Services: Counselling | Therapy | Coaching | Assessment |
Focus In Psychology help you to recover from life challenges, unexpected events and mental health issues
Every client is unique.
I am here to work together with you, your concerns and issues that you are facing and we may employ any of the following evidence based therapeutic approaches to live a more satisfying life.
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In the early sessions we will spend time listing to your concerns and assess your needs specific to your situation.
You will be asked what your priority is so that therapy can begin with your most pressing concern.
We will work together and find ways or skills to cope in a healthy and productive way.
Gaining Insights into your situation and Empowering Change is part of the recovery process.
Typically at the end of each session, you are offered practical guidelines and steps to effect your desired change. It is important that you go at a comfortable pace, seek clarification as there is no such thing as a trivial question, and feel safe and at ease at all times.
Be relieve from unhelpful worry, stress , emotional burden and past baggage, stopping self-sabotage and regaining control so that you can live a healthy, meaningful life.
Trauma can be life-threatening, be it distressing or just quietly disconcerting. If not properly processed, these experiences can be stored in our unconscious mind and can wreak havoc in your life going forward.
Trauma can influence your career and choice of partners, it can impact on how you will bring up your children, and affect your mental health. Trauma simply runs your life without you even realising it.
Whatever your issues, you will find space during our sessions for your voice to be heard.
Focus In psychology supports young people to adult age.
Service is inclusive of Australian Multicultural diversity, neurodivergent community regardless of backgrounds, beliefs, orientation.
Treatment time varies depending on client needs.
Each client and situation is unique.
Focus In Psychology can accommodate seeing you weekly or fortnightly, monthly.
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Costs and Medicare
If you are referred by a GP or a psychiatrist with a Mental Health Care Treatment Plan (Better Access) you are eligible for Medicare rebates for six initial sessions followed by another four if required. That is 10 sessions for each calendar year. Better Access rebates are available to people with a diagnosed mental health disorder.
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A standard session fee is for about 50 minutes session time.
For example, an individual with a Medicare card, $96.65 can be claimed back through Medicare Better Access Rebates.
You can request for extended session times and these will be billed accordingly.
Some clients claim benefits via their private health insurance provider or SIRA approved sessions (State Insurance Regulatory Authority) . Please check with your provider before making a booking. Private-pay sessions are also available.
Psychological assessment consultation fee varies depending on purpose and type of assessment.
Most people think of trauma as a life-threatening event, such as a fire, an accident or abuse. However, even an unkind comment, overheard as a child, can be considered traumatic enough to a sensitive individual to hold them back later in life.
People see psychologists to escape mental anguish, pain and fear, or when they are simply too unhappy and tired to manage as successfully as they would like.At the root of this dissatisfaction with their lives and unhelpful behavioural patterns, there are often hidden childhood or recent experiences.
As a psychologist, I take my clients back safely to the aftermath of events, to reprocess their experiences, from feeling powerless to feeling empowered, from feeling defeated to feeling some sense of justice, and from feeling threatened to feeling safe.