Equip Country

Western Downs, QLD Australia

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About Equip  &         Our Services

Equip Country is a counselling and therapy service that operates across the Western Downs, as well as online to provide meaningful and positive support for all members of the community.
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Our team of professional therapists are dedicated to providing the best care to our clients across our range of counselling and wellbeing services‍, including art and creative arts therapy and professional supervision.
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A brochure of our Workplace Wellbeing Partnership packages can be accessed HERE.

Relationship
Counselling

in-person

  • Tension & Conflict Resolution
  • Pre-marriage Counselling
  • Communication Strategies
  • Intimacy & Sexual Issues
  • Strengthening & Rebuilding Trust
  • Relationship Workshops


Individual
Counselling

In-person & Online

  • Depression & Anxiety
  • Anger Management
  • Grief & Loss
  • Trauma
  • Stress & Burnout
  • Addiction
  • Navigating Life Stages

Creative
Art & Art Therapy

in-Office, home&
School visits

NDIS and Private

  • Children
  • Youth
  • Adults


Workplace Wellbeing

in-person & online

  • Workplace Wellbeing Partnership





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    packages
  • Critical Incident Debriefing
  • General Counselling
  • Career concerns and Coaching
  • Stress and Burnout
  • Conflict Management
  • Communication


Professional
Supervision

in-person & Online
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Clinical

  • Counsellors
  • Student Counsellors
  • Support Workers
  • Professional Supervisors
  • Educators
  • Health Proffesionals

Pastoral

  • Ministers
  • Chaplains
  • Missions
  • Non-profit workers

Employee
Assistance (EAP)

Meet the Team

Equip Country includes the following contract therapists and administrative team. Therapists are available in person at their locations, or online via Telehealth. Equip Country also has access to a wide network of other qualified therapists should referral be preferred.
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Kristy
Howarth

MCouns ∙ GDipCouns&IntPsycthpy
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Chinchilla or online

  • ACA Level 4 (Counsellor ∙ Supervisor)
  • Individual Counselling
  • Professional Supervision
    (Clinical ∙ Pastoral)



  • As a counsellor and supervisor in private practice in the Western Downs region, Kristy brings a variety of work and life experiences to her professional skill set including leadership coaching, church/pastoral work, multi- campus children’s ministry team leadership, youth ministry work, school based programs, mid-term missions experience (3 years in country), leading short term missions teams and developing programs for at risk children in cross-cultural environments. She currently also provides input at board level and leadership coaching to developing leaders in her local church.

    She has lived experience in helping and ministry professions, whilst balancing relationship and parenting challenges, practical daily caring for family members with physical and mental health issues, living cross-culturally, living as a military family with deployment experience, grieving the loss of loved ones, managing ongoing stress, working through burnout, and finding strength, meaning and purpose in the work of ministry throughout these challenging life seasons. Kristy has 3 children and has been married for 26 years. She is privileged to provide counselling and professional supervision to pastors, pastor’s wives, chaplains, leaders, missionaries and community workers



Brooke
Goltz

MCouns ∙ GDipPsychSci ∙ GDipCouns&IntPsycthpy ∙ ClinAPT
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Chinchilla, PITTSWORTH, Toowoomba, or online

  • ACA Level 2 (Counsellor)
  • Individual Counselling
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  • Child/Adolescent Counselling

    Play Therapy
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  • As a counsellor and supervisor in private practice in the Western Downs region, Kristy brings a variety of work and life experiences to her professional skill set including leadership coaching, church/pastoral work, multi- campus children’s ministry team leadership, youth ministry work, school based programs, mid-term missions experience (3 years in country), leading short term missions teams and developing programs for at risk children in cross-cultural environments. She currently also provides input at board level and leadership coaching to developing leaders in her local church.

    She has lived experience in helping and ministry professions, whilst balancing relationship and parenting challenges, practical daily caring for family members with physical and mental health issues, living cross-culturally, living as a military family with deployment experience, grieving the loss of loved ones, managing ongoing stress, working through burnout, and finding strength, meaning and purpose in the work of ministry throughout these challenging life seasons. Kristy has 3 children and has been married for 26 years. She is privileged to provide counselling and professional supervision to pastors, pastor’s wives, chaplains, leaders, missionaries and community workers

Michelle
Garside

DipCreativeArts&Health ∙ CertCouns
BEd (ECE)



Chinchilla, PITTSWORTH, or DALBY

  • Registered Creative Arts Therapist (RCAT)
  • Registered Teacher
  • Individual and group Art Therapy
  • Office or In-School Sessions
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  • As a counsellor and supervisor in private practice in the Western Downs region, Kristy brings a variety of work and life experiences to her professional skill set including leadership coaching, church/pastoral work, multi- campus children’s ministry team leadership, youth ministry work, school based programs, mid-term missions experience (3 years in country), leading short term missions teams and developing programs for at risk children in cross-cultural environments. She currently also provides input at board level and leadership coaching to developing leaders in her local church.

