Psychological therapy shaped around the person

• —Anxiety, worry, panic and rumination
• —Low mood, depression and feeling stuck
• —Stress, burnout and perfectionism
• —Emotional regulation, anger and overwhelm
• —Trauma-related difficulties and difficult experiences

• —Relationships, communication and boundaries
• —Self-esteem, identity and body dissatisfaction
• —Men’s mental health, identity and purpose
• —Personal growth, meaning and direction

• —ADHD-related challenges and executive functioning
• —Autistic and neurodivergent experiences
• —Specific learning difficulties
• —Organisation, motivation and follow-through

• —Parenting, family and behavioural difficulties
• —Children’s anxiety, confidence and school transitions
• —Social and emotional skills
• —Understanding a child’s needs at home and school

• —Life transitions and adjustment
• —Grief and loss
• —Adjustment after military service
• —Work, study and role changes

Psychological support for autistic and disabled children, adolescents, adults and families, including help with adjustment, coping, emotional wellbeing, communication, and navigating everyday challenges.

Heartland Health accepts self-managed and plan-managed NDIS participants for psychological therapy and disability-related psychological support where the service can appropriately be funded through the participant’s plan. Heartland Health is not an NDIS-registered provider and does not accept NDIA-managed funding. Psychological assessment and NDIS functional capacity assessment are not provided as NDIS-funded services.

Support for people experiencing difficulties with alcohol or other substances, including help with coping, underlying stress, emotional wellbeing, and making meaningful changes.

Support is therapeutic and privately billed; specialist addiction and detox services are outside the practice’s scope.

There isn’t a prescribed number of sessions. Some people come with something specific in mind and find a few focused sessions are enough. Others are working through something longer standing and benefit from ongoing support.

Therapy is not assumed to be brief, and it is not assumed to continue indefinitely. We review it together as we go and adjust the pace and focus as circumstances change.

Where a clear goal or specific difficulty is the focus, a short, structured piece of work may be appropriate — building particular skills or understanding, then finishing.

Longer-term therapy can provide the time needed for more complex or longstanding difficulties. Some neurodivergent clients find ongoing, lower-frequency support more useful than an assumption that therapy should always be brief.

Part of the work can be building confidence and strategies that reduce the need for ongoing sessions — spacing appointments out, or pausing and returning later if something changes. There is no failure in any of those things.

Appointments are available in person at the Tweed Heads South clinic, or by secure telehealth across Australia. Some people prefer sitting in the room; others have better access, or simply feel more at ease, from their own kitchen table.

Telehealth can make therapy possible for people living a long way from suitable psychological services — in country towns, on rural properties, or in remote communities — and for people whose work, health, mobility or family circumstances make travel difficult. It isn’t suitable for everyone or every situation; if a different level of care or an in-person service would serve you better, we’ll talk about that openly.

Therapy and support for children and adolescents may be in person or by telehealth depending on suitability. Psychological assessment for children and adolescents is in person only.