Dip.Couns, Play Therapy,
Child-Inclusive
ACA: 19602
South Perth Clinic
Nadia Kidgell
Principal Family Counsellor - South Perth
Areas of Focus
Nadia offers grounded, relational support for children, teens, couples, and families seeking family counselling in South Perth that feels safe, respectful, and genuinely human.
Nadia is the Principal Family Counsellor at Discovery Family Therapy and works exclusively from our South Perth clinic. She supports families navigating divorce and separation, parenting challenges, family conflict, trauma, anxiety, and depression, with particular depth in neurodivergence-affirming care for ADHD, autism, and AuDHD.
How Nadia Can Help
Nadia works with:
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Children and adolescents experiencing anxiety, school distress, or emotional overwhelm
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Parents seeking practical, compassionate strategies at home
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Couples navigating disconnection, conflict, and misattunement
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Families adjusting to change, separation, or relational strain
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Neurodivergent children, teens, and adults
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Couples where one or both partners are neurodivergent
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FIFO and high-demand work families are under pressure
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Family Domestic Violence Recovery
Her work is rooted in family counselling in Perth that honours each person’s experience and reduces blame, shame, and confusion
Working With Neurodivergence
Nadia’s neurodevelopmental training allows her to support children and adults who are autistic, ADHD, or AuDHD in ways that preserve dignity and identity. She helps families understand what sits beneath behaviour, sensory responses, emotional reactivity, and shutdown.
In couples therapy, Nadia supports partners to understand how neurodivergent traits influence:
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Communication styles
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Emotional regulation
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Sensory needs
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Processing speed
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Relationship dynamics
This work reduces misinterpretation and conflict and builds practical, respectful ways of connecting. Couples often report feeling calmer, less defensive, and more able to work together rather than against one another
Nadia’s Approach
Nadia’s practice is compassionate, collaborative, and evidence-based. She creates a space where families feel safe enough to be honest and supported enough to change.
Her work includes:
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Play-based approaches
Every piece of work is adapted to the unique needs of the family in front of her.
Nadia is deeply committed to early intervention and equitable access to care. Her long-term vision is to remove logistical barriers to therapy by embedding highly experienced family counsellors within schools across Perth.
A Little About Nadia
My favourite thing about being a counsellor
Every day, Nadia meets people who have endured significant hardship, often while caring for others. She sees them as some of the bravest people she has ever known. Being invited to walk alongside them through uncertainty and pain is something she considers a privilege.
What is unique about me as a counsellor?
Nadia owns her mistakes, apologises when she is wrong, and remains open to learning. She invests in ongoing personal and professional growth, believing that self-reflection is essential for ethical, effective practice.
Most impressive achievements
Nadia’s life is shaped by determination in the face of limitation. She was once told she was not “smart enough” to finish school, and Year 12 with strong results. A career coach advised her against university, she graduated with three distinctions and an award for dedication. After being rejected by a web design college, she taught herself HTML, CSS, and PHP, built a digital career, and later founded her own business.
Her guiding principle remains: “We will either find a way or make one.”
One quirky fact
Nadia lives with a family of pranksters, where no object is ever quite where you left it and no birthday passes without at least one elaborate practical joke. From googly eyes appearing on kitchen appliances to mysteriously relocating shoes and “surprise” notes in lunchboxes, her household runs on humour, mischief, and affection in equal measure. It keeps life light, perspective grounded, and serves as a daily reminder that connection is often built in laughter as much as in words.
Booking Requests
Suite 5, 95 Canning Highway
South Perth
6151
+61 (08) 6114-1845
Quick Links
Locations:
South Perth:
Suite 5,
95 Canning Highway,
South Perth, 6151
Joondalup:
4F / 1 Wise Street,
Joondalup
6027
Who we help
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Children aged 3 -12
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Employment Assistance Program EAP
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