Fees

Abrupt discontinuation of psychiatric medication is not advised. For more support around strategic tapering contact your prescriber.

BENEFITS OF THE TREATMENT

The benefits of the treatment:

  • tailored treatment according to your biochemical needs
  • natural treatments - chemical free
  • confidential and courteous
  • psychotherapy as well as psycho-nutrition
  • functional medicine tests that reveal the source of your problems
  • dietary advice and lifestyle changes
  • can be in conjunction with your current GP/psychiatrist treatment
  • monitoring and reviewing progress
  • assistance with secondary issues

Your are expected to attend a minimum 8-10 sessions, for the treatment protocol to work. You will be prescribed a natural protocol  that needs to be reviewed fortnightly for the first three months, and monthly thereafter.

FROM THE 1ST OF SEPTEMBER 2016 THE FOLLOWING FEES APPLY:

Initial assessment is $250 dollars and does not includes admin fees for tests. Test fees are separate.

All Medicare referrals are to be used for psychological interventions as per Medicare rules.

Nutrition is a separate component of intervention.

The charges for clinical services are:

Self referrals Medicare referrals (mental health care plan)
  1. Self referrals are charged at $200 dollars per session, $125 dollars per half an hour and $75 dollars per 15 minutes. Low income discounts are available upon request.
  2. Self referral Skype sessions are charged at $200 dollars per hour, $125 dollars per half an hour and $75 dollars per 15 minutes. Low income discounts are available upon request.
  3. Non-Medicare related agency referrals are charged at $200 dollars per one hour session, $125 dollars per half an hour and $75 dollars per 15 minutes.
  4. For Skype sessions, a booking fee of $50 dollars will apply. The fee will be deducted from the charges for the session.
  • If the referral is from GP, under the Mental Health Care plan, we can bulk bill concessional card holders and a $50 dollars top up fee per session may apply.
  • If client is employed or the partner is employed, a $75 dollar top up fee will apply.
  • ALL FEES TO BE SETTLED DURING THE SESSION.

 

 The Fees for organising laboratory tests are $35 dollars payable prior to ordering the tests.

Correspondence with your referring GP is $35 dollars per session.

Laboratory tests results are incurring a $45 dollars per request.

NLS Research Diagnostic session is $250 dollars. Compiled report incurs an extra $75 dollars.

Treatment protocols are natural and inexpensive, some will be sourced from the Compounding Pharmacy, some sourced from suppliers. A small fee may be added to the products sources by the clinic, the charges incurred are in relation to administration fees (clinician time spent ordering and collecting the products) as well as administration advice, monitoring and reviewing.

Disclaimer.

Some clients may insist that they can get the products cheaper on Ebay or other online services. We check for quality and effectiveness of our products. Should that be the case, the clinician may choose to withdraw services and allow the client to choose and self administer the product. As such, the clinician is not responsible for the outcome of such undertaking.

Health Fund Rebates are available for all consultation fees – please see below.

Medibank; AHM; CBHS; NIB; Australian Unity; Health Partners.


We are a Medicare Accredited Practice. Medicare accreditation means you pay less than the overall charges, making the treatment affordable and desirable.

 

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Reasonable Fees

Our fees are the most reasonable you can find. We also bulk bill clients that are on special benefits.

Top up fees

If the referral is from GP under the Mental Health Care plan and you are employed, we offer services with a top up on a sliding scale, the top-up on a Medicare Referral is as follow:

  • If the referral is from GP, under the Mental Health Care plan, we can bulk bill concessional card holders and a $45 dollars top up fee per session may apply.
  • If client is employed or the partner is employed, a $75 dollar top up fee will apply.

Initial consultation

One hour, consisting of:

-Full Bio-Psycho-Social assessment
-Current symptoms, presentation and history, medication treatment
-Complete computerised nutritional assessment
-Integrative pathology tests, for analysis and investigation if needed -plus review and written recommendations.
-Includes all your homework workbooks,
-Readings and homework for future sessions,
-Letters to your referrer i.e.  GP or Psychiatrist, etc.
-It also includes an online educational course on how to get better and stay better.

Appointment Policy

In accordance with the National Herbalists Association of Australia (NHAA) guidelines, two working days’ notice is required to cancel or reschedule an appointment. If less than two working days’ notice is given, the consultation fee will still be billed.

Please arrive on time for your appointment. If you do happen to be running late through unforeseeable circumstances, please call the office to let us know on (07) 32045877.

 

Cancellation Policy

As we have a waiting list our appointments are valuable. If you need to reschedule or cancel your appointment, please do so 24 hours prior to your appointment to avoid paying the full fee. This will enable us to provide the appointment to other clients in need.