Providing compassionate psychological support.
Supportive Counselling
Therapy
Empowerment
Elizabeth offers therapeutic sessions tailored for adults and children (8 years and older), providing a safe space to explore thoughts and feelings. Her approach aims to foster resilience while addressing challenges like anxiety, stress and being overwhelmed through engaging, evidence-based methods.
Engage in one-on-one consultations designed to assess mental health needs and identify actionable strategies. Elizabeth focuses on creating a custom pathway for clients to navigate through personal challenges and enhance everyday functioning.
SPACE-Trained Provider
Parent-Only Support for Your Child
I am a SPACE-trained provider, offering a parent-only program for families supporting children and young people experiencing anxiety or avoidance that can significantly impact family life.
SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions) works directly with parents, rather than with the child in sessions. This makes it particularly useful for families where a child may be unwilling or unable to participate in individual therapy, or finds attending therapy difficult.
Research from randomised clinical trials has found SPACE to be an effective parent-based treatment for childhood anxiety, with outcomes comparable to individual CBT and reductions in family accommodation.
The program helps parents understand patterns of accommodation and develop supportive strategies that reduce anxiety-maintaining patterns, communicate confidence in their child's ability to cope, and support greater confidence, flexibility and independence.
The child does not attend SPACE sessions. The focus is on supporting parents to make changes in the family environment that can help their child move towards greater confidence and independence.
Fees
For a standard psychological consultation (50 minute duration), the initial consultation is $220 and subsequent consultations are $180. Fees are payable on the day of your appointment by card or electronic funds transfer (EFT).
Medicare
If your doctor has organised a Mental Health Care Plan, you will be eligible to receive a Medicare rebate of $101.55 for each session (for up to ten sessions per year) under the Better Access initiative. GP referrals are not required to see Elizabeth, but you’ll need a referral from a GP if you wish to claim Medicare rebates. To be considered for a Mental Health Care Plan you will need to schedule a long appointment with your GP. At that appointment your GP, they will complete an assessment to determine eligibility, and relatedly, to provide you with appropriate guidance. Please provide a copy of your Mental Health Plan at the time of booking (email it to liz@elizabethmaier.com.au) and also bring it along to your first appointment.
Private Health
Elizabeth is registered with private health insurance providers in Australia. If you have private health insurance, you may be eligible to claim rebates for psychological sessions. The level of cover and any applicable waiting periods vary between providers and depends on your extras cover policy. To find out if you are eligible and/or how much funding you are entitled to claim for psychological sessions, please contact your private health insurance. If you have private health insurance that covers Psychology please bring your private health care card. Our office has TYRO Health available with Eftpos to process your claim immediately (99% of Australian Private Health Insurers are supported by TYRO's immediate claiming option).
Please note that you cannot use Medicare and Private Heath claiming for the same session.
Cancellation Policy
If you need to cancel or reschedule your appointment, please provide at least 24 hours’ notice or by cancelling your appointment using the link in your confirmation email. Cancellations made with less than 24 hours’ notice, or non-attendance, may incur a fee equivalent to the full session fee.