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      Providing family and relationship support services since 1948.

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      Relationships Australia Victoria (RAV) is a community-based, not-for-profit organisation that has been providing specialist family and relationship services across Melbourne and Victoria since 1948. Our vision is for positive, respectful, safe and fulfilling relationships for all Australians. We have over 70 years’ experience supporting Victorians by providing a broad range of services including counselling, family dispute resolution (mediation), family violence, mental health, relationship skills education and other specialist services.

      Relationships Australia Victoria (RAV) is a community-based, not-for-profit organisation, with no religious affiliations. We are committed to providing safe, inclusive and accessible services for all members of the community, regardless of religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, lifestyle choice, cultural background or economic circumstances. We welcome Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, LGBTIQA+, and culturally and linguistically diverse community members as well as people with disability and people experiencing vulnerability and disadvantage. Interpreters can be organised on request. We believe that people.in all their diversity, have the right to live their lives safely and with dignity, with their families and within their communities, and to enjoy positive, respectful, safe and fulfilling relationships. Our objective is to relieve the suffering, distress and helplessness of people experiencing vulnerability and disadvantage people so as to enhance their physical, social and emotional wellbeing. We provide services from 18 locations and additional outreach sites across metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria. The corporate support team is based in Camberwell. RAV acknowledges the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Owners of the lands and waterways of Australia. We support Aboriginal people’s right to self-determination and culturally safe services. We recognise the lifelong impacts of childhood trauma. We recognise those who had children taken away from them.

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      eft, money order, debit
      Established
      1948
      ABN
      51 263 215 677
      Staff
      201-500
      Service Notes
      Please Go To Our Website For Independent Centre Opening Hours.
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      Category
      Counselling - Marriage, Family & Personal
      Licenses
      Legal ID: Reputation for quality training

      Reviews

      Benjamin W.

      03/05/2015

      I attended a group therapy group at Relationships Australia Victoria. My experience was while the other participants in the group were every sort of amazing and helpful, the two facilitators were among the least helpful therapists or facilitators I've ever experienced in my 15 years of intermittently participating in various types of therapy.

      The Relationships Victoria facilitators at the group I attended consistently failed to listen to or respect me. When I shared something I had accomplished in my relationship of which I was really proud, one of the facilitators responding by pointing out how I'd done it wrong, and trying to convince me I should have done it a different way which he prescribed. When I pushed back against this, he enlisted the rest of the therapy group to argue against me.

      I often use the word "delicious" to describe experiences which I found really amazing or wonderful. The other facilitator in the group I attended told me, in front of the whole group, that she greatly disliked me using that word, so much so that it made her want to vomit.

      Neither of the facilitators has apologised to me, nor responded to a specific, respectful letter I sent outlining what I'd found difficult. I also sent the letter to the CEO of Relationships Australia Victoria, and haven't heard anything from him yet either.

      When I tried to share with the group that I was finding the facilitators' reactions towards me really difficult, they interrupted and said I wasn't allowed to say that and I needed to leave. When I said I just wanted to finish sharing and then I'd leave, one of the facilitators threatened to call the cops.

      Overall, this was by far the more toxic and difficult therapeutic experience I've ever had. I strongly disrecommend. Find somewhere else where you'll be treated with respect, graciousness, and courtesy.