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Online counselling

Intake Consultation

The Initial Consultation is a full 60-minute session designed to understand your needs and determine whether Pebble & Tide’s services are the right fit.
This session helps identify the best starting point for support, whether counselling, tutoring, or a blend of both, and ensures that future sessions are purposeful and personalised.

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What to Expect

  • A calm, structured conversation focused on understanding your goals, challenges, and background

  • Discussion of relevant history, learning styles, or personal factors influencing wellbeing or performance

  • Space to ask questions and clarify what you hope to achieve through sessions

  • A professional recommendation on next steps or service type (for example, counselling, academic support, or both)​

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This session may include informal assessment tools, observation, or guided discussion depending on your age and needs.

🕒 Session length: 60 minutes
💵 Fee: $110
💻 Format: Online via secure video

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Why It’s Important

The Initial Consultation allows time to build trust and gather the right information before beginning ongoing sessions.
It also ensures that Pebble & Tide is the best fit for your goals. If not, you’ll receive guidance or referrals to other professionals who may better meet your needs.

Ongoing Counselling

Compassionate, collaborative online counselling for adults, adolescents, and children.
Sessions are calm and paced to suit your needs, helping you explore challenges such as anxiety, emotional regulation, stress, and adjustment to life changes.

Focus areas may include:

  • Anxiety and low mood

  • Emotional regulation and self-understanding

  • Trauma recovery and resilience

  • Family or relationship challenges

  • Navigating life transitions or burnout

🕒 Session length: 50 minutes

💵 $95
💻 Format: Online via secure video

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Tutoring & Learning Support

Pebble & Tide offers calm, individualised online tutoring for children who need a little extra help with learning. Sessions are tailored to each student’s pace, interests, and learning style. Extensive experience working with neurodivergent learners and those who feel anxious or discouraged about schoolwork.

Our approach is hands-on, strengths-based, and confidence-focused, helping students reconnect with learning in a positive way.

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English and Literacy Support

  • Writing composition and creative expression

  • Reading and comprehension strategies

  • Phonics and spelling based on word structure, not rote memorisation

  • Sentence building and grammar in context

  • Building confidence and a love of language

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Math Support

Gentle, conceptual math support for students who struggle with number sense or feel anxious about math.
Focus areas include:

  • Strengthening early numeracy skills

  • Developing mental computation and flexible thinking

  • Building multiplicative thinking (understanding patterns and relationships)

  • Visual and hands-on learning activities to make math meaningful

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🕒 Session length: 45 minutes
💵 Fee: $50 per session
💻 Format: Online via secure video

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Learning Philosophy

Pebble & Tide tutoring sessions are designed to reduce pressure and create small moments of success that rebuild motivation.
Learning is supported through curiosity, movement, and sensory-friendly strategies rather than repetition or high-stress tasks.

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