Infant Mental Health Services

Parenting Support

Struggling with parenting in the early years? Allora Wellbeing offers expert support in infant mental health, attachment, and early childhood development.

Infant mental health is all about your baby’s growing ability to feel and express emotions, form close and loving relationships, and explore and learn about the world around them. This early emotional and social development happens within the relationships they have with you and the important people in their life — and it’s shaped by your family’s culture, community, and values.

As attachment specialists, Allora works with children and their carers to strengthen connection in relationships from birth, throughout the lifespan. We support parents with:

  • Bonding and secure attachment

  • Toddler emotions and behaviour

  • Postnatal anxiety, stress or depression

  • Enhancing the Parent-child connection

Helping Parents and Young Families Thrive

Allora offers infant mental health services and parenting support for families navigating the challenges of the early years. This includes support for parents who are feeling overwhelmed, experiencing postnatal anxiety or depression, or concerned about their baby or toddler’s emotional development. Allora provides early intervention to strengthen the parent-child bond, support secure attachment, and help families through transitions.

Meet Clare Pollock

Clare is an experienced Mental Health Social Worker, who specialises in supporting individuals and families across the lifespan. With 10 years of clinical experiences in acute child and youth mental health services, in addition to experience with adolescents and adults in the community sector, Clare is a warm and confident practitioner, known for her ability to connect and build relationships founded on trust and safety.  

Clare has specialty interest areas in infant mental health (children under 5), primary aged children and adolescents. She believes relationships are a central focus of change, and works collaboratively with individuals and their families to support recovery and growth.

Clare has specialist training in Infant Mental Health and Attachment-based therapies; Cognitive Behavioural and Dialectical Behaviour Therapies; Family Therapy; Theraplay; and Narrative therapy.  Clare is a careful listener and is flexible and creative with her interventions - responding with intention and thoughtfulness to each individual that she works with.

Testimonials

  • After trying for several years to find a therapist I could connect with and who offered EMDR therapy, I am so grateful to have found Elissa from Allora Wellbeing. She has always been warm, professional, and comforting whilst working through my issues and I would highly recommend her to anyone seeking to improve their mental health.

  • Allora Wellbeing and EMDR therapy have been a life changing experience for our family. We are so amazed at what EMDR can do and how it can help. We will all seek to use it in the future.

  • I have always felt in safe hands with Lauren. Very much appreciate her guidance, insights and ability to reflect my thoughts back to me which creates new awareness. Highly recommend.

  • Alex helped me immeasurably to live my best life - very grateful.

  • I love everything about Allora, from the beautiful share space that is calming as soon as you walk in the door, the comfortable spaces where your appointment takes place, a friendly and warm greeting and a place you can always feel safe and supported.

 FAQs

  • Sessions are between 50-60minutes long. Sometimes your therapist may suggest a longer session, which is charged at the hourly rate.

  • Costs of therapy sessions start from $165 depending on the session type. Please see our Fees page for further details.

  • Yes, under the Medicare Better Access Scheme, you can receive rebates ranging from $79.05 to $89.90 per session. This is applicable when a GP provides a Mental Health Care Plan. Note that couples counselling and family therapy are not eligible for Medicare rebates.

  • If you are self-managed or plan-managed under NDIS, you can use your package to fund sessions. Some private health funds may cover counselling with social workers or psychologists, but it's recommended to confirm directly with your fund. For WorkCover, Allora is a registered provider, allowing sessions to be covered. Please be aware that you cannot claim both a Medicare and private health rebate for the same session.

  • Appointments can be made directly with Allora Wellbeing without a referral. However please note, to receive a medicare rebate you will require a Mental Health Care Plan from your GP.

  • Allora Wellbeing offers a range of specialised approaches including EMDR, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, Family Therapy, Emotional Freedom Technique (Tapping), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, and more.

  • Yes, we provide the option for online or face-to-face appointments to accommodate different preferences and needs.

Connect, Transform and Thrive!