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Our Practice Philosophy
As a solution-focused clinical psychology practice, our treatment approach is to provide skills and practical feedback to help you address current life challenges or long-standing issues. With compassion and understanding, we help you find resolution for a wide range of personal concerns and psychological difficulties.
We can also provide psychological assessment to investigate possible learning or attention problems, ability, personality type and career planning. Using complementary approaches, such as Mindfulness, Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Schema Therapy, we draw from a variety of evidence-based methods and incorporate what is most helpful for each individual.
In a comfortable and supportive environment, we offer a personalised approach tailored to each client’s individual needs to help overcome psychological and emotional difficulties, prevent relapse and attain the personal growth they may be looking for. Together with each client, we work to develop strengths and achieve life goals
Our Services
We treat a wide range of concerns for adults and couples including:
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Anxiety, depression, postnatal depression
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Separation/divorce, grief & loss, relationship difficulties
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Pain management, sleep disturbance
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Trauma, assault, victims of crime
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Self esteem
We treat a wide range of concerns for children, young people and families including:
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School refusal, learning difficulties
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Attachment/separation difficulties, grief & loss,
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Peer problems, bullying
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Self-esteem, body image, phobias, anxiety, depression, self-harm
Employee Assistance Programs (EAP):
We offer EAP tailored to various businesses and organisations. Our services assist employees in addressing both work-related and personal challenges that can impact their attitudes, performance, and overall productivity in the workplace.
Accessing our Services under Medicare
You can access our services without a referral, but you will be ineligible to claim a Medicare benefit for the service. If you have Private health cover, you may be able to claim through your health fund (you will need to check with your health fund)
You may however, be eligible to claim a Medicare rebate for allied mental health services once you have:
- a GP Mental Health Treatment Plan in place; or
- a referral by a psychiatrist or paediatrician.
Your GP or psychiatrist/paediatrician can initially refer you for up to six individual allied mental health services. It is at the clinical discretion of your referring practitioner as to the number of allied mental health services you will be referred for (to a maximum of six in any one referral).
Depending on your health care needs, following the initial course of treatment, you may return to your GP or psychiatrist/paediatrician for a Mental Health Treatment Plan review to obtain additional sessions up to a maximum of ten individual and ten group services per calendar year. Whether you have a clinical need to access the additional allied health services which attract a rebate is a decision for your treating health practitioner, taking into account the written report received from the allied mental health professional at the completion of a course of treatment.
It is important to note that the GP Mental Health Treatment Plan will only entitle you to a rebate from Medicare and there will be an out-of-pocket expense. Please see our Fees page
For more information on the GP Mental Health Treatment Plan, click on this link