Dayspring community maternal mental health services provides professional support for women and their babies/young children who have experienced severe post natal depression or are living with an existing mental health issue.As a community organisation, we want to positively influence the pathways for women and their families/whanau. The wellbeing of the mother means families can flourish and grow and ultimately affects the health of the communities we live in.
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Services Offered
MATERNAL MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE - We believe in the inclusion of fathers. Inclusion of fathers is an integral component of the mothers recovery. Fathers are invaluable for their relationship directly with the baby and for their capacity to support the mother. We believe in the inclusion of Whanau. Relationships are a key component with Dayspring Trust. We hold whakawhanaungatangatanga in high regard. We celebrate whanau and we revere our mothers connection to people, stories and traditions that create meaning and connects all parents deserve. We believe in early intervention. Our objectives are to promote healthy mother/baby attachment relationships, with the inclusion of whanua and dads. To assist the mother in her recovery, using the principals of strengths based recovery and self determination. Ensuring parents are empowered to continue their journey of healthy and positive relationships with the wider family/whanau, and local community. We focus on the persons strengths not pathology, symptoms, weaknesses or deficits. Interventions occur in partnership with service users.
COUNSELLING SERVICES - Our counsellors work with individuals, couples and children, using a number of modualities such as narrative therapy, drawing therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy, incorporating all aspects of a persons well-being, body, mind and spirit.
Fees and Payment
Fees are on sliding scale. Funding is available in special circumstances, your counsellor will discuss with you which funding option will best suit your situation. This is also a registered charity.
Services Offered To: Adults Couples Teens Children
Payment: Sliding Scale Pro-bono
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A community counseling agency is a group therapy practice that offers affordable mental health services. Most are independent non-profit agencies, state agencies, or publicly-funded agencies. A few may restrict who is eligible for services, so it is a good idea to check when you call.
Community counseling agencies are generally more affordable than other therapy providers, but how much more affordable they are will depend on whether you qualify for a discount or sliding scale fee (or if they accept your insurance). Many, but not all, have a policy that they won't turn away anyone due to inability to pay. You should ask about their fees when you first call.
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Most agencies try to set up an initial assessment appointment within a week (some do within 24 hours), though the waitlist to start therapy is usually longer—about a few weeks on average. If you're not eligible or if the agency is not right for you, it's usually still worth it to call or drop in, because staff are knowledgeable about local options and can often refer you to one.