A SPACE FOR YOUR CHILD & INNER-CHILD

RAIN&ME. CHILDREN’S THERAPY IS A strength’s based practice in melbourne’s inner west & BAYSIDE, run by registered Arts Therapist Rain Ali.

  • Art Therapy

    Explore emotions through guided art inquiries, unlocking implicit memory and feelings often inaccessible by words. Create a safe space for expression and self-discovery, fostering emotional growth.

  • Early Childhood Intervention

    Foster cognitive, emotional, and social development in early childhood through tailored art interventions. Enhance fine motor skills, sensory integration, and communication abilities for a well-rounded foundation.

  • Parenting & Re-Parenting Support

    Navigate parenthood by delving into the subconscious and unlocking insights for positive changes in reactions and beliefs. Embrace a journey of empathy, understanding, and mindful parenting.

  • Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP)

    Therapeutic intervention to support the nervous system return to safety. Designed to assist with challenges around with social and emotional engagement, anxiety, trauma, inattention, Autism and ADHD.

HOW CAN RAIN & ME. CHILDREN’S THERAPY HELP?

Support you to build a secure attachment relationship with your child

Support you to build a secure attachment relationship with yourself and your parts through re-parenting

Support you to further identify your child’s cues, including cues around safety so you can best meet their needs

Support you to further identify your own cues around safety

Support you and your child’s nervous system to see dysregulation as a form of communication and move into regulated states of connection more easily.

Support you to uncover any beliefs or implicit feelings, emotions and memories preventing you from being fully present with your child and their feelings

Support you to listen to your child’s feelings with the understanding that very little of what your child is displaying is behavioural and rather a form of communication.

Support you to co-regulate with your child understanding that children cannot ‘regulate’ on their own and need a safe grown up to listen to their feelings and model regulation.

Support you to re-frame and re-imagine yourself and your child through a strengths-based and non-dual lens

Support your child to build skills essential for school-readiness or school-adjustment such as focus, executive functioning, fine and gross motor skills, social skills, resilience and empathy - while more importantly ensuring that their environments are supportive of how they learn and what their needs are.

Support you and your child to navigate sensory inputs and sensitivities

Support energetically sensitive parents and children

Support linking you to other practitioners who can assist you and your child at a holistic level.

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join the waitlist

There is currently a year-long waitlist for an after-hours or Saturday appointment at the Yarraville clinic. We will also be expanding in-clinic sessions to Elwood mid 2024. Rain always sets aside a few spots for casual or emergency appointments, so please join the waitlist and tell us a little bit about what you’re experiencing and what your support hopes are and we will try to get you in as soon as possible.