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Relationship Counselling for adults, couples, parents, families and carers during life's tough times.

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Relationship and Family Therapy

Counselling and Support Services

At Innate Therapies, we have a team of specialist counsellors with extensive experience. They are devoted to creating counseling sessions that meet your individual needs. These sessions can help you navigate the difficult times in life.

Our team of professionals will be by your side, offering guidance and support as you embark on your journey of self-discovery and personal growth. We strive to ensure that you reach an improved state of mental wellbeing, enabling you to live a more balanced, happy and fulfilling life.

We aim to support all people in Australia. Our goal is for them to live with positive and respectful relationships. We believe that people have the capacity to change how they relate to others when facing relationship difficulties. This can lead to better health and wellbeing.

Reasons why you might see a counsellor

  • Emotional, physical or sexual abuse
  • Eating disorders
  • Sexual identity
  • Self-esteem and self-harm
  • Grief and loss of a loved one
  • Problems with relationships
  • Traumatic events they have experienced or witnessed
  • Overwhelming feelings such as anger, stress, worry, fear and sadness (grief)
  • Family changes such as separation or divorce
  • Mental health conditions

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Family Counselling

Family can be a wonderful place where one feels they belong, are nurtured, understood and loved. It can also be a place of grief, heartbreak, abuse and mistrust. Sometimes when things go wrong in families, family therapy can help to put things right.

Families are unique. They are composed of individuals with varying attitudes, personalities, and opinions. Consequently, conflicts can easily arise.

Family members can have difficulty communicating during interactions, leading to relationship difficulties. They may become stuck in negative patterns of behavior, making it hard to make changes.

Family therapy and counselling sessions can help to identify problems that are impacting each individual family member. This system works by providing a secure and moderated environment. Each person’s grievance can be openly expressed without fear of judgement. The constructive conversations that result will help members communicate better with each other.

At Innate Therapy, our Counsellors specialize in helping families. We aim to help them understand each other, change negative behaviours, and create long-term positive changes. This way, families can thrive together in unity.

Frequently Asked Questions

A breakdown in communication is very common in families, when there is high emotions, we all tend to stop listening.

The goal is to bring harmony back into the family home and to provide a space where everyone has the opportunity to feel they have been heard.

Every member gets to talk about what it is like for them to be in the family. This is facilitated by the therapist to ensure that everyone gets to have their voice heard. The desired outcome is that once everyone has been heard each member commits to a positive change they can make to change the family dynamics. .

This is the family’s goals and a commitment by each member to make positive change to work toward those goals. .

Communication, disrespect, not wanting to follow family rules, sibling conflict. Parent and child conflict. .

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Parent / Carer Support Counselling

Parenting and caring for a child can be so incredibly rewarding and just as equally challenging! Having the privilege to care for our children can be so rewarding as we support them through their journey to independence, and also can be a thankless, frustrating and a lot of hard work, especially as they transition into teenage years.

Human connection is so very special and important and one of the most important connections is the one between parent and child. It therefore is very difficult when the connection is being challenged or is breaking completely. Parents care for the physical daily needs of their children; however, they are also responsible for helping their child develop life skills, social skills, support their emotional wellbeing, and teach appropriate behaviour.

There is no family that does not have its challenges, arguments or stress. A major contributor to this is the way a parent or carer manages their own personal stress, handle conflicts, and parents their child, or how the child behaves, supports it needs, and working together to have harmony in the home. When it is going well it is great, when it isn’t, it can be a source of great pain.

Parent / Carer counselling aims to provide you with support, guidance, tools, knowledge and emotional support. This counselling is service that will provide you with unbiased guidance and will help you to identify the needs of each individual in your family and having a closer look at the well-being of your family unit, and to work out strategies for making lasting and positive change.

This type of counselling is different to Family counselling which has its own set of benefits for the family as a unit, Parenting counselling focuses on how you as the parent affect the dynamics of your family. 

At Innate Therapies we provide different therapies and modalities with the aim to help parents to know their parenting style, how they can use tools to help their relationship with their child, and to assist them to grow, restore, or increase the harmony in their home.

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When do I Seek Relationship Support?

If you’re wondering when to seek relationship counselling in Cairns, the answer is often: sooner than later. Many couples wait until conflicts become overwhelming, but early support can prevent deeper disconnection. You might consider relationship counselling if communication has become strained, arguments are frequent or unresolved, trust has been broken, intimacy has faded, or you feel more like roommates than partners. It’s also valuable if you’re navigating major life changes, feeling stuck in unhealthy patterns, or simply want to strengthen your bond and understanding of one another.

At Innate Therapies Cairns, we provide a supportive, non-judgemental space to explore your relationship, improve communication, and rebuild connection — whether you’re in crisis or just ready to grow together.

Common Issues We Can Help With

At Innate Therapies Cairns, we support couples, families and individuals facing a wide range of relationship challenges.

Common issues we can help with include communication breakdowns, frequent arguments, emotional distance, trust issues, infidelity, blended family difficulties, and the stress of parenting or major life transitions. We also assist with navigating conflict in a healthy way, improving emotional intimacy, rebuilding connection after hardship, and developing tools to move forward with clarity and mutual respect. Whether your relationship is in crisis or simply needs a tune-up, our compassionate, evidence-based approach can guide you toward healthier, more fulfilling connections.

Are you looking for Couples Counselling?

Every relationship is unique and will have many wonderful aspects and often some complex challenges also. It is not uncommon for relationships as they evolve to change and become challenging as couples feel overwhelmed when trying to balance everyday life with a healthy relationship.

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