Our Services
We offer a range of services to help you understand and support your child:
Child, Adolescent, and Family Therapy
Neurodivergent-Affirmative Services
The Kindred Practice is a neurodiversity-affirmative service and we recognise the many ways in which human brains can differ from each other. We understand how these differences shape how we process information and relate to ourselves, other people, and world around us. These differences are not ‘disorders’ and do not require treatment or fixing. In an environment with the right understanding and supports, these brains style differences are much less likely to appear as a disability or difficulty.
Supervision and Training
Our team are actively involved in training and supporting future psychologists and offer supervision and placement opportunities.
Assessments
If your child is having ongoing difficulty with learning, paying attention, holding onto new information, or completing everyday tasks, an assessment might provide some answers. We offer a variety of assessments which can identify your child’s strengths as well as areas where some extra help might be needed.
Parent Support
How it works
We know the process of getting support can be confusing (especially for families already juggling a lot). We’ve tried to summarise the main steps below to make it a bit clearer.
Child, Adolescent, and Family Therapy
If you're getting in touch for ongoing sessions for your child, these are the steps below:
Get in touch
Contact our friendly reception team who will get some information about why you are reaching out for help and answer any of your questions.
Waitlist
Given the huge demand for our services, we do have a waitlist at the moment. We try not to close our books, as this just makes it harder for families to access support. We’ll add your child to our waitlist and get in touch as soon as an appointment is available.
Booking
We offer every family a specific spot in their psychologist’s diary at the same day and time. This makes it easier to families to fit appointments into their busy schedules and makes sure our psychologists always have space to see the clients they are working with. If we offer you a spot and it doesn’t work with your schedule, you stay at the top of the waitlist for the next spot that becomes available.
First appointment
Depending on your child’s age, we might ask to meet with you (and other parents/carers) first without your child present (usually for primary-school kids) or to meet everyone altogether (usually for high-school kids). This is a chance for us to learn about why you are reaching out for support and start working on a plan to help.
Regular sessions
The number and frequency of the sessions will depend on what the goals are we’re working on but can usually be discussed with your psychologist at the first appointment. If you’ve using Medicare or NDIS funds for sessions, we’ll help you figure that stuff out as well.
Finishing Up
This sometimes happens after only a few sessions or it might happen after a whole year of working together. We’ll make sure you’ve gotten everything you needed from us and talk about what happens if you need any help in the future.
Assessments
If you’re getting in touch to arrange an assessment for your child, these are the steps below:
Get in touch
Contact our friendly reception team who will answer any questions and schedule a time for you to speak to one of our psychologists.
Quick phone call with one of our psychologists
We’ll schedule a 10-minute pre-assessment phone call to work out what type of assessment will be the best fit. Our reception team will then book everything in for you.
Parent-only appointment
We usually get started with an appointment with parents/carers (and not your child) so we can learn about more about your child’.
Child Appointments
The next step is to meet your child and get started with the assessment. This can be anywhere from one to three sessions. Please note: we only carry out testing for cognitive or educational assessments in the morning.
Report
We spend about 2-3 weeks preparing a comprehensive report based on the test results, any questionnaires you’ve completed, and any other sources of information.
Feedback Session
Once the report is finished, we have a feedback session with parents/carers (and your young person) to discuss the results (and any recommendations or next steps).