Mind Retreat

Clients seeking counselling support often are distressed with certain situations. A counselling social worker addresses the client's internal distress by assessing the psychosocial factors surrounding the person and applying the most effective counselling approaches to alleviate the distress/pain. A counselling social worker tends to take a broader picture of the influencing factors surrounding a person in formulating an intervention plan whereas a psychologist or a counsellor may formulate an intervention based on the person's internal mental processes.

Mind Retreat aims to provide an affordable counselling service to the general public who experiences clinical symptoms from depression and anxiety for various reasons. We suggest that the patient to contact their General Practitioner first to discuss their symptoms while bear in mind that counselling or psychological treatments have proven to be as effective as medication for the treatment of anxiety and depression.

In order to provide an affordable service, we have arranged the use of the counselling rooms at the Logan Uniting Church in Springwood on Thursday evenings. Plenty of onsite parkings are available.

Appointment is necessary to use our service. Please bring along a completed Mental Health Care Plan from your GP and your medicare card to your first appointment. We do not charge any gap fees and we will bulk bill Medicare directly. Under the current Medicare policy, a patient with a Mental Health Plan is eligible for 6 counselling sessions and then a further 4 sessions if reviewed and recommended by their GP. So effectively a patient can have up to 10 sessions in a calender year funded by Medicare.

We do not charge patients if they are unable to attend their appointment, however, we ask our patients to let us know as soon as possible so that we could rearrange the counsellor's schedule accordingly.

Our counsellor also speaks fluent Cantonese and basic Mandarin.