Services
Counselling & Family Therapy
The Family Rooms offers tailored and creative therapy services to individuals, couples, and families. We are interested in understanding what matters to you and the hopes you have for life and your relationships, how you are responding to challenges that are getting in the way of these and discovering with you how you might take steps towards your preferred directions in life and with those you care about.
We specialise in supporting children, adolescents and their families as they navigate life’s challenges. In our work with families, we strive to adopt a playful approach to serious problems. This includes using music, art, craft, poetry, metaphor and/or other mediums in addition to talking if these are of interest to people and useful in ‘storying’ and making sense of experiences in life.
You might not be sure who should be coming to the first therapy appointment with you, whether you should be coming as a family, with a friend, on your own or as a couple. We can help you make this decision however often encourage families to come together and/or for people to come with safe and supportive others when this is appropriate and feels right to you.
Our fees for therapy vary depending on the service requested and range from $210 to $260 per 50 minute consultation. For more information about fees, insurance and medicare rebates please see our FAQs.
Cognitive & Psychometric Assessments
Davinia is experienced in cognitive and psychometric assessments with people from as young as 5 years through to adulthood. Davinia provides comprehensive assessments that shine a light on a person’s skills, uniqueness and strengths whilst also identifying areas of difficulty and/or vulnerability. She is highly skilled in operationalising psychological assessments by providing reports in plain language with clear, practical and creative recommendations to enable families, schools and other agencies to know how best to support young people in their care to thrive.
Davinia offers assessment and consultation in relation to Specific Learning Disorders (commonly known as Dyslexia, Dyscalculia and Dysgraphia), Intellectual Disability, Cognitive and Academic Giftedness and ADHD.
Typically, assessments involve an initial consultation to gather relevant information, two x 2-hour assessment sessions, consultations with relevant parties/further data collection, a comprehensive report and a feedback consultation. This process can be dependent upon the assessment required and will be discussed with you following your initial enquiry.
The cost of an assessment is dependent upon the nature of the assessment being sought, consultation required with external agencies (eg. schools and other professionals) and complexity of the circumstances. Assessment costs vary (on average) between $1,000 to $3,000.
Please contact hello@thefamilyrooms.com.au or call on +61 487 378 941 to make an enquiry.
Professional Supervision
Ben Shannahan
Ben is an experienced supervisor and trainer. He is part of the teaching faculty of The Dulwich Centre (Adelaide), The Systemic Consultation Centre (Perth), The Institute of Narrative Therapy (UK) and PartnershipProjectsUK. He offers professional supervision and training to a range of practitioners including counsellors, mental health social workers, child psychiatrists, psychologists, youth and community workers interested in Narrative Therapy and Family Therapy approaches in mental health contexts. He supervises practitioners working with individuals (adults and young people), couples, families and groups. He incorporates an intersectional curiosity in supervision through attending to social, cultural and political factors shaping people’s relationships, experiences and associated mental health struggles. He also provides group supervision to mental health practitioners.
Dr Davinia Shannahan
Davinia is a board-approved supervisor for provisional and qualified psychologists and offers supervision in relation to personal and professional development, psychological assessments and therapeutic intervention with children and families. Davinia’s approach to supervision is systemic and invites supervisees to consider how important social and cultural factors might influence their work as well as beliefs and relationships with other family members, agencies and professional networks. Davinia has considerable experience working in education settings including specialist school settings. She therefore also offers supervision and consultation to practitioners working within educational contexts including teachers, chaplains, school psychologists, counsellors, pastoral care and teaching staff teams.
Training
The Family Rooms offers training locally and internationally on diverse topics, often in response to specific requests from agencies. Ben currently co-facilitates a 2 year post-graduate diploma in Family & Systemic Psychotherapy in Perth with his colleague Roxanne Garven. Ben also offers agency-based training in Narrative and Family Therapy approaches to working with diverse populations with wide-ranging presentations. These range from two-hour workshops to 5 day intensives. The focus of these trainings is adapted and developed in consultation with agencies requesting training.
Please contact hello@thefamilyrooms.com.au or call on +61 487 378 941 to make an enquiry.