Low Cost Counselling Clinic
The Carringbush Community Counselling Clinic is a low-cost counselling clinic which offers general counselling by emergent-practitioners.
These emergent practitioners are student-practitioners (postgraduate and/or final year students) completing final placements as part of their university studies.They provide low cost counselling out of our clinic. All student-counsellors are supervised in clinic by a team of senior clinicians.
A referral is not required to make an appointment at our low cost clinic. An initial appointment will be scheduled with one of our Carringbush Community Counselling Clinic counselling staff. Appointments are only available on Mondays and Fridays.
Low-cost counselling fees
The low-cost counselling fees are $50 per session (cash or EFTPOS)
As we are a low cost clinic our fees are not claimable from private health insurance or Medicare. Sessions at the Carringbush Community Counselling Clinic are capped at 10 visits
How to qualify
Clients can book a session at our low cost clinic if they meet one or more of the following requirements:
- Are a concession card holder.
- Are receiving government benefits
- Have an income below 70k per year
Meet Scott Cowcher
Qualifications: B.A., B.Ed., GrdDip Psychology, MPH, MHA
Scott Cowcher is counsellor-on-placement with Carringbush Community Counselling Clinic. He is completing a Master of Counselling at Monash University. Scott has over 30 years’ experience working in the helping professions. He has worked in mental health, in Australia and internationally as a psychiatric nurse. Scott has also worked in community development, education and literacy.
Scott supports people in maintaining their psychological wellbeing and address issues related to anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and life transitions. Scott is a queer-friendly practitioner with extensive experience working with the queer / LGBTIQA+ community in Australia and overseas.
Scott is a specialist in expatriate transitions for people relocating from, or to Australia and adapting to new cultures. Scott works to support trailing spouses with regards to the challenges of accompanying a partner overseas. This includes changes to, or loss of career which can be confronting. He also works with third culture kids who, face unique challenges involved with relocation and integrating into a diverse or different culture and require support.
Scott’s experience working internationally (Cambodia, USA and Thailand), supporting a partner and their children, has provided him with first-hand and lived experience of the challenges faced with expatriation or returning to Australia. His most recent role as a Consultant with the WorldBank’s Family Network to establish the Peer Support Network – Southeast Asia. This role focused on developing strategies to support families, individuals, and couples, as they navigated relocations across countries.
Scott has an interest in ageing and its impact on the individual as they confront professional, physical, and emotional changes in their lives. This challenging transition can be confronting and rewarding. Therefore Scott’s wide range of lived experience provides him with alternative views of oneself, in order to adapt with and find new life meanings.
Scott uses a person-centered approach, along with cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) approaches to his counselling. Scott believes in creating a safe, non-judgmental supportive space for clients to explore new ways of living their life more authentically.
How We Can Help
COLLINGWOOD OFFICE LOCATION
FRANKSTON OFFICE LOCATION
SYDNEY OFFICE LOCATION
Suite 201, Level 2/1 Erskineville Rd, Newtown NSW 2042
Telephone (02) 9188 4838