The Centre for Perinatal Health & Parenting
The Centre for Perinatal Health & Parenting
33 Masada Blvd, Winter Valley, Victoria, 3358, Australia
03 5324 2900(Work)03 9492 5263(Fax)
http://www.perinatalhealth.com.auOverview
The Centre for Perinatal Health & Parenting is a community-based day facility in a semi-rural setting in Winter Valley (Ballarat) VIC.
The Centre caters for families from pregnancy planning, to pregnancy, through to infancy, toddlerhood, preschool, primary school, and children up to 16 years of age.
It offers the following professional services:
- Early Parenting Consultants
- Adult and Child Psychologists
- Occupational Therapy
- Art Therapy
- Equine Assisted Therapy
- Play Therapy
- Counselling, including Couples Counselling
- Perinatal Massage Therapist
- Prenatal Yoga Classes
- Group Therapies and Parent Education Classes.
The Centre for Perinatal Health & Parenting is the only one of its kind in Victoria, Australia.
Referral/fee payment is via Medicare/GP Mental Health Care Plan, Medicare/GP Chronic Disease Management Plan, NDIS package utilisation, private health fund extras/HICAPS or self referral with direct payment for service.
Practitioners at this location
Counsellor
The Adult & Child Counsellor prioritises a safe, non-judgmental, and playful space for adults and children. Strategies are tailored to individual goals and interests, using narrative, art, movement, percussion, play, and somatic processing.
Qualifications in Counselling enables use of various techniques, including trauma and attachment-informed methods, Acceptance Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Mindfulness, with Solution-focussed and Strengths-based approaches.
Well trained in neuroscience and neuroplasticity research, the adult & child counsellor believes in the brain's capacity to rewire old pathways, offering hope for reworking chronic pain, past trauma and anxiety.
Social Worker
Accredited Mental Health Social Workers (AMHSWs) work with people across the lifespan - including children, adults and older persons - and provide a unique contribution to the mental health space in their holistic approach to working with a person.
The advanced training of a AMHSW prepares and provides them with the skills for working with people with very complex presentations and co-morbidities, including:
• Depression and other mood disorders
• Anxiety disorders
• Personality disorders
• Psychosis
• Suicidal thoughts
• Relationship problems
• Life crisis
• Adjustment issues
• Trauma
• Family
This may involve family, as well as individual counselling, and group therapy. Social workers recognise the broader implications of an individual having a mental illness and the impact on friends, family, work and education.
GP (General Practitioner)
Naomi is a medical doctor, an accredited pregnancy (GP) shared care provider with Grampians Health, and an accredited Neuroprotective Developmental Care (NDC, or “Possums”) practitioner.
Naomi provides parents and those looking to become parents, with care and support throughout pre-conception planning, pregnancy, the postpartum period and early parenting/infancy.
Naomi is passionate about biologically-aligned and evidence-based information when providing support around breastfeeding and other forms of infant feeding, infant sleep and settling, growth and development, utilising a Neuroprotective Developmental Care (NDC or “Possums") approach to help you enjoy your baby and being a parent.
Other
Practising vinyasa yoga during pregnancy and in the postpartum period can help reduce the aches and pains often experienced with the changing body shape and growth, can help balance the body and hormones, and help strengthen and tone important pelvic floor muscles.
Jen is also a fully qualified Infant Massage Instructor. Jen trained at the Infant Massage Information Service Australia (IMIS)
Benefits may include relaxation for baby and parent, improved circulation, improved sleep quality, reducing infant wind and easing colic, helping to tone muscles and aid growth, optimise brain and nervous system development and optimising the bond between parent and child. Group or individual infant massage teachings are provided regularly.
Psychologist
Our registered psychologist provides mental health support, therapy and childhood psychological assessments.
They treat children and work with all sorts of conditions, both pre-existing and those that have evolved recently, including stress, anxiety, depression, adjustment disorders, sleep difficulties and mood disorders.
Kate’s therapeutic approach includes Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), with a strong emphasis on the parent-child relationship.
Kate also provides comprehensive psychological assessments to investigate suspected childhood disorders such as ADHD, Conduct Disorder, Specific Learning Disorders, and Intellectual Disabilities.
Psychologist
Our Educational & Developmental Psychologist provides therapies, education and support to children age 8-16 years. This period of a child’s life can provide many life challenges as the young person transitions from young child through puberty, and then ultimately to adulthood. The rites of passage during this period can be tough, as your young person tries to make sense of the world.
• Concerns with a child’s
• Development and/or parent-child relationship issues
• Managing a child’s challenging temperament or behaviour
• Assisting a child with disabilities
• Sibling rivalry
• School transition
• School avoidance
• Learning difficulties
• Poor peer relationships.
• Low self-esteem.
• Physical or sexual abuse
• Sexuality issues
• Child psychological assessment & diagnosis
Midwife
The Early Parenting & Infant Mental Health Consultant (EPC) provides support and education to parents during pregnancy, in the immediate period following birth, right through the primary school years. They provide services both in-home and at the Centre.
The Early Parenting Consultant’s areas of expertise include maternal and paternal emotional support in transition to parenting, breastfeeding counselling, bottle feeding and infant formula advice, oral tie assessments, parent-infant attachment relationships, empirical health & development assessments of infants and young children, settling & sleep, toddler behaviour guidance, pre-schooler behaviour strategy, childhood emotional wellbeing, childhood nutrition & approaches to fussy eating, paediatric gut health & overall wellbeing.
Ms Emma Rodgers(She/her)
Psychologist (Registrar)
Nutritionist
Our Clinical nutritionist will play a crucial role in helping you achieve your optimal well-being, by focusing on the powerful connection between your nutrition & lifestyle and your overall health.
Rachel has a Bachelor of Health Science (Nutrition & Dietetic Medicine), is a life-long learner and has a passion for supporting clients to improve their health.
Rachel believes in nurturing well-being across ALL ages, including during pregnancy, postpartum, newborn period, childhood, adolescence and adulthood, with a special passion for supporting kids to grow strong, happy and healthy.
Massage Therapist
The therapeutic benefits of massage are now widely evidenced, including improved sleep quality, lowered stress and anxiety levels, reduction of oedema of arms, hands, legs and feet, alleviation of muscle, nerve and joint pain and cramps, reducing maternal and foetal stress hormones during pregnancy, along with promoting healing in the postpartum period (matrescence).
Treatments offered:
• Relaxation Massage
• Hot Stone Massage
• Pregnancy Massage
• Facials
• Foot soak, exfoliation & foot massage
• Matrescence massage
• Hair and scalp treatments, including Japanese head spa
Regardless of your treatment choice, leave stress at the door and leave feeling rejuvenated and relaxed …. you are soooo worth it!
Stacey Johnston(She/her)
Counsellor
Counselling provides practical support and guidance for those experiencing emotional, psychological, or behavioural challenges. Counselling offers a safe and supportive space that fosters growth, resilience, and a deeper understanding of self.
Counselling is for everyone: children and adolescents; adults; families; anyone seeking personal growth.
As a counsellor, Stacey takes an integrative, client-centred approach, which means your needs and goals are at the heart of your work together. Stacey can support you with empathy & understanding; collaboration & empowerment; personalised techniques.