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legal, educational, and health sectors, we provide a suite of
assessments, training, consultancy, and interventions.
Unique Minds
Tools for Change
In order to assess and address cumulative harm and trauma, our highly qualified team members offer a variety of assessments and interventions. They also have in-depth knowledge and practical experience in the fields of child protection, education (including in the classroom), law, criminal justice, and counselling.
Unique Minds offers a selection of multimodal, evidence-based social and family services to help people and families who have gone through trauma.
Make a selection from the ‘Consistent, Integrated Assessments, Services & Resources’ section below.Â
Now Available
Play Therapy for NDIS Clients
Unique Minds Consultancy now has appointments available in our Dalby and Toowoomba clinics for NDIS clients to access play therapy. Please give us a call, as we have new and exciting premises with staff that are trained, skilled, passionate, and ready to go.
We also offer counselling and psycho-education for parents and carers as part of our services
For any clients that may require play therapy support, contact us to make an appointment.
International Play Therapy Week is a global celebration that highlights the importance of play in children’s emotional, social, and psychological development.
Held annually in early February, this week raises awareness about the benefits of play therapy in helping children express themselves, process emotions, and build resilience in a safe, supportive environment.  Unique Minds Consultancy supports this initiative by providing expert play therapy services tailored to each child’s needs. With a compassionate, child-centred approach, they create nurturing spaces where children can explore their thoughts and feelings through play, fostering healing and growth.Â
Latest News
How does the Cumulative Harm Informed Practice (CHIP) Framework work?
Cumulative Harm Informed Practice (CHIP) is not another checklist for counting adverse experiences. It is a developmental framework for understanding how cumulative adversity affects a child—and where intervention can change their trajectory. The framework identifies...
What does cumulative harm mean in family law practise?
Children involved in family law rarely experience parental separation as one isolated event, their presentation may reflect the accumulation of repeated experiences over time: exposure to parental conflict, disrupted relationships, unpredictable transitions, loyalty...
The Hidden Impact of Repeated Disclosure
Recent discussions across child protection, family law, and trauma research have increasingly focused on the importance of listening to children. This is a significant and overdue shift. Yet emerging evidence about trauma, memory, and repeated disclosure suggests that...
Consistent, Integrated Assessments, Services & Resources
Our main focus is to provide professionals and families with the tools to facilitate change in a safe and trauma-qualified way.
Assessments
Unique Minds conducts comprehensive assessments which combine a broad scope of validated therapeutic & assessment tools to provide detailed reports.
Therapeutic Interventions
Our therapy animals at our Kingaroy location assist with attachment based Play Therapy, Counselling Narrative Therapy, Story Book Work, Parental Education and counselling support.
Training & Consultancy
A range of evidence-based, multimodal social & family services to support individuals and families who have experienced trauma.
Child Inclusive Mediation
Child Inclusive Mediation & Counselling (CIMC) is an evidence based intervention, conducted by a qualified Child Consultant for separated parents in dispute, designed to support and realign co-parenting, by focusing on the experiences of their children. CIM:
CIM: Takes into consideration the interests, views, needs and concerns of the child; Helps parents get a deep understanding of the child’s experience of the conflict; Supports and enables the child’s adjustment to the separation journey; Gives the child a voice in the mediation process between parents
For any clients that may require Child Inclusive Mediation, contact us to learn more.
WE ARE HIRING
All job applications will be reviewed upon submission. If you are interested in this opportunity, please send your resume and a cover letter with your CV as soon as possible. Further job description and application details are available via Seek or Ethical Jobs.Â
