When things feel hard, connection can make all the difference
Let’s be honest—while parenting is deeply rewarding, it can also leave you feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, and isolated. Whether you are dealing with constant misunderstandings, walking on eggshells, or navigating a major life transition, you don’t have to figure it out alone.
Teen and family therapy provides a warm, safe, and compassionate space where both you and your teen can feel genuinely heard and validated. Together we look beneath the surface behaviours to understand the emotions and patterns causing conflict or distance. By working as a team, we will discuss ways and strategies to resolve disagreements, rebuild mutual trust, and increase closeness.
Family therapy
When things feel hard, connection can make a different. Family therapy provides safe and supportive space for family members to feel heard, understood and supported. It can provide a space for some of the following challanges to be addressed:
Ongoing conflict or tension
Communication difficulties
Constant misunderstandings
Disconnection or feeling like you’re “walking on eggshells”
Changes within the family
Adjusting to a new diagnosis
Rebuilding trust and connection
Difficulties understanding or responding to your childs emotions or behaviour
Adolescent therapy
Interventions and counselling to support children and adolescents who are facing emotional, behavioural, social or relationship difficulties.
Counselling provides young people with a space to understand their emotions, relationships, mental health and experiences while developing greater self awareness and practical ways of managing life’s challenges.
Low mood
Anxiety
Family conflict
New diagnosis
Neurodiversity experiences
School or peer challenges
Emotional regulation
Parent / carer counselling
Parenting can feel overwheling, exhausting and isolating at times. You don’t have to navigate it alone.
Parent counselling provides a supportive, non-judgemental space to pause, reflect and make sense of what’s happening for you and your family. Together, we can explore the challenges you’re experiencing, better understand your child/teen’s emotions and behaviour, and find ways for you to respond that stregthen connection and build confidence.
Sessions may explore:
Understanding your own nervous system and emotional responses
Understanding the emotions and needs behind behaviour
Ways to reduce conflict and increase closeness
Emotional coaching approaches to parenting
Building confidence in your parenting responses
Setting clear, respecful and consistent boundaries
Adult individual therapy
While family therapy is a central part of my practice, I provide individual therapy for adults experiencing:
Relationship and family difficulties
Overwhelm, low mood or emotional challenges
Grief and loss
Trauma and difficult life experiences
Low self-esteem
Major life transitions and adjustment
Meet Meisha Clark
I am a qualified and registered Social Worker and Family Therapist with over 20 years of experience counselling children, adolescents, parents, and families through challenging times.
My background includes roles in the government and community health sectors, including the Royal Children’s Hospital, Early Intervention Services, and the Out-of-Home Care Sector. I also facilitate Shared Lives Training for prospective foster carers and am trained in Tuning In To Kids and Tuning In To Teens.
For over 13 years, my primary focus has been family therapy, providing therapeutic interventions to support parents and teenagers navigate adolescence, conflict, mental health challenges, disconnection, and difficult life transitions. My role is not to take sides or assign blame, but to create a safe space where everyone can feel heard and understood.
I draw on a range of evidence-based approaches tailored to your family's needs, including:
Attachment-Based Family Therapy
Emotion-Focused Therapy
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Family of Origin work
Nervous system regulation
EMDR (Level 1)
Brain development principles
Therapy is a place to slow down, make sense of what is happening, and find a confident way forward together. I take a warm, collaborative, and strengths-based approach because you are the expert in your own life and family.
I look forward to getting to know you.
And meet Aflie
Alfie has big dreams of becoming a therapy dog, but his current schedule is completely booked solid with sleeping, eating, and chewing on TV remotes.
Teen and Family Counselling is located:
Essendon Counselling Rooms
80-82 Keilor Road, Essendon, Victoria, 3041
Bookings
Email: meishatherapist@outlook.com
Phone: 0494 730 535
SMS: 0494 730 535
Workdays Tuesday, Friday and Saturday morning by request.
Contact and location
Appointment Cancellation and Rescheduling Policy
To ensure we can provide the highest quality of care and maintain availability for all our clients, Teen and Family Counselling operates under the following cancellation and rescheduling guidelines:
Notice Period: If you need to cancel or change your appointment, please provide at least 48 hours (2 business days) notice prior to your scheduled time.
Late Cancellations: Appointments cancelled or rescheduled with less than 48 hours' notice will incur 100% of the standard fee.
Non-Attendance: Failure to attend a scheduled session without prior notification (a "no-show") will result in the full session fee being charged.
Exceptional Circumstances: We understand that emergencies and unforeseen events occur. In such instances, fees may be waived or adjusted on a case-by-case basis at the discretion of Teen and Family Counselling.