Counselling in Bayside Melbourne

Compassionate Counselling for Children, Adolescents, Adults & Families

Feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or emotionally exhausted?

Seeking support for yourself, your child, or your family?

Life can feel overwhelming at times. You may be experiencing anxiety, stress, emotional exhaustion, relationship difficulties, parenting challenges, grief, trauma, or significant life transitions. At other times, you may simply feel stuck, disconnected, or unsure how to move forward.

Counselling offers a safe, supportive, and confidential space where you can feel heard, understood, and supported without judgement.

At Mindsight Counselling, I provide counselling for children, adolescents, adults, and families across Melbourne Bayside, including Highett, Sandringham, Bentleigh, Caulfield, Brighton, Cheltenham, Mentone, Hampton, and surrounding areas.

I work with people across Bayside Melbourne, including Highett, Hampton, Brighton, Sandringham, Black Rock, Beaumaris, Bentleigh and surrounding suburbs.

My approach is warm, collaborative, trauma-informed, and neuroaffirming — supporting each person with compassion, curiosity, and respect for their unique experiences, strengths, and needs.

How Counselling Can Help

Counselling can support people through many emotional, behavioural, and life challenges, including:

  • Anxiety counselling

  • Stress and emotional overwhelm

  • Grief and loss

  • Life transitions

  • Relationship difficulties

  • Parenting and family support

  • ADHD and autism

  • Trauma-informed counselling

  • Neuroaffirming counselling

A Safe and Supportive Space

Beginning counselling can feel unfamiliar or vulnerable. My aim is to create a therapeutic space where you feel emotionally safe, accepted, and supported at your own pace.

Every person’s experience is different, and therapy is tailored to meet your individual needs and goals.

Depending on the client, sessions may include:

  • Talk-based counselling

  • Creative and expressive therapies

  • Art therapy

  • Sandplay therapy

  • Mindfulness and grounding strategies

  • Emotional regulation support

  • Attachment-informed approaches

For some people, talking feels comfortable. For others, creative and sensory-based approaches can provide a gentler way to explore emotions and experiences when words feel difficult or overwhelming.

Issues I Can Help You With

Counselling for Adults

Adult life can bring ongoing pressures, responsibilities, and emotional challenges that impact wellbeing, relationships, and daily functioning.

Counselling offers space to slow down, reflect, and reconnect with yourself in meaningful ways.

Together we may work to:

  • Process difficult emotions and experiences

  • Understand relationship and behavioural patterns

  • Reduce anxiety and emotional overwhelm

  • Strengthen coping strategies

  • Improve self-esteem and emotional wellbeing

  • Navigate change and uncertainty

  • Reconnect with personal values and strengths.

    Whether you are facing a specific difficulty or feeling emotionally exhausted and disconnected, counselling can support you towards greater clarity, balance, and resilience.

Therapy can help you

Through counselling, you may develop a deeper understanding of your emotions and experiences and find new ways of responding to life's challenges.

Together, we may work towards:

  • Better understanding your emotions and experiences

  • Developing healthier coping strategies

  • Strengthening emotional resilience

  • Improving relationships and communication

  • Building confidence and self-awareness

  • Feeling more connected, supported, and emotionally grounded

Neuroaffirming & Trauma-Informed Practice

My work is grounded in a neuroaffirming and trauma-informed framework.

I recognise and respect neurodiversity, including autism and ADHD, and support each person in ways that honour their sensory, emotional, communication, and relational needs.

I also understand the impact trauma can have on emotional regulation, relationships, self-worth, and the nervous system. Therapy is approached gently and collaboratively, with emotional safety and trust at the centre of the therapeutic relationship.

Hello, I'm Dalit

About Dalit

I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor and Creative Arts Therapist with over 20 years of experience supporting children, adolescents, adults, and families.

My practice integrates counselling, creative arts therapy, sandplay therapy, attachment-based approaches, and trauma-informed care to support emotional wellbeing, self-understanding, and meaningful change.

I believe healing happens through safe relationships, compassionate understanding, creativity, and connection.

  • PACFA registration

  • counselling experience

  • Art therapy experience

  • Trauma-informed approach

  • Neurodiversity-affirming approach

  • Adults/children/families

Counselling for Children

Children often communicate through play, behaviour, creativity, and relationships rather than words alone.

I support children experiencing:

  • Anxiety and worries

  • Emotional outbursts or shutdowns

  • Difficulty expressing emotions

  • Friendship and social challenges

  • School stress and school refusal

  • family separation or change

  • grief and loss

  • low self-esteem

  • emotional regulation difficulties

  • neurodivergent challenges including autism and ADHD

Sessions are developmentally appropriate, engaging, and supportive, helping children feel safe, understood, and empowered.

Creative approaches such as art, sandplay, storytelling, and play-based interventions can support emotional expression, self-awareness, confidence, and emotional regulation.

Parent & Family Support:

Families can experience periods of stress, disconnection, and emotional strain, particularly during times of transition or when supporting children with additional emotional or developmental needs.

  • Stronger communication

  • Emotional understanding

  • Attachment and connection

  • Emotional regulation within the family

  • Parenting challenges

  • Navigating neurodiversity

  • Family transitions and separation

    Parent support sessions can provide practical strategies, emotional support, and a space for reflection and guidance.

Counselling Sessions in Highett & Melbourne Bayside

Sandringham Beach

Appointments are available for:

  • Children

  • Adults

  • Parents and families

Sessions are offered in Highett, Melbourne Bayside, with online counselling available where appropriate.

If you are looking for a counsellor in Highett, Bayside Melbourne or surrounding suburbs, I welcome you to get in touch to discuss your needs and whether counselling may be right for you.

What to Expect From Counselling

Starting counselling can feel like a big step, particularly if you are not sure what to expect.

Our first sessions are an opportunity to talk about what has brought you to counselling, what you would like support with, and what you hope to change or understand. I will listen without judgement and work with you at a pace that feels comfortable.

There is no expectation that you have everything worked out before you begin. Counselling can be a space to slow down, explore what you are experiencing and gradually develop a clearer understanding of yourself and your circumstances.

Depending on your needs, our work may draw on counselling, psychotherapy, mindfulness, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), creative approaches, art therapy or sandplay therapy.

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Ready to Take the Next Step?

Seeking support is an important and meaningful step towards healing and wellbeing.

If you are looking for compassionate counselling in Bayside Melbourne for yourself, your child, or your family, I welcome you to get in touch. If you have any questions about my fees, please visit the page.

Book an Appointment

To book an appointment or to find out more, call Dalit on 0412 396 644.