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Find Balance with Choosing Harmony
Moving You Forward
Caroline is a Registered Trauma Therapist and enjoys working with families, children, adolescents and young adults. Caroline has gathered experience both privately and in community health working with a range of issues including anxiety, depression, stress, grief and loss, self-esteem, difficult life transitions and neurodevelopment disorders. Caroline also has a focus on psychological and educational assessment to help assist parents and schools in supporting clients learning and wellbeing. Caroline is known for her warmth and empathy and is committed to creating a safe therapeutic environment.
Caroline’s books are now open for assessment and therapy for a limited time. Call the practice on 0400 392 646 to make a booking 🌼
Choosing Harmony Support Services was founded in the Grampians Region of Western Victoria in 2021 by our Principal Practitioner Caroline Smith, who identified a need for a personalised service. Caroline has a long history as a highly skilled leader in the field of community services. She holds multiple qualifications in Mental Health and Addiction including a Bachelor of Community and Human Services/ Criminal Justice. Specialising in Developmental Trauma. She is passionate about enjoying life in the great outdoors. She is well positioned to provide a unique experience in nature for people who want to experience life beyond the restrictions of labels, beyond their disability.
Choosing Harmony provides holistic services to all people and welcomes NDIS clients, especially those requiring support to get NDIS funding.
We operate using the below values.
Values:
Integrity
Inclusivity
Respect
Responsibility
All team members have been vaccinated against COVID-19.
Choosing Harmony are proud
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Choose how we can help you best.
Support That Makes a Difference
NDIS Services for
Innovative Community Participation
Assistance Life Stage Transition
Development - Life Skills
Therapeutic Supports
Participate Community
Specialist Behaviour Support
Specialist Support Co-Ordination
Specialising in trauma, recovery, rehabilitation & regulation (interoception/self regulation = coregulation) complex developmental trauma, sensory stories, relationships, behavioural & emotional circumstances, mental health including PTSD & CPTSD, attachment, neuro- diversity (Autism, ADHD, ADD, ODD, RAD, ASD) - An all age inclusive practice for children, youth/young people, parents & carers, adults & families… NDIS Approved & fee for service options.
For enquiries or appointments phone or text 0400392646 Choosing Harmony
Navigating Neurodiversity
Who self regulates your child when you can not be there?.
We only get one opportunity to provide the “appropriate” safety that many we work with have yet to feel. Once the feeling of safety is gone there is no way to replace it.
Educating parents, support workers and the community in a series of 4 sessions … we first look at our own breathing and interoception and how this can and does influence others. The need for self regulation before coregulation. Consider how you feel the energy around different people. If you are unable to self regulate this will impact all around you. Consider how this impacts our loved ones when we trust those with the care of our loved ones. Instead of calm spreading, anxiety is in its place.
We all need to know how to self-regulate. Then we can be sure those around us will feel this and be safe. We cannot learn or take on new information if we are not feeling safe. Everything is a choice.
Please choose Harmony.
Targeted Therapeutic Interventions
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Evidence Based Trauma Informed Training and Support
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Individualised Behaviour Support Assessment Recommendation and Training
The Self Regulation before Coregulation foundation for choosing harmony in all relationships for life. The foundation Certificate program, has been a game-changer for all involved, bringing a deep understanding of self and others. of what makes people tick. In this four-course, online program, let me take you deep into the science of self-regulation and stress including:
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how the brain/body stress system works
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how stress affects children’s behaviour and moods
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the difference between misbehaviour and stress behaviour
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the importance of relationships in self-regulation and learning
Workplace Support
Calling on all Support Workers within the Community Service Space.
Did You know that Choosing Harmony offer Professional Supervision!
Professional Supervision is a proactive approach that aims to maintain & build your confidence, competence + resilience within your line of work.
Particularly useful for Independent Support Workers (or those who are seeking additional support), areas of focus include, but are not limited to:
- Stress + Anxiety Management
- Work/Life Balance
- Effective Communication Strategies
- Workplace Boundaries + Conflict Resolution
- Position Description Accountability + Responsibility
- Strength Based Professional Development
As Care Workers, we spend a significant amount of time caring for others – Don’t forget to care for yourself also.
Choosing Harmony is excited to collaborate with Flair & Fine Care as our first NDIS Service Provider Partnership venture, supporting its 50 employees with therapy, counselling, education and training sessions.
Face to face, phone & online services available.
Individual & small group options.
To find out more, or to book in, email choosingharmony@outlook.com
*Services may be fully tax deductable – Contact your accountant for confirmation.
We provide a range of services inclusive of:
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Anger Management
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Mediation
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Critical Incident Stress Management
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Debriefing
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Drug and Alcohol Counselling
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Developing strategies for dealing with aggressive or violent people in the workplace
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NDIS Behaviour Support
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NDIS Plan Management
About Me
Passionate Counselling Professional - Trauma Specialist
I have 25 years’ experience working within mandated and voluntary environments. I have as many years of education to go with this, as I have evolved from a Preschool Mothercraft Nurse (1994), to Youth Worker (1997), DisAbility services support Co-Ordinator (2001), DisAbilty peer Support Co-ordinator (2007), Counsellor (2007), Operations Manager Commercial Construction (2010-2015), High Risk Residential Counsellor (2015-2018), Department of Justice HCC, and Child Protection Family Violence - Case Management (2018-2020). I have obtained 23 different training qualifications. I specialize in helping people identify and achieve their personal goals by coping with the issues that are causing them distress, anxiety, and stress. I take great pride in the progress and success of my clients. I'm a registered family therapist and counsellor with the Victorian Counselling Association, Mental Health Professionals Network, NACCHO ( National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation), ACWA, NAADAC (The Association for Addiction Professionals), Centre for Healing, IICT (International Institute of Complementary Therapies) and Mental Health Foundation Australia. I have management and practitioner expertise in Government, NFP and Private sector in fields of Mental Health and Community and Human Services. Specialising in working with people with complex needs, utilising evidence based, targeted therapeutic interventions with a trauma informed lens.
Psychological therapy creates space to explore your thoughts, feelings, and actions, and to work towards your goals in alignment with your values.
I work from a Trauma informed framework. I specialise in Epigenetics, which provides opportunities to become skilful at being present and engaged in the moment, coping through crises, managing feelings, and interacting with others. I also draw from body-based therapies, which focus on your relationship to and empathy with your own felt body.
My specialities include Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (Developing useful thoughts & behaviours to help improve your mood); Interpersonal Therapy (Resolving problems with relationships and life events to help improve your mood); and Skills Training (Building coping skills in areas such as communication, problem-solving, relaxation, and stress management).
Integrative approaches.
Integrative approaches honour the mind-body-spirit connection and its role in mental health recovery, including:
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Nutrition, movement, and lifestyle counselling
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Mindfulness meditation & guided imagery (breathwork)
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Intuitive eating approaches
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Disordered Eating
“We know what we are, but not what we may be”
William Shakespeare
Schedule a Session
Please use the following link to book an appointment in powerdiary.
0400392646
We acknowledge the Djab Wurrung and Jardwadjali people, this is a sacred place known as Gariwerd. Djab Wurrung and Jardwadjali people are the custodians of the lands and waters of the Grampians region in which we meet. We pay respect to elders past, present, and emerging. We acknowledge and respect the Djab Wurrung and Jardwadjali people’s emotional, physical, and spiritual connection with their country and communities. . The descendants of these traditional peoples remain in the area to this day, carrying on the culture and stories of our unseeded land of rugged sandstone mountain ranges in the northwest of Victoria known as The Grampians.
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