Paula Gilding – Safe Steps Together

OUR SERVICES

At Safe Steps Together Clinical Services, I offer trauma-informed therapeutic support for children,
families, and adult survivors of violence, abuse and neglect.

I also collaborate with professionals across health, education, and child protection sectors to provide clinical reports, biopsychosocial assessments, and consultation. My services are tailored to each client’s needs and delivered with compassion, cultural safety, and clinical integrity.

Therapeutic Services

• Trauma psychotherapy for children, adolescents, and adults
• Therapeutic reports for DCJ, Victims Services NSW, and NDIS
• Collaboration with care teams and multidisciplinary stakeholders
• Mental Health Social Work biopsychosocial treatment planning (Medicare Provider)

Behaviour Support

• Functional assessments
• Clinical biopsychosocial formulations
• Behaviour support plans aligned with NDIS and DCJ standards
• Parenting skills and psychoeducation, including therapeutic crisis intervention skills
• Safety planning
• Emotional regulation strategies and treatment planning for recovery from trauma

Group Work Programs (on demand)

• Support group for teenage survivors 
• Psychoeducational groups for parents and carers
• Arts-based therapeutic groups for children and young people

NDIS Services

• Individual counselling and psychotherapy
• Behaviour support (registration in progress)
• Functional assessments
• Therapeutic treatment planning
• Self-managed and plan-managed participants welcome

Victims Services NSW

• Tier 2 Approved Counsellor
• Support for children, adolescents and adult survivors of domestic and family violence, sexual assault, abuse and neglect; family members of homicide and road crime victims
•  EMDR, Gestalt Psychotherapy, creative modalities
• Safety planning and therapeutic reports

Clinical Supervision

• For social workers, therapists, and Out of Home Care therapeutic specialists and workers
• Trauma-informed, reflective, and ethically grounded
• AASW-compliant supervision hours
• In-person or telehealth

paula's credentials

AASW Member # 458860 Accredited Mental Health Social Worker and Accredited Child Protection Social Worker and Psychotherapist.
Medicare Provider # 5857415F – Focused Psychological Strategies (with gap fee) Registered External Provider – NSW DCJ (Child Protection)