Imaginif

Attending a professional network recently I was faced with how out of touch I have become with a non computer based audience. Several colleagues mused around not knowing what it is I do anymore. Taking every opportunity to atoll the virtues of corporate blogging and online social consciousness raising, I educated them about Web 2.0 applications and particularly corporate service blogging (and I was invited to run a workshop on blogging).

Does our computer based audience know what Imaginif does off line though? Umm….perhaps not. This is who we are and what we do in the office of Imaginif:

Imaginif Pty Ltd is a private, family owned Protective Behaviour company that offers a range of counseling services to people who want to have more control over their life.

We have joined with other outstanding professionals to offer a range of therapeutic services to you, the person who wants more choice with positive outcomes.

Jointly we make up the Imaginif family. Although we each have our own businesses, we work together, to offer a range of expertise under the one roof: a one-stop counselling shop.
We are three counsellors:

• Megan Bayliss (Social Worker),

• Rebekah Allen (Psychologist) and

• Fran Burke (Solution Oriented counsellor).

We each offer different counselling, supervision, court reports, training, group work or professional development.

Megan Bayliss (BSW, Dip SOC, MAASW, mother of four)

Megan is the director of Imaginif PTY LTD and the creative imaginera who designs the BITSS resources, writes the books and tutorials, answers the phone, emails, queries, takes bookings for the counsellors & looks after the web site. At Imaginif Megan offers the professional supervisions, does some assessments and external research, offers the BITSS of Protective Play and Life Story Work workshops and is a motivational, moving and humorous guest speaker. Because of Megan’s busy creative schedule she will undertake direct client counselling only in exceptional cases and if the other counselors can not take on the case.

Megan has worked in both Australia and the UK, across all levels of government, in the community sector and in private
industry. She is a solution focused therapist and has held senior social work positions within government and been coordinator at two sexual assault centers (adults and children). Megan has also done sessional teaching in counseling skills and professional development at James Cook University.

Fran Burke (Dip SOC, Dip SOH, M. ASOCHA, mother of 2)

Solution focused and sexual assault response trained, Fran and Megan have previously worked together at the sexual assault counseling services in Cairns. Both sexual assault counsellors, they go back 15 years to when Fran first started at the old Rape Crisis Centre.

Mother to two grown males (wife to one male only), Fran remains grateful that she has a beautiful teenage grand daughter to engage in more feminine pursuits with (aka Fran spends a fortune on grand daughter!).

Although sexual assault therapy (past and recent ) is Fran’s area of expertise, Fran also works with men and women around anger, grief and loss, relationships and self-esteem. Just to balance the ages up, Fran does some excellent work with adolescents too. Fran has a special interest in working with grass roots Indigenous agencies and travels to both the Cape and Gulf from time to time.

Rebekah Allen (B. Psych., Grad. Dip., Assoc. MAPS, fully registered by April, 2008, mother of 3)

Rebekah is one of Megan’s past supervisee’s and recruited trainer in Megan’s BITSS model of Protective Behaviours. An excellent child therapist across a range of behavioural areas, Rebekah is exceptionally skilled in assisting children with depression, anxiety and sexual assault issues to integrate, heal and move past their trauma.  

Mother of three, Rebekah has an interest in preventing self-harm in children, young people and adults. Her blogs at Imaginif will inform you about self-harm actions, prevention, reactions and treatment. Sad that so many children harm themselves as a way to display their internal pain, Rebekah delivers her weekly topic in a way that few people will run from.

What we offer in our offices at 206 Jensen St, Cairns:

• Counselling: men, children, women.
• Supervision for Psychologists, Social and Welfare workers
• Court reports and assessments
• Group work for men & women
• Professional development around creative intervention skills
• Training in working with children and young people and working with general issues (i.e. anxiety)
• Protective Behaviour skilling
• Protective Behaviour resources
• Consultancy
• External evaluations/social research.

Our fee is $110.00 per hour, plus tax

To book an appointment with the talk doctors of Edge Hill, give us a call on 07 4032 5034.

Be sure to never miss what is happening at Imaginif (on and off line):