Open Arms - Veterans and Families Counselling

Open Arms – Veterans and Families Counselling provides counselling and group programs to Australian veterans and peacekeepers and their families. It is a specialised, free and confidential Australia-wide service.

Open Arms staff are professionally qualified psychologists or social workers with experience in working with veterans and peacekeepers and their families. They can provide a wide range of programs and treatments for war and service-related mental health conditions including post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

The following people can use Open Arms:

• Australian veterans of all conflicts and peace operations
• partners, and dependent children (under 26 years of age) of veterans with issues arising from the veteran's service and war widows/widowers
• ex-partners, within five years of separation
• all sons and daughters of Vietnam veterans, regardless of age, with psychological, emotional and social needs arising from the impact of their parent's operational or warlike service.
• ex-service personnel with a mental health condition as a DVA-accepted disability, and
• current serving members of the ADF who have been formally referred by the ADF under the Strategic Alliance (Memorandum Of Understanding) Fee for Service Arrangement.