Family and Child Therapy
Healing and transforming relationships within the family system one generation at a time.

Your empowerment journey starts here

At The Family Systems Hub in Melbourne (formerly Play Therapy Hub), we provide play therapy, family play therapy and parent coaching to help families explore life on the other side of transformative healing. The emotional empowerment of little people underpins all that we do, but the value of restoring the whole family system and how that benefits little people is our key focus.

The Family Systems Hub illuminates the intricate connections within families, highlighting the influence of past generations on the present. As a parent, your own self-discovery and growth are essential for the flourishing of your child and family.

We offer carefully integrated pathways for each family member, crafted by our team of child and parent specialists to foster deep perspective shifts, growth, connection, and transformation throughout the entire family system. With our expertise, tools, insights, and support, your family can evolve together, stepping into your collective power while nurturing a fully supported journey toward emotional empowerment and self-mastery.

Courses

We get curious, identify and better understand the hidden meaning and wisdom behind our child’s behaviours and that of our own responses within our family system and relational dynamics.

5/11/2024 - 10/12/2024

Based on our individual Filial Family Therapy, this is an educational program designed to strengthen families through the use of play. Parents are coached to conduct a special type of therapeutic play to improve parent child relationships.

23 July - 24 Sept 2025

Learn the fundamentals of Filial Family Therapy in this three day advanced clinical training for Child and Family Professionals.

25 - 27 October 2024

Explore the fundamentals of conducting effective Filial Therapy in this three day workshop.

April 2025
Positive Parenting - How to Enhance your communication with kids

Learn powerful play therapy principles and skills to directly apply to your individual therapeutic work with children aged 2-12 years old.

05/03/25 - 06/03/25

Therapists

Meet the team

Helen Younan-Barrett

Child & Family Play Therapy | Parent Psychotherapy

Amie Scott

Child Play Therapy & Parent Coaching

Candela Pagnoni

Child & Family Play Therapy

Dave Lovegrove

Child & Family Play Therapy

Joy Huang

Child & Family Play Therapy

Bailey Roberts

Child Play Therapy

Sofia Harris

Child & Family Play Therapy

Gianna Mazzone

Parent Psychotherapy & Coaching

Emma Castricum

Parent Coaching

Ash Paul

Parent Psychotherapy & Coaching

Martin Sarmiento

Psychological Astrology

Devi Hernandez

Family Constellations Therapy & Coaching

Mili Sarmiento Shoemaker

Family Constellations Therapy

Chrissie Catling

Client Pathways Coordinator

Emily Meldrum

Practice Administrator

Is our children’s behavioural symptoms ‘destiny’, or just that we haven’t done the work?

“When we see our childrens’ behaviours as part of a ‘system’ that directly involves us and our healing, that’s when the true work can begin”