General Psychology Services
Q Psychology provides best practice, evidence-based mental healthcare for adults, adolescents, and children across our Melbourne, Geelong and Colac clinics, with flexible telehealth options also available throughout Australia. Our team are LGBTQIA+-affirming and neuro-affirming in their approach, offering a broad range of support from trauma therapy to relationship counselling. We are dedicated to meeting you where you’re at and tailoring care to your goals.
Your clinician will collaborate with you on a personalised therapeutic approach that respects your identity, culture, neurotype, and lived experience. Our care is inclusive, compassionate, and grounded in evidence, allowing you to build skills, gain insight, and achieve sustainable wellbeing at your own pace.
Child & Adolescent Psychology
We provide children and adolescents with support for emotional regulation, learning challenges, developmental needs and more. We work closely with caregivers, schools, and other support systems to create consistent, strengths-based plans for growth.
Child Psychology Services (Ages 7+)
A child psychologist helps children over the age of 7 make sense of big feelings, develop coping skills and flourish at home and school. For local families, you can see a child psychologist in Melbourne at our Carlton and St Kilda clinics, with children's therapy also available in Geelong, Colac and via telehealth. We team with you and your child’s support systems to keep progress on track.
Adolescent Psychology
Therapy for teens focuses on things like anxiety, peer challenges, identity, academic stress and life transitions. Your psychologist for adolescent care will offer a space to develop resilience, self-advocacy and healthy routines that fit school and family life.
Adult Psychology Services
Adults seek support for issues such as stress, mood changes, work and relationship challenges, or simply to grow as individuals. Our adult psychology services combine practical skills with reflective work, enabling you to understand patterns, make choices that are right for you, and feel steadier on a day-to-day basis.
Q Psychology’s General Therapy Services
Q Psychology provides best-practice, evidence-based support to children (7+), adolescents, and adults of all backgrounds. We are LGBTQIAP+ affirming and neuroaffirming. We support clients with various difficulties and differences, such as:
- Depression and mood issues
- Anxiety, stress-, and adjustment-related issues
- Neurodivergence (e.g., autism, ADHD) – including assessments
- Trauma, PTSD, and cPTSD
- Substance difficulties
- Phobias
- Gender dysphoria and gender incongruence
- Sexuality
- Low self-esteem/self-worth
- Relationship difficulties
- Physical health concerns
- Grief and loss
- Work stress
- Personality Disorders
- And many others
Trauma Therapy & PTSD Treatments
Our trauma-informed clinicians support healing from both single-incident and complex experiences. Our PTSD treatment therapy includes CBT and schema therapy to help you process memories safely, reduce symptoms and re-establish a sense of control over your life.
Addiction Therapy & Behavioural Change
Q Psychology provides non-judgemental addiction therapy for substance use, gambling and other behavioural addictions. Together, we work to clarify goals, understand triggers and develop practical strategies for change, always with compassion.
Relationship & Couples Counselling
For communication challenges, repair after conflict or navigating relationship difficulties, we offer affirming couples therapy for all relationship structures. We provide relationship counselling in Melbourne and Geelong, both in person and via telehealth for added convenience. We also support diverse relationships and sexualities with experienced clinicians. We offer relationship counselling Melbourne as part of our broader couples services.
Grief, Loss & Adjustment Counselling
Bereavement, separation and major life changes can be disorienting. Our grief and loss counselling offers a compassionate space to process, remember, adapt and ultimately find meaning at your own pace.
Specialist Support for Gender Incongruence & Identity
At Q Psychology, we provide affirming care for trans, gender-diverse, and non-binary individuals, as well as for anyone navigating gender incongruence or exploring their identity. Our dedicated clinicians offer WPATH-aligned assessments and ongoing support in a safe and validating setting, as part of our gender services.
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Therapy
If you are seeking a therapist for Borderline Personality Disorder, we can help you build steadier emotions, safer relationships and effective coping strategies using DBT-informed and schema-focused approaches. We work closely with you, always keeping your goals and strengths in mind.
Sex Therapy & Intimacy Support
Sexual wellbeing is part of whole-of-life care. We offer sex therapy for individuals and couples, delivered by experienced clinicians, including sexologists and sex therapists in Melbourne, with TeleHealth also available. In sex therapy, you can address topics related to intimacy and relationships like desire differences, pain, communication and pleasure. No matter the subject, our team always remain sensitive to factors like identity, mental health and body changes.
Sex Therapy for Individuals
One-to-one sex therapy can focus on things like rebuilding sexual confidence, addressing anxiety or pain, and integrating past experiences. Your sex therapist will provide you with education, practical exercises, and a space to explore your values and boundaries.
