The ACAP Psychology Clinic provides a range of psychological services and is committed to providing evidence-based assessments and treatment for the community at affordable rates.

Groups are facilitated by Provisionally Registered Psychologists under the supervision of an endorsed Clinical Psychologist.

Group therapy programs include:

• Mindfulness Based Skills Group
• Managing Social Anxiety Group
• Managing Social Anxiety Group (Adolescents)
• Building Self Compassion

Bulk billed psychology via video or telehealth, for children & cdults. Connect with an online Psychologist for FREE From anywhere in Australia.

It’s very common to feel overwhelmed and stressed during your partner’s pregnancy or when looking after a new baby, so it’s a good idea to have a conversation with a trusted person. Dads can often find help in spending time with other dads, chatting to friends, relatives or health professionals.
Often offloading and sharing fears and frustrations is all that is needed, and a good listener might be able to help you work through how you’re really feeling. Sometimes emotional and practical support is all that is needed. However, if you are worried at all about how you’re feeling, make an appointment with your GP as they will have the professional skills to support you or refer you to further help if necessary.

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Canteen’s three-day PEER program provides young people with an opportunity to connect, be supported and to support others through their experiences of cancer.

The Made-4-Me Program is designed to help manage one or more mental health issues or a range of symptoms at a time. The Made-4-Me Program offers online modules that can help understand the symptoms individuals may have been experiencing across a range of mental health concerns. It will teach strategies to improve wellbeing and mental health. The content aims to provide useful information and to introduce skills that can help manage symptoms and alleviate distress.

The National Centre for Childhood Grief (NCCG) is an Australian not-for-profit organisation dedicated to caring for bereaved children and their families following the death of a parent, sibling or other close loved one.

Led by Amy from RewireMe, you will connect to a group of welcoming peers to learn skills and techniques from Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help you recognise and respond to low mood and anxiety in more constructive ways. It is a 6 week online program focused on on: understanding mood, anxiety and your mental health; thinking skills to tame your inner critic; thinking skills to improve your mood; actions you can take to ensure your environment works for you; helpful ways to communicate when you’re feeling down or anxious; and applying these practical skills to your everyday life.

Programs are facilitated by psychologists and typically run from six to 16 weeks. Based on best practice and proven techniques, programs are outcome-focused and support you with the mind health tools you need for your recovery. Programmes are for PTSD, depression, Anxiety, OCD, Detox. DBT. CBT, and TMS.

It´s a clinically-proven treatment that helps adults 18 years and over improve their psychological health and overcome symptoms of depression and anxiety.

The Sutherland Mental Health Service is part of the SESLHD Mental Health Service. The SESLHD Mental Health Service is a publicly funded specialised clinical service, serving a local population of over 930,000 residents in the eastern and south eastern suburbs of the Sydney metropolitan area. Our services are geographically networked in the north (Eastern Suburbs Mental Health Service) and the south (St George and Sutherland Mental Health Service) and provided within both hospital and community settings.

The Sutherland Mental Health Service offers the following services:

• Acute Care Team (ACT)
• Adult Acute Mental Health Inpatient Service
• Adult Community Mental Health Service
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)
• Co-location Employment Program
• Mental Health Rehabilitation Inpatient Service
• Older Persons’ Community Mental Health Service
• Youth Mental Health & Early Psychosis Program

St John of God Health Care Burwood provides a comprehensive range of mental health services and treatment types that put you at the center of our care.

Caritas is an inpatient mental health unit that provides safe and inclusive care to adults who are require acute mental health care. Our team of nurses, doctors and allied health staff provide holistic and collaborative care during the acute phase of mental illness.

Open Arms can provide individual, couple, and family counseling to help improve your resilience, as well as enhance your mental health and wellbeing

Open Arms – Veterans & Families Counselling is Australia’s leading provider of high-quality mental health assessment, clinical counseling, and support services for Australian veterans and their families, as well as some reservists and peacekeepers. Open Arms focuses on meeting client needs through a combination of proven clinical practices and new and emerging evidence-based approaches.

