Psychological therapy for adults, with a clinical focus on Autistic and ADHD adults and other neurodivergent people.
After each appointment, you receive a written summary of what was covered.
Standard weekday appointment
50 minutes
$173.45 out of pocket
APPOINTMENTS
Telehealth across Australia or in person in Brunswick East, Melbourne.
Adults, with a clinical focus on Autistic and ADHD adults and other neurodivergent people.
Private clients do not need a referral. Medicare rebates require an eligible referral. Up to 10 individual services can be claimed each calendar year.
$275. A $15 after-hours fee applies before 8.30 am, from 5 pm on business days, and on Saturdays.
Telehealth across Australia or in person in Brunswick East, Melbourne.
A standard appointment is 50 minutes.
Weekly or fortnightly is the usual starting point. You decide the frequency with your therapist.
Individual Therapy is for adults seeking psychological treatment for overwhelm, burnout, mental health difficulties, complex trauma, relationship patterns, identity or difficulties affecting everyday life. The work may be short and focused or continue for longer when patterns are more established.
Mindkit works with LGBTQIA+ clients, people in polyamorous or other non-monogamous relationships, and people whose lives include several intersecting minority identities. Your relationship structure is treated as ordinary clinical context, so the work can focus on the reason you came.
Self-identified and questioning neurodivergent people are welcome. You do not need documentation to be taken seriously here.
Individual Therapy is the starting point when psychological treatment is needed. Executive Function Coaching may fit when the main need is planning, task initiation, organisation or routines, and mental health treatment is not the main need. Couples Therapy may fit when the relationship itself is the focus and partners need to attend together.
Therapy considers how neurodivergence interacts with mental health, complex trauma, disability, relationships and environmental demands. The work is guided by a clinical formulation, which is a shared explanation of what is happening and why, developed with you and revised as therapy goes on. It identifies where psychological treatment, practical change or environmental adjustment is needed.
Therapy considers how neurodivergence interacts with mental health, complex trauma, disability, relationships and environmental demands. The work is guided by a clinical formulation, which is a shared explanation of what is happening and why, developed with you and revised as therapy goes on. It identifies where psychological treatment, practical change or environmental adjustment is needed.
Overwhelm is one of the most common reasons people contact Mindkit. It may involve sustained sensory load, executive-function demands, masking, reduced capacity or demands that keep exceeding available energy.
Therapy can address Autistic and other neurodivergent burnout, anxiety, depression including chronic and treatment-resistant depression, emotional regulation, OCD, phobias, grief and loss, suicidality, eating disorders and disordered eating.
Neurodivergence and complex trauma can affect one another without being treated as the same thing. The work may include PTSD, attachment disruption, people-pleasing, masking, and patterns around conflict, closeness or demands. Therapy can also focus on boundaries, communication and repeated conflict. When the relationship itself is the focus, see Couples Therapy.
Therapy can include making sense of your own neurodivergent traits, reviewing earlier experiences with a different understanding, deciding when masking is protective or costly, and noticing internalised ableism. Workplace mismatch, disclosure, accommodation requests, discrimination and career change can also be included, along with executive-function difficulties and major life changes where psychological treatment is relevant.
This is not a complete list. If you are unsure whether Mindkit is the right place for what you want to work on, email hello@mindkit.com.au and tell us what you are looking for.
Every partner is heard separately before joint work begins.
You can speak with us before booking to ask questions, discuss what you are looking for and get a sense of the clinician you may be working with.
Every partner attends a separate 50-minute intake appointment before joint work begins. Each person can describe the relationship from their own perspective before joint work begins.
You meet with the clinician together for 50 or 75 minutes. We generally recommend 75 minutes for relationship therapy, allowing time to examine and work with an interaction.
The work draws primarily on emotion-focused therapy, with systemic and parts-based approaches, neurodivergence psychoeducation and resourcing.
The clinician examines recurring interactions, including what led to a disagreement, how each person understood and responded to it, and what followed. This helps identify the pattern and what needs to change.
Tell us roughly what you are looking for. We check whether a current clinician has relevant training and experience in that area. If the service is not the right fit, we tell you before an appointment is booked.
Sessions are adapted to the person, type of therapy and capacity on the day.
Mindkit’s clinical team is neurodivergent and understands Autism and ADHD as neurotypes. You won’t need to explain concepts such as masking, burnout, sensory differences or executive-function difficulties. Your therapist will ask how these affect you.
Therapy explores why a pattern exists, what keeps it going and what may help change it. Sessions may address emotional, relational, cognitive, behavioural and bodily aspects of the pattern.
Clinical Neuropsychologist
Therapy includes written support that you can return to after the appointment.
After each session, your therapist sends a written summary of what you covered. This reduces the working-memory demand of holding a whole appointment in mind.
When practice between appointments is useful, you receive a worksheet built for the thing you are working on rather than a generic handout.
Book an Individual Therapy appointment, or email hello@mindkit.com.au if you would like to ask a question first.
