COunseling Services

Provide comprehensive support to individuals facing mental health challenges, emotional difficulties, or substance use disorders. Conduct assessments, delivering therapeutic interventions, coordinating care, and connecting clients with community resources. Monitor individualized treatment plans, track client progress, and advocate for their needs with the goal of supporting long-term recovery and enhancing overall well-being.

Provide comprehensive support to individuals facing mental health challenges, emotional difficulties, or substance use disorders. This role involves conducting assessments, delivering therapeutic interventions, coordinating care, and connecting clients with community resources. You will create and monitor individualized treatment plans, track client progress, and advocate for their needs with the goal of supporting long-term recovery and enhancing overall well-being.

Provide therapeutic services to individuals managing mental health conditions, emotional challenges, or substance use disorders in an outpatient setting. Responsibilities include conducting assessments, developing and implementing individualized treatment plans, providing one-on-one and group counseling, and monitoring client progress. Collaborate with other healthcare providers, coordinate referrals, and connect clients with community resources as needed. The primary goal is to support clients in achieving recovery, maintaining stability, and improving their overall quality of life while they continue to live in their communities.

Provide integrated behavioral health services to adults experiencing co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. Responsibilities include conducting comprehensive assessments, developing individualized, strengths-based treatment plans, and delivering evidence-based interventions that address both mental health and substance use needs. Clinicians offer individual and group counseling, crisis intervention, care coordination, and linkage to community resources. Emphasis is placed on a recovery-oriented, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive approach that supports client goals, promotes stability, and enhances overall well-being.

Outpatient treatment provides structured, evidence-based behavioral health services for individuals dealing with mental health conditions, substance use disorders, or co-occurring issues. Services are delivered in a non-residential setting, allowing clients to receive support while maintaining their daily responsibilities. Treatment includes comprehensive assessments, individualized treatment planning, individual and group therapy, psychoeducation, case management, and care coordination. The goal is to promote recovery, enhance functioning, and support long-term wellness in the least restrictive environment.

Services are tailored to the child’s developmental stage, emotional needs, family context, and social environment.

Dual Diagnosis Capability:

Clinicians are trained to identify, assess, and treat both substance use issues and mental health conditions concurrently, rather than treating one in isolation.

Multidisciplinary Teams:

Includes mental health professionals, AOD specialists, pediatricians, social workers, educators, and sometimes peer or family support workers.

Early Intervention and Prevention Focus:

Emphasis on identifying issues early—often in schools, primary care settings, or

through community outreach—to prevent escalation.

Family Involvement:

Recognizes the vital role of caregivers in a child’s recovery and well-being; families are often involved in treatment planning and support.

Trauma-Informed Care:

Many children with AOD/MH issues have experienced trauma. Integrated services are sensitive to trauma and avoid re-traumatization.

Cultural Competence:

Services are adapted to meet the cultural needs of diverse populations, especially

important for Indigenous or minority communities.

Continuity of Care:

Coordination across service systems—schools, healthcare, juvenile justice—ensures smoother transitions and avoids gaps in support.

Common Issues Addressed:

• Co-occurring anxiety, depression, ADHD, PTSD, or conduct disorders with substance misuse
• Impacts of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
• Self-harm or suicidal ideation alongside drug/alcohol use
• School disengagement and social withdrawal

Outcomes Aimed For:

• Reduced substance use and related harm
• Improved emotional regulation and mental well-being
• Strengthened family relationships
• Better school attendance and engagement
• Long-term resilience and social functioning

Integrated AOD/MH (Children) refers to a coordinated model of care that addresses both Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) use and Mental Health (MH) concerns in children and adolescents. This approach recognizes that substance use and mental health challenges often co-occur, especially in youth, and require a holistic, integrated treatment model rather than siloed services.

Key Features of Integrated AOD/MH (Children) Services:

Holistic, Child-Centered Approach:

Services are tailored to the child’s developmental stage, emotional needs, family context, and social environment.

Dual Diagnosis Capability:

Clinicians are trained to identify, assess, and treat both substance use issues and

mental health conditions concurrently, rather than treating one in isolation.

Multidisciplinary Teams:

Includes mental health professionals, AOD specialists, pediatricians, social workers, educators, and sometimes peer or family support workers.

Early Intervention and Prevention Focus:

Emphasis on identifying issues early—often in schools, primary care settings, or

through community outreach—to prevent escalation.

Family Involvement:

Recognizes the vital role of caregivers in a child’s recovery and well-being; families are often involved in treatment planning and support.

Trauma-Informed Care:

Many children with AOD/MH issues have experienced trauma. Integrated services are sensitive to trauma and avoid re-traumatization.

Cultural Competence:

Services are adapted to meet the cultural needs of diverse populations, especially

important for Indigenous or minority communities.

Continuity of Care:

Coordination across service systems—schools, healthcare, juvenile justice—ensures smoother transitions and avoids gaps in support.

Common Issues Addressed:

• Co-occurring anxiety, depression, ADHD, PTSD, or conduct disorders with substance misuse
• Impacts of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
• Self-harm or suicidal ideation alongside drug/alcohol use
• School disengagement and social withdrawal

Outcomes Aimed For:

• Reduced substance use and related harm
• Improved emotional regulation and mental well-being
• Strengthened family relationships
• Better school attendance and engagement
• Long-term resilience and social functioning

Comprehensive, home-based treatment model that works intensively with families facing

complex and high-risk situations—often involving child protection concerns, mental health

(MH), and/or Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) issues. The “integrated” aspect means these

services address multiple issues within the family system simultaneously, rather than

separately.

Purpose:

To stabilize families at risk of breakdown, improve child safety and well-being, and prevent

out-of-home care placements by addressing the interconnected issues affecting the whole

family.

Key Features:

Home-Based and Family-Focused:

• Services are delivered in the home or community settings, increasing accessibility and reducing stigma.
• Focuses on the entire family unit, not just the identified child or parent.

Multidisciplinary Teams:

• Teams typically include child protection workers, AOD clinicians, mental health professionals, and family therapists.
• Professionals work collaboratively with one another and with the family.

Integrated Support for Co-Occurring Issues:

• Simultaneous treatment of:
  • Parental AOD use
  • Child or parent mental health concerns
  • Parenting challenges
  • Family violence or trauma
• Uses shared care plans and coordinated case management.

High-Intensity, Time-Limited Intervention:

• Fequent contact (multiple times per week)
• Crisis intervention is available when needed.

Trauma-Informed and Strengths-Based:

• Recognizes the impacts of trauma on behavior and relationships. 
• Builds on family strengths and capacities to support long-term change.

Cultural Safety and Responsiveness:

• Tailored approaches for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families, CALD communities, or others with distinct cultural needs.

Goal-Oriented and Outcome-Focused:

• Goals typically include:
  •  Keeping children safe at home
  • Improving family functioning and parenting capacity
  • Reducing AOD use and mental health symptoms
  • Enhancing child development and emotional well-being

Who It’s For:

Families where:

• Children are at risk of being removed or have recently returned home
• There are multiple, compounding challenges (e.g., substance use, domestic violence, mental illness)
• Less intensive services have not been effective

Common Outcomes:

• Improved parenting and attachment
• Reduced child protection involvement
• Decreased AOD use and mental health symptoms
• Greater family stability and resilience