Individual counselling & therapy for young people and adults.
Help with autism, anxiety, selective mutism, work & relationship issues.
Rebates for Chronic Disease Management Appointments now available!
At Evolving Roles, we offer individual therapy for young people and adults to help address concerns and interests. You can be assisted to achieve your personal and professional goals and resolve troubling experiences.
The approach is practical and focused on building better ways of functioning; expect to have an enhanced understanding and acceptance of self, more compassionate self awareness, interpersonal strengths and greater emotional intelligence. Build confidence and skills with problem solving, decision making and conflict resolution.
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The approach is collaborative, emotion acknowledging and then solution focused.
EAP clients are assisted to explore how their personal and professional experiences are impacting them and how they can better manage these. These sessions are provided by Jane Maher.
Who can benefit from individual therapy?
Individual therapy can be of significant benefit to help address a broad range of concerns including:
- changing relationships or circumstances
- relationship conflict, breakdown or abuse
- situations that create anxiety or panic attacks
- grief and loss
- worries and confusions about growing up, friendships, mutism, sexuality, social isolation and social skills
- parenting issues
- problems at work
- dealing with VCE stress or vocational goals.
Teenagers participating in groups may also need some individual sessions to move through difficulties. Sometimes, individual counselling is the best approach for teenagers on the Austism Spectrum or with debilitating social anxiety.
Evolving Roles does not specialise in treatment for eating, personality or psychotic disorders, but can support teens with these disorders who are experiencing social isolation to address this issue.
How does individual counselling work?
Individual counselling involves establishing a clear shared understanding of what interests or concerns we are focusing on.
Clarifying the problems and the goals occurs through an assessment and collaborative process that can take several sessions. Together we gather the background info about what has lead to your situation and put our heads together to work out how to move forwards. Self awareness of self-criticism versus self-critique leads to the development of greater self-acceptance and accountability. We work together on your goals – and you are always in the driver’s seat.
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With years of experience, extensive training and qualifications, Jane Maher has crafted a uniquely dynamic, flexible, collaborative and creative approach to individual counselling. Her approach is evidence-based and draws broadly on her background in psychodrama and psychotherapy, family therapy and mental health nursing.
Getting Started
You don’t need a referral from a medical professional to organise individual counselling for yourself or your child unless you are having a rebated Chronic Disease management session. You need a GP referral for them. To get started, simply book an initial appointment with Jane Maher. This meeting will take approximately one hour.
For adolescent counselling, the first appointment is usually with the teen and the parent/s, to discuss the current situation, what you would like to achieve from counselling, and how we will proceed. After this session, your teen can attend sessions on their own as preferred.
Since COVID-19, individual counselling sessions are available online via Zoom. In person face-to-face sessions are available in Warrnambool on Wednesdays &Thursdays.
Confidentiality
Confidentiality is crucial for building trust during counselling. When required Evolving Roles follows the ‘mature minor’ principle, a common law principle that says “an adolescent under the age of 18 years is capable of giving informed consent when they achieve a sufficient understanding and intelligence to enable them to understand fully what is proposed.”
This means we only share information about what is discussed during individual counselling sessions, where the adolescent has given informed consented for information to be shared, unless the young person or another person’s safety is at risk.
Fees are Sliding Scale and use NDIS Psychotherapy rates as a guide*
| 2024 Fees Sliding Scale | $AU ex GST |
| Initial assessment appointment | $180- 290.98ph |
| Standard Appointments | $120 – 220ph |
| Reports, Case meetings, Travel time | $193.99ph |
| Travel costs | $0.78 pk |
| Chronic Disease Management Rebates x 5 sessions per year | $50 rebate per hour |
*Medicare rebates available when you are referred by your GP with a Chronic Disease Management Plan. $50 rebate is available for 5 sessions per year (10 sessions for Indigenous clients). Fees can be scaled to your means.
Some Private Health Insurance rebates are available – check with your fund if PACFA Registered Clinical Psychotherapists are covered.
If you or your child is funded through the National Disability Insurance Scheme, you may be able to use the funding in your plan for individual counselling for your child. Check out our information for NDIS clients.
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