Group Therapy Programs

LEGO® Group

5+ years

Our recreational LEGO® group is a safe space for lovers of LEGO® to come and build, create, and participate! The group focuses on allowing members to socialise and meet others with similar interests, all whilst creating a LEGO® masterpiece.

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Learn to Cook

(Recreational & Capacity Building Classes Available)

Any Age!

Learn kitchen safety and how to cook simple starter meals. Walk away with easy-to-follow recipe book for each recipe learnt. Support workers encouraged to attend and assist in transferring skills learnt into the home.

Recreational Cooking

(12 Week Course)

7+ years

This recreational group allows clients to explore cooking in a fun and safe environment. These classes go for 12 weeks and alternate between sweet and savoury dishes. Psylutions Group has every type of mould, sprinkle, decoration, cookie-cutter and icing that you can think of for donuts, cakes, cupcakes, biscuits, slice and sweet bread.

Emotional Regulation

(8 Week Course)

4-8 years

The Emotional Regulation program encourages kids to recognise and get in touch with their emotions in a fun and supportive environment. This help with social skills, coping skills, and developing confidence, self esteem and relationships.

Learn to Play

4-6 years

Learn to Play is designed to develop the imaginative play skills of children with developmental delays, autistic spectrum disorders, language disorders and other disabilities.

Prep 4 Prep

4 years

Prep4Prep is designed to teach children the main concepts they are expected to master in Prep and build the foundations to help start school with confidence.

Art Therapy

5+ years

Within our art therapy programs, different areas are targeted including Attention, Concentration, Sequencing and Following, Sensory, Fine Motor and Indigenous Art Group.

• Attention & Concentration Art Therapy uses the processes of drawing, painting, and sculpting to help children manage behaviour, reduce stress, and increase self-awareness.
• Sequencing & following uses the processes of drawing, painting, and sculpting to help children manage behaviour, reduce stress, and increase self-awareness.
• Sensory Art consists of specific art activities that relate to your child’s senses such as touch, sight, sound, smell, and taste. Your child will naturally learn how to explore, investigate, and create a variety or sensory play activities.
• Fine Motor helps children develop their fine motor muscles via grasping pencils, crayons, chalk, and paintbrushes. This development will help your child with writing, buttoning a coat and other tasks that require controlled movements.
• Recreational and capacity building classes available.
• Indigenous Art offers an expression of identity and culture, providing avenues for self-expression, self-determination, and self-understanding. With these understandings of Indigenous culture, art also has the power to heal.

Boogie Bounce 

(12 Week Course – 45 Minute Sessions)

16+ years

Boogie Bounce is a fun, dance-inspired, trampoline-based physical activity. Classes are divided into short bursts of moderate-high intensity exercise allowing for reduced-exercise capacity participants to give it a go! Best part is that the exercise is low-impact on the body, which means reduced joint and muscle soreness! Boogie Bounce classes can aid in developing cardiovascular fitness and can improve coordinated movement patterns, whilst toning large muscle groups in the body. So come on in and have a boogie with us!

Movement for Mood

18+ years

Movement for Mood is a program designed to improve psychosocial functioning and reduce risk of further chronic disease development.

Vets HIIT Group Therapy

(6 Week program – Fortnightly Sessions – Ex Military Personnel)

18+ years

Vets HIIT Group is a bi-weekly exercise group designed to bring together ex-military personnel in a supportive environment.

Weight-Loss Kick Start Program

(4 Week Course)

16+ years

A 4 week program tailored to motivate people who would like to begin their weight-loss journey. Classes will be small groups of 3-4 people and will focus on educating participants about healthy lifestyle choices in conjunction with completing a structured exercise program. The program has been developed and will be facilitated by an accredited exercise physiologist who understands the impact that extra weight can have on your physical health and mental wellbeing. Take the first step in a safe and supportive space.

