Eliminating the guesswork

MANY individuals and families have experiences where they are actively seeking support, resources and guidance ensuring their loved ones have the tools to navigate an increasingly complex world around them.

Wonderkind & Co have the breadth of professionals and skills to match this complexity – a unique trauma-informed community of clinicians that focuses on supporting clients of all ages.

Over the past four years, Kate Davidson, an accredited mental health social worker, has supported the collaboration and development of holistic, like-minded, trauma-informed clinicians and practitioners to support the local community via a range of evidence-based, therapeutic support options to navigate healing journeys and recovery from significant life events.

Geelong has embraced Kate’s experience and skills, and she is a member of the Deakin University Social Work Advisory Board and the clinical consult on the Meli Foster Care Accreditation Panel.

Kate spent 14 years in Scotland in the forensic mental health sector before returning to Geelong to support young people, carers and organisational staff manage the challenges of the residential and foster care systems.

While working as the clinical lead in the out-of-home care space in Geelong and the south-west was both challenging and rewarding, after COVID Kate made the decision to leap back into front-line practice.

The aim of the move was to explore whether some of the systemic issues identified as blocking meaningful and sustained therapeutic engagement with some of our community’s high-risk, difficult to engage and/or complex clients could be supported in alternative ways.

Wonderkind & Co is a therapeutic community of allied health clinicians who have worked in local front-line organisations. They know the systems, the challenges and the presenting need of their referred clients.

All members are highly trained and well-supervised in a wide range of evidence-based modality and are able to offer support to all ages, specialising in mental health, wellbeing, neurodiversity and family support.

There is a wide range of service offerings from experiential early and effective intervention that interweaves psycho-education and wellbeing into boxing, hair and beauty, art, exercise and mountain biking, to group work programs run internally and externally from community or school settings, to allied health assessments, dyadic support and 1:1 therapy.

Imagine being in a situation that extended beyond your window of tolerance where your body, brain and central nervous system response entered its survival mode and you felt as though you had lost control, insight or attunement within yourself.

For some individuals exposed to sexual abuse, family violence, parental separation, birth trauma, protective concerns, neglect, bullying, first responders, veterans or your emotional needs have not been met in childhood, it can take a range of approach modalities or clinicians to support recovery.

The Wonderkind & Co therapeutic community has been set up to offer complementary modalities by joining talk therapy, somatic experience, interception support, sensory experiencing, adaptive information processing and neuro-sequential development and is able to support the client or family repair and recover from exposure to adversity.

Given the expansive range of local clinicians and evidence-based modalities on offer, the likelihood that your therapeutic needs can be supported is high.

Kate and the rest of the community delight in therapeutically supporting local organisations, local clinicians and local service delivery to strengthen our community as a whole.

For more information, head to wonderkindandco.com