mindful. meaningful. motivating. muddy.
Do you need silence? To be listened to? To feel inspired? To untangle some messy thoughts? To show up in your work? To learn new skills? To find space to reflect?
Services
As a commitment to the ongoing wellbeing of our community and excellence in social work practice, muddy minds matter offers counselling and wellbeing support for community members and professional supervision and project support for organisations.
Professional Supervision
Professional supervision for social work, human services and community work practitioners at any stage of their professional development and practice hopes and needs. Areas of expertise include:
- Community sector/not for profit
- Youth and family work
- Working alongside young people with life complexities, including substance use, homelessness, criminalisation and/or child protection experience
- Parenting
- Intellectual and cognitive disability
- Case work/Leadership/ Generalist counselling/ Community development
Counselling
Counselling is a person centred, collaborative space with a strengths focus. We will 'meet you where you are at' in your journey in ways and spaces that feel most comfortable for you.
Counselling can be as simple as a chat over coffee or while walking in the park. You may also benefit from a more structured therapeutic intervention. Reach out to see if this is a fit for you.
Renee is also a trained facilitator of:
- Circle of Security (COSP)
- Peer Skills
- Friends for Life
Disability inclusive therapies
muddy minds matter is proud to create welcoming and inclusive spaces for all.
We love working with people with intellectual disability and learning differences.
We offer adaptive:
- holistic counselling
- healthy relationships sessions
- sexual health and reproductive rights sessions
- parenting support
- mental health and wellbeing support
We will listen to you to understand what you need.
We will find ways to work together that help!
Project Consultancy
Social work consultancy projects tailored to meet the needs of communities, including organisational and workplaces. Examples of projects include:
- Designing/facilitating group work processes
- Friends for Life, Peer Skills, Circle of Security facilitator
- Community development projects in consultation with communities
- Designing workplace professional development
- Team building
- Strategic or tactical planning
- Theory of change consultation and design
- Grant writing
The opportunities are endless! Let's get creative
Pricing
Behind every service we provide is a dedicated team of professionals, each bringing their unique expertise and enthusiasm to our business.
| Professional Supervision (1 hour f2f + prep) | Price |
|---|---|
| Organisations | $180 |
| Individuals | $150 |
| New graduates and/or low income earners | $120 |
| As a commitment to practitioners wellbeing and professional development, and in recognition not everyone has equal access to resources, limited spaces are available for very low cost. Please contact Renee directly to disucss options. | N/A |
| Counselling Sliding scale (50 minutes F2F) | Price |
|---|---|
| Waged | $140 |
| Low income | $120 |
| Low income (online) | $90 |
| * Proof of income is not required | |
| * Please note, I do not offer services claimable through Medicare. Prices have been set accordiningly to ensure affordability and access. |
| Project consultancy / contract work |
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| To determine if consultancy projects are a good fit please contact Renee directly to discuss your hopes and goals for the work. A quote will be provided on request. |
Stuck in the mud or energised for change?
With curiousity, creativity, connection and reflection, new ideas, new directions, growth and change can emerge
Experience and qualifications
Renee, the mud behind muddy minds matter, has worked in the community sector since 1997 with experience across mental health, homelessness, youth and family, parenting, disability and child protection spaces. Working alongside people with lived experience (of homelessness, disability, and child protection) has gifted Renee a deeper understanding of what social should be and what it can mean to enable not only individual change, but more importantly, systems and structural change. Renee's academic qualifications are:
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PhD candidate at University of QLD (current)
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Masters of Social Work Studies, 2016 (University of QLD)
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Graduate diploma International and Community Development Studies, 2003 (Deakin)
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Bachelor of Arts, 1998 (University of QLD)
Location
Based in Magandjin, Meanjin (Brisbane), we can work together in a place you feel most comfortable. This might be online, walk and talk in a local park or cafe, or an office site (your location, an office space in North Brisbane or St Lucia).
How and where we work together will be guided by your needs and will offer the privacy and space required for the work.