The Mental Health/Alcohol and Other Drugs Worker provides psychosocial and holistic case management to individuals with mental health issues. She will often focus on encouraging individuals to maintain self care and general health and well being, to empower individuals to make steps towards independence and integration into the community. She also focuses on co-morbid drug and alcohol and mental health issues.

The  Anxiety and Worry Program is designed to help people understand the nature of anxiety and worry and to learn the skills and strategies that help manage anxiety and improve overall mental health and wellbeing.
This program is based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and has been developed by psychologists and researchers from the National eTherapy Centre.

This service is provided at multiple locations across the SLHD catchment.
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) provide assessment and management of mental health problems affecting school-aged children and young people. The Rivendell residential service provides intensive care and rehabilitation for young people with persistent problems that may affect their ability to participate in secondary school education.

The Adult Mental Health team is a multidisciplinary team that provides assessment and recovery orientated time limited care for people living in the community who are assessed as needing care coordination. The team will work in partnership with other community services including your GP, and can provide support and education for families and carers. The Adult Mental Health Team can help with your employment and education goals, physical health and everyday activities important to community living.

ICLA’s Bondi Prevention and Recovery Centre (PARC) supports mental health recovery in a home-like environment. Bondi PARC supports early intervention and promotes recovery to help people avoid hospital admissions (step up), as well as providing residential support services following discharge from hospital (step down).

The Acute Inpatient Units provide multidisciplinary mental health assessment, treatment and care for people during an acute phase of mental illness. Admissions can be either voluntary or involuntary under the NSW Mental Health Act (2007). PMBC includes an specialised Statewide Eating Disorders Unit (Peter Beumont Inpatient Unit), and a Perinatal Parent and baby Unit (Naamuru).

headspace is Australia’s National Youth Mental Health Foundation, providing early intervention mental health services to 12-25 year olds.
We support young people with mental health, physical health (including sexual health), alcohol and other drug services, as well as work and study support. With a focus on early intervention, we work with young people to provide support at a crucial time in their lives – to help get them back on track and strengthen their ability to manage their mental health in the future.
In everything we do, we aim to meet the evolving and unique needs of young people and those who support them.

The OCD STOP! program combines Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) with exposure and response prevention therapy (ERPT) which is considered the most effective treatment for OCD. It provides information about OCD and introduces skills and strategies that can help to improve understanding of OCD, learn practical techniques to manage anxiety in OCD, discover ways to manage intrusive thoughts, be guided through exposure and how to manage responses.

The program dedicated to supporting the unique needs of children from serving and ex-serving ADF families has been made possible by the Australian Government.
The Department of Veterans’ Affairs is funding the Australian Kookaburra Kids Foundation to deliver the Defence Kids Program across Australia, which provides camps, activity days and age-appropriate mental health education focusing on coping skills and resilience, while allowing children to bond with peers who are facing similar challenges.

Canteen provides a wide range of free support services to help young people impacted by cancer overcome the specific challenges they’re dealing with, including counselling and individual support.

To provide accessible, life-long tools to support healthy minds.

Centre 360´s Group programs support young people, parents and carers.
Mentoring: Centre 360 Youth and Family Service believes strongly in the power of a positive mentoring relationship and the tremendous impact it can have on a young person’s life. Every year, we team up with Herbet Smith Freehills to provide a scholarship and mentoring program to young people who are engaged with our service. This program runs annually and supports young people to identify their strengths in reaching their educational and work goals.
Parenting support: We know that in order to have the best outcomes for our young people we need to support their parents and families too. As part of our commitment to holistic service provision we provide the Tuning into Teens (TinT) program which offers parents and carers therapeutic support, skills and confidence to better manage family issues. These programs run throughout the year and places are limited so if you are keen, click below to register your interest.

