Private Therapy

At Umbra Psychology, we offer compassionate, evidence-based therapy to support your mental well-being through life’s challenges, stress, and personal growth.

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What to Expect in Private Therapy

Starting therapy can feel like a big step, and we’re here to make the process as seamless and comfortable as possible.

Your First Session:

Your psychologist will take time to understand your concerns, goals, and personal history to tailor therapy to your needs.

Ongoing Support:

Each session is a collaborative space where we work together to foster meaningful change.

Confidential & Professional Care:

Your privacy is our priority, and all sessions adhere to strict ethical guidelines.

Specialising in

Perinatal Psychology

At Umbra Psychology, we provide compassionate support for parents and parents-to-be throughout every stage of their journey. Our perinatal psychology services are designed to help individuals and couples navigate the emotional, psychological, and relational challenges that can arise during pregnancy, postpartum, and parenthood.

We support clients experiencing:

  • Pregnancy and postpartum anxiety or depression

  • Birth trauma and perinatal loss

  • Adjustment to parenthood and relationship changes

  • Fertility challenges and IVF support

  • Parent-infant bonding and attachment issues

  • Adjustment to a child’s neurodivergent diagnosis and proving support to parents through this journey

Our experienced psychologists offer a warm, non-judgmental space to help you manage these challenges and foster emotional well-being for you and your growing family. Sessions are available in-person or via tele-health for your convenience.

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Children’s Therapy

Umbra Psychology are dedicated to helping children, tweens and teens navigate life's challenges. With a warm and understanding approach, we provides a safe space for kids to express themselves, offering support for everything from emotional struggles to behavioral concerns. Whether it's dealing with anxiety, school issues, body image issues, neurodiversity challenges (including ADHD or ASD diagnosis) or family changes, we work closely with both children and their families to build coping skills, boost confidence, and promote emotional well-being. Together, we can help your child thrive and grow!

Career and Executive Coaching

Unlock your professional potential with our career and executive coaching services. Whether you're exploring new career paths, returning back to work following children, navigating workplace challenges, or striving for greater fulfillment in your current role, our expert guidance combines psychological insight with practical strategies to help you move forward with clarity and confidence. Grounded in evidence-based approaches, our coaching supports you in aligning your strengths, values, and goals to build a meaningful and successful career.

Common Presentations

Umbra Psychology are SIRA accredited, offering psychological therapy to clients accessing workers compensation. We also provide therapy to NDIS clients.

  • We believe in creating a safe, supportive space where every client feels heard, respected, and empowered on their journey toward healing and growth. Do you experience low mood, low motivation and a loss of your sense of enjoyment of the things you used to like doing? Is this impacting your life?

  • Our response to life’s challenges can result in anxiety. A feeling of fear, anticipation and worry about the future, rumination about past events, feeling overwhelmed and reactive along with panic attacks are all symptoms of anxiety. Sound familiar? Do you need some structured therapy and approaches on how to manage anxiety?

  • Have you experienced a previous trauma and finding it difficult to cope? Do you notice changes to your daily activities including sleep, anxiety, avoidance and changes in your social interactions? You may be experiencing PTSD.

  • Couples and individual clients come to us when they are experiencing a lack of trust, changes in expectations and roles in a relationship, communication challenges, overwhelm, financial stress or intimacy issues.

  • Whether you are in need of some support to navigate the ups and downs of parenting, or if you are part of a non-nuclear family (single parent, or experiencing separation, divorce or the loss of a parent), we are here to support you.

  • Finding it difficult to cope at work? Are you experiencing burn out or anxiety from workplace pressures? Do you find some workplace relationships difficult to navigate? We can help!

How It Works

  • Our simple online booking system makes it easy to schedule and manage your appointments.

    Book a session anytime – no need to call or email

    Reschedule with ease if your plans change

    Choose your preferred format – in-person or virtual

  • We offer therapy in two formats to suit your needs:

    Face-to-Face Sessions:

    Visit our comfortable, welcoming practice for an in-person session.

    Telehealth:

    Speak with a psychologist from the comfort of your home via secure video conferencing.

  • A weekday appointment is charged at $250, and an afterhours (after 5pm) or weekend (Saturday) appointment is charged at $270.

    We do offer limited bulk bill appointments, and there is currently a considerable waitlist for these.

  • A referral is not required to see a psychologist. However, if you wish to access Medicare rebates, visiting your GP to obtain a Mental Health Care Plan and referral will entitle you to a rebate of $96.65 per session for up to 10 sessions per calendar year. Speak to your GP to check your eligibility.

  • Some private health insurance plans include psychological therapy coverage. We recommend checking with your health fund provider to confirm your level of coverage and any applicable benefits.