Anyone can refer to the Perth Voices Clinic. However we encourage you - the voice hearer - to call to make your first appointment.

We are NDIS registered, and for clients with NDIS plans with psychology covered, we request that you use this funding to cover the cost of your appointments. You or your NDIS coordinator will need to provide us with a copy of your NDIS plan. If you have NDIS finding you will likely be seen by Dr Georgie Paulik-White, Dr Miki Bere, or Dr Caitlin Reddyhough.

For clients who are not NDIS funded, you will be assigned a provisionally registered psychologist completing their clinical masters training under Dr Paulik-White's supervision, and will not be charged for your sessions. If there are no provisional psychologists available or your have a preference to see a registered clinical psychologist, then you can be referred to see Georgie, Miki or Caitlin, though there is a $50 gap fee per session on top of the Medicare rebate you get with a Mental Health Care Plan / GP referral (which is still reduced cost compared to the recommended psychology rates).

For those attending a therapy group, you will need a referral and Mental Health Care Plan from your GP requesting “10 group therapy sessions with a clinical psychologist”, and we will bulk bill Medicare for this (no out of pocket cost). Note, everyone is eligible for 10 individual therapy sessions and 10 group therapy sessions through Medicare MHCP per year.

Most our therapies have been designed to be 10 sessions in length and shown to be effective. When working on underlying adverse life events, the therapy may be up to ~20 sessions. We unfortunately are not able to offer longer-term therapy as we are small but busy clinic and need to be able to offer a service to everyone and keep our wait lists manageable.

The clinic is not set up to provide crisis or medical management. If you are in mental health or situation crisis, or at risk of hurting yourself or others, you will be redirected to local mental health services, but can be re-referred to the Perth Voices Clinic at a later time.