Evolve Mental Health & Wellbeing Hub
02 4096 1100
About the Hub
The Evolve Hub is truly here for you, the community. Whether you're unsure where to start your mental health journey or you know someone who is in need of support, if you need advice on available services, or require a direct referral to the right kind of support, we're here to help you navigate the system.
Here at Evolve, our core mission is simple: to make mental health care more accessible to everyone in the Hunter Region. We understand that navigating the world of mental health support can sometimes feel overwhelming. Knowing where to turn, who to trust, and what options are available shouldn't be a barrier to getting the help you need.
We've created a dedicated space – both physically, here at 54 Ridley Street, Charlestown, and through our outreach supports, services and events – to be your first point of contact for information, advice, and referral regarding mental health and wellbeing.
To make this vision a reality, we're proud to partner with a fantastic network of dedicated professionals, organisations and community members to support the work that we do.
If you need to connect to care or are feeling overwhelmed trying to find the right support, please reach out or visit us at 54 Ridley Street, Charlestown. We're committed to making access to mental health support easier, more understandable, and ultimately, more effective for everyone in the Hunter Region.
We're here to listen, guide, and connect you with the support you deserve.
Information, Advice &
Referral
Our information. advice and referral service is open to everyone across the Hunter region via telephone (02 4096 1100), email (admin@LMNSPN.org.au), or by coming in to the Hub (54 Ridley St, Charlestown). We offer a free service to connect you to the support and information you need to navigate your mental health journey. This program is called 'Evolve'.
The Evolve program will connect you with one of our trained support staff who will discuss with you what your needs, challenges and barriers are and what you want to achieve. From here we will recommend services and supports that meet your individual need and assist you to connect with these supports. But Evolve doesn't end there. We will provide follow up care to ensure these referrals are working for you, and to assist you along a Pathways Plan, that assists you to progress from one support to the next, towards your overall goals. We are here to provide a continuum of supports that help you to achieve the results that you are seeking.
We are here to guide you every step of the way.
Services in the hub
Kara Thomson Psychology
Kara is a Clinical Psychologist with 20 years of experience working with adults from 18 to 90 years of age. She uses evidence-based practices and combines these with innovation and integrity. Her approach is client-centred and eclectic with an emphasis on creating a safe and supportive environment to meet the client where they are and identify their needs to explore and enable change. To complement her strong clinical skills, Kara has extensive experience with complex forensic clients, including individuals who present with intellectual disability, developmental and personality disorders, anger, aggression and offending behaviours.
The Rosewood Centre
The Rosewood Centre is here to support people in our community to improve their mental health and wellbeing. Our dedicated team of experienced psychologists and clinicians are passionate about helping people to live well and work towards their goals.
Our Evolve Hub Psychologist Sallie Scoggin's aim is to give clients hope, tools and strategies to manage their mental health difficulties so they can pursue a rich and meaningful life. She strives to create an environment of open empathy, trust and collaboration with her clients. Sallie has clients across the lifespan, and uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and problem-solving therapeutic techniques to treat a range of psychological difficulties such as mood disorders, grief, addiction, relationship issues and behaviours of concern.
Sand Waves Counselling
Sand Waves delivers Sand Play Therapy and Counselling by qualified and experienced practitioner Michael Burke.
Fearless Therapies
Fearless Therapies supports children, teens, and adults across the Hunter and Port Stephens regions through professional counselling and mentoring that is trauma-informed, neurodiversity-affirming, and grounded in real connection.
Using nature-based and client-led approaches, we support clients of all ages, including NDIS participants and families, helping them build emotional strength, resilience, and lasting behavioural change.
Well Education
Well Education is a youth-focused wellbeing organisation delivering preventative mental health and social-emotional learning programs for children and youth, with a specialised focus on empowering girls and young women.
Through small-group mentoring and strengths-based education, our evidence-based programs build emotional literacy, resilience, confidence, self-worth, and positive decision-making. Grounded in the five core competencies of the CASEL framework—self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making—our approach supports young people to thrive socially, emotionally, and mentally.
Top Blokes Foundation
Top Blokes Foundation is a youth mental health charity supporting young males aged 10-24 across New South Wales and Queensland. Through its evidence-based mentoring programs, Top Blokes helps young males explore positive and healthy masculinities, build resilience, and develop the skills needed to thrive in their personal and professional lives.