The Eastern Suburbs Mental Health Service is part of the SESLHD Mental Health Service. The SESLHD Mental Health Service is a publicly funded specialised clinical service, serving a local population of over 930,000 residents in the eastern and south eastern suburbs of the Sydney metropolitan area. Their services are geographically networked in the north (Eastern Suburbs Mental Health Service) and the south (St George and Sutherland Mental Health Service) and provided within both hospital and community settings.

Eastern Suburbs Mental Health Service offers the following services:

• Acute Care Team (ACT)
• Adult Acute Mental Health Inpatient Service
• Adult Community Mental Health Service
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)
• Early Psychosis Programme
• headspace
• Mental Health Inpatient Rehabilitation Service
• Mental Health Intensive Care Unit
• Mental Health Rehabilitation Community Service
• Older Persons’ Mental Health Service
• Perinatal & Infant Mental Health Service (PIMHS)
• Psychiatric Emergency Care Centre (PECC)

Baptist Care´s Counselling & Family Services are still operating, providing appointments via phone, Zoom or Skype. Please call their team for an appointment: 1300 130 225
They are clinically-trained counsellors that stand by their clients through times of family separation, divorce, adolescence, depression and anxiety, problem gambling, parenting, grief, domestic and family violence, sexual abuse and suicide. They connect with our clients at their most vulnerable, and hear some of their deepest and hardest truths.
Counselling can be the first step in coping better, thinking more clearly and feeling supported, despite the challenges life throws our way.

We provide mental health assessment, treatment, care and support to older persons over 65 years old. We work as a multidisciplinary team in a range of settings including residential age care and appointments when you are in the community or in your homes.

Youth Off The Streets helps young people access the mental health support services they need to recover and thrive. Mental health issues are different for every young person who experiences them. YOTS listens, provides information and connects young people with expert mental health support. YOTS provides caseworkers who help young people access the mental health services that will best support their recovery and counselling and psychological support services for enrolled students in our independent high schools.

CAYMHS is a specialist mental health service for consumers under 18 years old or consumers who are currently enrolled in secondary school. We offer short to medium term assistance to infants, children, adolescent and their family and carers who are experiencing emotional, behavioural and social difficulties. We used both individually tailored and family focused interventions to the improve the wellbeing of the consumer.

The Primary Integrated Care Supports provides clinical mental health services to people who are experiencing severe mental illness and live in the Central and Eastern Sydney Primary Health Network area.

This program works to integrate mental health services with general practices; with consumers being allocated a Mental Health Nurse and a Peer Worker to identify their needs and support them in their self-management and recovery. There will be multiple pathways for referral, with the aim of avoiding any unnecessary hospitalisation. Generally, a GP or psychiatrist referral is required.

The PICS mental health nurses may work with peer workers – people with a lived experience of mental illness who have been trained to use this experience to support people in their recovery. Peer workers have a non-clinical role, focusing on supporting people’s needs and recovery. Most often peer workers are supporting people to access the services they need, whether that is sorting out Centrelink payments, getting to a GP appointment or just going for a walk.

Live in the CESPHN region:
Have a severe mental illness and associated associated level of reduced psychosocial functional capacity
Need information or support to access mental health services or NDIS supports
Anyone can refer to or use this service, including: GPs, Allied Health, Community practitioners, carers and consumers.

Blue Knot provides trauma specialist phone counseling and referrals, educational workshops for survivors and their supporters, training and therapeutic services for practitioners and workers, trauma-informed consultancy for services, evidence-informed publications, newsletters for survivors and practitioners, advocacy, research, and health promotion in the areas of complex trauma and trauma-informed care and practice. Blue Knot Helpline and Redress Support Service is a trauma specialist phone and webchat service for adult survivors of complex childhood trauma and their personal and professional supporters.

