MELBOURNE PREGNANCY COUNSELLORS

Providing counselling for: pregnancy options decision making; pre and post abortion support; pregnancy loss; perinatal emotional/mental health & wellbeing; infertility & IVF; birth preparation and debriefing; early parenthood and relationship challenges.

COVID 19 Announcement

We are still here to support you during the COVID 19 pandemic, with some added precautions. Our practitioners are committed to reducing the spread of the virus and are moving to Telehealth and Telephone counselling where appropriate. For some situations, sessions can be bulk billed, so talk to our counsellors to find out more. Please see our FAQs for further information.

ABOUT US

At Melbourne Pregnancy Counsellors, we offer high quality, ethical and evidence-based counselling to help you through your pregnancy-related challenges. We specialise in women's focused pregnancy options decision making, post abortion counselling, as well as perinatal mental health and well being. We are a network of independently practicing counsellors and social workers, working in various locations around Melbourne.

Areas of Practice

Our counsellors have had extensive experience offering pregnancy support for women facing an unplanned or potentially unwanted pregnancy in hospital settings, private abortion clinics and private practice. We have expertise in supporting women and their families through the perinatal period of facing mental illness at the very time they are expected to be full of joy. We have knowledge and expertise in the following areas of practice:

Intimate partner violence
Reproductive coercion
Sexual assault
Perinatal mental health
Trauma recovery
Grief and Loss
Group work
Infertility and IVF Support
LGBTQI
Women considering sole parenting
Clinical supervision
Presentations to Health Professionals

MEET THE TEAM

Here to support your emotional and mental well being

TRISH HAYES

Accredited Mental Health Social Worker

Patricia Hayes is an accredited mental health social worker and counsellor who has worked in the areas of pregnancy options and abortion counselling, maternal mental health, sexual assault counselling as well as generalist university counselling for over a
decade. She has also worked in research, teaching and academia in the areas of social work, the prevention of violence against women and women’s reproductive health as well as in sexual and reproductive health promotion. She has also done further counselling training in the area of mindfulness-based core process therapies, trauma-informed practice and self-compassion therapy.

CHANEL KEANE

Accredited Mental Health Social Worker

In the fifteen years that Chanel has worked as a counsellor and social worker, she has developed experience and skills in working with people whose lives have been affected by childhood and adult trauma, mental illness, drug and alcohol dependence, sexual abuse, and family violence. It is Chanel’s hope that through therapy a client develops greater self-awareness of their emotions, thoughts, their strengths and supports, and in so doing feels an improvement in their over-all well-being and connection with others

Chanel likes to encourage the use of diverse mediums such as creative writing or journal writing and other creative forms of expression to explore and communicate one’s experiences. She has a personal interest in dance, body work and creative writing.

SUZANNE HURLEY

Perinatal Mental Health & Fertility Counsellor

Suzanne is a passionate, dedicated & clinically accredited counsellor (PACFA) who has specialised in the area of reproductive loss, including pregnancy options counselling, abortion counselling, infertility and IVF support and in perinatal mental health. She has provided her clients with counselling, group support and presented to health professionals in various perinatal settings. Her expertise and understanding of the issues women, couples and families face when immersed in the perinatal period is highly sought after.

CINDY BRIDGE

Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, Creative Arts Therapist

Cindy is a caring and compassionate therapist and social worker, with 20 years experience, and over 10 years working as a pregnancy options counsellor at the Pregnancy Advisory Service (RWH) in Melbourne. Cindy is also a trained creative arts therapist, using different modalities to explore and expand on awareness of hopes, beliefs, and emotions in relation to self and others. She has a particular interest in working with attachment, loss and interpersonal trauma, and how this may intersect with pregnancy decision making and adjustment to parenting. She passionately believes in the power of quality evidenced-based practice, with information, rights and a strengths-based framework to support you on your journey. She has worked in a variety of settings, using both individual counselling, casework, and therapeutic group interventions.

CONTACT AND LOCATIONS

Coburg, Fitzroy & North Fitzroy, Preston, Sunbury

Various hours: contact individual counsellors via email, phone or sms