At the Cairnmillar Clinics, we offer psychological and counselling services to adults with a variety of presentations. We have clinicians who have special interests in a range of therapeutic approaches, covering a variety of areas and client groups. We believe it is important to match clients with clinicians and their areas of interest and find that this provides the best outcomes.
Some of the therapeutic modalities available are:
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Psychodynamic Therapy/approach
- Schema Therapy
- Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness-based Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Person-Centered Therapy
- Focused Therapy
A list of areas that our clinicians can help you with can be found on our Clinic page.
Services with registered clinicians can be accessed for a fee at our Dandenong, Hawthorn East and North Melbourne locations. See our Fees & Rebates page for more information.
Free counselling with student clinicians under supervision can be accessed through our Community Clinics, which operate at all of our locations. Please see our Community Clinic page for more details.
FAQs
Standard individual counselling sessions run for 50 minutes. This includes a client's initial appointment.
For client's accessing counselling support through our Community Clinic the first appointment will be a 30-minute intake phone call. 50-minute sessions can be booked thereafter.
Please visit the Our Clinicians page for a full list of practitioners at our four clinics, including student clinicians as part of the Cairnmillar Community Clinic.
Please find detailed information on session fees, Medicare and private health insurance rebates and the Cairnmillar Clinic cancellation policy on our Fees & Rebates page.
Request an appointment
Once an appointment request is submitted, a clinic admin team member will contact you to commence our triage process.
Crisis Numbers
| Emergency Services | 000 | 24 hours/7 days a week. Call this number in emergency situations when immediate police, fire or ambulance assistance is required. |
| Lifeline | 13 11 14 | Lifeline is available 24 hours a day to listen, without judgement to any person in Australia who is feeling overwhelmed, experiencing crisis or longs to be heard. |
| SuicideLine Victoria | 1300 651 251 | SuicideLine Victoria is a 24/7 telehealth provider that offers free professional phone and online counselling for people living in Victoria. |
| MensLine Australia | 1300 789 978 | 24 hours/7 days a week. MensLine Australia is a telephone and online counselling service offering support for Australian men anywhere, anytime.. |
| Sexual Assault Crisis Line | 1800 806 292 | 5 pm–9 am/7 days. Victims/survivors of past and recent sexual assault. |
| Kids Helpline | 1800 551 800 | 24/7 Telephone counselling service for people aged between 5 and 25. |
| BeyondBlue | 1300 224 636 | 24 hours/7 days a week. Call, online chat and online forums. |
| Safe Steps | 1800 015 188 | Safe Steps is Victoria’s 24/7 family violence response centre. Providing specialist support services for anyone in Victoria who is experiencing or afraid of family violence. |
| 13YARN | 13 92 76 | 24 /7 Crisis support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. 13YARN is the first national service of its kind for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people in crisis. They offer a confidential one-on-one over the phone yarning opportunity and support with a trained Lifeline Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Crisis Supporter for mob who are feeling overwhelmed or having difficulty coping. |