SHQ - Sexual Health Quarters

SHQ provides specialist support tailored to your feelings, needs and goals.

Our counsellors are experienced in navigating the challenges faced by people with disability and those who care for them.

We offer a safe, confidential space where you can discuss a range of topics including:

🎭 Feelings
💗 Sexuality education
💻 Internet safety
👫 Friendships and respectful relationships
🚿 Puberty and hygiene
💭 or anything else impacting your relationships and emotional wellbeing

We have locations in Northbridge, Joondalup and Mandurah and can also attend sessions via telephone and video call.

Call 9227 6414 or go to shq.org.au for more information.

The SHQ Sexual Health Helpline is a free and confidential service providing information and advice on s*xual health, including contraception, s*xually transmissible infections, emergency contraception, and more!

☎️ 08 9227 6178

If calling is not your thing, you can also send your questions to [email protected]

For unplanned pregnancy support and information, you can call 1800 4 Choice (1800 424 642) or visit the 4choice.org.au

Join us for two fun-filled days of learning, collaboration, and confidence building activities designed to help youth workers, nurses, counsellors, and others who work with young people provide information and support to young people on consent, respectful relationships and s*xual health.

📅 28 - 30 October 2026
⏰ 9am - 4.30pm
📍 SHQ, 70 Roe St Northbridge
🔗 shq.org.au/course/nuts-and-bolts

Participants gain skills to:
⭐ Create a safe space for young people to talk about respectful relationships, consent and s*xual health
⭐ Utilise a human rights, strengths based, s*x positive approach
⭐ Provide current information about s*xual health
⭐ Provide appropriate support and referrals

Participants are also invited to attend an optional third day, Nuts and Bolts PLUS. N&B Plus is an opportunity to hear from sector experts on contemporary issues in s*xual and reproductive health. With guest speakers, a youth sector panel, and resources and referrals, N&B Plus supports workers to ensure currency in their work with young people.

Attended Nuts & Bolts in the past? Previous participants receive a discount for N&B Plus.

SHQ can also work with organisations to create bespoke training that suits their needs.

📆 3 December 2026
⏰ 6.30 - 9pm
📍 SHQ, 70 Roe St, Northbridge
🔗 shq.org.au/course/iud-theory

SHQ's IUD workshop for medical practitioners, nurse practitioners, midwives and registered nurses provides comprehensive and up-to-date information about copper and hormonal IUDs.

This course provides practitioners with the skills and confidence to discuss IUDs with patients, begin to develop insertion skills and manage complications that may occur.

This is an RACGP approved CPD activity under the RACGP CPD program.

This comprehensive training for allied health professionals, teachers, parents, and anyone with an interest in disability advocacy equips participants with the confidence and skills to provide inclusive s*xuality and relationships education and support to people with disability.

📆 25 - 26 November 2026
⏰ 9am - 4.30pm
📍 SHQ, 70 Roe Street, Northbridge
🔗 shq.org.au/course/s*xuality-and-disability

SHQ’s disability education team are experienced in delivering trauma informed, human rights-based workshops that build capacity to provide s*x positive, affirming support that promotes personal autonomy and informed decision making when it comes to s*xuality and relationships concepts.

Day one topics:
💜 Self-reflection, exploring attitudes and values.
💜 Reviewing key terminology for s*xuality and disability.
💜 Understanding the models of disability.
💜 Exploring common myths and their impact on people with disability and the people around them.
💜 Understanding the intersection of s*xuality and disability.
💜 Reviewing Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE).
💜 Exploring common challenges and teaching strategies.
💜 Understanding supported decision making and how to advocate for people with disability to make their own decisions.

Day two topics:
💜 Exploring s*xuality and relationships resources and accessibility
💜 Supporting diversity in gender, bodies, and s*xuality
💜 Exploring s*xual behaviour/expression; responding and supporting
💜 Teaching: Consent, P**n and Sexting, and Healthy and unhealthy relationships
💜 Improving confidence when teaching about s*xuality and relationships
💜 Protective interrupting and responding

SHQ's Contraceptive Implant Theory Workshop lays the foundations for clinicians to become skilled in providing contraceptive implant services.

Participants completing this RACGP accredited 2-hour course will have a thorough understanding of:
✅ Issues to cover during counselling about contraceptive implant use.
✅ Benefits, risks and contraindications to use of contraceptive implants.
✅ Insertion and removal techniques, including practice insertions and removals with simulation arms.

📆 19 November 2026
⏰ 6.30 - 8.30pm
📍 SHQ, 70 Roe St, Northbridge WA
🔗 shq.org.au/course/implant-training

If you are looking to improve intimacy and communication in your current relationship, or wanting support in finding a healthy relationship after separation or divorce, our counsellors can help navigate the challenges of starting a new relationship and enjoying healthy intimacy in later life.

We provide client-centred counselling for individuals or couples.

Call 08 9228 3693 or go to shq.org.au to book an appointment.

📆 25 November 2026
⏰ 4 - 6pm
📍 Online - interactive webinar
👛 $30.00
🔗 shq.org.au/course/working-with-perpetrators-disability-counselling

This interactive webinar provides practitioners with a critical, disability-affirming framework for working with perpetrators of s*xual violence living with disabilities. Participants will explore the Affirmative Model of Disability, Australian s*xual violence legislation, current research and statistics, and engage in reflective practice to recognise bias and apply ethical, inclusive counselling approaches that promote accountability and safety.

This course is designed for counsellors, psychologists, social workers, disability support professionals, behaviour support practitioners, and allied health workers who work with people with disabilities, particularly those involved in responding to or managing s*xual violence, harmful s*xual behaviours, or forensic and safeguarding contexts.

📆 9 - 13 November 2026
⏰ 8.30am - 5pm
📍 SHQ, 70 Roe St, Northbridge
🔗 shq.org.au/course/doctors-certificate

This national certificate course (previously known as the FPAA Certificate in Reproductive and Sexual Health for Doctors) covers the range of the reproductive and s*xual health issues that are common in general practice.

The comprehensive training is designed for GP Registrars, O&G trainees, and experienced general practitioners wanting to refresh their knowledge in the area of s*xual and reproductive health and gain the confidence and skills to work at a high level in this area.

The course is accredited by the RACGP and ACRRM.

This two-day course for medical practitioners, nurses, counsellors, and healthcare workers provides comprehensive and up-to-date information about pregnancy choices and ethical practice around non-directive counselling.

📆 20 - 21 October 2026
⏰ 9.15am - 4.00pm
📍 SHQ, 70 Roe St, Northbridge
🔗 shq.org.au/course/unintended-pregnancy-counselling-training

Participants will gain essential knowledge, skills and understanding around:

👍 Issues relating to unintended pregnancy
👍 Non-directive counselling and decision-making
👍 Understanding psychosocial context of unintended pregnancy
👍 Legislative context in W.A.
👍 Role of partner, family and support systems
👍 Post-termination counselling
👍 Referral pathways