Welcome to Decoding Us™ DFV Awareness & Relationship Education Powered by HCCA
Relationship education for real life.
Understanding relationships isn’t only about recognising red flags. It’s about understanding healthy connection, communication, boundaries, consent and autonomy — while also learning to recognise when behaviours cross into manipulation, restriction or control.
Healthy Connection
Explore what respect, trust, communication, boundaries and individuality can look like in healthy relationships.
Understanding the Signs
Learn to recognise unhealthy patterns, manipulation, coercive control and behaviours that can be mistaken for care.
Know What's Right for You
Build confidence in identifying your needs, values, boundaries and dealbreakers — because relationships aren’t one-size-fits-all.
Understanding Domestic & Family Violence
Educational webinars exploring the patterns, behaviours and impacts of domestic and family violence.
Domestic and family violence is not always easy to recognise. It does not always involve physical violence, and controlling or abusive behaviours can sometimes appear subtle, confusing or even ordinary when viewed in isolation.
HCCA’s educational webinar series explores domestic and family violence, coercive control and related forms of abuse through accessible, trauma-informed education. Each webinar focuses on a different topic and can be attended individually.
Seeing the Unseen
Understanding Non-Physical Abuse & Coercive Control
Abuse does not have to leave a bruise to have a profound impact.
This one-hour webinar explores how seemingly small behaviours can combine to create patterns of power, restriction and control.
We’ll explore:
● What coercive control can look like in everyday life
● How seemingly small behaviours can form a pattern
● Control disguised as care or concern
● Spoken and unspoken rules within relationships
● The role of power, restriction and fear
● Why non-physical abuse can be difficult to recognise
Who Is It For?
Victim-survivors, friends and family, informal supporters, community members and anyone wanting to understand domestic and family violence better. No previous knowledge or experience is required.
The webinar combines research, professional knowledge and lived-experience insight to make complex patterns easier to recognise and understand.
About the Facilitator
HCCA’s webinars are created and facilitated by Linda Awramenko West, Founder of Holistic Care Counselling & Advocacy (HCCA).
With a background in counselling, youth work and trauma-informed practice, Linda has a particular focus on domestic, family and sexual violence, coercive control and victim-survivor experiences within service and justice systems. She is currently undertaking postgraduate study in sexual violence prevention, response, law and justice.
Future Topics
The Hidden Playbook — Understanding Manipulation . Explore common manipulation tactics, how they can influence decisions and behaviour, and why they can be difficult to recognise within a relationship.
When Reality Gets Rewritten — Understanding Gaslighting . Explore gaslighting, reality distortion and patterns that can cause someone to question their memory, judgement or perception of events.
Care or Control? — When Concern Becomes Restriction . Explore how care, jealousy, protection or concern can sometimes cross into monitoring, restriction and control.
Why Don’t They Just Leave? — Understanding the Complexities of Leaving . Explore the emotional, practical, financial and safety barriers that can make leaving an abusive relationship difficult — and why separation can sometimes increase risk.
After Leaving: When the Abuse Doesn’t End — Understanding Post-Separation Abuse . Explore how abuse and control can continue or change after separation, including harassment, intimidation and ongoing attempts to maintain control.
When Money Becomes a Weapon — Understanding Financial Abuse . Explore how money, employment, debt, property and access to resources can be used to restrict independence or maintain control.
Someone Told Me They’re Being Abused. What Do I Do? — Responding Safely to Disclosures . Practical, trauma-informed guidance for responding to someone experiencing abuse — including what can help, what can unintentionally make things harder and why listening without judgement matters.
Webinar Details
Format: Live online via Zoom
Duration: 1 hour
Cost: $35.00
Personal Disclosure: Never Required
Dates: Coming Soon
Certificate of Completion
Participants who attend the full webinar will receive a digital Certificate of Completion from Decoding Us™ | HCCA.
Need Support?
This series provides education and information and is not a crisis or emergency service.
Emergency — 000 If you or someone else is in immediate danger.
1800RESPECT — 1800 737 732 National domestic, family and sexual violence counselling and support, 24/7.
DVConnect Womensline — 1800 811 811 24/7 Queensland domestic and family violence crisis support.
Lifeline — 13 11 14 24/7 crisis support.
Healthy Relationships
Healthy Relationship Education — Webinars Coming Soon
Healthy relationships are not one-size-fits-all. We all have different needs, values, boundaries, communication styles and expectations — and what feels right for one person or couple may look different for another.
Decoding Us™ will explore the many parts of healthy relationships through a series of practical, accessible webinars designed to help people better understand respect, trust, communication, boundaries, consent, autonomy and connection.
The series will also explore the grey areas that don’t always fit neatly into “red flag” or “green flag” categories — including compromise, compatibility, different relationship needs and how to recognise the difference between a healthy boundary and controlling behaviour.
Healthy doesn’t mean perfect. It’s not about telling people what their relationships should look like. It’s about providing the knowledge and tools to understand what feels healthy, respectful and right for you — while respecting the same for someone else.
Upcoming webinar topics will include:
What Does Healthy Actually Look Like?
Exploring green flags, respect, trust, autonomy and the foundations of healthy connection.
Boundaries Without Guilt
Understanding healthy boundaries, communicating them and respecting the boundaries of others.
Conflict Without Control
Exploring disagreement, communication and compromise without intimidation, punishment or control.
Together, Not Owned
Understanding individuality, independence, privacy and autonomy within relationships.
Compatibility: When Nobody Is Wrong
Exploring different needs, values and expectations — and recognising when something isn’t necessarily unhealthy, but simply isn’t right for you.
More topics coming soon.