounce back.
To cope.
To adapt.

But what if we're asking the wrong question?

What if, instead of constantly teaching children to survive difficult circumstances, we started fixing the systems that create those circumstances in the first place?

What if resilience has become a convenient way for adults, organisations, and governments to avoid addressing the real issues?

This blog explores an uncomfortable truth:

Children should not need extraordinary resilience just to get through an ordinary day.

A thought-provoking read for parents, carers, teachers, child protection workers, community service professionals, and anyone who believes children deserve more than survival.

Read more here:
https://family-childconsult.blogspot.com/2026/06/why-we-keep-asking-children-to-be.html

💙 Because children deserve more than our admiration for their resilience. They deserve our action.

Resilience. It's become one of those words that sounds unquestionably positive. We celebrate resilient children. We admire resilient familie...

15/06/2026

🎓 BOOKINGS NOW OPEN FOR 2026–27 TRAINING

Looking for practical, engaging and trauma-informed professional development for your team?

Family and Child Consultants delivers Australia-wide training designed to build confidence, strengthen practice and improve outcomes for children, young people and families.

Popular training topics include:
✔ Therapeutically Intervening in Crisis
✔ Trauma-Informed Cultural Awareness
✔ Difficult Conversations in Child Protection
✔ Coercive Control
✔ Trauma-Informed Case Formulation
✔ Vicarious Trauma & Sustainable Practice

Why organisations choose us:
✅ Evidence-based and trauma-informed
✅ Practical tools staff can use immediately
✅ Delivered Australia-wide
✅ Suitable for health, education, community services and child protection sectors

Invest in your workforce. Strengthen your impact.

📞 1300 789 649
🌐 [www.familyandchildconsultants.com](http://www.familyandchildconsultants.com)

Limited dates available for 2026–27 bookings.