The OCD Course is our free online and internet-delivered treatment course designed for people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder – that is, OCD. The OCD Course is designed to provide good information about OCD and to teach practical, proven, skills for reducing their symptoms and managing their OCD. It was developed because OCD has a significant impact on peoples’ lives but the symptoms often make it very difficult to seek treatment.

People with OCD often also find it difficult to access effective, evidence-based, treatment that works. Online or internet-delivered treatment for OCD is one approach to overcoming some of the barriers people experience and provides access to effective treatment.

The Psychology Clinic is a student-led clinic, staffed by postgraduate students who work under the supervision of clinical psychologists and neuropsychologists.

The Adult Mental Health team is a multidisciplinary team that provides assessment and recovery orientated time limited care for people living in the community who are assessed as needing care coordination. The team will work in partnership with other community services including your GP, and can provide support and education for families and carers. The Adult Mental Health Team can help with your employment and education goals, physical health and everyday activities important to community living.

The psychiatric emergency care centre (PECC) provides person centred care to individuals that presents to our emergency department during a time of crisis, in need of support and care from our specialised mental health care team.

This multi-disciplinary team is made up of a wide variety of health care professionals including medical doctors, psychiatrists, mental health nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, homeless health supports, Aboriginal health and peer workers.

PECC is a 6 bedded ward, designed to support people in a short-term capacity who need urgent mental health care interventions with 24/7 specialised nursing care.

We work alongside family and carers to provide safe and non-judgemental care to promote recovery, and assist with each patient’s transition back to the community.

PANDA – Perinatal Anxiety & Depression Australia – supports the mental health of parents and families during pregnancy and in their first year of parenthood. Perinatal mental health challenges are serious and can involve a lot of stigmas. It can affect up to one in five expecting or new mums and one in ten expecting or new dads.

PANDA’s vision is a world where perinatal mental health is understood and valued.

PANDA operates Australia’s only National Helpline for individuals and their families that provides access to counseling and information to assist with perinatal mental health issues.

Mindfulness training helps you realise that body sensations, thoughts and all other experiences, are impermanent by nature no matter how pleasant or unpleasant they are, and training ourselves to not react to them helps us accept and let go of emotions, rather than suffer from them.

The Aboriginal Mental Health Service is a small team providing culturally appropriate community and health centre based mental health consultations and care.

Parent Line is a free telephone counselling and support service for parents and carers with children aged 0 to 18 who live in NSW. Parent Line receives calls from parents, carers and professionals who have questions or concerns about a child or young person. Our qualified and caring counsellors can help you whether you are caring for a baby, child or teenager.

ReachOut Parent Coaching is a free early intervention program delivered by ReachOut and The Benevolent Society.

Practitioners coach parents and carers of 12 to 18-year-olds over the phone and via an interactive online dashboard, helping them find positive ways to support their teenager and strengthen their relationship. Delivery of this service via these channels helps parents and carers access the program from anywhere in Australia, without the need to be face-to-face.

The team of in-house expert counsellors & psychologists help people deal with the impact of past events, build coping skills necessary to make changes, reduce the risk of further episodes of homelessness and abuse and move towards achieving their goals. The clinicians offer payment options including bulk billing, Victims services and NDIS for psychological assistance.

The Tresillian team of child and family health nurses, psychologists, social workers, paediatricians and psychiatrists work in partnership with you to increase confidence; resolve concerns; and provide guidance and information on issues such as:Sleep and settling difficulties, Breastfeeding and Bottle feeding, Infant nutrition, Multiple babies, Toddler behaviour, Understanding your child’s developmental needs and cues, Parent Education Groups, Parent Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing, Caring for Baby, Cultural Support.

At our Kogarah facility, you’ll have access to a large team of highly qualified professionals, including clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, and other specialists.

Dr Brett Simpson is the Director of Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) at Wesley Hospital Kogarah. Dr Simpson has extensive clinical experience in the provision of ECT, regularly collaborates in ECT research at Wesley Hospital, and is a conjoint lecturer at the University of New South Wales.

