WORKSHOPS
Side by Side periodically offers low-cost workshops for the community. These workshops are small, hands-on and practical, and include take-home resources. Upcoming workshops for term four include:
Healing Hearts: Parenting Through Trauma
Supporting and nurturing children through trauma.
School Success: Overcoming Refusal and Struggles
Strategies to help children who struggle with or refuse to attend school.
Bedtime Blues: Strategies for a Peaceful Night
Techniques to establish and maintain peaceful bedtime routines.
Empowerment Hour: Advocacy and Support for Parents
Equipping parents with advocacy skills to support their children effectively.
Parent Power: Self-Care Strategies for Busy Parents
Practical tips and techniques for parents to take care of their own well-being.
Side by Side Therapy also offers workshops for teachers, schools and other professionals at Side by Side or off-site at schools or organisations on request.
We have previously run the following popular workshops:
Play for Parents: Engaging Your Child Through Play
Engaging children through play to strengthen parent-child bonds, encourage emotional processing and motor development.
Demystifying NDIS: Navigating the System with Confidence
Understanding and navigating the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
My Child is Neurodivergent, Now What?
Guidance and strategies for parents of neurodivergent children, with a focus on parenting Autistic children and/or children with ADHD.
Teen Time: Navigating Autism in Adolescence
Learn practical strategies to support and empower your autistic teen through the unique challenges and transitions of adolescence.
PDA Parenting: Strategies for Success
Parenting strategies for children with Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA).
Calm Kids: Strategies for Easing Anxiety
Techniques to help children manage and reduce anxiety.
Sibling Shenanigans: Turning Rivalry into Fun
Managing and reducing sibling rivalry through fun activities.
Growing with ADHD: Empowering Your Child
Parenting strategies for children with ADHD.
We’re different…
As a therapy practice, Side by Side Therapy is unique.
We understand that attending therapy is hard for some people, and we will work hard to make you feel safe. Here are some of the things you can expect from working with the Side by Side team:
We try to have as much fun as we can at work, and we encourage our clients to be open to enjoying therapy and celebrate the wins along the way.
We practice integrative therapy, which is needs-based, so looks and feels different for everyone, and respects clients’ voices, pace, wants and needs.
We focus on strengths, building our clients’ resilience, and collaboratively finding ways to meet unmet needs and teach lagging skills.
We are able to work with multiple funding options, plan and self managed NDIS, Medicare, Open Arms Veteran Affairs, Child Protection, and some health funds.