    She has lived experience in helping and ministry professions, whilst balancing relationship and parenting challenges, practical daily caring for family members with physical and mental health issues, living cross-culturally, living as a military family with deployment experience, grieving the loss of loved ones, managing ongoing stress, working through burnout, and finding strength, meaning and purpose in the work of ministry throughout these challenging life seasons. Kristy has 3 children and has been married for 26 years. She is privileged to provide counselling and professional supervision to pastors, pastor’s wives, chaplains, leaders, missionaries and community workers

Tanya
Hordern

  • Accounts Manager
  • As a counsellor and supervisor in private practice in the Western Downs region, Kristy brings a variety of work and life experiences to her professional skill set including leadership coaching, church/pastoral work, multi- campus children’s ministry team leadership, youth ministry work, school based programs, mid-term missions experience (3 years in country), leading short term missions teams and developing programs for at risk children in cross-cultural environments. She currently also provides input at board level and leadership coaching to developing leaders in her local church.

    She has lived experience in helping and ministry professions, whilst balancing relationship and parenting challenges, practical daily caring for family members with physical and mental health issues, living cross-culturally, living as a military family with deployment experience, grieving the loss of loved ones, managing ongoing stress, working through burnout, and finding strength, meaning and purpose in the work of ministry throughout these challenging life seasons. Kristy has 3 children and has been married for 26 years. She is privileged to provide counselling and professional supervision to pastors, pastor’s wives, chaplains, leaders, missionaries and community workers

Karl
Pumpa

GDipCouns&IntPsycthpy
∙ MCouns (current)
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Chinchilla, Dalby, or Online

  • ACA Level 1 (Counsellor)
  • Individual Counselling
  • Adolescent and
    Children Counselling
  • Relationship Counselling

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  • As a counsellor and supervisor in private practice in the Western Downs region, Kristy brings a variety of work and life experiences to her professional skill set including leadership coaching, church/pastoral work, multi- campus children’s ministry team leadership, youth ministry work, school based programs, mid-term missions experience (3 years in country), leading short term missions teams and developing programs for at risk children in cross-cultural environments. She currently also provides input at board level and leadership coaching to developing leaders in her local church.

    She has lived experience in helping and ministry professions, whilst balancing relationship and parenting challenges, practical daily caring for family members with physical and mental health issues, living cross-culturally, living as a military family with deployment experience, grieving the loss of loved ones, managing ongoing stress, working through burnout, and finding strength, meaning and purpose in the work of ministry throughout these challenging life seasons. Kristy has 3 children and has been married for 26 years. She is privileged to provide counselling and professional supervision to pastors, pastor’s wives, chaplains, leaders, missionaries and community workers

Georgina
Bignill

BHSCouns ∙ GDipCouns
∙ MCouns (current)

Chinchilla or online

  • ACA Level 2 (Counsellor)
  • Adult Individual Counselling
  • As a counsellor and supervisor in private practice in the Western Downs region, Kristy brings a variety of work and life experiences to her professional skill set including leadership coaching, church/pastoral work, multi- campus children’s ministry team leadership, youth ministry work, school based programs, mid-term missions experience (3 years in country), leading short term missions teams and developing programs for at risk children in cross-cultural environments. She currently also provides input at board level and leadership coaching to developing leaders in her local church.

    She has lived experience in helping and ministry professions, whilst balancing relationship and parenting challenges, practical daily caring for family members with physical and mental health issues, living cross-culturally, living as a military family with deployment experience, grieving the loss of loved ones, managing ongoing stress, working through burnout, and finding strength, meaning and purpose in the work of ministry throughout these challenging life seasons. Kristy has 3 children and has been married for 26 years. She is privileged to provide counselling and professional supervision to pastors, pastor’s wives, chaplains, leaders, missionaries and community workers
  • Act for Kids
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    Hot Chocolate Circle
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Jane
McCollum

BACouns




Chinchilla or Towoomba

  • ACA Level 2 (Counsellor)
  • Cert in Disaster M/ment

    Individual and Relationship
    Counselling

    Adolescents
  • Office or In-Home Sessions
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  • As a counsellor and supervisor in private practice in the Western Downs region, Kristy brings a variety of work and life experiences to her professional skill set including leadership coaching, church/pastoral work, multi- campus children’s ministry team leadership, youth ministry work, school based programs, mid-term missions experience (3 years in country), leading short term missions teams and developing programs for at risk children in cross-cultural environments. She currently also provides input at board level and leadership coaching to developing leaders in her local church.

    She has lived experience in helping and ministry professions, whilst balancing relationship and parenting challenges, practical daily caring for family members with physical and mental health issues, living cross-culturally, living as a military family with deployment experience, grieving the loss of loved ones, managing ongoing stress, working through burnout, and finding strength, meaning and purpose in the work of ministry throughout these challenging life seasons. Kristy has 3 children and has been married for 26 years. She is privileged to provide counselling and professional supervision to pastors, pastor’s wives, chaplains, leaders, missionaries and community workers


Cecilia
Anderson

MCouns ∙ MGuid&Couns
∙ GDipPsych


Chinchilla, Toowoomba, or online

  • ACA Level 4 (Counsellor ∙ Supervisor)
  • Individual Counselling
  • Relationship Counselling
  • Professional Supervision
    (Clinical ∙ Pastoral)
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  • Alongside her professional qualifications Janet has decades of experience working with women both individually and as a group leader. She is married, has raised five children, moved 14 times including both interstate and overseas and supported her husband through six military deployments. She is well acquainted with the stressors of grief and loss and trauma, of cultural transitions and of parenting.

