Information for Clients

What to Expect from Therapy
When you consult a Psychologist, you should expect confidentiality, empathy, understanding, and being given sufficient time to express your thoughts and feelings. Your first session will involve a thorough assessment that covers:
  • What difficulties you've been experiencing (such as depression, anxiety, work stress, interpersonal issues)
  • How these difficulties are impacting you in your daily life, relationships and friendships, school or work
  • Whether there were particular triggers for these difficulties
  • Whether there are any executive functioning difficulties that impact your concentration or memory
  • If you've had any thoughts of harm to yourself or other people
  • Whether you have previously had any difficulties of a similar nature and if so, how they were treated
  • Whether there might be any factors sustaining the problem, such as relationship problems, work problems, or other sources of stress
  • Your own views about the reasons for having developed the concern and any preferences you might have about its treatment
  • Your childhood experiences, including school, friendships, and relationship with your family of origin
  • Whether there is any family history of mental health issues
  • Your current friendship and/or relationship supports, and the quality of these
  • Your personality style and general coping responses
  • Your alcohol and drug history
  • Whether you have previously or are currently experiencing any relevant medical problems, and an overview of any current medications
​​After this assessment, your Psychologist will work collaboratively with you to develop an appropriate treatment plan, including the therapy approach that will be used and the recommended frequency of sessions. This treatment plan will be tailored to your specific needs, and will be reviewed with you throughout therapy to ensure you are working toward your goals.

Services Available

Individual therapy for:
  • Adjustment problems
  • Alcohol & other drug issues
  • Anger management
  • Anxiety, panic & phobias
  • Behaviour problems
  • Child & adolescent difficulties
  • Chronic pain
  • Depression & mood disorders
  • ​Emotional problems
  • Grief & loss
  • Health & illness anxiety
  • Interpersonal problems
  • Obsessive compulsive & related disorders
  • Personality disorders
  • Self-esteem issues
  • Self-harm
  • Workplace discontent

How to Make an Appointment


​You can call our office on (08) 8981 5605 to schedule an appointment as a private, fee-paying client. Please note that we do not schedule same-day appointments and there may be a waiting period for an appointment time based on our psychologists’ availability. You may be able to claim a partial rebate on the fee of your sessions through your private health fund. However, we are unable to process this rebate at our office. Please contact your private health fund to determine if you are eligible for a partial rebate.

Alternatively, you may speak to your GP about your eligibility to be referred under Medicare’s Better Access to Mental Health Care Initiative. If you are eligible, you will need to complete a Mental Health Care Plan with your GP and your GP will need to complete a referral letter to a psychologist before scheduling an appointment. 
This will enable you to receive a partial rebate on the cost of an initial six sessions. If further sessions are recommended, you will need to see your GP for a new referral and may require a Mental Heealth Care Plan Review.

​Alternatively, you may be eligible to access services through an Employee Assistance Program (EAP). Please visit our EAP page for more information.

If you would like to speak to a member of our team for more details or to make an appointment, please contact our office by phone on the details below.