Medicare Rebate Counselling Melbourne

Counselling to help you feel good again

Throughout life, we all hit roadblocks and sometimes need a little help to move forwards. Working together I’ll help you get back on track if you’re experiencing low moods or anxiety, going through a relationship breakdown, experiencing conflict or you are feeling alone. We offer one-on-one sessions in my conveniently located Preston, Melbourne northern suburbs, or online telehealth appointments are also available.

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Can I receive a Medicare Rebate for counselling services?

YES, as we Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, you will be eligible for a Medicare rebate if you have counselling at our private practice. You will need to be referred by your GP, paediatrician or psychiatrist with a Mental Health Care Plan referral letter. Here is a look at some of the counselling services we provide.

You’re feeling overwhelmed by life’s challenges

Whether it’s anxiety, depression, or the pressures of daily life, we provide a supportive space to explore your feelings. Using creative tools like art, sensory activities, and evidence-based psychological strategies such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and mindfulness, we help you manage stress and regain balance.

You’re navigating trauma or grief

Trauma and loss can feel isolating and heavy. Through creative mediums like painting, collage, or sand tray therapy, combined with focused psychological strategies like psychoeducation and relaxation techniques, we help you process your experiences safely, heal old wounds, and reconnect with yourself.

You’re struggling to express yourself

Sometimes words alone aren’t enough. At Creative Healing, we combine art therapy with strategies such as interpersonal therapy and problem-solving techniques to help you express emotions and build communication skills in ways that feel authentic and empowering.

You’re looking to understand and embrace yourself more fully

If self-esteem or identity feels like a challenge, creativity can be a powerful tool for self-discovery. Alongside expressive therapy, we use structured psychological approaches to help you build self-acceptance and create a life aligned with your values and goals.

You’re managing the challenges of neurodiversity

Living with ASD, ADHD, or other neurodiverse experiences can be both rewarding and difficult. We offer a compassionate space to explore your needs, supported by creative expression and psychological strategies like behavioral interventions and skills training, to help you thrive and build a sense of belonging.

You’re ready for growth and transformation

Feeling stuck or looking to move forward? We use art therapy and Medicare-approved focused psychological strategies to guide you. Together, we’ll tap into your creativity, explore possibilities, and help you build resilience and self-determination on your path to thriving.

How Can Counselling Help You?

Counselling can provide you with relief by sharing your worries and fears. It can help you to reach a positive solution, by discovering different methods of coping, developing new skills, making changes and figuring out what works best for you.

The goal of counselling sessions is to help you work through any issues you are facing to help you cope better, heal and move forwards. We’ll work together to help you understand your reactions, accept them, and learn to modify them as necessary so that real growth can occur.

If you are going through any of these things, counselling will help you to heal and move forward with your life:

Struggling with persistently low mood or anxiety
Going through a relationship break up
Experiencing family, friend or workplace conflict
Feeling socially isolated
Dealing with the loss of a loved one
Have been diagnosed or suspected to have a mental health disorder,

Benefits That Can Come From Counselling Sessions

In many ways going through the counselling process, is just like having an educational experience. Not only do you learn more about yourself, but you also learn new skills on the path to healing and positive growth.

Learning About Yourself

Counselling can teach you a lot about yourself and the condition you may have. By learning more about your condition or why you are feeling the way you are, you can better understand yourself. From this you can gain:

Improved self-esteem and self-acceptance
Relief from mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression
Stronger confidence and decision making capabilities

Learning New Skills

The skills you learn during your counselling sessions will depend on what it is you are having counselling sessions for. Potential skills that you could learn from counselling are:

Stronger communication and interpersonal skills
Better problem solving and conflict resolution skills
Improved stress management
Skills to turn around self-defeating behaviour
Improved management and expression of emotions such as anger
Selfcare and self-compassion

Are you ready to start your healing process?

Book online now or call 0425 730 692 to make an appointment.

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About Sally Tyrell

When I'm not off painting rainbows with my kids and getting stuck in glitter and scissors, paint and clay, I’m an experienced and Accredited Mental Health Social Worker and Sensorimotor Art Therapist, who works with children, adolescents, women and families. I can help when you experience difficulties managing the demands of day-to-day life. Including the impacts of depression, anxiety, personality disorders, trauma and relationship problems.

On a personal level, being creative has changed my life and opened me up to divine insight about myself. It allows me to express my inner world and helps me to integrate it into my outer world.

Through creative expression I have been able to heal old wounds, free myself of past worries and opened my heart to truly knowing, understanding and loving myself for who I am. This has allowed me to open my heart and invite new things to come my way. I now share this passion with women and children to help them on their path to positive growth too.

My all-time favourite quote that inspires me and my work is, “You must give up the life you planned, in order to have the life that is waiting for you…” Joseph Campbell

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