Wellbeing and Mental Health
Affordable Psychological Support for Adults and Children
FedCare Psychology Services provides psychological services to members of community within Ballarat and surrounding districts. Our first consultation is free, ongoing sessions are $10 per session or $5 for concession card holders. You do not need a GP referral to access our services.
Psychological services will be provided by provisionally registered psychologists, who are currently undertaking advanced training in the Master of Psychology (Clinical) and the Master of Professional Psychology programs. All services provided are closely supervised by a team of highly-experienced registered psychologists, all of whom hold both endorsement in clinical psychology and registration as clinical supervisors with the Psychology Board of Australia in APHRA.
We offer a range of psychological services for children (5 years and older), adolescents, adults, including psychological and educational assessment, and the psychological treatment of various behavioural and emotional problems, such as:
- Depression
- Anxiety and phobias
- Anger management
- Trauma and grief
- Eating-body image problems
- Sleep disturbances
- Bullying
- Stress
- Grief and loss
- Relationship difficulties
- Sexual issues
- Parent-child conflict
- Bed-wetting and toileting problems
- Adjustment problems
We currently have appointments available for adults and adolescents and short waitlist for children. Our waitlist for cognitive and educational assessments is open for the second half of 2024.
If you would like to see one of our Provisional Psychologists, you can contact us:
Phone: (03) 5327 8483
Email: psychology.services@federation.edu.au
FedCare Psychology ServicesSuite 4, Greenhill Enterprise Centre (GEC)Mt Helen Campus, Tech ParkUniversity Drive, Mount Helen
Kids and Worry
What is your highlight of the day?
When is your catch-up time with your children? My favourites were always in the car when driving or sitting down eating dinner together or grocery shopping or one on one milkshake dates or…
What do you ask?
How is school? What have you been learning? What is your teacher like?
Do these questions elicit the same type of answers?
Have you tried?
What is your highlight for the day?
What is good?
If you were to say something good, what would it be?
What have you been successful at?
What was a challenge? And if none…then why not? Remembering that it is our responsibility to challenge ourselves!
What is a win for you?
Flipping language makes an enormous difference to how our children view themselves as learners and how they see the world. Try it and let me know how it goes.
Kim Carey Assistant Principal.
Ps. Talking positively is something that our teachers do well.
Tips for worrying less.
The worry scale: Sometimes when kids worry it is only a little bit and other times, they feel very, very worried. Using a scale is a good way of describing how big a feeling is. A scale is like a thermometer. When the feeling is low, the number on the thermometer is low, when the feeling is strong the number on the thermometer is high.
