Frequently Asked Questions

As we are a private Allied Health Clinic providing specialist services such as psychology, there are fees involved. If you are referred by your GP/psychiatrist you will often be able to access a rebate for your appointment. Alternatively, depending on your level of cover with your private health funds you may be able to access a rebate through your health fund. For more information about our fees please click here.

In order to access a Medicare rebate for psychology sessions, you will first need to meet with your GP/psychiatrist who will review if you are eligible for a mental health care plan. If your GP/psychiatrist draws up a mental health care plan you will be able to access a maximum of 10 sessions/year through Medicare (ie. Medicare will rebate up to 10 of your psychology sessions). When your mental health care plan is first drawn up you will be able to access up to 6 sessions. Following this you and your psychologist will review if further sessions are necessary and if so they will guide you on how to access these.

You will need to check with your private health fund to determine if they cover the allied health service you will be accessing (e.g. psychology). Please note that for psychology sessions, you cannot claim both Medicare and private health on the same session. You will need to decide if you wish to apply for a Medicare or private health rebate, or you may wish to use your private health fund to get continued support after having used your Medicare sessions.

HMM Health is a Private Practice and therefore does not bulk bill. However, there are options for those on low incomes or pensions. You may be eligible for upto 18 government funded sessions through Connect to Wellbeing (previously known as ATAPS). See your GP for a referral.

Some of our psychologists do provide services under WorkCover.  If you are wanting to access services through Work Cover, you will need to inform admin staff of this AT THE TIME OF BOOKING your appointment, so we can ensure you are booked with a staff member registered with Work Cover, and so that we can ensure you have approval for sessions through Work Cover.  If this has not been set up with out clinic prior to your first session, you will be responsible for paying the cost of your session. 

Unfortunately, we do not take on court cases. Your solicitor will be able to guide you to a service that does.

No.  Due to current waitlists, if you require an appointment you will need to call the clinic and talk to a staff member in order to book in your psychology session.

Yes, there is a wait list. For a guide of wait list times and to be placed on the wait list please contact the clinic on: (07) 4946 4021.

If you need to cancel your appointment please ensure that you cancel before 10am on the business day prior to your appointment (e.g. If your appointment is for 3pm Monday, you need to cancel by 10am on Friday). This will allow adequate time for the clinician to arrange for your appointment spot to be filled and will help you to avoid cancellation fees. Short notice cancellation and same day cancellations will result in a cancellation fee.

HMM Health unfortunately does not provide cognitive and academic assessments at this time.

We have limited spaces for Couples Therapy sessions. To find out if these are available please contact our reception team.  For Couples Therapy, both partners  must be available to attend the first session.  Contact reception for further details.  

Please note that there are many types of reports that we are NOT able to provide (e.g. court reports, capacity assessments etc). Reports will incur additional fees which are NOT covered by Medicare. Fees will be discussed with you prior to the reports being written and will be determined by the amount of time it will take to prepare the reports. Having a report written is at the discretion of your clinician, and these may not always be available. Please ensure you discuss this with your psychologist as soon as possible and allow for adequate time for these to be compiled.