Individual Counselling

People can experience a range of different mental health problems and stressors, concerns in their life.  People enter therapy for many reasons, from anxiety, stress, or depression to trauma and bereavement. Still others are curious to discover more about themselves and keen to enrich their relationships and inner lives. Whatever your circumstances, therapy can be the first step in an empowering journey of self-awareness and transformational change.

Working alongside us, you will engage in a supportive, collaborative process that will allow you to explore your experiences, behaviors, and beliefs. With the benefit of fresh insight, you will identify blind spots and patterns which are holding you back from health and happiness, and gain the strength and strategies needed to overcome them. 

Family therapy is a type of counselling that aims to improve relationships within families. It can be beneficial in a variety of ways, such as assisting family members to improve communication, and resolving conflicts and tensions within families.Family therapy supports the relationships within the family system to strengthen connections and communication. This can be hugely beneficial in times of crisis, trauma, and change. 

 The intention of family counselling is to create a safe space for family members, guided by a professional for the navigation of difficult thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. The goal is for family members to understand each other better and adopt a more constructive and conciliatory approach in their efforts to work towards healing and acceptance. 

 Healthy relationships form a vital domain to our emotional well-being.  As we are human, it is inevitable that we may encounter problems in relationships.  It is important to note that, unlike individual therapy where the client is the individual, the “client” in couples therapy is the relationship dynamics.

In a couple’s therapy session, a safe and confidential space is provided for the couple to better speak about and reflect on their feelings, needs, challenges, and resources.  This process is made easier by a compassionate and non-judgmental facilitator – the therapist.

I aim to find a way for the couples to work together and achieve their goals, which lead to improvement in the quality and fulfilment of their relationships.

The issues that relationship and couples counselling can address include, but not limited to:

• Communication problems
• Conflict management
• Financial issues
• Intimacy problems
• Infidelity
• Divorce and separation
• Grief and loss
• Life transition
• Stress and emotional management
• Anger management
• Parenting

There are a number of frameworks that couples therapy can be carried out, such as the Gottman Method, Emotionally-Focused Couples Therapy (EFC-T), Solution-Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy etc.

Relationships and couples counselling does not necessarily have to occur only at the time of a relationship crisis. Some can make use of it as prevention of an issue becoming unmanageable.

Important note:  If you are not feeling safe in your relationship or home and are concerned about issues related to abuse and domestic violence, please consider the following resources as a first step:

• 1800RESPECT
• White Ribbon
• The Orange Door
• If you are in immediate danger, please contact call 000 and ask for Police.

 ADHD assessment cost $600 for a one and a half-hour clinical interview, evidenced based diagnostic tools administration, half an hour feedback session and a detailed report for your psychiatrist

Data analysis & Diagnostic outcome report
This is a detailed clinical report which combines all the information collected through your assessment. It can be provided to other professionals to evidence ADHD and any additional recommendations. 

After your ADHD assessment with us, you may decide to take the information we collected in our assessment to a psychiatrist to confirm diagnosis and explore medication.

At the end of your assessment, we may suggest psychiatrists who we know work collaboratively with other clinicians on ADHD assessments. Please note that a psychological assessment does not guarantee that an individual will be prescribed medication. The prescribing of medication is at the discretion of the psychiatrist. 

The average cost of an ADHD assessment in Australia can range anywhere between $1300 to $3000. The cost of our ADHD assessment assists in greater affordability in seeing a psychiatrist for medication management. We have kept our cost low to assist you in accessing an assessment without compromising on the diagnostics and quality of the report. 

All session are bulk billed if you have a mental health treatment plan from your GP. 

Which means there is no out of pocket expenses for you. If you do not have a mental health treatment plan, services are provided at the same cost of this - $85.30

ADHD assessment cost $600 for a one and a half-hour clinical interview, evidenced based diagnostic tools administration, half an hour feedback session and a detailed report for your psychiatrist. 

I understand that unexpected circumstances arise in life however if you need to cancel or reschedule your appointment please call, text and/or email with at least 48 hours' notice otherwise a cancellation fee will apply. A reminder text is sent to you 48 hours before your appointment. You can reply NO to this text to automatically cancel your appointment and avoid a fee. You cannot access any rebates on this fee.