Bilingual Counselling

Sydney Women’s Counselling Centre is located in the Canterbury LGA, an area made up of people from many lands, cultures and language groups. Centre staff are particularly conscious of this and provide services that are culturally appropriate to the women in our area and the greater Sydney metropolitan area and we provide a bilingual counselling program or interpreters if appropriate to do so.

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Scarce resources limit the extent of bilingual services available but the Centre always endeavours to ensure accessibility and appropriateness of services to women and will aid women’s access to other ethno-specific agencies to meet their needs.

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Information / brochures are available in a variety of community languages and staff are trained in cross cultural issues.

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The Centre has a long established Bilingual Counselling program and is currently providing counselling in Mandarin and Cantonese though fully qualified Chinese counsellors on staff at the Centre.

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As in our other programs, counselling is client focused, confidential and conducted in a supportive, trustworthy respectful environment with individually tailored treatment options utilising each person’s inner strengths to resolve their problems and reach their life goals.

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Often there will be significant co-occurring issues that can also be addressed in a holistic and integrated way during counselling. The Bilingual Counselling Program addresses a range of presenting issues and also does long -term trauma work.  ​

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​Empowering women to improve the quality of their lives and fulfill their potential.