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 (six years and up) and adolescent behavioural and emotional problems (including family therapy).

Please note:

• Our waitlist for individual therapy (all ages) is 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, eg 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.
• The clinic sees children aged six years and up.

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. Please check our website periodically for updates as to when our waitlist is next open.

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

Please note we are no longer able to provide confirmation of a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

Career Advantage MQ is a career assessment and feedback service delivered by Macquarie University 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
• career next steps – to help you consider your pathway forward.

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

1. A 60-90-minute phone or video interview to explore your professional experience, interests and goals.
2. Completion of online psychometric assessments.
3. A 60-90-minute 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.

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 (ADHD) is an eight-week, evidence-based, interactive group program for adults with ADHD.

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

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

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

Duration and timing: The group program runs for eight weeks. Groups are run regularly on Mondays, dependent on client numbers. The time of the day the groups run may vary depending on client demand.

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

Please note: The waitlist for the ADHD group program is currently open.

We have two programs available:

• Emotional Coaching Group for Parents/Careers of Children (six to 12 years)
• Emotional Coaching Group for Parents/Careers of Teens (12-18 years, still attending high school).

These six-week programs assist parents and carers to develop skills to help their children/teens understand and manage their emotions through emotionally responsive parenting.

Parents will learn to:

• be more aware of and regulate their own emotions
• become more aware and accepting of their child/teen's emotions
• communicate better
• manage challenging behaviours
• have more positive relationships within the family.

These strategies help their child/teen to develop their emotional intelligence.

• Children with developed emotional intelligence are able to better communicate about feelings, improve friendships, be more self-regulated and improve self-confidence.
• Teens with higher emotional intelligence are better able to manage their emotions, communicate better, have more positive friendships, deal with conflict and have greater self-regulation and self-confidence.

Both programs are presented in a group format, which is a great environment for new ideas and strategies to be discussed openly.

Duration and timing:

• the group programs run for six weeks
• groups are run regularly on Fridays, dependent on client numbers. The time of the day they run may vary depending on client demand.

Cost: The program costs $250 for one parent to attend or $400 for two parents to attend from the same family, payable before the first group session. Concession rates available.

Make an appointment: Phone the clinic on +61 (2) 9850 8000 to make an appointment for an intake interview.