    She understands the exhaustion of burnout and of losing “who you are” while trying to be who others need you to be.

    Janet is passionate about supporting people to discover their uniqueness and be all that they were created to be.

Colleen
Holt

BACouns
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Chinchilla or online

  • ACA Level 2 (Counsellor)
  • Individual Counselling
  • Child/Adolescent Counselling

    Relationship Counselling

    Sand Tray Therapy
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  • As a counsellor and supervisor in private practice in the Western Downs region, Kristy brings a variety of work and life experiences to her professional skill set including leadership coaching, church/pastoral work, multi- campus children’s ministry team leadership, youth ministry work, school based programs, mid-term missions experience (3 years in country), leading short term missions teams and developing programs for at risk children in cross-cultural environments. She currently also provides input at board level and leadership coaching to developing leaders in her local church.

    She has lived experience in helping and ministry professions, whilst balancing relationship and parenting challenges, practical daily caring for family members with physical and mental health issues, living cross-culturally, living as a military family with deployment experience, grieving the loss of loved ones, managing ongoing stress, working through burnout, and finding strength, meaning and purpose in the work of ministry throughout these challenging life seasons. Kristy has 3 children and has been married for 26 years. She is privileged to provide counselling and professional supervision to pastors, pastor’s wives, chaplains, leaders, missionaries and community workers

Brianna
Sells

BABusiness ∙ GrCertEducation ∙ CertIVYouthWork ∙ DipSocialStudies&Leadership
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Chinchilla or online

  • Youth Coaching

  • Student Tutoring (Primary & Secondary)
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  • As a counsellor and supervisor in private practice in the Western Downs region, Kristy brings a variety of work and life experiences to her professional skill set including leadership coaching, church/pastoral work, multi- campus children’s ministry team leadership, youth ministry work, school based programs, mid-term missions experience (3 years in country), leading short term missions teams and developing programs for at risk children in cross-cultural environments. She currently also provides input at board level and leadership coaching to developing leaders in her local church.

    She has lived experience in helping and ministry professions, whilst balancing relationship and parenting challenges, practical daily caring for family members with physical and mental health issues, living cross-culturally, living as a military family with deployment experience, grieving the loss of loved ones, managing ongoing stress, working through burnout, and finding strength, meaning and purpose in the work of ministry throughout these challenging life seasons. Kristy has 3 children and has been married for 26 years. She is privileged to provide counselling and professional supervision to pastors, pastor’s wives, chaplains, leaders, missionaries and community workers


Dianne
Smith

  • Office Coordinator
  • As a counsellor and supervisor in private practice in the Western Downs region, Kristy brings a variety of work and life experiences to her professional skill set including leadership coaching, church/pastoral work, multi- campus children’s ministry team leadership, youth ministry work, school based programs, mid-term missions experience (3 years in country), leading short term missions teams and developing programs for at risk children in cross-cultural environments. She currently also provides input at board level and leadership coaching to developing leaders in her local church.

    She has lived experience in helping and ministry professions, whilst balancing relationship and parenting challenges, practical daily caring for family members with physical and mental health issues, living cross-culturally, living as a military family with deployment experience, grieving the loss of loved ones, managing ongoing stress, working through burnout, and finding strength, meaning and purpose in the work of ministry throughout these challenging life seasons. Kristy has 3 children and has been married for 26 years. She is privileged to provide counselling and professional supervision to pastors, pastor’s wives, chaplains, leaders, missionaries and community workers

Fee Structure


Individual
sessions
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In-person & online
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  • $90     for 1 hour
    (adult)
  • $75 for 1 hour
    (pensioner/student)
  • $70 for 45 mins (children)
  • $50 for 30 mins (children)


    + 10% GST to all service prices


Couples
&
family
sessions

In-person
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  • $120 for 1 hour
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  • $105 for 1 hour (pensioner/HCC)


    + 10% GST to all service prices

 Creative Arts & Art
Therapy

In-office & home visits

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NDIS and Private

  • $150 for 1 hour (individual session in-office)
  • $165 for 1 hour
    (Chinchilla home visit)
  • $250 for 1 hour (sibling session)

    + 10% GST unless exempt on all service prices


Professional
Supervision
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In-person & online
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  • $180     for 1 hour
    (pastoral/clinical)
  • $90 for 1 hour
    (student counsellor)


    + 10% GST included in all applicable service prices


Priority
Sessions
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In-person & online

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  • $130 for 1 hour for:
  • NDIS
  • Workplace Wellbeing Partnership standard
  • QPS self-refer
  • WorkCover
  • My Aged Care
  • Others on request

    + 10% GST unless exempt on all service prices

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EQUIP COUNTRY PTY LTD

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