Confidential & Collaborative

Counselling

Our counselling service offers a variety of positive benefits which ultimately contribute to your overall health and well-being. Exploring your thoughts with a professional in a safe, caring and confidential environment gives you the opportunity to organise your thoughts and feelings in a productive way.

Counselling is a collaborative relationship between the client and counsellor.  Counselling sessions provide a safe, confidential, non-judgmental and supportive environment to talk openly about your experiences, concerns and feelings.

Counselling

Effective counselling can assist with a wide variety of issues including but not limited to:

Challenges

  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Relationship or parenting problems
  • Separation and divorce
  • Home and work related stress
  • Trauma
  • Domestic violence
  • Rape and sexual assault
  • Childhood sexual abuse
  • Addictions
  • Stress and stress related illness
  • Health and sexuality concerns
  • Life stage issues and transitions
  • Grief and Loss
  • Career and Workplace challenges
  • Vicarious Trauma, compassion fatigue and burnout
  • Caregiver fatigue and burnout

Counselling

We embrace a range of evidenced based focused psychological strategies and approaches including:

    • Trauma Counselling
    • Psycho-educational Counselling
    • Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)
    • Trauma focused CBT (TF-CBT)
    • Prolonged Exposure Therapy
    • Interpersonal Therapy
    • Motivational Interviewing
    • Narrative Therapy
    • Mindfulness, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

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    Sessions

    Sessions are 1 hour in length. Double sessions are available on request. Medicare rebate available for GP referred clients. We accept credit & debit cards, and cash with full payment required at the time of consultation. 

    Please Note: The HICAPS system is available at the Eastwood Practice which means individual clients can pay the full amount on the day and be reimbursed the Medicare rebate on that day into their cheque or savings account as long as they bring a physical card to rebate the funds.

    Cancellations and Missed Appointments

    The scheduled appointment time is reserved for you. If you miss an appointment, or you cancel with less than 24 hours notice, you may be billed a $100 cancellation fee. Medicare does not cover payment for missed appointments.

    Doctor ReferRals

    Angela and Ali are recognised Accredited Mental Health Social Workers, registered with Medicare and have provider numbers. This means you are able to apply the Medicare rebate to the session fee.

    When you obtain a referral from a GP, Medicare covers most of your fee with the exception of a gap payment. Medicare’s “Better Access to Mental Health Care” scheme provides this rebate for up to 10 sessions per calendar year.