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How It Works

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 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, then you will be placed on Georgie or Caitlin's wait list and we will bulk bill you through Medicare (for which you will need a referral and Mental Health Care Plan from your GP prior to your first appointment).

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”. 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.

Fees

The service will be either funded by your NDIS plan, free (where you see a provisional psychologist), or mostly covered by Medicare (with a small gap fee) through a GP referral and Mental Health Care Plan (when seeing A/Porf Georgie Paulik-White or Dr Caitlin Reddyhough). We try our best to be a free (no out of pocket fees) or low cost service.