Support services

Twins Research Australia provides a wide range of resources for twin pregnancy, birth and early parenting, twins starting school, twin adolescence and navigating adult twin relationships

HealthdirectAustralia provides 24-hour health advice at 1800 022 222 plus practical support for pregnancy, birth and beyond at Pregnancy Birth and Baby. They also have an area specific to twins and multiples: Pregnant with Twins

Raising Children also has an area specific to twins: Pregnant with Twins

The Australian Multiple Birth Association offers support from “those who know” about twin and multiple births and early parenting

Maternal Child Health Line (staffed by qualified maternal and child health nurses),
13 22 99 (24 hours)

Parent Lines: 
Queensland and Northern Territory 1300 30 1300
South Australia 1300 364 100
Tasmania 1300 808 178
ACT (02) 6287 3833
Victoria 13 22 89 
Western Australia (08) 6279 1200 or 1800 654 432

Tresillian Parent Help Line 1300 272 736 (7am-11pm every day)

Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome Foundation www.tttsfoundation.org

CPR for babies under 12 months www.raisingchildren.net.au/newborns/safety/cpr/cpr-for-babies

Lifeline www.lifeline.org.au 13 11 14

Kids Help Line (ages 5 to 25), confidential, free and available 24 hrs a day 1800 551 800

Beyond Blue  
www.beyondblue.org.au 1300 22 4636 (24 hours)

Reach Out https://au.reachout.com is an online youth mental health support service

PANDA (Post and Ante Natal Depression Association) www.panda.org.au 1300 726 306

Relationships Australia 
www.relationships.org.au 1300 364 27

Suicide Call Back Service is a free nationwide service providing 24/7 phone and online counselling to people affected by suicide 1300 659 467

Psychologists with a special interest in twins are listed below

The psychologists listed below have been brought to our attention as having a special interest in twins.

Katie Wood
Clinical Psychologist
Address: Castlemaine (private practice) and Hawthorn
(Swinburne University Psychology Clinic)
Telephone: 0419 542 247
Email: cwood@swin.edu.au
Blog: The Psychology of Raising Twins

Yael Clark
Educational & Developmental Psychologist (Yael also has
twins)
Address: 599-601 Dandenong Rd, Armadale. 3143
Telephone: 0438 559 601
Website: www.supportingparents.com.au
www.facebook.com/YaelClarkPsychologistSupportingParents

Andrew Greenfield
Child and Educational Psychologist (he is also a twin)
Appointments: 02 8542 1524 (BH)
Mobile: 0412 341 201
Postal: PO Box 838 ROSE BAY NSW 2029
Email: andrew@child-psychologist.com.au
Website: www.child-psychologist.com.au

Jessica Smeltink
Clinical Psychologist (Jessica is also a mother of multiples)
Address: 12 Napier Close, Deakin ACT 2600
Telephone: 0499 435 277
Email: jessica@buddingmindspsychology.com.au
Website: https://www.buddingmindspsychology.com.au/

Areana Eivers
Clinical Psychologist
Address: 5/1000 Logan Road, Holland Park QLD 4121
Email: arepsychology@gmail.com
Telephone: 0452 157 792

Jillian Pearsall-Jones 
Clinical Psychologist (Jillian is also a parent and grandparent of twins)
Perth (private practice)
Email: drjpearsalljones@gmail.com
Telephone: 08 9414 9363

At her Twin Dilemmas Blog and website, twin researcher and psychologist, Dr Barbara Klein, discusses issues unique to parenting twins and twin relationships.

Dr Nancy Segal is a researcher, psychologist and Director of the Twin Studies Research Centre in the USA. Her articles and books about twin relationships are available at her website including Twin Mythconceptions: False Beliefs, Fables, and Facts About Twins.

MoMo Twins Australia and New Zealand https://www.facebook.com/groups/400645683389059

Council of Single Mothers and Their Children (CSMC) www.csmc.org.au 1300 552 511

Parents Without Partners (PWP) www.parentswithoutpartners.org

Rainbow Families Multiple Births Group, same sex families of multiple births https://www.facebook.com/groups/882763631739617

Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome Foundation www.tttsfoundation.org

TTTS Australia and New Zealand https://www.facebook.com/groups/292450580820728

Multiple Birth Families Special Needs Support  https://www.facebook.com/groups/Multiplebirthfamiliespecialneedssupport

Multiple Multiples https://www.facebook.com/groups/1463896220509167

Multiple Dads Sanctuary www.facebook.com/groups/MultipleDadsSanctuary

Pillars of Strength for dads whose babies are ill or bereaved dads www.pillarsofstrength.com.au

Men’s Line Australia www.mensline.org.au 1300 789 978 (24 hours)

Dad’s Guide to Twins

Grief Line www.griefline.org.au  1300 845 745 Australia-wide 6am-2am, 7 days per week

Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Support (SANDS) www.sands.org.au 1300 072 637 (24 hours)

Red Nose Grief and Loss https://rednosegriefandloss.org.au 1300 308 307

There are organisations and web forums that are based around the world that assist twinless twins:

• Twinless Twin Support Australia – a private Facebook group coordinated by an Australian twin who lost her twin
• Twinless Twins Support Group International is a nonprofit organisation founded by Dr Raymond Brandt, an identical twinless twin, who found healing by reaching out to other twinless twins. It is made up of twins who have lost their twin due to death at any age. Members at different stages in their bereavement listen to each other and reach out in the spirit of ‘Healing By Helping’. “We focus on healing and sharing our twinship with the belief that Once a Twin, Always a Twin. Hope can be renewed for the future.”
• The Lone Twin Network is a voluntary support group run by and for twinless twins, over the age of 18, whose loss has occurred at or around birth, in childhood or during adulthood. It is a UK based group but also has many members from all over the world including a newly formed group of lone Australian twins. “Through meetings and personal contact, we aim to offer a friendly and comfortable environment in which to talk openly and honestly about how it feels to be without your twin. You will find there is a wide variety of experiences and circumstances of loss within the members of the group – please remember, you are not alone.”
• Compassionate Friends
• Twin Loss (New Zealand)

There may be other closed groups available to join on Facebook if search Twinless Twins.

Please note any statements and views made on the following pages do not reflect the views and opinions of Twins Research Australia. These lists and pages are privately owned. The links below are solely provided as a potential support for twins and families of twins.

Twinfo
Multiples Fun & Support Group
Twinslist.org
Parents of Multiples Australia
About.com Parenting Multiples
About Twins
Twin Days – Twinsburg Ohio
Twins Magazine Online (US)