Natalie fairclough clinical psychologist M.Psych (Clinical)

Natalie Fairclough is a Senior Clinical Psychologist and psychotherapist who has over thirty years of experience working in adult mental health services and previously child and adolescent mental health services. Currently, in addition to her role as a psychotherapist within private practice, Natalie is also the Senior Clinical Psychologist Coordinator and Professional Lead of Psychology within North Metropolitan Health Service where she manages, supervises and leads the psychology teams across the adult mental health services within community psychiatry. Natalie also worked within the North Metropolitan Health Service's Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) programme for five years treating adult patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD).

Natalie has expertise in providing a diverse range of psychological treatments such as cognitive behavioural, dialectical behaviour, mindfulness, and insight oriented therapies and she treats patients with complex psychological difficulties through short or longer term psychotherapy. Her practice is evidence-based and informed by research and clinical experience. 

In particular, Natalie has interest, extensive training and experience working within a psychodynamic paradigm in which she helps her patients to understand their unconscious thoughts and emotional processes, and she blends psychodynamic psychotherapy with more structured treatment approaches such as dialectical behaviour therapy and mindfulness. She uses therapies in an integrated way tailoring her treatment to match the patient's individual needs. Natalie has helped people to overcome troubling symptoms, resolve traumas and losses in life, and more successfully deal with the challenges that life brings along the way.

Natalie specialises in the areas of depression, anxiety, complex trauma, character disorders, grief and loss, interpersonal difficulties, family relationship difficulties, sexuality, difficult childhood experiences, and relationship and marital difficulties.

Natalie provides a compassionate, safe, and confidential space. She works together with her patients to develop an individualised therapy treatment plan and will offer short focussed or longer term therapy holding in mind the specific needs, difficulties and circumstances of each patient.

Psychotherapy, also known as psychological therapy or talk therapy, provides a space in which people can safely and confidentially explore their thoughts, feelings, behavioural and relationship patterns and difficult past and present experiences. 

Psychotherapy helps us to better understand how we relate to and experience ourselves, others and the world. It helps us to develop an understanding of ourselves and why we do what we do and why we feel the way we feel. By deepening our awareness and understanding of ourselves and where our difficulties may have originated from, we are better able to make positive personal changes and overcome difficult life experiences.

Psychotherapy can help people with a range of difficulties such as anxiety, depression, personality disorders, post traumatic stress disorder and complex trauma, grief and loss, adjustment issues, low self-esteem, relationship stress, marital difficulties, separation, recurrent relationship and interpersonal difficulties, and a general experience of suffering, stress, fear and unhappiness in life. 

Psychotherapy helps people to work through, resolve and overcome disabling mental health symptoms, emotional and psychological suffering, stressful situations, traumatic life experiences and complex relationships and interpersonal difficulties. Psychotherapy can bring emotional relief to people with mental illnesses or those who just want to better understand themselves and cope with stressful or challenging life situations.

Fees and Rebates:

Fees are based on the rates recommended by the Australian Psychological Society. Natalie's fee for a standard 50 minute consultations is $250. 

You do not need a GP referral to see a Clinical Psychologist. However, if you have been referred by a GP and provided a Mental Health Treatment Plan through the Better Access Government Initiative, you will receive a Medicare rebate for your consultation. Currently, the Medicare rebate is $141.85. Telehealth consultations are priced and rebated in the same way. 

Your GP will refer you for an initial 6 sessions. You can then see your GP for another review to access more sessions. Medicare will rebate a maximum of 10 consultations per calendar year. 

If you do not have a current Mental Health Treatment Plan through your GP but do have ancillary cover through your private health fund insurer, you may be able to access rebates for psychological services.

 
Face-to-Face or Telehealth sessions are available.  

Missed Appointments and Cancellation Policy:

To ensure another patient can make use of your missed appointment, a minimum of 48 hours notice is required to inform that you are needing to cancel or postpone, otherwise 50% of the fee will still be charged. For same day cancellations and no shows, the full fee will be charged. A Telehealth appointment can be offered to avoid a cancellation fee. In the case of an extreme emergency, the cancellation fee may be waived.

Procedures Relating to COVID 19 and/or Other Illnesses:

If you are unwell or have been unwell in the seven days prior to your appointment, please inform Natalie before coming in. Your appointment may be switched to Telehealth. If you are a close contact with a COVID positive case, your appointment will be switched to Telehealth otherwise you may be charged a cancellation fee.