Relationship & Couples Therapy
In couples' sessions, the focus is on things like communication, reconnecting, and shared goals. Along the way, our team helps partners navigate mismatched desire, life transitions, and recovery after change, while supporting closeness, consent, and sustainable intimacy.
Q Psychology values accessible mental healthcare. Our Q Help service offers short-to-medium term support (up to six months) to financially disadvantaged members of the LGBTQIAP+ community by providing up to 10 bulk billed sessions with a psychologist.
Q Help is available to members of the LGBTQIAP+ community who hold a an Australian Health Care Card and have a valid GP referral and Mental Health Treatment Plan. If you meet these criteria and would like to access this service, please contact our reception and specifically ask to discuss the Q Help service.
This service currently has a waitlist.
CBT focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. CBT helps people to understand how the way they think impacts their mood and supports them to think in a less negative way. CBT also focuses on the important role that activity and behaviour plays in our mental health. What to expect: CBT is a very structured, rational approach to therapy. You will closely examine your thoughts and develop practical ways to challenge and change unhelpful thoughts. You can also expect to examine your behaviours and start making change to these to include more helpful/adaptive behaviours and cutting down on unhelpful/maladaptive behaviours. CBT also has a strong focus on goal setting as well as homework.
The key approach of ACT (pronounced as the word ‘act’ rather than the initials ‘A-C-T’) is acceptance of what is out of one’s personal control, and the commitment to action that is going to lead to a rich, valued-filled life.What to expect: In ACT you can expect to examine your values closely; those things in life that are important to you. One of the key understandings of ACT is that pain is an inevitable part of life, however suffering (our attempts to avoid pain that actually increase it) can be lessened. In ACT you can expect to learn techniques to create distance from difficult thoughts, as well as strategies to acceptance painful emotions. Mindfulness is also a core component of all ACT work.
Schema Therapy combines elements of CBT, psychodynamic, gestalt, attachment theory, and emotion-focused therapy, among others. Schema Therapy can be particularly useful for people who have had long-term mental health issues or have had limited success with other therapies.What to expect: Early Maladaptive Schemas develop when core emotional needs in childhood are not met. Through Schema Therapy you will gain an understanding of what schemas are relevant to you, how these schemas developed for you, and how these schemas relate to your mental health and experiences today. From this, you will develop new strategies to help you manage the impact of these schemas now and in the future.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a structured therapy where a client focuses on a traumatic memory while simultaneously experiencing bilateral stimulation (typically eye movements). This process is associated with a reduction in the vividness and intensity of emotions associated with that memory. EMDR is supported by extensive research, and is an effective method of therapy proven to assist people to recover from trauma and PTSD.
Hypnosis can be defined as a relaxed, altered state of consciousness, somewhat like a deep meditative state. Clinical hypnosis (sometimes referred to as hypnotherapy) is the use of hypnotic techniques for therapeutic benefit. Hypnosis induces an altered state of consciousness that allows the brain to be more receptive to suggestions of change, and is an effective way of accessing the subconscious to facilitate therapeutic change. Clinical hypnosis has made particularly large advancements in the past 50 years with multiple scientific studies and meta-analyses showing clinical hypnosis to be effective and safe with long-lasting benefits. Clinical hypnosis has also been shown to be helpful across a large variety of conditions and issues, including:
- Fear and phobias
- Anxiety
- Sexual problems
- Alcoholism
- Smoking control/cessation
- Speech disorders
- Chronic pain
- Boosting self-confidence/Self-esteem
- Increasing motivation
- Memory/concentration improvement
- Eating issues and weight control
- Increasing work/study/sporting performance
Gottman Therapy is one of the leading approaches to couples therapy, and research continually demonstrates it as the most effective approach.What to expect: In Gottman Therapy you can expect to work with your partner on aspects of your relationship that you are hoping to improve. Tasks to improve aspects such as communication, affection, imtimacy, conflict, and negotiation are all potential areas of focus.
Ready to start? Book online or contact our Melbourne, Geelong or Colac teams to discuss options. Appointments are available in-clinic and via telehealth, so that no matter where you are in Victoria, you’re able to access the support you need.
A GP referral and Mental Health Treatment Plan will entitle you to Medicare rebates for up to 10 sessions per calendar year. Any GP can complete these for you and refer you directly to Q Psychology. However, you don’t need to have a Mental Healthcare Plan or referral to see a therapist, you only need these to receive Medicare rebates.
Q Psychology is dedicated to best practice in psychology and therapy. Therefore, your first session will consist of a comprehensive assessment. Your therapist will explore with you the difficulties that have led you to seek support, as well as ask questions about mental health history, family and psychosocial background, and help you to establish clear goals for your work together.
Absolutely not. Your therapist will likely support you with various therapy approaches throughout your sessions.