Tidda Counselling
Lobby 1/5 Main St, Point Cook VIC 3030
- Clinic
About Tidda Counselling
Tidda Counselling provides play therapy and related therapeutic services for children aged 2-12 in Melbourne. They believe that children express their innermost feelings and challenges through play, and can heal themselves, regulate their own feelings and behaviours, and make long-term improvements through their own effort with professional support.
What's offered
Clinic sessions
Services provided
Tidda Counselling lists
- Play Therapy
- Child-centred, evidence-based treatment for children aged 2-12 with behavioural, emotional, social, developmental and/or psychological issues. Sessions delivered face-to-face and via telehealth.
- EMDR Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy for processing traumatic experiences, reducing distress, and helping with post-traumatic stress, anxiety, grief, and phobias.
- Parent Coaching
- Services designed to equip parents with resources and strategies to navigate parenting challenges and develop effective parenting strategies for their child's physical, emotional and social development.
- Lego Therapy
- LEGO-based therapeutic program using structured, evidence-based group play to support children with Autism, ADHD, anxiety, depression, and other emotional and neurodevelopmental challenges.
- Social Stars
- Play therapy group held once weekly for 75 minutes over five weeks, designed to build confidence, enhance social skills, and support emotional development through communication, cooperation, problem-solving and emotional regulation.
- Brick Together
- Evidence-based LEGO therapy program for children and parents to connect and grow together through collaborative building activities, developing communication, trust, cooperation, and problem-solving skills.
- Occupational Therapy
- Services to support children of all ages in developing skills needed to thrive, including support with fine motor skills, sensory processing, and daily living activities.
- Cognitive Assessment
- Comprehensive cognitive assessment services for children and adolescents offered by a clinical psychologist.
- Child & Adolescent Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnostic Assessment (ADOS-2)
- Formal diagnostic assessment for autism spectrum disorder using the ADOS-2 assessment tool.
- NDIS Functional Capacity Assessments with Pedi-CAT
- Functional capacity assessments using the Pedi-CAT tool for NDIS purposes.
Get to know Tidda Counselling
From Tidda Counselling's website.
Our approach
Play therapy is based on the belief that children can express their innermost feelings and challenges through play and can subsequently heal themselves, regulate their own feelings and behaviours, and make long-term improvements through their own effort. Rather than using traditional counselling methods that rely on verbal expression, play therapy offers children a calming, therapeutic space to work through feelings in a non-verbal way through play—the child's natural language. Sessions are supported by the therapeutic relationship to bring about growth, development and healing. The approach is extensively proven, professionally recommended and evidence-based for children with behavioural, emotional, social, developmental and psychological issues.
Working with families
Parent involvement is actively encouraged and considered essential to creating a positive therapeutic environment for the child at home, not just in the playroom. Filial therapy and parent coaching strengthen parent-child relationships, reduce stress for parents and teach parents the skills needed to address their child's issues in a constructive, therapeutic and age-appropriate manner. Parents receive specialised training and engage in structured play sessions with their children at home, with ongoing supervision and coaching from a therapist to guide their implementation and success.
Meet the team
The team includes Tulin Kocacik, the founder and director with many years of experience in community organisations and expertise in working therapeutically with children and families presenting with complex needs, trauma, attachment and mental health concerns. Counsellors include Noushad Laila with a Graduate Certificate and Graduate Diploma in Counselling from the University of Canberra; Kush Narang, who serves as a play therapist, counsellor and LEGO facilitator; and Molly Hill, who holds a Bachelor of Psychology and Master of Counselling. Tanya Davis is an author and business owner offering parent coaching. Other team members are Dr. Sangeetha Thomas, Amy Cummins, Misun Lee, Ruhee Kanotra, Pema Choki and Kunal Adlakha.
Locations & areas served
Point Cook
Lobby 1/5 Main St, Point Cook VIC 3030
Get directions to Point Cook (opens Google Maps in a new tab)Opening hours
- Mon–Sat
- 9 AM to 6:30 PM
- Sun
- Closed
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