How to access Engender Equality’s Therapeutic Services
Phone: You can call us on (03) 6278 9090. If we are not available, please leave a confidential message and we will return your call as soon as we can. We operate during normal business hours.
Referral form: Complete our Therapeutic Services Referral Form
Online enquiry: If you are not ready to make a referral and have an enquiry about our Therapeutic Services, you can do so here:
Please note that due to current demand for our service exceeding our capacity, there will be variations in availabilities and wait times for accessing some of our therapeutic services. Our Intake Practitioner will provide you with up-to-date service availability information when you enquire.
Engender’s Therapeutic Services (ETS) is a therapeutic family violence response program for victim-survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) in Tasmania. ETS provides a range of trauma-informed and evidence-based therapeutic services to support recovery from IPV.
Our therapeutic services are:
- Delivered by qualified practitioners based in Hobart, Burnie, Launceston and Devonport
- Free and confidential
- For people who have, or are, experiencing intimate partner violence
- For people who live, or are based, in Tasmania
- For all people over the age of 15 inclusive of gender, sexual orientation, ability, marital or socioeconomic status, cultural, religious, ethnic background and visa status
- For people who identify as LGBTIQA+ who experience family violence perpetrated by intimate partners, including those in non-traditional relationship structures
- Committed to protecting your privacy and offering secure, confidential services – you can read our Privacy Policy here.
Our therapeutic service offerings include:
Engender Equality’s family violence counselling supports victim survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) through trauma-informed and evidence-based therapeutic work that supports safety and stabilisation, recovery and healing. Our counselling program offers a range of supports over short to long-term engagements with our qualified practitioners located around Tasmania.
Medium-Long Term Counselling
Our medium-long term family violence counselling is delivered in person by qualified practitioners based in Burnie, Launceston, Devonport, Hobart and a range of outreach locations around Tasmania. Individuals who have experienced or are experiencing IPV can access our medium-long term counselling program for up to two (2) years. Through this program we can support victim survivors with:
- Assessment of IPV risk and interventions to support safety
- Psychosocial education about IPV and understanding the dynamics of the violence and abuse
- Understanding the impacts of IPV on children and young people
- Psychosocial education about trauma and working with traumatic impacts of IPV
- Connecting to additional relevant services, programs and support networks
- Emotional regulation and health
- Self-compassion, self-worth and empowerment
- Healthy and respectful relationships, understanding rights in a relationship
Brief Intervention Counselling
In 2025, Engender Equality launched the Brief Intervention (Short Term Counselling) Pilot Program, which is now underway. This trial program is designed to support people who will benefit from a responsive and short-term counselling intervention for experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV).
Brief Intervention Family Violence Counselling is:
- Available either face-to-face (Hobart only), by phone and/or online using Zoom
- Available within a short timeframe of receiving your referral
- Up to six 90-minute counselling appointments over a period of six months
- Provides pathways for referral to Engender Equality’s medium-long term family violence counselling or other services
- A pilot program that includes an evaluation process and opportunities for you to provide feedback.
Outreach Counselling
We partner with community organisations around Tasmania to offer our family violence counselling programs at a range of outreach locations. Our outreach locations support people experiencing geographical or other barriers to access our counselling in a safe and familiar space in their local community.
To learn more about our outreach locations, please contact our Intake Team on (03) 6278 9090. If we are not available, please leave a confidential message and we will return your call as soon as we can. We operate during normal business hours.
If you are a community organisation interested in partnering with us to provide outreach services, please contact admin@engenderequality.org.au.
Telehealth Services
For those unable to access face-to-face sessions, we can provide counselling services via phone, or online using Zoom.
- Phone Counselling
For phone counselling, you will need to be in an area with reasonable mobile phone reception or have access to a landline.
- Online Video Counselling
For video counselling, you will need an internet connection and a secure, private computer, mobile phone or tablet that runs Zoom. To make sure your phone and/or online services are right for you, read our Terms and Conditions.