A standard 60 minute appointment includes:

  • 60 minute appointment at our St Kilda clinic, (20 Mitford Street, St Kilda 3182) 
  • Relaxed atmosphere with a highly experienced Mental Health Social Worker
  • A discussion of our service and how we help
  • A client confidentiality & consent form
  • A comprehensive initial assessment
  • A School Refusal Assessment
  • Treatment Plan Recommendations
  • Discussion about our extended clinical role; engagement with the school, parents, Student welfare staff, GP

Benefits of School Refusal Counselling:
  • ​Tools and strategies you can use right away
  • Improved self confidence at school
  • Improved school attendance outcomes
  • Improved long term school and lifestyle outcomes
  • More passionate and connected relationship to school
  • Changing limiting beliefs about school
  • Confidentiality
  • Greater self-esteem
  • Relief from depress, anxiety, addiction, loneliness
  • A strategy to return to health school attending behaviour
  • Mental and physical health benefits
  • Evidence based therapeutic methods
  • Improved self-knowledge
  • A clinician to help establish and coordinate a healthy dialogue between parent, child and school

Each of your sessions are 60 minutes long. You first session will include a Comprehensive Initial Assessment and Parent / Child interview. At the end of the first session you will receive helpful feedback and recommendations for further treatment as part of an overall treatment plan. While a typical successful treatment plans require between 6 and 12 sessions, you can book a single appointment as we can progress from there. After your first session, you will already have actionable advice and benefits which contribute to returning your child to school.

Bayside School Refusal Clinic uses evidence-based therapeutic methods. We are Accredited Mental Health Social Worker's trained in the application of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Social Skill Development, treatment for anxiety and depression, goal-setting, exposure therapy and strategic parent work and support. Our role can extend to family sessions and clinician consultation with the school.

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* Medicare Rebates Available.
Bayside School Refusal Clinic  20 Mitford Street, St Kilda Victoria, Australia 3182
Contact: 0409-024-485  |  john@schoolrefusal.com.au  |  www.schoolrefusal.com.au