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Feeling stressed? Feeling anxious? Feeling sad?

Healing Hearts is the answer you've been looking for!

Vision Statement

Healing Hearts empowers adolescents, individuals and organisations to live and work safer, happier and healthier lives by providing a compassionate and meaningful service.

Our Story

Healing Hearts is a counselling service that provides quality services for individuals in the community. Healing Hearts' specialty is working with young people, their parents, carers and families and the professionals that support them, however we provide a holistic, strengths based service to children, young people and adults.

At Healing Hearts we believe in the healing capabilities of love, compassion, empathy and caring. With a focus on early intervention, and supporting the people who work with young people in care, Healing Hearts believes no job is too big or too small ... no heart beyond repair.

Broken, chipped, shattered and battered hearts can be mended, all it takes is courage, determination, strength, love, caring and keeping your heart open and ready to allow healing. Staff at Healing Hearts thrive on seeing people learn to move forward with their lives, taking control of their experiences, such as hardship, psychological pain and anguish, emotional and physical neglect, and relationship breakdown.

Healing Hearts wants to work with you, and those you care about, to create a better future for yourself and those important to you.

Healing Hearts is a mobile service, providing services in your local area and on site within support providers, including out of home care services. Currently, we provide empowerment through counselling in and around the Inner West and Eastern Suburbs. As the service is mobile, and staff are willing and able to travel, if you live outside this area, please do not hesitate to contact us to discuss obtaining a service in your local area.

For more information on our services, please email finn@healinghearts.net.au


 

Finn Callanan

Professional Qualifications
  • Bachelor of Social Work
  • Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) training
  • Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
  • Certificate in Art and Play Therapy with Children and Young People

Professional Memberships and Accreditations
  • Accredited member of the AASW
  • Accredited Mental Health Social Worker (AASW)
  • Medicare Rebates available
  • WDO available
  • Approved Counsellor under the Victims of Crime scheme

Recognitions
  • Local woman of the year for Marrickville – 2014
  • Nominated for Woman of the Year - 2014
  • Top Three for Care and Compassion Award Pride of Australia - 2014

Having worked in the community services field for over twenty years, I have been offered many professional challenges.  I have had the opportunity to be a part of Ireland’s first dedicated self-harm centre, have spent the last 10 years providing clinical supervision and training to a residential team and managed a fully supported and semi-supported residential service, community development projects and accreditation processes.  In between times, I have worked for government and community based organisations as both a consultant and clinician.

I have had extensive experience working with high-risk clients who exhibit self- harming behaviours; specialising in trauma counselling and providing case management to clients with complex backgrounds and needs.  My work has also extended to victims of crime who often have manifold needs.  This experience has led to the development of my unique and effective strategies and programs delivered in an inclusive and compassionate manner.  These same strategies translate to my work with family units and carers in times of crisis or ongoing need.

As a champion for those in need, I believe that professionals working within their realm also require the highest levels of support, mentoring and professional development.  As a result, I have developed short PD courses, workshops and longer term mentoring plans that assist other professionals to provide services in the best possible ways using the most powerful, inclusive and effective techniques and tools.  

Every day I see and work with people from all backgrounds who have faced immeasurable challenges, who have intolerably low confidence and who have been exposed to unacceptable levels of negativity and injustice.  My aim is to give them the tools to develop emotional independence, educational freedom, responsibility of self and the ability to engage in life with positivity and purpose.  I am motivated by the belief that every person deserves the basic rights of good health, good mental health, education, justice and equality.  I believe that every person deserves to be their very best self. 

Contact Us at finn@healinghearts.net.au