62. Journeying Through the Countryside: A Play Therapist's Guide to Exploring Rural Victoria, Australia with Rashidah Fido

Rashidah Fido have ten years of social work experience in a number of diversified settings such as a maternity ward, youth crime prevention and child and adolescent mental health. 

She is a mental health accredited social worker, and have engaged in professional development in traditional talk therapies such as Action and Commitment Therapy (ACT), CBT, and Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), Learn to Play progarm and expressive therapies of sandplay and sandtray. Also, conduct social work supervision at all sites as well as online for early year social work practitioners (ie those that have up to 3 years of social work experience). 

Rashidah began her own small business, Lionhearted Counselling, in August 2022. Lionhearted's Counselling focus is to integrate creativity into the therapy room. She work with children and young people from the ages of 9 to 21 and travel to the areas of Ballarat, Creswick and Maryborough. 

The aim is to also travel out to do pop ups in different towns to advertise her business this summer and potentially workshops related to school attendance etc. 

Connect with Rashidah:

https://lionheartedcounselling.com/

Learn More About: 

• Unleashing Creativity: How Play Therapy Inspires Healing in Rural Victoria, Australia

• Travel Considerations: Taking into consideration the extreme weather in Australia from the winter floods, to bush fires, to dodging kangaroos at night

• Rural Adventures: Navigating Cultural Diversity and Community Engagement

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