What is trauma?
Learn what trauma is, how it can affect your thoughts and feelings, and the steps you can take to understand your experience and explore support.
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Blue Knot
Blue Knot provides short-term counselling and support for anyone affected by complex trauma and helps them to recover and build resilience.
Cost
Free
Helps with
Complex trauma
Childhood abuse
What they do
Blue Knot provides information and support for anyone affected by complex trauma*.
The Blue Knot Helpline and Redress Service can connect you with a specialised trauma counsellor to access:
- Short-term counselling support
- Information
- Referrals for ongoing support
- Information about the National Redress Scheme
- Support with redress applications.
*Complex trauma is repeated, ongoing, and often extreme trauma that happens between people (often called interpersonal trauma). This includes violence, abuse, neglect or exploitation experienced as a child, young person and adult.
Who they're for
Blue Knot provides support for:
- Adult survivors of childhood trauma including abuse
- Partners, family members, friends, and supporters of survivors
- Professionals and service personnel supporting survivors.
How to contact
You can contact the Blue Knot Helpline and Redress Support Service between 9am and 5pm AEST/AEDT, 7 days a week via:
- Phone: 1300 657 380
- Online chat: (Click here and open the chat box in the bottom right-hand corner)
- Email: helpline@blueknot.org.au.
Note: Blue Knot does not provide counselling over online chat.
If you need support in another language, you can use the free Translating and Interpreting Service on 131 450.
If you are deaf or have a hearing or speech impairment, you can use the National Relay Service on 133 677.