text: Suzanne Hurley | Melbourne Pregnancy Options Counselling
  Perinatal Mental Health & Fertility Counsellor/ Supervisor
  Dance Movement Therapist. Health Professional Trainings/Conferences.
  Suzanne is a passionate, dedicated & clinically accredited counsellor (PACFA) who has specialised in the area of reproductive loss, including pregnancy options counselling, abortion counselling, infertility and IVF support and in perinatal mental health. She has provided her clients with counselling, group support and presented to health professionals in various perinatal settings. Her expertise and understanding of the issues women, couples and families face when immersed in the perinatal period is highly sought after. She has undertaken training in Emotion Focused Therapy with Dr Melissa Harte during her Masters Degree at La Trobe University. Her initial training at WIRE Womens's Information has provided her with understanding of the Feminist Framework and responding to family violence & sexual assault.
  Suzanne has worked in perinatal mental health with the Perinatal Anxiety and Depression Australia (PANDA) National Helpline , in unplanned pregnancy at The Women's Hospital's Pregnancy Advisory Service and Marie Stopes Australia's National Counselling Service and in private practice at Fertile Ground Health Group focusing on infertility and IVF support. She was instrumental in the development of the Perinatal Community Outreach Service at Carrington Health (now Health Ability) for the Eastern Metropolitan Primary Health Network and works at the Austin Health Psychiatric Unit in the Parent Infant Program as a Dance Movement & Play Therapist. Suzanne also provides Clinical Supervision to health professionals having trained in the Wheel of Supervision with the Centre for Existential Practice.
  As well as working with Individuals and short-term couples work she has an interest in groupwork. To date she has run: Little Village for women considering sole parenting; Sanctuary for women having IVF treatment; Pregnant Pause and Moving Stories explorations of the pregnant body, past present and future, through movement. She has completed Level 1 in Mother Goose Parent Infant Program & facilitator training for Circle of Security. She is a co-recipient of the Australian Association of Infant Mental Health Sue Morse Scholarship 2022.
  Birth Preparation and Parenting Issues
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