Can a Gunning client fit sessions around a Canberra commute?

Yes. Many Gunning clients book around commuting hours, and at 44 minutes and 52 kilometres from Goulburn via the Hume Motorway, an early or late slot can work either side of the Canberra drive.

Is a GP referral needed for Medicare-funded sessions from Gunning?

You need a Mental Health Care Plan from your GP for the Medicare rebate. Without one, private, WorkCover, and DVA pathways are all still available to you, whatever's brought you to Gunning to see us.

How do I get a Medicare rebate for psychology?

Your GP writes a Mental Health Treatment Plan, which covers up to ten rebated sessions a calendar year. Bring it to your first appointment and we bill Medicare directly where possible. You can also see a psychologist privately without a plan, or through NDIS, WorkCover, CTP, or DVA.

Is what I say confidential?

Yes. There are legal exceptions — risk to life, a court subpoena, and child-safety concerns — and the psychologist talks these through at the first session. Any contact with your GP, the person who referred you, or a family member needs your written consent.

44 minutes from Gunning

Psychology in Gunning.

Name: Goulburn Health Therapy
Address: 37 Ross Street, Goulburn, NSW, 2580, AU
Telephone: (02) 4822 0144
Price range: $$

We treat Gunning residents from our Goulburn clinic — about 44 minutes and 52 km away.

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Local care

Psychology for Gunning residents.

Gunning residents commute in two directions — into Goulburn for work and services, or further on to Canberra — along a route that takes about 44 minutes and 52 kilometres via the Hume Motorway. That daily haul, stacked on top of a full-time job, is a common enough path to burnout, and we see commuters from Gunning managing exactly that: exhaustion, irritability, and a sense of running on empty that coffee stops fixing.

Older townsfolk here carry different pressures — grief, health worry, and adjustment to a changing town of around 550 people — and grazing and farming families carry their own load again. Our AHPRA-registered psychologists work with stress, burnout, low mood, and anxiety using CBT, ACT, EMDR, and schema therapy, with Medicare, private, WorkCover, and DVA funding all available.

Getting here

The drive in from Gunning.

Gunning sits west of Goulburn, about 52 km from the clinic and roughly 44 minutes away via the Hume Motorway. Our clinic is at 37 Ross Street in the centre of Goulburn, with parking on site — an easy trip for a first assessment or a standing block of appointments.

What we treat

What Gunning patients see us for.

Psychologists work with the mind — anxiety, low mood, trauma, grief, and the patterns that keep showing up. Ours are AHPRA-registered and trained in proven therapies like CBT, ACT, EMDR, and schema therapy, and they're the right people to talk to before you decide therapy isn't for you.

Anxietygeneral, social, panic, health worry
Low mood and depression
Stress and burnoutwork, study, caring
Traumasingle events or long-running
Grief, loss, and adjustment
Mental injury after a workplace or car accident

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Funding

Ways to pay.

Gunning residents can use any of these pathways for psychology, subject to eligibility and the right referral or plan.

Medicare
Private health
WorkCover
CTP
DVA
NDIS

Common questions

Questions we get asked a lot.

Can a Gunning client fit sessions around a Canberra commute?
Yes. Many Gunning clients book around commuting hours, and at 44 minutes and 52 kilometres from Goulburn via the Hume Motorway, an early or late slot can work either side of the Canberra drive.
Is a GP referral needed for Medicare-funded sessions from Gunning?
You need a Mental Health Care Plan from your GP for the Medicare rebate. Without one, private, WorkCover, and DVA pathways are all still available to you, whatever's brought you to Gunning to see us.
How do I get a Medicare rebate for psychology?
Your GP writes a Mental Health Treatment Plan, which covers up to ten rebated sessions a calendar year. Bring it to your first appointment and we bill Medicare directly where possible. You can also see a psychologist privately without a plan, or through NDIS, WorkCover, CTP, or DVA.
Is what I say confidential?
Yes. There are legal exceptions — risk to life, a court subpoena, and child-safety concerns — and the psychologist talks these through at the first session. Any contact with your GP, the person who referred you, or a family member needs your written consent.