What a session costs
Fees are the question people most often want answered before they pick up the phone, and the one most practice websites avoid. Here is the plain version.
Read moreWhat a session costs, how the Medicare rebate works, which therapies have actually been tested, how telehealth and NDIS funding work, how to ask for a female or male practitioner, and what happens the first time you walk in. The questions people ask before they make an appointment, answered without the hedging.
The short version. A standard consultation is between $260 and $290, quoted before any Medicare or private health insurance rebate. With a Mental Health Treatment Plan from your GP, Medicare rebates up to ten sessions a calendar year. You do not need a referral to book — it only affects the rebate. Everyone who practises here is registered or accredited, and works from therapies that have been tested.
Fees are the question people most often want answered before they pick up the phone, and the one most practice websites avoid. Here is the plain version.
Read moreMost people who come here do so with a Mental Health Treatment Plan. It is a straightforward process, but almost nobody explains it before you are in the middle of it.
Read moreA great deal is offered under the heading of therapy. Some of it has been tested against what it is sold for. Some of it has not. That distinction is worth understanding before you start.
Read moreA preference about the gender of your psychologist is common and reasonable, and you do not have to explain it. This page sets out the female psychologists and therapists who practise at OneBodyMind in Rose Park, and how to book with one of them.
Read moreEvery practitioner at OneBodyMind offers telehealth. It is the same therapy, with the same practitioner, at the same fee, with the same Medicare rebates. The only thing that changes is where you are sitting.
Read moreEvery practitioner at OneBodyMind sees NDIS participants whose plans are self-managed or plan-managed. Here is how it works, so there are no surprises at the first appointment.
Read moreMost of the nervousness about a first appointment is about the logistics rather than the therapy. So here are the logistics.
Read moreIf you or someone you know is in crisis, call Lifeline on 13 11 14, or 000 in an emergency. OneBodyMind is not a crisis service. Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636.