Therapy is a method, not a chat
Everyone here works from structured, evidence-based approaches — which means there is a plan, there are things to practise between sessions, and there is a way of telling whether it is working. Sitting in a room talking with no direction is not treatment.
What we do, and who each one is for.
Every entry says who it suits and what it costs before you ring. If what you need is not here, say so on the phone and we will tell you who does it.
Anxiety & panic disorders
Generalised anxiety, panic disorder, social anxiety, health anxiety and specific phobias. The treatment follows a well-established, structured protocol with a defined start and an end point agreed with you, not an open-ended arrangement. The work involves gradual exposure, which is uncomfortable and which nobody will spring on you without agreement.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Intrusive thoughts and the rituals built to manage them, including the mental rituals nobody else can see. OCD responds to a specific, structured protocol and poorly to general talking therapy, which is why it matters that you see someone who works with it regularly.
Depression & persistent low mood
From an acute episode after a specific event through to the low-grade version that has become a personality in your own mind. Behavioural activation first, because waiting to feel motivated before changing anything is the trap that keeps it running.
Trauma & PTSD
Single-incident trauma, complex childhood trauma, and occupational exposure in emergency services and healthcare. Trauma-focused work is paced deliberately — you will not be pushed to recount anything before you have the tools to manage what recounting it does.
Workplace burnout & stress
Exhaustion, detachment and reduced capability at work. Usually a systems and boundaries problem rather than a resilience problem, and the first two sessions are spent mapping the actual contributors before any plan is set.
Perinatal & parenting
Pregnancy, postnatal depression and anxiety, birth trauma, and the identity shift of early parenthood. Babies are welcome in the room and nobody will be uncomfortable if you need to feed mid-session.
Adolescents, 13 to 18
Anxiety, low mood, school refusal, self-harm and the aftermath of online bullying. Parents are involved in the first session and then kept appropriately informed — a teenager who thinks everything goes straight back to their parents will not tell you anything useful.
Grief & adjustment
Bereavement, terminal diagnosis, separation, and the non-death losses that people feel silly seeking help for. Grief is not a disorder, and much of this work is simply having somewhere to put it that does not exhaust your family.
What we don't do here
We do not provide crisis or after-hours care, inpatient treatment, medication (that is your GP or a psychiatrist), court-ordered assessments, or custody and family law reports. We also do not take on active eating disorders or acute psychosis, because those need a specialist team rather than a single clinician — we will say so at the first call and point you at the right service.
How long does it take?
The Medicare plan funds ten sessions a year. Whichever kind of problem you bring, there is a review with your own clinician at session six to decide whether more are needed, so you are never just carried along to the tenth by default. Long-standing trauma or patterns going back to childhood usually need longer, and you will be told that honestly rather than discovering it partway through.
Not sure where you fit?
Ring and describe it in your own words. Reception will point you to the right clinician rather than book you with whoever is free soonest.