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Parent Counselling in Melbourne
The hard part of parenting is rarely the children. It is who you become at six o’clock on a bad day.
Counselling for parents, including co-parenting after separation. This is work with you, not assessment of your child.
50-minute sessionsParents and co-parentsIndividually or togetherOnline, phone or in person
$198 per 50-minute session, GST included. Full fees are on the packages and pricing page. Sessions run online by secure video across Australia and New Zealand, by telephone, or in person in Melbourne by arrangement.
In short
Parent counselling is work with the parent, not assessment of the child: what happens in you before the shout, limits that hold when you are tired, and repair afterwards. It also covers co-parenting across two households after separation. Sessions are 50 minutes at $198, GST included.
Parent counselling is for the parent. Most people arrive able to describe exactly what they should have done and unable to do it in the moment, because the moment is loud, late and the fourth one that day. We work on what happens in you first, because that is the part you can actually change.
It suits parents of toddlers through to parents of adult children, and it is frequently the most useful place to take co-parenting after a separation — two households, one child, and a set of arrangements that has to survive both.
Parents come here when
- You react in a way you do not recognise, then feel terrible
- Every evening ends in the same argument
- Co-parenting after separation keeps going wrong
- A teenager has stopped talking to you
- Parenting has become the only thing you and your partner discuss
What we work on together
Limits that hold
Boundaries you can actually enforce when tired, and repair afterwards when you do not.
Two households
Co-parenting arrangements, handovers and communication that work without a shared opinion of each other.
How the work unfolds
Attachment-informedEmotion coachingNervous-system regulationCo-parenting agreements
01
The honest version
The evenings that go wrong, said out loud without the edited version parents usually give.
02
Your own history
Where your reactions were learned. Most parenting difficulty is a script inherited, not a flaw invented.
03
The skills
Emotion coaching, limits, and repair after a rupture. Repair matters more than never rupturing.
04
Make it hold
What to do on the bad week, and a plan for the situations you already know are coming.
Parents arrive able to describe exactly what they should have done, and unable to do it at six o’clock. That gap is the work.
Anne Evans · Counsellor & Psychotherapist
Common questions
Do you see my child too?+
No. This is work with you as the parent. Anne does not assess or treat children, and where a child needs their own support she will point you towards appropriate services.
Can we come as co-parents after separating?+
Yes, together or separately. Co-parenting sessions focus on arrangements, handovers and communication rather than on reopening the relationship.
Is this parenting classes?+
No. There is no curriculum and no homework sheet. It is counselling for the person doing the parenting, which is why it works for parents of teenagers and adult children as well as small ones.
More answers in the general FAQs, or ask Anne directly. Related reading: co-parenting after separation.
Often works alongside
Separation & Divorce
Decide deliberately, and where a relationship is ending, protect the co-parenting.
Anger Management
Understand the trigger, learn the pause, keep the relationships that matter.
Stress & Burnout
A load problem with a solvable shape, which is often what parenting overwhelm is.
Ready to start parent counselling?
Book online in under a minute, or send a question first — Anne answers her own enquiries.