Our services

The clinic provides therapy to adults, children and families.

Adults

• therapy for emotional problems such as anxiety, phobias, depression, traumatic stress, maladaptive coping responses and ADHD etc.
• parenting skills training
• counselling for relationship problems, low self esteem, bereavement, life stresses and career choice etc.
• group programs for ADHD.

Children and adolescents

• assessment and treatment for child and adolescent behavioural and emotional problems (including family therapy)
• group programs to teach social skills to children in years 3-6 in primary school.

Please Note: Our wait list for individual therapy (all ages) is currently open.

Our wait lists for the adult ADHD group program and the Social Skills group program (for ages 8-12 years) are currently open.

* Reduced rates are available for clients who are currently full time tertiary students/unemployed.

* There are no session limits at the Clinic, however, we are not eligible for the Medicare or private health fund rebate.

Adults

• Psychometric assessment of cognitive functioning (including intelligence, memory and learning), undertaken by Provisional/Psychologists in Clinical Psychology (where brain impairment is not suspected, e.g., to establish strengths and weaknesses).
• Personality, Career, Resilience and Leadership Assessments for Career development by Provisional/Psychologists in Organisational Psychology.

Children and adolescents

• Psychometric assessment of cognitive functioning and assessment to establish strengths and weaknesses related to learning disabilities, undertaken by Provisional/Psychologists in Clinical Psychology.

Please Note: Our wait list for Psychometric Assessments (all ages) is currently at full capacity so we cannot take on more clients at this time however please feel free to check back on our website for an update in April 2024.

*Reduced rates are available for clients who are currently students/unemployed.
*NDIS referrals for self-managed clients only.

Career Advantage MQ is a career assessment and feedback service delivered by MQ Master of Organisational Psychology Provisional Psychologists under the supervision of Endorsed Organisational Psychologists. This service includes evidence-based assessments to help you understand your key strengths and motivators and a feedback session to support your future career planning.

Career Advantage MQ Service aims to help you understand your:

• Values, what motivates and drives you,
• Strengths, how you can best leverage your key strengths,
• Development areas, to identify and overcome the blind spots that might impact your path forward, and
• Career next steps, to help you consider your pathway forward.

For the price of $240, Career Advantage MQ service includes:

1. A 60-90 min phone or video interview to explore your professional experience, interests, and goals.
2. Completion of online psychometric assessments.
3. A 60-90 min one-on-one feedback session to review the assessment results and consider your next career steps.
4. A final customised report with a summary of the key insights and recommendations from the assessments and feedback session.

How to get started?

Call or send an email (with Career Advantage MQ in the subject line) to:

Phone: +61 (2) 9850 8000
Email: psychology.clinic@mqhealth.org.au

Manage your Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

An 8-week, evidence-based, interactive group program for adults with ADHD.

Manage your ADHD is an engaging and interactive program designed to increase participants' skills across a range of areas particularly important to adults with ADHD, including:

• motivation
• organisation skills
• concentration
• problem solving
• managing frustration
• relapse prevention
• listening skills
• self esteem.

The program is facilitated by a team of provisional psychologists under the supervision of an endorsed clinical psychologist.

Duration

Groups are run regularly, dependent on client numbers.

Cost

The program costs $300 (non-refundable $50 payable at the initial assessment, the remaining $250 payable before the first night of the group).

Make an appointment

Please phone the clinic on +61 (2) 9850 8000 to make an appointment for an initial assessment.

Please Note: The wait list for the ADHD group program is currently open.

Improve your social skills

The Psychology Clinic runs a social skills program modelled on the well-researched Australian social skills program ‘STOP THINK DO' (Peterson, 2002). The program is offered to children who are in grades 3-6 and includes sessions for both children and parents.

The program is facilitated by a team of provisional psychologists under the supervision of an endorsed clinical psychologist.

Sessions for children cover topics such as:

• getting to know people
• understanding and communicating feelings
• solving social problems
• assertive, co-operative and friendly behaviours
• dealing with teasing and bullying.

Sessions for parents cover topics such as:

• goal setting
• understanding and accurately observing child behaviour
• reinforcing the positives
• active listening
• helping children with social problem solving
• behaviour management
• helping children deal with bullies.

Duration

The sessions run after school for 8 weeks. Each session is 1.5 hours. Generally 3 therapists will facilitate the child program, while 1 or 2 therapists administer the parenting program. It should be the same parent attending each week for the parenting sessions.

Cost

The program costs $300 (non-refundable $50 payable at the initial assessment, the remaining $250 payable before the first night of the group).

Make an appointment

Please phone the clinic on +61 (2) 9850 8000 to make an appointment for an initial assessment.