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Counselling Services

Couples Counselling

Mellita has been working with couples to overcome relationship issues and enrich their marriages since she completed her Prepare and Enrich training in 1996.

Individual Counselling

Mellita uses a range of counselling methods to help individual clients to identify and clarify their issues and then to plan ways in which to manage and overcome life's challenges.

Prepare/Enrich pre marriage counselling

Mellita uses the unique system of online questionaries by Prepare Marriage Preparation. She has been using this system since 1996.

Counselling Children

Mellita has worked with children inside and outside the counselling room since she completed her youth work program in 1991. She has worked with children who have experienced trauma since 2000.

Trauma Counselling

Mellita has worked with clients who have experienced domestic abuse and/or childhood abuse; emotional, physical and sexual. Often this type of trauma can have pervasive effects and interfere with physical, emotional and mental health of clients.

Christian Mentoring

Every person needs to find their own spiritual path. Mellita has a personal interest in working with people to explore the Christian faith and considering a relationship with Jesus.

Mellita Bate

Mellita can work in a variety of ways with you, including individual and family counselling. The way each client works with the counsellor depends on the specific areas and issues, and what seems to be most appropriate to the client and counsellor.

Mellita Bate is a qualified counsellor, with a Bachelor of Arts in Social Science and a Masters of Counselling. Mellita is also a qualified supervisor with a Grad Cert in both Pastoral and Clinical Supervision.

She has completed courses in a variety of counselling areas, including Anger Management, Anxiety Disorders, Behaviour Therapy, Boundary Implementation, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Conflict Resolution, Couple Counselling, Depression, Eating Disorders, Family Therapy and Genograms, Grief and Loss, Complicated Grief, Trauma, Life transitions, Workplace Harassment, and Meditation and Christian Counselling.

Mellita began her studies with a Diploma of Theology.

Mellita Bate is a member of the Australian Counsellors Association and Australasian Association of Supervision.