DV West offers specialist DFV counselling to women accessing our refuges and outreach services. Our two inhouse counsellors arehighly skilled at validating and listening to women’s experience in a non-judgemental and client centred way. They apply a thoughtful and effective trauma and domestic violence informed therapeutic approach. This is a free service made possible through donations and the Victims Services Approved Scheme.
Specialist DFV Education can support women to identify the perpetrator’s pattern of violence and controlling behaviours and understand how these behaviours have impacted their safety and wellbeing as well as their children’s. This also includes conversations that help women identify their strengths, parenting efforts and survival strategies they have used to help keep themselves and their children safe.