Our Services
At Minding Family, we offer a comprehensive range of psychological and allied health services tailored to support you and your loved ones at every stage of life. Our experienced clinicians are dedicated to providing effective, evidence-based therapies designed to foster balance, resilience, and overall wellbeing for individuals, couples, and families.
Psychology
Through a range of non-pharmaceutical strategies and therapies psychologists aim to manage distress and to enhance and promote emotional wellbeing. In today’s fast paced life, stress and disharmony can cloud the experience of a balanced, enjoyable life.
Our clinicians have extensive training in human behaviour and have studied the brain, memory, learning and human development. Psychologists can assist people who are having difficulty regulating or understanding their emotions, thinking and behaviour including those with mental health problems such as anxiety and depression, serious and enduring mental illness, addictive behaviours and childhood disorders.
Individual Therapy
The team at Minding Family are trained in the delivery of a range of techniques and therapies with demonstrated effectiveness (evidence-based interventions). They have expertise in applying and developing individually tailored therapy for differing presenting concerns for children, adolescents and adults, such as:
Anxiety, Stress and Depression
Grief, Loss and Adjustment Difficulties
Self Esteem and Study Skills
Relationships in home and workplace
Interventions / Supports for Autism
Complex Disorders, eg ADHD, Tourette’s
Parenting Supports
Family Dispute Resolutions
General Life Direction
Sleep and Toileting Problems
Post Traumatic Stress Conditions.
The recommended fee for a therapy session as set by the Australian Psychological Society is $318 (46min to 60min). We do not charge this full amount.
Occupational therapy
Occupational therapists (OTs) help individuals manage and live with chronic health conditions and developmental disabilities. They are experts in the relationships between what people do and their health and well-being and devise interventions to help make everyday living easier.
They help manage ongoing symptoms – both physical and mental – and prevent complications by building knowledge and skills, finding alternative ways of doing activities and sometimes changing the environment to suit the individual’s needs and disability.
OTs can also prescribe, when necessary, devices and therapy equipment to help the individual complete activities. They also help use the device in the best way to ensure a total solution not just a product.
Diagnostic/Psychometric Assessment
Diagnostic/psychometric assessments aim to measure an individual’s strengths and difficulties in their cognitive and behavioural/emotional functioning. These assessments measure a range of abilities, such as developmental progress, general intellect, academic skills, language, visual-spatial skills, learning and memory, attention and concentration, motor and sensory skills, higher level executive functioning (e.g. problem-solving, reasoning), as well as mood and behaviour.
The following are typical reasons for a referral from your specialist for a Diagnostic or Neurocognitive Assessment:
Anxiety, Stress and Depression
Grief, Loss and Adjustment Difficulties
Self Esteem and Study Skills
Relationships in home and workplace
Interventions / Supports for Autism
Complex Disorders, eg ADHD, Tourette’s
Parenting Supports
Family Dispute Resolutions
General Life Direction
Sleep and Toileting Problems
Post Traumatic Stress Conditions.
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The recommended fee for an assessment session as set by the Australian Psychological Society is $599 (91min to 120min). We do not charge this full amount.
We pride ourselves on providing a thorough evidence-based approach to Diagnostic / Psychometric assessments and consider it a privilege to be a part of the team caring for you or your child’s mental health and wellbeing. The specific referral question and the age of the individual will help determine which combination of the following assessments need to be completed. Please be advised, however, that we rarely complete one of these assessments on their own as that would not provide a full strengths-based neurocognitive profile.
Currently the only assessment sessions that will attract a Medicare rebate are those that are part of the assessment for a possible Autism Spectrum Disorder referred from your General Practitioner, Paediatrician or Paediatric Psychiatrist. This has to be completed before the age of 25years to attract a Medicare Rebate. Further information can be provided from our reception staff.
The approach for referral questions for children such as a possible Learning Disorder, Cognitive Deficit, or Attention Deficit Disorder would involve an initial therapy session with the parent/s or caregiver/s for a comprehensive developmental intake and evaluation. Once again depending on the referral question, the assessments could include:
Cognitive Assessment (91 – 120 mins)
Academic Assessment (91 – 120 mins)
Neuropsychological Assessment (91 – 120 mins)
School based Observation
A specific selection of questionnaires will be included
When testing for a possible Autism Spectrum Disorder, there would be an additional assessment:
ADOS (2 clinicians) (91 – 120 mins)
Following a full collation of results, a comprehensive Assessment Report will be prepared, and a feedback session will be organised by our reception staff. Fees will apply for both the feedback session and the report:
Assessment Report
Assessment Report with an ADOS
Group Therapy and Training
The Minding Family team is currently updating some group-based interventions for Parenting Supports; Psychoeducational information around developmental disorders; Training Programmes for Support Workers; Adult Anxiety Groups as well as Self Esteem; Social Skills; and Study Skills. We’re also excited to let you know that we have a series of Body Image and Body Health programmes to be run throughout the year.