About
The Willow Centre was created in response to the community need for more connection, safety and healing. We are passionate about empowering practitioners and individuals with knowledge, skills, and to recognise the power in connecting with others.
With experience across early intervention, recovery, child and family services, acute mental health, and family violence response, we understand that no two people or situations are the same. We offer compassionate, practical support that meets people where they are — creating space for reflection, growth, safety, and meaningful change.
The Willow Centre provides a calm, supportive space that values both therapeutic care and professional development. Alongside individual support, we also offer supervision, secondary consultations, training, and education for professionals working within helping roles. Our aim is to strengthen confidence, capacity, and connection across the sector while keeping the wellbeing and safety of children, individuals, and families at the centre of our work.
Our practice is guided by the core values of respect, curiosity, honesty, vulnerability, and courage. We strive to create spaces that are safe, inclusive, and empowering, where people feel supported to reconnect with their strengths and move forward with confidence.
Founded by a social worker with experience across family violence, acute mental health, child and family services, and early intervention, The Willow Centre was created to offer a space that balances professional expertise with warmth, authenticity, and meaningful connection.
Services we provide:
6 week family violence group program for people who have experienced family violence.
Clinical Supervision for social workers and psychotherapists including students and graduates.
Allied health supervision for counsellors, allied health, community practitioners.
Secondary Consults for family violence, mental health presentations, escalating crises, navigating systems and referral pathways.
Training workshops for family violence and child safety.
Webinars on various topics for professionals in the community sector; stay up to date on when tickets are released through email or socials.
Our online learning hub includes resources such as free fact sheets and recorded webinars.
Meet the team
Meg is founder of The Willow Centre, an AASW accredited social worker, trained clinical supervisor and trained group facilitator based on the Mornington Peninsula. With over 10 years’ experience in the social work and community sector, along with clinical mental health, she has supported children, families, parents, and adults experiencing adversity, with a strong focus on safety, healing, and empowerment.
Meg’s qualifications include:
Undergraduate degree in Psychology
Master’s degree in Social Work
Master’s Degree in Mental Health Practice
Trained Clinical Supervisor (Victorian Allied Health Clinical Supervision Framework)
MARAM Family Violence Brief & Intermediate Risk Assessment trained
ASIST Suicide Prevention trained
AASW accredited: #696353
Her areas of specialisation include mental health, trauma, family violence, parenting and neurodivergence and pre/post-natal mental health. She draws on a range of therapeutic approaches in the work, tailoring approaches to meet the unique needs of each individual or group.
Anna is a clinical psychotherapist, play therapist and group facilitator on the Mornington Peninsula. Anna has over 15 years experience working with children, families and individuals. Anna is a qualified Yoga Teacher, specialising in Trauma-Sensitive Yoga and often uses this as a tool in assisting her clients begin to build the important relationship between their minds and their bodies through breath and movement.
Anna utilises a strengths-based approach in her work with clients, recognising that each person comes with their own wisdom and lived experience. Anna sees her role as helping to empower clients to connect with strengths and skills they already have, and to integrate these with new skills and ways of being.
