Counselling Overview

Counselling helps your child to discuss, explore and manage important emotional, social and educational issues, such as:

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Anger management
• Friendship issues
• Exam stress
• Study skills
• and many others...

Your child will become more empowered so they can work towards achieving personal and educational goals and fulfilling their true potential.

When is counselling useful?

Whenever a situation bothers your child enough that it interferes with their ability to:

• Concentrate in class or at work
• Do their schoolwork
• Communicate with parents
• Sleep
• Interact socially
• Or generally enjoy life.

Counselling is confidential

All counselling is confidential. Information will only be revealed to others with client consent. However in those unusual circumstances where failure to disclose may result in clear risk to the client or to others, the counsellor may disclose minimal information necessary to avert risk.

Fees

As at 1st July, 2011, the recommened fee for Psychological Services set by the Australian Psychological Society is $218.00 for 45-60 minutes.

Our fees are slightly lower than this:

• $100.00 - initial 30 minute intake session with parents
• $200.00 - 50 minute counselling session
• $100.00 - 30 minute counselling session (for children aged under 5 years only)

Payment must be made in full at the time of consultation.

We accept cash, EFTPOS or credit card payments.

Note: Some counselling sessions are eligible for Medicare rebates or rebates from your private health insurance fund.

Cancellation Fees

Sometimes there are good reasons for cancellations. However, unlike brief medical appointments it is nearly impossible to fill a 50 minute counselling session with only 1-2 days notice.

For this reason, please note the following:

• If for any reason you need to cancel an appointment please provide at least 72 hours notice.
• If you provide less than 72 hours notice of cancellation for an appointment you may be charged a cancellation fee of 50% of the full fee for the missed session.
• If you provide less than 24 hours notice you may be charged 100% of the full fee for the missed session.

Medicare rebates

If you have a referral from a Medical Doctor, you will recieve the following rebates:

• For a 30 minute consultation you will receive $57.80 from Medicare.
• For a 50 minute consultation you will receive $81.60 from Medicare.

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