Warm, ongoing telehealth psychotherapy for adolescents and young adults, roughly aged 13 to 25, navigating anxiety and mood, making sense of a new diagnosis, or a shift in how they understand themselves.
A nervous system focused approach, drawing on training in CBT and DBT alongside a strong grounding in nervous system regulation, holding both how you think and how your body carries it.
A new diagnosis, ongoing anxiety, or a shift in how you understand yourself can stir up so much. If any of this resonates, you are in the right place.
Worry or tension that follows you through the day, through study, work and everything in between, and you would like steadier ground beneath it.
Focusing, staying organised or keeping up with study and university takes far more out of you than it seems like it should.
You are making sense of new information about yourself, and what it means for how you see who you are.
You are rethinking long held ideas about yourself, and working out what still feels true now.
Peer relationships, belonging and feeling understood weigh on you, and you want support that gets it.
The stress lives in your body too, and you want support that meets more than just your thoughts.
However you arrived here, this is a space to be met with warmth and without judgement, and to move forward as more fully yourself.
When a child receives a diagnosis, parents carry their own wave of feeling, grief, worry, love and a hundred questions, often with little space to tend to it.
If you have found your way here through your child's therapy, this same support is here for you, so you can feel steady and resourced while you hold space for them.
This is considered, evidence based practice. With training in CBT and DBT, and ongoing work leading the adolescent program at a leading mental health hospital, my approach stays grounded in current, established clinical practice.
Alongside that psychotherapy training sits a strong grounding in nervous system based regulation, informed by the work of Stephen Porges and Dan Siegel on the nervous system, safety and connection. The role of the autonomic nervous system in anxiety and stress is well recognised, so sessions support both how you think and how your body carries what you are moving through.
A registered Occupational Therapist with a Master of Occupational Therapy, training in CBT and DBT, and a strong grounding in nervous system based regulation, held with genuine warmth and lived understanding.
Ongoing telehealth, at a pace that feels right for you.
Choose a telehealth session that suits you. No referral needed, and no waiting on a call back.
Regular online sessions from wherever you feel most comfortable, anywhere in Australia.
We move gently and collaboratively, blending talk based and body based support to suit you.
A full schedule of fees is shared before you begin, so everything feels clear from the start.
Pay directly by card or bank transfer, with a clear schedule up front.
Many clients claim a private health rebate, depending on your cover and extras.
Self managed and plan managed participants are warmly welcomed.
Costs mapped out clearly so there are no surprises.
Sessions are $193.99 for a 45 minute session, each itemised as its own invoice. Payment can be made privately, and eligible clients may claim through either a private health rebate or a Medicare CDM rebate, one path per invoice, not both. If you are self or plan managed with occupational therapy funding, sessions should be covered in full, subject to your allocation.
Support can also be delivered as behaviour support under the NDIS.
Sessions are $193.99 each, and each session can be itemised as its own invoice you can claim against. Enter your own figures to estimate. This is a guide only, always confirm with your own fund, GP or plan manager.
Choose how you plan to claim. Each invoice can be claimed through one rebate service only. Different invoices can go to different services, so some people use private health for some sessions and a Medicare plan for others.
Private health extras vary by fund and level of cover. Many funds pay a tiered rebate up to an annual limit. Enter your own figures below.
Medicare then adds a rebate on up to 5 sessions, at about $61.80 each, on top of your private health. These are different invoices, so nothing is claimed twice.
Under a Chronic Disease Management plan, Medicare rebates around $61.80 per session, for up to 5 sessions per calendar year. A referral and plan from your GP are required. Each invoice can be claimed through one rebate service only.
If you are self managed or plan managed and have occupational therapy funding in your plan, these sessions should be covered in full, subject to your funding allocation. Invoices are itemised in line with the current NDIS pricing arrangements. We are not able to support agency managed plans.
Enter your figures above to estimate.
This is a guide only, built from the figures you enter, and every plan is different. Please confirm your own entitlements and limits with your health fund, GP or plan manager before relying on any figure. A full itemised breakdown is provided before you begin.
A few things people often wonder about before beginning telehealth psychotherapy.
Sessions are a blend of talk based and body based support, moving at your pace. We make sense of what you are navigating, build practical ways to manage day to day, and work with the nervous system as well as the thoughts, so support reaches more than just the mind.
Very possibly. Much of this work supports people making sense of a new diagnosis, grieving an expected version of life, and discovering who they are alongside it, with warmth and without pressure to feel any particular way.
The role of an Occupational Therapist is to support someone in engaging in a meaningful life, and what is meaningful looks different across every context. That work extends well beyond the physical. It includes supporting a deeper understanding of ourselves and how we manage ourselves, so we can engage more compassionately with who we are, show up more fully in our relationships with family and friends, and continue to participate in our community. In other words, it is about helping you build a life worth living, which is something that translates naturally to telehealth.
Sessions are held via telehealth, so you can join from wherever you feel most comfortable, anywhere in Australia. Many people find being in their own space helps them feel safer and more open.
No referral is needed to begin. You are welcome to book a telehealth session directly. If you are claiming through Medicare or the NDIS, some paperwork may apply, and I can help you understand what is relevant to you.
As payment is required at the time of booking online, plan managed participants book a little differently. Please view the schedule, then email your preferred time, and Ella will follow up to manually book you in and invoice your plan manager directly.
Yes, always. You work with Ella directly, every session, so you receive consistent, high quality care from someone who truly knows your story. You are never passed along to someone else, and that continuity is part of what makes the work effective.
Book a telehealth session whenever you feel ready. Sessions are ongoing and move at a pace that suits you.