Early Literacy Foundation

Ages: Second Semester of Year 1 or First Semester of Year 2

This group helps children improve writing, reading, and spelling. As well as motor and sensory skills necessary to plan and execute precision tasks such as handwriting and cutting.

The Processing Program

Ages:

3 – 6 years – Processing Programs level 1

6 – 9 years – Processing Programs level 2

9 – 12 years – Processing Programs level 3

This groups seeks to help children who have difficulty in processing or learning language skills.

Phonological Awareness (PA) for Literacy (PAL)

7.5 years to 14 years

This group seeks to improve Phonological Awareness and its application to reading and spelling. Ensure automatic sound-letter links for consonants, short and long vowels. Lastly, to improve spelling and reading of single, words including both single syllable and multi-syllable words.

Therapy-Focused Gaming

(9 Week Course – 2hr Sessions)

12+ years

Therapy-Focused Gaming combines the structure of group psychotherapy and overlays it with a gaming system to provide a safe, fun environment to develop important life skills. Our Therapeutic Game Master synthesizes the Dungeon & Dragons 5th Edition System with concepts drawn from a number of psychological interventions, including Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) to target goal areas shared by group participants.

Goals that can be targeted with therapy-focused gaming can include:

• Develop Emotional Intelligence
• Improve Communication and Social Skills
• Utilise Problem Solving Skills
• Enhance Rule Following and Sequencing
• Improve Coping Skills and Resilience
• Allow participants to indirectly encounter complex issues in a safe environment

Therapy-Focused Gaming runs for nine, 2-hour sessions and is offered for adults or for children from 12 years old.

Scrap Booking

12+ years

Scrap booking is a fun and exciting way in which we encourage our clients to get creative in their self-expression process. Scrap booking can be used to preserve memories, create new ones and tell a story. This can benefit with stress reduction, learning to enhance and build social skills, and creative self-expression.

1-2-3 Magic and Emotional Coaching 

(4 Week Course – 2hr Sessions)

Parents for Children Aged: 2 years to 12 years

1-2-3 Magic & Emotion Coaching is a parenting program that focuses on implementing effective discipline strategies to create a loving, supportive family atmosphere. It helps parents feel that they are in charge of their children, while avoiding arguing, yelling, and physical discipline.

Parents will learn:

• How to discipline without arguing, yelling, or smacking
• How to sort behaviour
• How to handle challenging and testing behaviours
• Choosing strategies – the 3 choices model
• Using emotion coaching to encourage good behaviour
• Strategies for encouraging good behaviour

1-2-3 Magic & Emotion Coaching runs for four, 2-hour sessions and is suitable for parents with children between 2 and 12 years old.

Tuning into Kids (TINK)

(6 Week Course – 2hr Sessions)

Parents for Children Aged: 3.5 years to 11 years

Turning in to Kids is a parenting program focusing on emotional connection between parents (or carers) and their children from pre-school to teens. It helps to improve parent-child relationships and children’s emotional competence and behaviours. The program helps to improve parent-child relationships and develop children’s emotional competence and behaviours through parenting.

Parents will learn:

• Emotional awareness skills
• Understanding of their own emotional expression
• How to Emotion Coach
• How to develop their children’s’ emotional intelligence

Tuning in to Kids runs for six, 2-hour sessions and is suitable for parents with children between 5 and 10 years old.

Tuning into Teens (TINT)

(6 Week Course – 2hr Sessions)

Parents for Children Aged: 10 years to 18 years

Turning in to Teens is an emotions-focused parenting program that focuses on strengthening the emotional connection between parents and their children from late primary school through adolescence. The program teaches emotion coaching, recognising, understanding, and managing emotions, and how to build stronger relationships between the parent and their teen.

Parents will learn:

• Foundations of Emotion Coaching
• Developing Emotional Acceptance
• Understanding of their own emotional expression

Tuning in to Teens runs for six, 2-hour sessions and is suitable for parents with children between 10 and 18 years old.