Support That Holds
Teams Together.
Supporting the people who hold the hardest stories is not a nice-to-have. It is how you keep them well, keep them on, and keep your service stable.
Online via telehealth, Australia-wide · In-person available in Sydney · Invoiced to your organisation
Meaningful work — and relentless work.
Out-of-Home Care, case management and frontline practice ask your people to absorb trauma, manage crises and make high-stakes decisions every day — often with little space to process any of it. Over time it accumulates quietly: compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, moral distress, and the slow burnout that costs you your most experienced staff.
The best services already work hard to look after their people. Even so, the weight is real — and without a dedicated space to offload it, your team carries it home, carries it into the next case, and eventually carries themselves out the door.
You already value your staff — but even the best services can struggle to provide the depth of support frontline work demands. When staff don’t feel as holistically supported as they could be, organisations feel it: in turnover, recruitment costs, lost corporate knowledge, and instability for the children and young people who need consistency most.
A regular, confidential space that sits outside the line-management hierarchy.
Where staff can debrief the hard cases, process what they carry, and stay connected to why they do the work. Because it’s external, people speak more openly. Because it’s structured and consistent, it builds capacity — not just momentary relief.
Reflective practice gives your team a dedicated space to keep processing that weight, so the support you already offer goes further — and your most experienced people stay.
Most reflective practice is delivered by clinicians who have never worked inside the systems your staff live in. Christina has.
Fifteen-plus years across Child Protection, Education and Mental Health — including direct frontline work with children of all ages, from toddlers through to late teens, as well as carers, schools and complex trauma. Former School Counsellor and Welfare Educator, Trauma Psychotherapist, and Private Practitioner specialising in supporting the team around vulnerable children and complex trauma. That breadth means the context never has to be explained — she has lived it, so your staff feel understood from the very first session.
Christina sits outside the hierarchy and inside the sector — an extra layer of expertise, support and care that EAP simply cannot match.
Rare cross-sector expertise. Genuine sector knowledge.
- Multiple frontline roles in NSW’s most disadvantaged LGAs
- Child Protection
- Education
- Mental health systems
- Private practice
Rare Cross-Sector Expertise
- Trauma Psychotherapist
- OOHC Consultant
- Former School Counsellor & Educator, NSW’s lowest socio-economic communities
- Staff Wellbeing Consultant
Trauma-Informed & Specialised
- Complex Trauma
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Person Centred Approach
- Staff Wellbeing
- Deep experience working with CALD & First Nations communities
Keep giving your team your best.
It’s the mark of a service that takes its people seriously — and it protects the children and young people who depend on stability, consistency, and staff who stay.
Fewer sick days
Staff offload the weight before it turns into absence and burnout.
Your best people stay
Feeling supported is one of the strongest drivers of retention.
Calmer, clearer decisions
Reflective staff make safer calls under real pressure.
Re-engaged teams
People reconnect with why the work matters to them.
Knowledge stays in-house
Keep the hard-won wisdom you’ve spent years building.
A workforce that feels backed
Wellbeing that’s visible and real, not simply assumed.
Simple, flexible — built for busy services.
Reserve your block
Choose a recurring fortnightly or monthly 2-hour block that suits your team’s schedule. No complex setup.
Shape each session
Group reflection, individual support or urgent debrief — as needs arise. You decide the mix each time.
Review & adjust
We check in on what’s working and adapt the support over time. No rigid programs, no locked-in structure.
Consistent support, embedded into how your service already runs.
Rather than a one-off event or a program that sits outside your operations, this model is designed to become a natural part of your weekly rhythm — so support is ongoing, predictable, and something your team can genuinely rely on.
- A rotating roster of staff for small group sessions (3–5 people) means every team member receives ongoing, consistent support over time — not just those who happen to be available on the day.
- Sessions are built into your weekly operational framework — a scheduled, protected space that sits alongside supervision, handovers, and other core rhythms of your service.
- Individual sessions remain available for those who need a deeper or more private level of support — a quieter space to process what the group setting cannot always hold.
Confidential & Independent
Sessions sit outside your line-management structure, so your people can speak openly, honestly and without fear. As an external consultant, what is shared stays held with complete professional confidentiality.
Simple to Begin
Begin with a single paid pilot block. See how it lands with your team, then continue only if it’s right. Engaged as an external consultant, invoiced to your organisation, delivered online Australia-wide.
Flexible support that meets your team where they are.
Each 2-hour block is shaped by what your team needs that fortnight — not a fixed program you need to fit into.
Transparent, straightforward pricing.
Engaged as an external consultant and invoiced directly to your organisation — no hidden costs, no locked-in contracts.
Dedicated 2-Hour Block
Booked fortnightly or monthly. Tailored to what your team needs each session.
$780 + GST per 2-hour block- Small group reflective practice (3–5 people)
- Individual staff sessions & Wellbeing Supervision (30–45 mins)
- Critical incident debriefing
- You decide the mix each session
Individual Wellbeing Supervision
Additional individual sessions between blocks, where capacity permits.
$230 + GST per 40-min sessionAvailable to supplement your block. Scheduled as needed between fortnightly sessions.
Urgent Individual Debrief
For staff impacted by critical incidents, placement breakdowns, disclosures or removals.
$250 + GST per session · 10am – 5:30pmAvailable within 48 hours where capacity permits. Delivered online.
Enquire Today
The first step is simply a conversation.
Every team is different. We’d love to learn more about yours, understand what support already exists, and explore whether Sage Mind could complement the work you’re already doing.
External consultant · Invoiced to your organisation · Available Australia-wide