Mama Base Therapeutic Services
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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
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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
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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:
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Meet the Team
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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.
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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.
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Janelle Gullan
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST
Janelle is a Sunshine Coast based occupational therapist who supports women to get out of their head and connect to their body to support occupational engagement and participation throughout mothering and feminine transitions.
With an integrated focus on pelvic health, mental health and menstrual cycles, she explores how matrescence and rite of passage impact roles, relationships, identity and joy. Her work brings together wellbeing for the head, heart and womb using a range of educational, psychological, somatic and soft tissue approaches.
Janelle will be offering tele-health support for our Mama Base Community. Janelle also visits Wollongong to support women and mothers in the Illawarra.
Janelle offers an energetic and passionate approach to the sharing of her in-depth knowledge and experience. -
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.
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.