Fees
The mission of ECS is to provide accessible, ethical, and effective counselling services. Most clients invest significant resources such as time, money and energy, into the counselling process to make it worthwhile. Whether the client engages in short, medium or long term counselling, ECS counsellor aims for each counselling session to be beneficial for the client.
FACe-TO-FACE INDIVIDUAL counselling
INITIAL SESSION [pay at the time of booking] $130 [1 HOUR]
SUBSEQUENT SESSION [pay after the session] $120 [1 HOUR]
zoom video individual counselling
initial session [pay at the time of booking] $ 120 [1 HOUR]
subsequent session [pay after the session] $ 110 [1 HOUR]
Medicare rebates
Unfortunately, a large body of professionally trained and registered counsellors are currently not eligible for Medicare rebates, which the peak counselling professional body PACFA is lobbying to change (PACFA factsheet available in the webpage). The fees of Essence Counselling Services are intentionally made affordable to provide accessibility to all people. The fees are set such that a client is very likely to pay less than a typical gap payment with the Mental Health Care Plan. This way a client can be supported longer term if required without being restricted by the number of sessions per year dictated by the Mental Health Plan.