Relationships Australia Victoria (RAV) is a community-based, not-for-profit organisation, with no religious affiliations. We are committed to providing safe, inclusive and accessible services for all members of the community, regardless of religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, lifestyle choice, cultural background or economic circumstances.

We welcome Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, LGBTIQA+, and culturally and linguistically diverse community members as well as people with disability and people experiencing vulnerability and disadvantage.

Interpreters can be organised on request.

We believe that people.in all their diversity, have the right to live their lives safely and with dignity, with their families and within their communities, and to enjoy positive, respectful, safe and fulfilling relationships.

Our objective is to relieve the suffering, distress and helplessness of people experiencing vulnerability and disadvantage people so as to enhance their physical, social and emotional wellbeing.

We provide services from 18 locations and additional outreach sites across metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria. The corporate support team is based in Camberwell.

RAV acknowledges the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Owners of the lands and waterways of Australia. We support Aboriginal people’s right to self-determination and culturally safe services.

We recognise the lifelong impacts of childhood trauma.
We recognise those who had children taken away from them.

Dayspring Counselling Service