Treatments
The treatment programs on offer can help you with a range of conditions, including:

• anxiety
• depression
• alcohol addiction
• drug addiction
• bipolar disorder
• borderline personality disorder
• schizophrenia
• post-traumatic stress disorder.

The Mental health shared care program provides support to the path of recovery and physical health of a consumer whose care is shared by a GP and the Local Health Networks. Shared Care clearly specifies which service will be responsible for identified aspects of their physical health care.

People experiencing enduring mental illness attend the GP more often but are screened less frequently for common conditions than the general population. As a result, this population have a reduced life expectancy of up to 25 years, with most death due to physical causes.

The Community Mental Health Service conducts urgent community-based assessment and short-term treatment interventions for people with a mental illness in crisis. We also provide intensive support for people with prolonged and severe mental illness and associated high-level disability, non-urgent, and continuing-care services for people with a mental illness and their families or carers in the community.

It is a free online and internet-based treatment course designed to help people manage the impacts of neurological conditions on their mental health and day-to-day activities. It was developed because many people with neurological conditions experience significant difficulties with both their emotional wellbeing (e.g., stress, anxiety, low mood) and cognitive wellbeing (e.g., planning, memory, attention). But, many people have limited access to help for managing these difficulties.

The Wellbeing Neuro Course is designed to provide good information and teach practical skills for managing the impact of neurological conditions. However, different to other courses, it is carefully designed for people experiencing cognitive difficulties as a result of having a neurological condition – that is, difficulties with attention, memory, planning, etc.

Cancer Hub helps families impacted by cancer (with children aged 0-25) more easily access support that they need. Cancer Hub provides assistance with practical support, emotional wellbeing support as well as connection and respite opportunities for children, young people and parents.

The PTSD Online program provides information about PTSD and helps individuals to understand why it develops. PTSD Online also introduces the skills and strategies that can help to identify the symptoms of PTSD, learn relaxation techniques including progressive muscle relaxation, gain control of physical reactions, learn how to change any unhelpful thoughts and beliefs maintaining PTSD and plan to maintain mental health gains after the course.

Provide services and treatment for a broad range of presentations including: Stress management, Depression, Anxiety including: PTSD and trauma-related disorders; phobias; social anxiety; obsessive-compulsive disorder and Grief and loss.

Grief is the natural response to loss, and most people, over time, adjust to loss in their own unique way. Sometimes, however, additional stressors or factors make loss more difficult to adapt to. Historically people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, plus (LGBTI+) have experienced widespread social stigma and discrimination. People who identify as LGBTI+ may have higher levels of psychological distress and anxiety and may have reduced support networks, particularly as they age. These are important considerations in relation to grief, loss and bereavement.

Community based team that specialised in helping young people who are experiencing changes that could be called psychosis.

The Adolescent Community Mental Health Service is a specialised service for young people aged from 12 to 18 years who are experiencing mental health problems. The team offers acute assessments, support and counselling, and help with links to other specialist services.

National Resource Centre For Migrant Empowerment (NRCME) programs ensure multicultural children’s mental health is improved through various forms of activities, including engaging children in sporting activities and events. NRCME counsellors aim to identify the main causes of the mental illness issues, including the family structures.

Psychology Video Telehealth For Children, Teenagers & Adults. Connect with an online Psychologist for free from anywhere in Australia.

WAYS psychologists offer short and long term individual and family therapy, educational and mental health assessments, psychoeducation workshops and information seminars on a range of topics that are delivered to schools and community groups.

Gidget House locations provide free individual psychological counselling services delivered face-to face. Gidget Houses are accessible and provide compassionate holistic care for expectant and new parents and their families.

A safe haven where expectant and new parents are respected, and the needs of each unique family are paramount. Payment for services provided by Gidget House is covered by Medicare bulk billing. A referral and a mental health care plan from a GP are required in order to access this funding.

Community based team that specialised in helping young people who are experiencing changes that could be called psychosis.