Engender Equality:
- provides free and confidential counselling
- short or long-term
- face-to-face, by phone and/or online using Zoom
- can advocate for you
- can help you to get support from relevant agencies and services, if you need them
- can attend meetings and appointments with you
- hosts support groups (depending on demand)
- maintains a library, including locally-sourced information and unique, world-class, evidence-based resources
For more information about what we do, check out our services.
Engender Equality is not a crisis service and cannot provide crisis counselling or support. If you are at risk or in immediate danger, call 000.
Engender Equality is an inclusive service – that is, it is a service for any person who is experiencing or has experienced family violence in Tasmania. This includes any form of abuse, such as verbal, emotional, psychological, financial, physical, social or spiritual abuse in an intimate or family relationship. Abuse can also take the form of coercive control, which includes a broad range of behaviours such as making unreasonable demands, monitoring time or activities, expecting very particular things and making the other person feel uncomfortable, inferior or as though they are being watched.
We also work with people who use abusive behaviour.
For more information about how you can access our service, visit our services page.
Engender Equality offers counselling free of charge. For detailed information about our counselling service, visit our services page.
We charge a fee to speak at events and to conduct education and training workshops. For more information, see our Education and Training, under Training & Consultancy on our services page.
You can use our contact form here or you can call us on (03) 6278 9090
If we’re not available, you can leave a confidential message and we will return your call as soon as we can. Please share a safe way for us to contact you.
We operate during normal business hours. Our counsellors may be able to provide appointments outside normal business hours if you ask them.
If you need to talk to someone outside of business hours you can call:
- Family Violence Counselling and Support Service on 1800 608 122 (open 9am – midnight weekdays and 4pm – midnight weekends and public holidays)
- 1800 RESPECT (open all hours)
Our counselling services are in high demand and wait times vary depending on which area of the state you are from. You will be advised of the approximate wait time during your initial intake call. In the meantime, please call 1800 RESPECT on 1800 737 732 for support.
Yes. It is a good idea to check in. If we are not the right service, we will refer you to someone who can help.
Yes. Family violence can have long-term effects and ongoing impacts. You are welcome to get in touch.
We recognise that gender is a person’s own internal sense of self and their gender and is not a binary category of biological sex of being only male or female. Gender identity may correlate with a persons sex assigned at birth or can differ from it. Gender may be fixed or fluid and varies depending on physical characteristics and expression for each person. We provide counselling, support and advocacy to everyone, regardless of gender.
Engender Equality can talk to people of all ages, although we may refer children to a specialist service. We can talk about the most appropriate service for you when you contact us.
Yes. We can:
- arrange to meet at a private and accessible venue that works for both of us
- connect by phone or online via Zoom
Yes, Engender Equality has a commitment to diversity and intersectional identities and our service is inclusive of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Intersex, Queer, Asexual + people. Your gender identity and/or sexual orientation will not be judged or discriminated against when accessing counselling services.
We understand everyone has different needs and circumstances. So, we offer information, support and advocacy to help empower you to be in control of your own life.
Our counsellors know that you are you are a capable, resourceful individual. They are trained to respectfully support and encourage you to:
- set your own pace
- make your own decisions
- achieve your own goals
Engender Equality is committed to protecting your privacy and offering secure and confidential services. If it makes you feel safer, when you speak with us, you can use an alias (like a nickname or a name that’s not your real one). We encourage you to take whatever steps you need to, to feel safe and comfortable. To find out more, read our privacy policy.
For safety and privacy, we don’t advertise the location of our offices. When you make an appointment, we’ll let you know where to find us.
If you can’t make it to your appointment, let us know as soon as you can, so someone else can have your time slot. If you miss your appointment, don’t worry, just give us a call and we’ll tee up a new time.