Mama Base Therapeutic Services

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  • Care

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Mama Base is committed to strengthening relationships between family members and amongst community. Mama Base is committed to forming a safe base for parents to seek support, facilitating joyful and confident parenting during the perinatal period.

Mama Base supports people from the time they are planning for conception right through to postpartum and into parenthood.

Our Mama Base Therapeutic Team offerings

  • Funded partly with Medicare Rebates (10 x 50 minute sessions per calendar year), Private and NDIS

    • Preparation for & Adjustment too Parenthood

    • Infant Development

    • Parental Mental Health &Wellbeing

    • Parent & Child Attachment

    • Birth Trauma

    • Perinatal Grief & Loss

    • Parent Support

    • Child Development & Behaviour Concerns

  • Funded partly by Medicare ( 3 x 30 minute rebated sessions), Private, or NDIS.

    Mama Base Therapeutic Team Offers the following as a part of this service;

    - Postnatal Needs Assessment:

    The PNA aims to provide education around the range of support options available during the perinatal period and how these may benefit you during the perinatal period and beyond.

    Assess the need for specific supports using a set range of screening based questions from a range of different health professions.

    - Psychology Intake Consultation

    - Waitlist Support: At Mama Base Therapeutic Services, we recognise the importance of timely engagement after the brave step of reaching out. We endeavour to keep our waitlist as short as possible, but for clients who are awaiting their first appointment with a psychologist, we offer a Waitlist Support option.

    Waitlist Support is a safe space to offload emotions and stories that are weighing heavily. Our Intake and Holistic Support Worker, facilitates non-clinical phone support sessions - a time to express, to reflect, to be heard, and to be met with warmth and understanding. Waitlist Support can also include exploring practical supports that may be of assistance prior to engaging in psychological therapy.

    - Preparing for parenthood 3 part series (Including information about topics such as Matrescence, The Perfect Mother Myth, Coping with Change)

    For further information, please contact:

    [email protected]

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Meet the Team

  • Rachel Bridge

    PSYCHOLOGIST, AUTHOR, DIRECTOR & FOUNDER OF MAMA BASE ILLAWARRA

    In person & Telehealth Sessions Available

    Rachel is a Psychologist who has been passionately working with children and their families for over ten years.

  • Alana Moore

    PSYCHOLOGIST

    In person & Telehealth Sessions Available (Alana is currently on Maternity Leave)

    Alana is a warm, compassionate and supportive therapist. She has been working as a Registered Psychologist for almost 10 years.

  • Tania Attley

    PSYCHOLOGIST

    In person & Telehealth Sessions Available

    Tania is a Registered Psychologist who has been supporting and walking alongside children and families for 10+ years. Tania has specialised in supporting those who have experienced trauma and utilises an attachment and neurobiological framework. Tania focuses on creating psychological safety to provide individuals with a space to build capacity, foster empowerment and instil hope.

  • Meg Helson

    PSYCHOLOGIST

    In person & Telehealth Sessions Available

    Meg Helson is a Psychologist and Associate member of the Australian Psychological Society (Assoc. MAPS). Meg has a lived experience with infertility, multiple miscarriage and IVF, and is passionate about helping individuals and their families to cope with infertility, miscarriage, child loss and its associated anxiety and grief; as well as a broad range of other perinatal presentations.

  • Hollie Swanton

    MENTAL HEALTH OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST

    In person & Telehealth Sessions Available

    Hollie collaborates with clients using a holistic, integrated approach to support life transitions. Utilising her OT frameworks alongside, a trauma informed, strengths and compassion focused approaches (including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) she integrates psychosensory, somatic approaches (body based) and systemic perspectives to empower women, mothers and parents through life transitions.

Referral process

Our fees

Intake Consultation - $100

Individual Mental Health/Psychology Session - $195

Medicare Rebate of between $82.30 and $92.90 applies for clients with a current Mental Health Treatment Plan

NDIS Funded Psychological Intervention - $215

Non Directive Perinatal Counselling and Needs Assessment - $100

Medicare Rebate of $68.45 applies for clients with a current Mental Health Treatment Plan

Reports - $215 - $600 (cost dependant on length of report)

The therapeutic services provided can be partly funded under Medicare, Private Health, Family & Community Services, and NDIS.

Cancellation policy

Mama Base Psychology kindly asks for 48 hours or more notice of appointment cancellations. This allows us enough time to offer the scheduled time to another client, awaiting service.

For notice of cancellations between 24 and 48 hours notice, a half session fee will be charged,

For notice less than 24 hours, a full session fee will be charged.

Cancellation fees do not qualify for Medicare rebate.