Psychological therapy
Therapy that fits the way you live.
Evidence-based therapy for children, adolescents, adults and older adults, tailored to you and delivered by experienced clinicians. We respect that you are the expert on your own life.
Who we help
You do not need a diagnosis to begin
You can come to therapy with a clear diagnosis, or simply with something that is not working the way you would like. Therapy does not require a prior assessment.
People come to us across the lifespan, at all sorts of moments.
- Anxiety, worry and panic
- Low mood and depression
- Stress, burnout and adjustment to life changes
- Trauma and difficult past experiences
- Sleep difficulties
- Grief and loss
- Adjustment to a neurological diagnosis or change in thinking, for the person and for those who care for them
- Relationship and family difficulties
Explore by what is going on
Find help for what you are facing
Start with the area closest to what is happening for you. Each one explains how therapy can help and what to expect. If you are not sure which fits, begin anywhere, or tell us in your own words on the appointment form.
Anxiety, stress & burnout
Worry that will not switch off, panic, tension in the body, or stress that has tipped into burnout.
Learn more →Low mood & depression
Flatness, loss of enjoyment, exhaustion and self-criticism, and a way back to what matters.
Learn more →Trauma & grief
Difficult past experiences, loss and grief, worked through gently and at a pace you set.
Learn more →Sleep & adjustment to change
Sleep that will not come, and finding steadier ground through a diagnosis or a big change.
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How therapy helps
A collaborative process
Together we make sense of what is keeping a difficulty going, build practical skills, and work towards what matters to you. For some people a brief, focused piece of work is enough; others value longer-term support.
We tailor the approach to the person, not the other way around. If you would like a formal assessment as well, you can read about neuropsychological assessment.
Approaches we use
Ways of working, in plain terms
We draw on the approach that fits the person and the goal. Here is what each one means.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Works with the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour, building tools to shift the patterns that maintain anxiety, low mood, stress and insomnia.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Builds psychological flexibility: accepting what is outside our control, and committing to actions that line up with your values.
Mindfulness-based strategies
Train attention and reduce rumination, supporting emotion regulation and the management of stress and pain.
Emotion-focused work (EFT-informed)
Attends to emotional processing and awareness, helping people understand and shift long-standing patterns.
Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP)
An emotion-focused, experiential therapy that gently works with the feelings and protective patterns beneath long-standing anxiety, low mood and relationship difficulties, often working briefly and deeply.
We also draw on schema-informed and trauma-focused approaches (for example trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapy), and, for younger clients, parent-supported approaches, where these fit the person and the goal.
Children and adolescents
Therapy for younger people
Work with young people is developmentally tailored and family-aware. Parents and carers are part of the process, and with consent we coordinate with school. Families commonly seek therapy for anxiety, low mood, behavioural and emotional regulation difficulties, and adjustment alongside a developmental or learning profile.
We see children, adolescents and adults, and consider each person's suitability for therapy individually rather than by a fixed age cut-off. If you are not sure whether therapy with us is the right fit, call us and we will talk it through.
“We tailor the approach to the person, not the other way around.”
What to expect
How sessions work
Sessions are usually 50 minutes, scheduled weekly or fortnightly.
- The first appointment. About understanding you: your concerns, relevant background, and what you hope to achieve.
- A shared plan. Early sessions build a plan together, focused on what matters to you.
- Reviewing as we go. We check progress together. The number of sessions varies with the approach and the goal, and we will be honest with you about that.
Therapy is a planned service, not crisis or emergency care, and we are honest about what it can and cannot do. If you need urgent help, call 000, or Lifeline on 13 11 14 at any hour.
Funding and rebates
What you can claim
With a Mental Health Treatment Plan from your GP, the Better Access initiative provides Medicare rebates for a number of individual sessions each calendar year, with a GP review part way through. Rebates differ for clinical and registered psychologists. We also work with the Department of Veterans' Affairs, WorkCover Queensland, icare (NSW) and transport-accident schemes.
A referral is not needed to see us privately. A referral and Mental Health Treatment Plan are needed to claim Medicare rebates. Current fees and the exact rebate figures are on our Fees and Policies page.
Getting started
Request an appointment, or call 0452 452 262. If you have a Mental Health Treatment Plan or referral, attach it and we will take care of the rest.
Request an appointment