GambleAware Hunter New England
GambleAware Hunter New England is a free counselling and gambling-related support service for people who gamble, and their families and friends. You don't have to gamble to ask for help – this service is open to anyone impacted by gambling. GambleAware is funded by the NSW Office of Responsible Gambling. Our support includes counselling, case management and care coordination, financial counselling and consultation, SMART recovery groups, Self-exclusions. Read more here: https://www.catholiccare.org.au/services/counselling-and-clinical-services/gambleaware-counselling/
Bright Feathers Counselling & Educational Consulting
Meet Mel
Hi, I’m Mel — counsellor, clinical hypnotherapist, educator, and neurodivergent parent of a neurodivergent child.
I bring over 15 years of experience in education, behaviour support, and therapeutic work, and I offer a calm, inclusive space for people of all ages to feel seen, supported, and empowered.
At Bright Feathers, I combine clinical training with lived experience to walk alongside you — both in your journey and, if you prefer, along the Merewether coastline, with walk-and-talk sessions that blend nature, movement, and meaningful conversation.
Constructive thinking counselling services
Face to Face in charlestown NSW or online anywhere
Areas of support:
Alchohol & other Drug (AOD) and addiction
Disability support & advocacy
General life challanges
Menopause & womens health
Navigating being a teenager
Relationship counselling
Suicidial Thoughts & prevention
PHONE: 0493 463 208
EMAIL: Constructivethinkingcs@gmail.com
Appoitments available by request only
Tundra Psychology
Tundra Psychology was created to offer psychological care that starts with each person's own experience and is shaped through collaboration, respect, and shared understanding.
The practice draws on broad clinical and leadership experience across healthcare, community, and specialist settings, with a focus on neuroaffirming, trauma-informed, and recovery-oriented care that balances reflection, practical support, and clinical understanding.
At Tundra, psychological care is not about reducing people to a diagnosis, symptom, role, or referral question. It is about building a shared understanding of what is happening, what matters, and what kind of support may be useful.
Name Narrate Navigate
Name.Narrate.Navigate (NNN) is a trauma informed and culturally responsive program for youth violence.
NNN uses experiential learning, mindful engagement and photography to help young people to name, narrate & navigate the experience of violence.
NNN explores drivers of violence including : emotional recognition, the experience of invalidation, empathy, power and control, shame, and choice.
Kintsugi OT
Kintsugi OT grew from a desire to offer a different kind of Occupational Therapy. My approach combines clinical reasoning with lived experience and focuses less on helping people push through and more on understanding what is creating pressure, reducing overload and building practical ways of living that feel sustainable and genuinely suited to the person.
Kintsugi OT is a telehealth first practice supporting autistic adults across Australia. Telehealth reduces travel, sensory load and time pressure, allowing sessions to happen in a familiar, regulated environment.
In person appointments are available every Monday - Thursday at the Lake Macquarie and Newcastle Suicide Prevention Network clinic.
Walk Within
At Walk Within, I offer a compassionate and creative space where art becomes a pathway to healing, insight, and transformation. Based in Newcastle and also working online, I welcome clients both locally and from afar. You don’t need to be “good at art” – this process isn’t about the finished product, but about what unfolds as you create. Through gentle guidance and intuitive exploration, transpersonal art therapy allows you to connect with the deeper parts of yourself – beyond words, beyond roles – and find meaning, clarity, and resilience from within.
CentreSteps
CentreSteps Allied Health is a locally owned practice in Newcastle and Lake Macquarie. We’re here to make each step forward feel supported and achievable, providing occupational therapy and allied health assistant services with a vision to expand into a wider range of therapies over time.
Our approach is clear: focus on what matters most, take practical steps together, and support people to flourish in their everyday lives and communities.
With strong community values and a genuine passion for helping others, CentreSteps is dedicated to walking alongside you on the path to greater confidence, independence, and wellbeing.
M8 Support
At M8 Support, our team is passionate about helping people achieve meaningful goals and live more independent, fulfilling lives. We combine expertise in behaviour support, psychology, mental health, education and disability services to deliver person-centred, evidence-based support that puts choice, control and individual strengths at the forefront. Together, we work alongside participants, families and support networks to create practical pathways towards improved wellbeing, community participation, education, employment and long-term success.
Mai-Wel
Mai-Wel creates and delivers vibrant, innovative services which provide opportunities for people with disability and job seekers across the Hunter Valley to achieve their dreams and goals for life.
As a registered National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) provider, we provide a range of disability and employment support services that are varied to meet the goals and aspirations of each individual. We connect people to possibilities and aim to empower each individual to achieve their goals.
We provide supports and services in our purpose-built facilities across the Hunter Region, from Singleton to Newcastle and to Port Stephens. We also support people in their homes and to access their local community.
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